by Tim Patterson | Jan 13, 2010 | Uncategorized
Late last year during the Christmas holiday break, while I was lazing away days in front of bowl games eating popcorn with my son, playing video games and getting in a day or two of steep incline slope meditation (that’s skiing to you), I made a decision to...
by Tim Patterson | Jan 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
Funny, you don’t think of tradeshow graphics as actually working. Like, doing a job. More like you just hire a designer to put a nice logo up with a spiffy enticing photo and perhaps a photo and call it good. But if that’s all you do, you’re probably...
by Tim Patterson | Dec 10, 2009 | Uncategorized
Sometime last year our shop foreman told me “We can do anything….they just gotta bring us an idea and we’ll figure it out.” And yes, I’ve seen it time and time again. It’s true. The designers and fabricators at Interpretive Exhibits...
by Tim Patterson | Nov 20, 2009 | Uncategorized
You may have had a chance to participate in our current survey (set to close 11.25.09) on Using Social Media to Promote Tradeshows. I’m already getting initial results – some of which are eyebrown raising and others, not so much. If you’d like to...
by Tim Patterson | Nov 16, 2009 | Uncategorized
It wasn’t long ago that I interviewed David Schenberg of BusyEvent for a podcast. A few moments ago I installed the Alltop widget which is a cool tool for pulling in news of the event industry (or almost anything else) into the blog’s right sidebar (take a...
by Tim Patterson | Nov 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
Note: the following post was originally published as a guest post on Steve Farnsworth’s Digital Marketing Mercenary on 11.6.09. Need more proof that social media is a great place to meet people of like minds? A couple of weeks ago I was doing research for a...
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.