We Accept Blog Submissions
Tradeshowguyblog accepts guest posts about tradeshow marketing. The goal is to help share useful information that helps tradeshow marketing managers and exhibitors. No self-promotion articles accepted. Although if your product or service is deemed interesting enough we may consider interviewing you for our podcast.
The posts should be between 500 and 700 words.
No payment is given for the use of your contribution. You hold full copyright of your copy. You must be the author of the copy. If it is an article that you’ve previously published on your blog or submitted to another site, it can be accepted if it is significantly re-written or re-worked. You may also submit a brief bio or ‘resource’ box of approximately 50 – 75 words.
Submissions are accepted in text form (preferred) or MS Word. Pictures or illustrations are encouraged. However, we may or may not use them.
Submit your posts to: Tim Patterson — email: tim @ tradeshowguyblog.com (remove all spaces in email address before using). Please include your full name, address, and ‘best’ email address, and phone number.
If your post is accepted, we’ll give you an estimated date of publication. We have the right, nay – the obligation, to promote the heck out of your post on Twitter, FaceBook, LinkedIn, blogs, websites, speaking engagements, podcasts, etc. We expect you to do the same!
We would love to have submissions on any of the following areas of tradeshow marketing:
- Tradeshow ROI
- On-the-floor selling
- Exhibit design
- Exhibit set-up and dismantle
- Why exhibit?
- Personal exhibiting experiences (good, bad or ugly)
- Visitor experiences
- Specific tradeshow reviews
- Tradeshow networking ideas
- Cost-cutting tactics that have worked
- Social media promotions for your appearance
- Fun posts (see examples)
- Lists (see examples)
Look forward to hearing from you!
Hi Tim,
I seem to be treading slightly on your territory with my blog name (Gee, Trade Show Guy seemed so original when I came up with it–I should’ve checked better). I actually started my blog as a pressure release for the madhouse that I used to work at. If you go back, some of the early posts are just rants. Later it started to develop into its own thing. I’ve worked with MG Designs and GGE here in San Francisco, and Ocean Designs in England and Germany. At some point I hope to expand my blog into something more public. At that point, I will probably lose the tradeshowguy moniker on it. Your blog looks really useful, and I hope to talk about it in an upcoming post if that is cool with you. Take care, and keep up the good work!
Jim Morton
(YATSG)
Hey Jim,
I appreciate the kind words – your blog looks mighty useful for tradeshow folks – thanks for sharing. When I first looked into blogging as the tradeshowguy, I looked at tradeshowguy.com but it was taken, so I thought I’d just add ‘blog’ to it and voila’! there you go. Having a lot of fun with it and always looking for podcast guests and guest bloggers if you’re interested!
Enjoy, Tim
Tim,
below is a post we had on our blog. This ia a neat little product that we have been marketing. It may really be a good fit for tradeshow folk… with a social media flare.
John
http://jmjdirect.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/do-you-poken-have-you-pokend-will-you-poken/
Do you Poken? Have you Poken’d? Will you Poken?
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