by Tim Patterson | Oct 14, 2019 | Podcast, Tradeshow marketing, TSGMMCPodcast, Video, Vlog, YouTube
What’s it like to compete with bigger companies in the tradeshow marketing world? It might not be exactly what you think. In this week’s podcast-slash-vlog, I take a look at what has worked and what hasn’t for this small company over the past few...
by Tim Patterson | Oct 7, 2019 | Marketing, Podcast, Social Media, Tradeshow Exhibit, Tradeshow marketing, TSGMMCPodcast, Video, Vlog, YouTube
The digital world has enveloped tradeshows as much as it has any other part of the marketing world. And who better to discuss that than author and marketing expert Francis Friedman, who gets into his recent book, The Modern Digital Tradeshow. Check out the show here:...
by Tim Patterson | Sep 30, 2019 | Podcast, TSGMMCPodcast, Video, Vlog, YouTube
Do you avoid things that you shouldn’t? Do you prefer to pretend that something coming up isn’t really important when it is? Avoidance is a challenge all of us face at some point. This week’s TradeshowGuy Monday Morning Coffee looks at avoidance....
by Tim Patterson | Sep 16, 2019 | Podcast, TSGMMCPodcast, Video, Vlog, YouTube
What’s going on in the music industry? Admittedly, the music world is only tangential to the events world, but they are related. And to learn more about how streaming and technology have changed the music world, especially for up and coming bands that are trying...
by Tim Patterson | Sep 9, 2019 | Podcast, TSGMMCPodcast, Video, Vlog, YouTube
What is control? Lack of control? What about being a control freak? Turns out we all have some relationship to control, whether it’s our own or someone else’s. On this week’s TradeshowGuy Monday Morning Coffee I take a look at control: And this...
by Tim Patterson | Sep 2, 2019 | Tradeshow Exhibit, TSGMMCPodcast, Video, Vlog, YouTube
It seems like almost every tradeshow exhibit has a big video screen these days. But what about the content? How do you create content that is actually seen and delivers a message that’s critical to your brand amidst the chaos of a tradeshow floor? On this...
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.