by Tim Patterson | Jan 16, 2018 | Event Marketing, Fun, Lists, Post-Show Follow Up, Pre-show marketing, Tradeshow marketing
As an exhibitor, or someone who manages an exhibit program for a company, you have oodles of details to keep track of each and every show. This often means you don’t have time to stop and ponder the very act of exhibiting at a tradeshow. But sometimes taking time to...
by Tim Patterson | Dec 5, 2017 | Fun, Lists, Record Keeping
Every now and then it’s good to take a look at the tools we use every day in our work – hence a list of my favorite useful tools. Whether it’s a piece of software, an app, a physical tool of some sort or just a mental approach. Here’s what I find most useful...
by Tim Patterson | Jul 6, 2017 | Event Marketing, lead generation, Lists, Logistics, Marketing
It’s a good question: what does a tradeshow manager do? And frankly, you can come at this question from a few angles. For instance, is the tradeshow manager (or coordinator, or project manager) employed by the company internally, to make sure the tradeshow appearance...
by Tim Patterson | Jun 16, 2017 | Blog, Fun, Infographic, Lists
When’s the last time you searched for #tradeshow tweets on Twitter? Let’s have a little fun and see what people are tweeting about: The power of socializing at a tradeshow: “Don’t underestimate the power of socializing.” https://t.co/cFgmAVijhU...
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 | 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.