by Tim Patterson | Apr 15, 2021 | Branding, Contests, Custom exhibit, Custom tradeshow booth, Event Marketing, Graphics, lead generation, Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Tradeshow marketing
Standing out from the rest of your fellow exhibitors is often a combination of what you do, what your visitors can do, and what your booth looks...
by Tim Patterson | Feb 5, 2021 | Branding, Event Marketing, lead generation, Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Tradeshow marketing
It doesn’t take that much to exhibit at a tradeshow. Just rent a booth space, bring an exhibit, a handful of staffers and do your thing. Uh, what’s your thing, though? That’s the big question. Are you there to increase brand awareness? Show that you...
by Tim Patterson | Jan 26, 2021 | Branding, Event Marketing, lead generation, Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Promotional Products, Tradeshow marketing, Tradeshow visitors, Video, YouTube
Every tradeshow visitor is looking for something. And a majority of those visitors are decision makers at their company or can influence buying decisions. Make sure you’re giving them what they...
by Tim Patterson | Jan 4, 2021 | Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Networking, Podcast, Tradeshow Exhibit, Tradeshow marketing, TSGMMCPodcast, Video, Virtual Event, Virtual Tradeshow, Vlog, YouTube
Building software to host a virtual event poses a million questions, many of them hoping to address the user experience. And the exhibitor experience. How to keep people engaged, how to keep them from being bored, how to have conversations, how to connect, how to give...
by Tim Patterson | Oct 6, 2020 | Branding, Budgeting, Custom exhibit, Custom tradeshow booth, Event Marketing, Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Tradeshow marketing, Virtual Event
The use of virtual tradeshow exhibits may not be exploding, although my sense is that it is increasing. Some big tradeshows have gone completely virtual for the next year or so, maybe longer, depending on the depth and breadth of the COVID-19 pandemic. Which leaves...
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...
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.