In the USA it’s TradeshowGuy. In Dublin, Ireland and across Europe, it’s Stephen Murtagh, known as The Exhibition Guy. We ran into each other on LinkedIn and connected a short time later for an intercontinental interview.
This week’s ONE GOOD THING: Casey Neistat’s YouTube Channel.
Anders Boulanger is a professional presenter that works the tradeshow circuit with his company The Infotainers. I’ve know Anders for years – long distance – and finally got a chance to meet in person several months ago when our paths crossed in Las Vegas. As a guest on the TradeshowGuy Monday Morning Coffee, Anders talks about his business, who he works with, how he does it from Winnipeg, Canada, and much more:
ONE GOOD THING: Scruff the Rescue Dog.
Jim Palmer is a business building coach and marketing expert and host of the Dream Biz Coach TV and Dream Business Radio. Yet, somehow, among all of that, he found time to chat with me from his boat in Florida recently about business-building:
Here’s the audio podcast version:
And today’s ONE GOOD THING: Cool Sheets (click!)
Author, keynote speaker and event expert Steve Miller joins TradeshowGuy Tim Patterson to talk about his new book “Uncopyable,” and to discuss the event industry.
This week’s ONE GOOD THING: the movie Darkest Hour starring Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill.
A fun and engaging conversation to end the year of podcasts/video blogs: I sat down with “When Calls the Heart” Executive Producer Paul Jackson to discuss the upcoming 2-hour season opener on Christmas night, what it takes to make it in Hollywood as either a writer or actor, how persistence, hard work and discipline count. And of course, a look at where our lives crossed in radio sometime in the Dark Ages of the early 80s.
It’s got virtually nothing to do with the tradeshow and events industry, except that a lot of the same concepts and disciplines that it takes to succeed in one industry are critical in another.
You’ll like this:
ONE GOOD THING: I got to play Santa Claus and handed out a few of these:
This is the last vlog/podcast of 2017. Since Christmas and New Year’s Day fall on Mondays this time around, I’m going to skip both days along with the newsletter and let ’em nap until 2018. See you the second week of the near year! Subscribe to the podcast here – subscribe to the TradeshowGuy Newsletter here.
TED talk veteran, Emmy-winning Executive TV producer Bill Stainton joins me to talk about what it takes to be a keynote speaker and how he morphed his career once his TV producing days at “Almost Live!” were over.
ONE GOOD THING: Foo Fighters live!
Today’s TradeshowGuy Monday Morning Coffee caught up with the very busy Booth Mom Candy Adams. She’s been in the industry helping companies succeed at tradeshow marketing for years and shares a lot of great insights into how it all works – especially when you have to pull Plan B out of your back pocket:
ONE GOOD THING: Robert Plant’s new CD Carry Fire.
On this vlog/podcast, we learn more about Exhibit City News during a conversation with Don Svehla, Publisher and Founder:
Show Notes:
Tradeshow tips from USA TODAY.
It’s snowing in the Oregon Cascades! Here’s a link to Hoodoo Ski Bowl, my “home” resort.
One great thing about doing a weekly podcast with guests is that I meet a lot of people. This week it was a pleasure to meet and talk with Roger Courville, who helps learning leaders prepare to reach, teach and lead in the Connectorship Age.
It was a fun conversation about events and tradeshows, how to bring value to attendees and much more. Take a look:
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This week’s ONE GOOD THING is the reggae-tinged band Noiseshaper. I’m not sure if the band still exists or is active, and the website looks to reflect that: the last update looks to be about 8 or 9 nears ago. But they left some great music behind.
Matt Kazam joins me for today’s TradeshowGuy Monday Morning Coffee: Matt has done stand-up comedy in Las Vegas for years and is moving into the corporate and tradeshow world, so we sat down to discuss how he’s approaching that and some of the challenges that come up around that endeavor.
This week’s ONE GOOD THING: Sandler Sales Training from Flywheel.