by Tim Patterson | Jan 7, 2021 | lead generation, Marketing, Video, YouTube
Let’s break it down into a handful of easy steps. It starts with gathering the right information at the tradeshow and then making a seamless handoff of all of that...
by Tim Patterson | Jan 6, 2021 | Budgeting, Custom exhibit, Event Marketing, lead generation, Marketing
Now that most companies haven’t exhibited at a major show in the US for nine months or so, where does that leave their marketing efforts? I’ve heard some companies badly miss shows because that’s where a large portion of their lead generation came from and without...
by Tim Patterson | Jan 4, 2021 | Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Networking, Podcast, Tradeshow Exhibit, Tradeshow marketing, TSGMMCPodcast, Video, Virtual Event, Virtual Tradeshow, Vlog, YouTube
Building software to host a virtual event poses a million questions, many of them hoping to address the user experience. And the exhibitor experience. How to keep people engaged, how to keep them from being bored, how to have conversations, how to connect, how to give...
by Tim Patterson | Dec 30, 2020 | Fun
The week between Christmas and New Year’s has, for me, been sort of a respite from the rest of the year’s calendar. Since the early aughts when I was VP of Sales and Marketing at Interpretive Exhibits here in Salem, the owner would generally close the business down....
by Tim Patterson | Dec 22, 2020 | Booth Design, Budgeting, Custom exhibit, Custom tradeshow booth, Marketing, Rental Tradeshow Exhibit, Tradeshow Exhibit, Tradeshow marketing
When I first speak with a new client about what they want in a new tradeshow exhibit, it usually comes down to one of two approaches. Either they want to start from scratch, in a sense, and have a good idea of the potential layout and scope of the exhibit, and they...
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.