Building Your Event-Related Community With Social Media
In the wake of the presentation I gave last week at the Exhibit Designers and Producers Association Access 2010 conference, I’ve been thinking and reading a lot about what it…
EDPA Slides and Audio Playback
Due to popular demand (okay, I had a couple of people ask if these items would be available and for some unknown reason I’m able to accommodate them), here are the slides and the…
IMTS Dives into Social Media
The International Manufacturing and Technology Show is a bi-yearly affair that attracts 80,000+ attendees and thousands of exhibitors to Chicago’s McCormick Place every other…
Tradeshows: The Perfect Place to Showcase Your Brand
I’m halfway through a little book called ‘Branding Basics for Small Businesses’ by Maria Ross, which is full of helpful information, and while reading the book, it occurred to me…
Recapping the last Quarter on Tradeshowguy Blog
If you have a blog, do you look at your visitor stats to see what’s popular and what’s not? While I don’t obsess with stats, I’m curious enough to take a look every few weeks….
Speaking on Social Media and Event Marketing – Preparing for EDPA
In my preparation for speaking at the Exhibit Designers and Producers Association annual conference in Jacksonville, Florida in a few weeks, I’ve been digging deeper and deeper…
Tradeshow Pre-Show Publicity Guide
If you want to get the most out of your tradeshow exhibit, you should do your utmost to let people know before the show that you’ll be there by using a tradeshow pre-show…
Social Media Rescues a Social Media Seminar
When Knoxville, Tennessee’s In10City Interactive planned a B2B one-hour seminar on event marketing with social media, they first reached out to their clients, colleagues and…
Barking Up a Tree With Social Media
Denise Quashie shared so many ideas on how she’s utilized social media in conjunction with events that it’s not surprising to discover that her pet dog on Twitter led to the…
Schmoozapalooza Update: Using Social Media to Invigorate an Event
In January of this year we took a look at an event in Oklahoma City called Schmoozapalooza. According to Jill Harrison, the previous incarnation of their twice-yearly business…
About Tim Patterson
I’m the founder of TradeshowGuy Exhibits and have been helping companies navigate the trade show world since 2002. I write about exhibit design, marketing, logistics, lead generation, and the occasional unexpected lesson from the show floor.
Books by Tim Patterson
Two books of practical trade show advice.
What Clients Say
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Trade Show Survival Guide
EXHIBITOR Magazine interviewed me about what exhibitors are doing right, what they’re missing, and how better planning can improve trade show results.