10 Things to Look for in Your Competitors’ Tradeshow Booths
Of course you’re busy at the tradeshow, but make time to check out your competitors’ tradeshow booths. You’ll learn useful stuff! Here are ten things to look for: New products or…
Millennials and Tradeshows
My oldest son is a millennial. Born in 1992, he’s toward the end of the age range, which to marketers are those born between 1980 and 1996. So as we slip into 2017, the oldest of…
How to Get People Talking About Your Tradeshow Exhibit
There are three phases to getting people to talk about your tradeshow exhibit. First, you’d love to get them talking about it before the show. Second, you want them talking about…
3 Extraordinarily Useful Tradeshow Infographics
Tradeshow Infographics, like any infographic, serve a very useful purpose. They give you a way to visually digest information that might otherwise be a little more difficult to…
9 Secrets to Tradeshow Success
Secrets to tradeshow success? There’s no secret! It’s all out in the open. Actually, it’s all lurking online somewhere. Just for fun, I plugged the search term “tradeshow success…
Tradeshow Exhibits: Rogue One
Or: How to Build Anticipation for Your Tradeshow Appearance When I was just a mere 22 years old, the very first Star Wars movie came out. This was back when we would watch it, go…
Using Virtual Reality in a Tradeshow Booth [Webinar Replay]
I love a good discussion where I come away with more information than I had at the beginning. That’s what happened with the 20-minute webinar discussion I had with Dave Beck of…
Exhibitor Magazine Features Tradeshow Success Book
Some Mondays are definitely better than others. After a long bike ride this afternoon, I came back to the office to an email alerting me to the finally-published interview I did…
Infographic: Online Event Talk
The good folks over at Eventbrite offered to share their findings and infographic in how online talk and chatter can impact events. By analyzing tweets from over 60 events, they…
The Five Stages of Tradeshow Management
Stage One: Don’t we have a show coming up in, oh, a few months? This is the stage where you KNOW you have a show coming up, but you haven’t confirmed dates, haven’t confirmed…
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
“Thank you for all the incredible work that went into designing the Wedderspoon Expo West stand and getting it installed so seamlessly. It was a defining moment for the brand on the biggest stage of the year. I received a lot of commentary from competitors and other exhibitors about how it was one of the top stands and brand expressions.”
Let’s Talk About Your Next Exhibit
Planning a new exhibit, updating your current booth, or just have a trade show question? I offer a free, no-obligation consultation to talk through your project.
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.