by Tim Patterson | Nov 28, 2016 | Booth Design, Branding, Custom exhibit, Custom tradeshow booth, Event Marketing, lead generation, Marketing, Tradeshow marketing, Tradeshow staff training, Tradeshow visitors
There are three phases to getting people to talk about your tradeshow exhibit. First, you’d love to get them talking about it before the show. Second, you want them talking about the exhibit during the show. And finally, you want to make it memorable enough so that...
by Tim Patterson | Nov 26, 2016 | Booth Design, Branding, Custom exhibit, Custom tradeshow booth, Event Marketing, Infographic, lead generation, Logistics, Tradeshow marketing, Tradeshow staff training, Tradeshow visitors
Tradeshow Infographics, like any infographic, serve a very useful purpose. They give you a way to visually digest information that might otherwise be a little more difficult to grasp or understand. But an infographic, if done well, gives a reader a quick look as well...
by Tim Patterson | Nov 16, 2016 | Booth Design, Branding, Contests, Event Marketing, lead generation, Lists, Marketing, Post-Show Follow Up, Tradeshow marketing, Tradeshow presenting
Secrets to tradeshow success? There’s no secret! It’s all out in the open. Actually, it’s all lurking online somewhere. Just for fun, I plugged the search term “tradeshow success secrets” into the Google to see what I came up with. Everyone seemed to want to chime in:...
by Tim Patterson | Nov 7, 2016 | Book Review, Event Marketing, Free e-book, Tradeshow marketing, Tradeshow visitors
Some Mondays are definitely better than others. After a long bike ride this afternoon, I came back to the office to an email alerting me to the finally-published interview I did earlier this year with Exhibitor Magazine. I’m told that it’ll appear in the...
by Tim Patterson | Nov 3, 2016 | Event Marketing, Fun, Marketing, Tradeshow marketing, Tradeshow presenting
Stage One: Don’t we have a show coming up in, oh, a few months? This is the stage where you KNOW you have a show coming up, but you haven’t confirmed dates, haven’t confirmed who’s going, don’t yet know what products or services you’ll be promoting and, well,...
by Tim Patterson | Oct 18, 2016 | Event Marketing, lead generation, Lists, Marketing, Tradeshow marketing
Want some great tradeshow lead generation ideas? Well, sure, don’t we all? A quick online search found quite a few ways to skin the cat, as it were. First, let’s start with Skyline’s Mike Thimmesch, who posted an article called 100 Tradeshow Lead...
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.