by Tim Patterson | Jun 12, 2020 | Booth Design, Branding, Budgeting, Custom exhibit, lead generation
Yes, tradeshow marketing takes more than five days. Of course it does! It’s an ongoing process that keeps tradeshow managers up at night, especially when shows are impending. Some shows last about that long! So, what do I mean by the five day tradeshow marketing...
by Tim Patterson | May 14, 2020 | Booth Design, Branding, Custom exhibit, Logistics
In the past few weeks, new stories have popped up on the New York Times, Reuters, National Geographic, and others about the COVID-19 Pandemic affecting the feasibility of an open office format in workplaces. It’s a good question and there are no easy answers. An open...
by Tim Patterson | Mar 24, 2020 | Booth Design, Client Profile, Custom exhibit, Custom tradeshow booth, Tradeshow Exhibit, Tradeshow marketing, Video, YouTube
When Natural Products Expo West was cancelled on March 2, just a couple of days before the doors were to have opened to 80,000+ attendees and 3500+ exhibitors, there was a sense of “what did we miss by not being able to exhibit, by not being able to...
by Tim Patterson | Mar 18, 2020 | Booth Design, Branding, Custom exhibit, Custom tradeshow booth, Tradeshow Exhibit
Every now and then a new exhibit modification comes along that sucks the air out of the room, so to speak. Gravitee, a tool-less exhibit designed and manufactured by Classic Exhibits, came along offering full-size fully-assembled panels that pull from the crate and...
by Tim Patterson | Mar 2, 2020 | Booth Design, Branding, Client Relations, Custom exhibit, Logistics, Marketing, Podcast, Tradeshow Exhibit, TSGMMCPodcast, Video, Vlog, YouTube
Share Experience is a new company formed late last year by Marcus Vahle and John Pugh, both with long experience in the event and tradeshow world. Given what looks to be a unique approach to carving out their niche in the event world, I thought it might be fun to...
by Tim Patterson | Jan 28, 2020 | Booth Design, Branding, Event Marketing, Marketing, Tradeshow marketing, Tradeshow staff training
I sat down with a long-time colleague to be interviewed this week and to prepare I put a list together of the 5 must-do’s for successful tradeshow marketing. We didn’t go over the whole list because the conversation took its own path. But I thought –...
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.