by Tim Patterson | Sep 14, 2020 | Client Relations, Marketing, Podcast, Tradeshow marketing, TSGMMCPodcast, Video, Vlog, YouTube
One of the first clients I managed to snare in my early days in the tradeshow world came when I cold-called a Portland-based company called gDiapers. It took awhile, maybe a few months, but we ended up designing and fabricating two tradeshow exhibits for them. At one...
by Tim Patterson | Sep 11, 2020 | Logistics, Marketing, Public Relations, Video, YouTube
Disruption can come in many forms. I always wonder what it must have felt like to work at Blockbuster when Netflix starting mailing DVDs and then started streaming them. Talk about disruption! On this week’s quick hit video, a look at a few ways to deal with...
by Tim Patterson | Sep 9, 2020 | Client Relations, Event Marketing, Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Public Relations
You’re familiar with a SWOT Analysis, I presume? StrengthsWeaknessesOpportunitiesThreats Year ago, I wrote a brief article on doing a tradeshow marketing SWOT Analysis, which would be a bit different from a more general SWOT Analysis. But now that we’re in a pandemic...
by Tim Patterson | Sep 3, 2020 | Branding, Budgeting, Event Marketing, Logistics, Marketing, Tradeshow Exhibit, Tradeshow marketing, Video, YouTube
After viewing Exhibitor Magazine’s latest survey data last week from the exhibitor and supply side of the tradeshow world, it got me to thinking about what exhibitors should do now. Here’s a short video: Check out Exhibitor Magazine online here, and view...
by Tim Patterson | Aug 26, 2020 | Booth Design, Custom exhibit, Event Marketing, Marketing, Virtual Event
I’ve been thinking about virtual events and have a few questions: Let’s say that Organization A is going to convert their typical in-person event that normally hosts, oh, let’s say, 3500 exhibitors and 80,000 attendees. It’s a pretty big show. Millions of dollars...
by Tim Patterson | Aug 24, 2020 | Booth Design, Event Marketing, Marketing, Podcast, TSGMMCPodcast, Video, Vlog, YouTube
It’s been several months since we caught up with John Pugh and Marcus Vahle of Share Experience, a company they launched less than a year ago near Pittsburgh on the banks of the Ohio River. With the pandemic affecting the events industry, every company in the...
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.