by Tim Patterson | Jan 18, 2018 | Event Marketing, lead generation, Promotional Products, Tradeshow Exhibit, Tradeshow staff training, Tradeshow visitors
Drawing a tradeshow crowd is the boiled-down essence of the reason for exhibiting at a tradeshow. With hundreds or thousands of competing tradeshow exhibits, every single one of them wants to find a way to draw the biggest crowds throughout the tradeshow. Having a...
by Tim Patterson | Jan 9, 2018 | Marketing, Tradeshow staff training, Tradeshow visitors
A tradeshow floor sales call is something a little different than a typical sales call. Okay, it’s a lot different. Let’s compare. With a typical call, whether in person or on the phone, a sales person will research the prospect, sometimes to the point of reviewing...
by Tim Patterson | Dec 19, 2017 | Case Study, Event Marketing, Marketing, Pre-show marketing, Tradeshow marketing, Tradeshow visitors
Over the years I’ve suggested that companies create a tradeshow-specific landing page for each appearance they make at a show. But frankly, I don’t see too many of them. But I recently ran across a tradeshow-specific landing page from Digimarc that caught my eye....
by Tim Patterson | Nov 28, 2017 | Tradeshow marketing, Tradeshow visitors
Wait a minute – everyone is better than you? How does that work? After all, you’ve been to school, you’ve gotten years of hard-knocks experience and street skillz, right? So how does that make everybody better than you? Certainly, there are some people and companies...
by Tim Patterson | Nov 15, 2017 | Tradeshow visitors
As a confirmed people-watcher, I’m always curious about tradeshow visitors. Who are they? What are they doing there? What are their goals? What’s on their agenda? Where are they from? What’s their life story? What do they do after the show? Given the wide variety of...
by Tim Patterson | Nov 13, 2017 | Event Marketing, Networking, Podcast, Tradeshow marketing, Tradeshow visitors, TSGMMCPodcast, Video, Vlog, YouTube
One great thing about doing a weekly podcast with guests is that I meet a lot of people. This week it was a pleasure to meet and talk with Roger Courville, who helps learning leaders prepare to reach, teach and lead in the Connectorship Age. It was a fun conversation...
Tim Patterson has been helping companies navigate the trade show world since 2002. He owns TradeshowGuy Exhibits and writes here about exhibit design, marketing, industry trends, and lessons learned from more than two decades on the show floor.