by Tim Patterson | Sep 6, 2017 | Marketing, Post-Show Follow Up, Pre-show marketing, Tradeshow marketing, Tradeshow visitors
Sure, millions of people head off to tradeshows worldwide every year, but are they really tradeshow prep experts? Are they ready, I mean really ready for the tradeshow? Let’s take a look at what the average tradeshow manager should be doing to show they’re truly a...
by Tim Patterson | Aug 11, 2017 | Budgeting, Custom exhibit, Custom tradeshow booth, Logistics, Marketing, Pre-show marketing, Shipping
As a company owner, salesman and project manager for TradeshowGuy Exhibits, I get tradeshow marketing questions. Hoobooy, I get a lot of questions. I thought it might be fun to answer a handful of the most common questions I get. Our shipping costs are sky-high. How...
by Tim Patterson | Jul 31, 2017 | Logistics, Marketing, Podcast, TSGMMCPodcast, Video, YouTube
In spite of a few minor technical glitches, Gwen Hill of Exhibit Force and I had a fun conversation that touched on a lot of problems that exhibitors and exhibit managers face: namely, dealing with the heavy-duty record-keeping, communication and collaboration...
by Tim Patterson | Jul 27, 2017 | Custom tradeshow booth, Marketing, Tradeshow marketing
For years, here at TradeshowGuy Exhibits, we’ve teamed up with great partners for various tradeshow display products: exhibit designers and producers, display products manufacturers, I&D labor teams and more. For example, our Exhibit Design Search website provided...
by Tim Patterson | Jul 24, 2017 | Event Marketing, Marketing, Podcast, Tradeshow marketing, TSGMMCPodcast, Video, Vlog
I sat down with Jay Tokosch of Core-Apps on this week’s TradeshowGuy Monday Morning Coffee. Jay’s been in the industry for about eight years, and is CEO of Core-Apps, which creates apps for show organizers, show management software, apps for exhibitors and...
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...
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.