by Tim Patterson | Jun 20, 2018 | Custom tradeshow booth, Tradeshow Exhibit, Tradeshow marketing, Tradeshow Photos
As a wanna-be 70s hippie I follow the evolution of the legal cannabis industry with great interest. Not because I don’t use it so much anymore, but I’ve always felt that the use of marijuana – or as its getting to be known – cannabis – should be a personal...
by Tim Patterson | Jun 15, 2018 | Custom tradeshow booth, Fun, Marketing, Tradeshow marketing, Tradeshow Photos
Most of my blog posts are about the industry: how to do things, what works and what doesn’t, what’s new in the tradeshow world and so on. But I rarely get personal on this blog. It’s not necessary, but on occasion it is kind of fun for readers to see who’s behind it...
by Tim Patterson | Mar 30, 2018 | Custom exhibit, Graphics, Tradeshow Exhibit, Tradeshow Photos
When I first got into the tradeshow world around the turn of the century (!), an issue that kept coming up time and time again was the color of tradeshow graphics. There are a number of problems that come up with printing graphics with accurate color. First, since we...
by Tim Patterson | Mar 29, 2018 | Booth Design, Branding, Contests, Custom exhibit, Custom tradeshow booth, Fun, Tradeshow Exhibit, Tradeshow marketing, Tradeshow Photos
Welcome to the (perhaps) annual TradeshowGuy Expo West 2018 Exhibit Awards, where I totally (almost) at random, pick out a handful of the 3600+ exhibits at the Natural Products Expo West show and give them a little notoriety here on the TradeshowGuy Blog! A couple of...
by Tim Patterson | Mar 11, 2018 | Booth Design, Custom exhibit, Event Marketing, Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Tradeshow marketing, Tradeshow Photos, Tradeshow visitors
Babies – lots of babies – along with young kids, the occasional dog, lots of mascots/costumes, and a few weirdly dressed people. Typical Expo West! Saturday night – Day Three of Expo West – was spent hanging out with Oregon Business folks at their annual soiree at...
by Tim Patterson | Mar 10, 2018 | Custom tradeshow booth, Event Marketing, Tradeshow Exhibit, Tradeshow marketing, Tradeshow Photos
Random thoughts, observations and photos from walking the floor, test-tasting the products, and chatting with people on day two of the Natural Products Expo West show in Anaheim: It’s a mental thing. But as much as I feel I should restrain myself from eating too...
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.