by Tim Patterson | May 6, 2015 | Booth Design, Budgeting, Custom exhibit, Custom tradeshow booth, Graphics, Marketing
Where are you in the life cycle of your tradeshow booth? What impact would it be to your company to upgrade at this point vs. waiting another year or two? The life of a tradeshow booth generally goes something like this: Realizing your company has outgrown the old...
by Tim Patterson | Apr 13, 2015 | lead generation, Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Tradeshow marketing, Tradeshow staff training, Tradeshow visitors
This is a guest post by Sarah Leung Looking at your trade show strategy, you may already be doing a lot of things right: a perfectly designed booth, a well-trained staff, high foot traffic, and the ability to build great rapport with customers and prospects. You may...
by Tim Patterson | Mar 25, 2015 | Event Marketing, lead generation, Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Tradeshow marketing, Tradeshow Photos, Tradeshow visitors
Earlier this month I attended Natural Products Expo West at the Anaheim Convention Center. Yes, it’s a big show with a few thousand exhibitors, and over 70,000 attendees. And it continues to grow. I spoke with literally a few hundred exhibitors, and almost all of them...
by Tim Patterson | Mar 11, 2015 | Booth Design, Branding, Case Study, Event Marketing, Marketing, Tradeshow marketing, Tradeshow Photos, Tradeshow visitors, Twitter
After 62,219 steps, a couple of achy legs and a few foot blisters in four days of Expo West, it came to me: “Tradeshows ain’t for wimps!” Certainly not if you’re walking the floor, nor if you’re an exhibitor who’s shepherding a booth (and staff) from the...
by Tim Patterson | Feb 23, 2015 | Marketing, Tradeshow marketing
If you’ve been attending and exhibiting at tradeshows over the years, no doubt you’ve had many chances to examine what went right and what didn’t. What brought in leads and what didn’t. What opportunities were open and those that weren’t? But unless you’ve been...
by Tim Patterson | Dec 8, 2014 | lead generation, Marketing, Tradeshow marketing, Tradeshow Photos, Tradeshow staff training, Tradeshow visitors, Video
Tradeshow colleague Ken Newman’s Magnet Productions just released their newest demo reel. Since all they do is draw mobs of crowds to tradeshow booths, this is probably something that you should see. As Andy Saks of Spark Presentations said in his Facebook post...
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.