Want to find out how Facebook can work to draw people to your tradeshow booth? Listen to this podcast interview with Pooja Dhawan of FashionSpy.com. She’s a wholesaler of womens young contemporary fashion and she has used facebook and other social media outlets successfully in marketing for the past couple of years.

Imagine selling your product just by posting a photo on your Facebook wall! Pooja has done that – and much more.

Matt Selbie of Oberon3 in Portland, Oregon is a recent Oregon transplant. The company’s business-enhancement product The Opiniator is less than a year old. After finding my blog, Matt reached out to introduce himself (great networking) and after a conversation or two I thought I should get him on the blog with a podcast. What is the Opiniator? How can you use it in your business? What can you do with it at tradeshows? Matt addresses all of these questions and more…including the origin of that decidedly non-Oregonian accent.

Check out The Opiniator website

Here’s a short but worthwhile segment of a much longer in-depth conversation with blogger and social media expert Steve Farnsworth on how to use YouTube to explode your traffic at tradeshows.

The complete 35-minute conversation is included as a bonus download in the recently-released Social Media – Tradeshow Marketing Bundle now available here (for a mighty good price, too!).

Give a listen and get a few cool ideas on how to use video to bring more people to your tradeshow booth. Get the bundle for the whole conversation and many more ideas.

Find Steve Farnsworth online here:

• Twitter
• Digital Mercenary blog – definitely a must-read if you are interested in great insight into the social media marketing world.

Lew Hoff of Bartizan says he’s about to ‘implode’ his company. Hmm? Turns out it may be the best thing he can do. Bartizan is about to introduce iLeads, a new tradeshow lead generation and capture tool. Our conversation covered a lot of ground:

Find Bartizan:

• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• Bartizan.com

Andy Saks is the ‘Chief Sparkler’ of Spark Presentations in the Boston area – and a big proponent of using Bubble Tweets to draw attention to his online antics. Andy’s also a great presenter and trainer, and spends a fair amount of his time working for clients at tradeshows. Andy sat down for an interview recently to discuss all of that, and more.

View Andy’s BubbleTweet’s here…

Tunisha Hubbard is a tour manager and brand spokesperson for various live corporate and ‘guerrilla’ events. We met on Twitter a couple of weeks ago and I asked if she would do a brief podcast interview to discuss how she works tradeshows and other promotional events.

Her website bio describes her as ‘engaging, friendly, and enthusiastic, she loves that her job lets her interact with people, whether it is one person or fifty.’ Her enthusiasm is evidend in the interview as she discusses her various appearances and corporate promotions she’s been involved with.

Tunisha Hubbard website

Follow Tunisha on Twitter

Interview with Heidi Thorne of Thorne Communications in the Chicago area. Heidi is an expert in promotional products and discusses the hottest current products – as well as those that have fallen out of favor.

Reach Heidi here:

Website: ThorneCommunications.com

E-mail: Heidi (at) ThorneCommunications.com

Interview with Della Reese of DWA Tradeshow and Exposition Services in Portland, Oregon. We discuss the latest and greatest in green graphic production: materials, inks, cost and more.

Link to site:

DWA Tradeshow and Exposition Services

Interview with Mike Morrison of SmartRadioNow.com, a company which provide focused low-power AM/FM broadcasting at events, tradeshows and conferences.

Mike’s contact information:

http://smartradionow.com
Mike@smartradionow.com
1-800-906-1272

With their “Follow Me” app for iPhone and Blackberry, Core-Apps started serving the tradeshow market. What is an app? Even if you know what an app for your iPhone is, how does it work? Who creates them?

Jay Tokosch of Core-Apps discusses the company and their new app targeted squarely at the tradeshow universe.