by Tim Patterson | Jun 22, 2018 | Booth Design, Branding, Custom exhibit, Tradeshow Exhibit, Tradeshow presenting, Tradeshow staff training
How do you find great information – tradeshow tips – from people that go to a lot of shows and see a lot of exhibits? The first thing most of us do is fire up your favorite search engine and just plug in “tradeshow tip” or “tradeshow...
by Tim Patterson | Jun 6, 2018 | Booth Design, Custom exhibit, Custom tradeshow booth, Tradeshow Exhibit
If you have the perfect tradeshow exhibit, you probably don’t need accessories. After all, how do you improve on ‘perfect’? But if you’re a little short of perfection, here are a handful of exhibit accessories that will help out. LED lights. Yes, it’s true. There are...
by Tim Patterson | Mar 30, 2018 | Custom exhibit, Graphics, Tradeshow Exhibit, Tradeshow Photos
When I first got into the tradeshow world around the turn of the century (!), an issue that kept coming up time and time again was the color of tradeshow graphics. There are a number of problems that come up with printing graphics with accurate color. First, since we...
by Tim Patterson | Mar 29, 2018 | Booth Design, Branding, Contests, Custom exhibit, Custom tradeshow booth, Fun, Tradeshow Exhibit, Tradeshow marketing, Tradeshow Photos
Welcome to the (perhaps) annual TradeshowGuy Expo West 2018 Exhibit Awards, where I totally (almost) at random, pick out a handful of the 3600+ exhibits at the Natural Products Expo West show and give them a little notoriety here on the TradeshowGuy Blog! A couple of...
by Tim Patterson | Mar 15, 2018 | Booth Design, Case Study, Custom exhibit, Custom tradeshow booth
Fifteen years ago, my very first client, Kettle Foods, made an appearance at Natural Products Expo West with a custom 20×20 exhibit. Since then, I’ve been back every year, many times with new clients, and updated exhibits with current clients. Kettle Foods,...
by Tim Patterson | Mar 11, 2018 | Booth Design, Custom exhibit, Event Marketing, Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Tradeshow marketing, Tradeshow Photos, Tradeshow visitors
Babies – lots of babies – along with young kids, the occasional dog, lots of mascots/costumes, and a few weirdly dressed people. Typical Expo West! Saturday night – Day Three of Expo West – was spent hanging out with Oregon Business folks at their annual soiree at...
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.