by Tim Patterson | Aug 21, 2020 | Branding, Custom exhibit, Event Marketing, lead generation, Logistics, Marketing, Post-Show Follow Up, Pre-show marketing, Promotional Products, Rental Tradeshow Exhibit, Tradeshow Exhibit, Tradeshow Photos, Tradeshow presenting, Tradeshow staff training, Tradeshow visitors, Video, YouTube
With tradeshow marketing on the sidelines, now is as good a time as any to brush up on your tradeshow marketing skill and knowledge. And here’s a great place to find a whole lot of tradeshow marketing tips – all in one place, and all worth their weight in...
by Tim Patterson | Jan 30, 2020 | Branding, Event Marketing, Marketing, Podcast, Post-Show Follow Up, Pre-show marketing
I’ve known Kathleen Gage of PowerUp for Profits for years and she recently asked me to be on her podcast. Like me, she posts both audio on her podcast page and video on her YouTube channel. Kathleen knows how to get to the center of what is helpful to listeners,...
by Tim Patterson | Oct 24, 2019 | Branding, lead generation, Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Pre-show marketing, Tradeshow marketing
You’ve heard the phrase “think outside the box.” But in the tradeshow world, sometimes it makes more sense to think inside the box. In many cases, it does make sense to think outside the box. Which means, generally, to do things you don’t normally do. Turn it upside...
by Tim Patterson | Aug 27, 2019 | Booth Design, Budgeting, Custom exhibit, Custom tradeshow booth, Fun, Post-Show Follow Up, Pre-show marketing, Tradeshow Exhibit, Tradeshow marketing, Video, YouTube
Sometimes it makes sense to visualize everything you are planning to do in your next tradeshow appearance. I thought it might fun to put the mindmapping to video and see how it...
by Tim Patterson | Jul 9, 2019 | lead generation, Pre-show marketing, Tradeshow marketing, Uncategorized
The ‘modern business plan’ was hatched on a blog post by Seth Godin. I was a recent enrollee in Godin’s The Marketing Seminar, where at one point we were referred to the post which breaks down the five elements of what he feels are the important parts of a modern...
by Tim Patterson | Jun 11, 2019 | Budgeting, Custom exhibit, lead generation, Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Post-Show Follow Up, Pre-show marketing, Uncategorized
I got an email the other day from someone whose newsletter I had just subscribed to, and in the introduction email there was a link to the top 5 most read blog posts on her blog. That’s when an idea light lit up over my head and gave me an idea for a blog 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.