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 | Jul 3, 2014 | Mobile Marketing, Tradeshow marketing, Tradeshow staff training
The following is a guest article from Jennifer Callahan of Fathom: It can come as a directive from the top, but most likely it’s Sales or Marketing trying to squeeze company budgets to allow a team to exhibit at a tradeshow. So if you’re part of a team trying to get...
by Tim Patterson | Mar 11, 2014 | Custom exhibit, Custom tradeshow booth, Event Marketing, Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Tradeshow marketing, Uncategorized
Just returned from Expo West in Anaheim where I had a number of tradeshow booth clients, including Bob’s Red Mill, gDiapers, Aisle7 and Hyland’s. One of my goals at this particular show was to do informal assessments of a couple of dozen booths, including booths that...
by Tim Patterson | Feb 24, 2014 | Event Marketing, Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Tradeshow marketing, Video, YouTube
Natural Products Expo West is the biggest natural products tradeshow in the US, with some 3,000 exhibitors and 60,000 attendees. Yes, it’s the big time. 2014 will be my 12th consecutive year at the show. Many of my tradeshow clients have been exhibiting there...
by Tim Patterson | Jan 3, 2014 | Event Marketing, Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Tradeshow marketing
Once I thought I was a prognosticator, but that didn’t turn out very well. So perhaps we should see who else in the industry is trying to predict the future… CEIR Predicts Slow, Steady Industry Growth (okay, this one wasn’t too hard)… Top Event...
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.