by Tim Patterson | May 18, 2021 | Booth Design, Client Relations, Custom exhibit, Custom tradeshow booth, Tradeshow Exhibit
When you step up to a larger island booth and get away from the shorter inline configurations, your options for a private or semi-secluded conference or meeting area increase dramatically. You can go all the way from a private, enclosed space with opaque walls to more...
by Tim Patterson | May 5, 2021 | Booth Design, Branding, Budgeting, Client Relations, Custom exhibit, Custom tradeshow booth, lead generation, Logistics, Marketing, Post-Show Follow Up, Pre-show marketing
If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there. Famous words, no doubt, and they certainly apply to any marketing endeavor you’re undertaking. If your goal is to simply appear at a tradeshow, you don’t have much of a roadmap. It might look...
by Tim Patterson | Apr 28, 2021 | Booth Design, Branding, Custom exhibit, Custom tradeshow booth, Rental Tradeshow Exhibit, Tradeshow Exhibit
Do you set up the exact same booth every year with no changes? Or do you find that you have to make minor or even significant changes from year to year because your needs change or some piece of your exhibit doesn’t function the way you thought it would? Many...
by Tim Patterson | Apr 8, 2021 | Booth Design, Budgeting, Custom exhibit, Custom tradeshow booth, Tradeshow Exhibit, Video, YouTube
Not every custom tradeshow exhibit project needs an RFP (Request For Proposal). But there are times when it’s an appropriate way to communicate what you need to a handful of carefully selected exhibit design and fabrication firms. Here’s a brief look at a...
by Tim Patterson | Apr 2, 2021 | Booth Design, Branding, Custom tradeshow booth, Fun, lead generation, Marketing, Post-Show Follow Up, Pre-show marketing, Tradeshow marketing, Tradeshow staff training, Video, YouTube
Sure, you can mess up in a lot of ways with your tradeshow marketing. There are so many moving parts to the process. But follow these seven ways and you’ll really come away with a bad...
by Tim Patterson | Mar 30, 2021 | Booth Design, Branding, Client Profile, Custom exhibit, Custom tradeshow booth, Event Marketing, Marketing
What happens when you, as a company, take a stand on an issue important to you on the tradeshow floor? As with pretty much everything, the answer is: it depends. Dave’s Killer Bread’s support of Second Chance I don’t see it all the time, but there are a...
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.