by Tim Patterson | Jan 9, 2020 | Booth Design, Branding, Custom exhibit, Custom tradeshow booth, Tradeshow Exhibit
It’s 2020. Seems like everyone wants something new. After all, this century is no longer a teenager! Hey, if the century were a human, it could almost drink! So…what’s new in the tradeshow industry? At TradeshowGuy Exhibits, we work with a handful of vendors:...
by Tim Patterson | Jan 7, 2020 | Branding, Event Marketing, lead generation, Marketing, Tradeshow marketing
If you’ve attended the same tradeshows over the years, no doubt you’ve seen an interesting phenomenon: some companies attend for years and then just stop. Why? What caused them to disappear? Certainly, there are a thousand answers to that question, and much of those...
by Tim Patterson | Dec 26, 2019 | Branding, Contests, Event Marketing, Free e-book, Marketing, Tradeshow marketing
Looking back at 2019 as we tumble freely into 2020, I got to thinking about the many people I’ve talked to over the past three years on my weekly TradeshowGuy Monday Morning Coffee. In fact, you might have seen my blog post recently, 10 Podcasts From 2019 Worth...
by Tim Patterson | Dec 19, 2019 | Branding, Contests, lead generation, Public Relations, Tradeshow marketing
Let’s assume that your company does a fair amount of tradeshow marketing. Maybe a dozen shows, including two or three large national shows and smaller, regional or more-focused shows where your product fits in. Your first show of the new year is still a couple of...
by Tim Patterson | Dec 5, 2019 | Booth Design, Branding, Custom exhibit, Custom tradeshow booth, Marketing, Tradeshow visitors
Back from Thanksgiving week, a nice few days away from work. Sit down at the computer Monday morning. Hundreds of emails piled up in my in-box. 785 to be precise. Lots of them with pitches on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. I mean, a ton of pitches. Delete them all:...
by Tim Patterson | Nov 12, 2019 | Booth Design, Branding, Custom tradeshow booth, Event Marketing, Marketing, Tradeshow marketing
It’s a common refrain: tradeshows don’t work for me. They’re too expensive. I don’t get enough leads. And unfortunately, it’s true for too many exhibitors. It’s easy to look at the exhibitor list of a show year after year and point to companies that give it 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.