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...
by Tim Patterson | Feb 27, 2018 | Event Marketing, lead generation, Marketing, Tradeshow marketing, Tradeshow presenting, Tradeshow visitors
Seriously, you could compile a list of 50 tradeshow best practices and still add to the list. For the sake of brevity, let’s whittle it down to a reasonable number and see what we get. Create your marketing plan based on the specific event where you’re going to set up...
by Tim Patterson | Jan 29, 2018 | Event Marketing, Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Tradeshow marketing, Tradeshow Photos
Here in Oregon, the cannabis industry is fast-growing, which means that tradeshows promoting the industry are popping up frequently. I walked the floor of the Cannabis Collaborative Conference last week, meeting people and posting photos of participants and exhibits...
by Tim Patterson | Jan 25, 2018 | Custom exhibit, Custom tradeshow booth, Marketing, Tradeshow Exhibit, Tradeshow Photos
One of your biggest tradeshow marketing challenges is how to stand out at a tradeshow. Every other exhibitor is vying for the attention of visitors, so not only are you trying to grab the attention of the eyeballs and mind of a visitor, but every other exhibitor there...
by Tim Patterson | Jan 22, 2018 | Marketing, Podcast, TSGMMCPodcast, Video, Vlog, YouTube
Jim Palmer is a business building coach and marketing expert and host of the Dream Biz Coach TV and Dream Business Radio. Yet, somehow, among all of that, he found time to chat with me from his boat in Florida recently about business-building: Here’s the audio...
by Tim Patterson | Jan 15, 2018 | Book Review, Event Marketing, Marketing, Podcast, Tradeshow marketing, TSGMMCPodcast, Video, Vlog
Author, keynote speaker and event expert Steve Miller joins TradeshowGuy Tim Patterson to talk about his new book “Uncopyable,” and to discuss the event industry. This week’s ONE GOOD THING: the movie Darkest Hour starring Gary Oldman as Winston...
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.