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Chachka - Tchotchke - Giveaways - Trinkets
2007-10-16 18:07:00 What was that funny word I heard to describe a trade show giveaway? I heard it, I know how to pronounce it, but where did it come from and how do you spell it? Chachka - Tchotchke - Giveaways - Trinkets Definition - A cheap shiny trinket, slang name for trade show giveaways. I ran across this ... More About: Marketing , Events , Advertising , Exhibits
Trade Show Booth Rental - A form of recycling
2007-10-15 20:25:00 I love to reuse old things, I’ve been succesful at selling original artwork on ebay all from recycled material. It is quite a joy when my husband comes home with an old piece of furniture or a tattered old window from a schoolhouse. My wheels begin to turn, I take pride that, these items are ... More About: Marketing , Events , Advertising , Rental , Recycling
Orgill Dealer Market Trade Show 2008
2007-10-15 17:47:00 For those of you who don’t know Kevin - he is our Exhibit House Mascot - he helped me this weekend with the leaves, and we began our conversations about rakes and outdoor lawn equipment. Well, after we got all done, we hit the internet and came across Orgill’s Dealer Market Trade Show . What an interesting ... More About: Marketing , Events , Advertising
Awareness
2007-10-11 23:03:00 AWARENESS By: Susie Kleiner Awareness is your perception & cognitive reaction to a circumstance, condition or an event. You can be aware of emotions, actions, gossip and your surroundings. Sometimes not even realizing exactly what it is you are aware of.Awareness provides us the substance from which we develop ?Qualia?. (This term was unfamiliar to me, its ... More About: Advertising , Tradeshow , Waren , Rene
Promotional Items and Trade Shows Giveaways
2007-10-10 20:41:00 There are several reasons people give away promotional items in the trade show setting, usually at the top of the list is traffic and visitors. Remember to keep in mind the type of visitors and traffic you are hoping to draw in. First off, when trying to decide what types of items to “give-away” do some ... More About: Marketing , Events , Advertising , Giveaways , Trade
International Home & Housewares Trade Show
2007-10-09 22:13:00 International Home & Housewares trade show will hit McCormick Place in Chicago on March 16th-18th, 2008. From cookware, food storage, cutlery, bath & shower and so much more this is just a paradise for home goods and housewares. Kevin - The Mississippi Map Mascot was surprised to find that so many trade shows have such ... More About: Marketing , International , Advertising , Show
Trade Show Food
2007-10-04 20:50:00 For any one who has attended a trade show, the mad rush to the lunch line can be a bit of a challenge, feeling like a race horse stuck in the gate. I have decided to share with you some of our favorite restaurants that are in and around McCormick Place so if you decide ... More About: Marketing , Food , Advertising , Show , Trade
PTC Expo 2008 Trade Show
2007-10-03 18:43:00 Interactive Video and User Created Content are two phrases that are very vanguard in growing infatuation of what is called social media. Social Media chronicles opinions, content, insight and perspectives of individuals and business through online technologies and practices. PTC 2008 ? Telecom with Vision Trade Show Expo is being held January 13th-16th 2008 at the ... More About: Marketing , Advertising
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Tribute
2007-10-03 18:01:00 Today would have been the celebration of his 53rd Birthday! Some of my most favorite Stevie songs are: Close to You Hug You, Squeeze You THE entire In Sessions with Albert King - ROCKS! Feel free to add some of your favorites - and crank up the volume - look up to the sky - and know his spirit still ... More About: Music , Vaughan , Stevie Ray Vaughan , Tribute
4 Basics of Exhibit Display Design - Ends with Style
2007-09-27 22:13:00 Finally, STYLE is just what it sounds like; “what the exhibit looks like.” If the exhibit should look like a ski lodge, a sailboat, a doctor’s office, etc… then we make it so. This is style. Style is the last thing we look at before we design. We can apply almost any style to any ... More About: Design , Advertising , Display , Ends
Carnival of The Capitalists
2007-09-25 15:40:00 Interactive Video and User Created Content are two phrases that are very vanguard in growing infatuation of what is called social media. Social Media chronicles opinions, content, insight and perspectives of individuals and business through online technologies and practices - This weeks Carnival of the Capitalists is hosted by The Virtual Handshake - The first article ... More About: Advertising
Fire Safety - Yearly Trade Shows & Fire Safety Tips
2007-09-24 15:56:00 October is fire safety month, with several different trade shows that are held through-out the year with the latest in fire security, fire rescue and life safety. Fire Rescue & Conference Expo will be taking place November 7-10th, 2007 in Las Vegas, with sessions covering Fire Simulators, Forcible Entry and Rescue Tech Tips to name just ... More About: Marketing , Safety , Trade
Tips for Creating Business Opportunities at Trade Shows
2007-09-20 17:45:00 By: Susie Kleiner Global Marketing Strategy is colossal in the planning and execution of upcoming trade shows. Starting out on the right foot and getting yourself properly organized should be a basic practice whether you are exhibiting or attending an upcoming trade show event. Al Simon at TAG-Technology Association of Georgia wrote 10 tips in January, one ... More About: Business , Advertising , Tips , Creating
Trade Show Tips
2007-09-19 21:33:00 I ran across the Ten Trade Show Exhibit Best Practices on About.com - I agree with the many of the points that Darrell Zahorksy points out in this line-up. Stressing in a few of the articles I have written I firmly belive that the “create a buzz” that he speaks of is ... More About: Marketing , Advertising , Tips
4 Basics of Exhibit Display Design - Grammar
2007-09-19 16:18:00 I continue the series with the third step in exhibit display design and the complete process of which it takes to make your exhibit experience a success. Elements, Priority and now onto Grammar. Grammar is the study of rules governing the use of language. “Grammar”is one of the words our designer’s use to describe the language ... More About: Marketing , Design , Events , Advertising , Display
PMA ?08 Trade Show
2007-09-18 18:01:00 PMA ‘08 hits Las Vegas Convention Center on January 31st, 2008 and continues to February 2nd, 2008. This is an ensemble cast of “memory makers,” from photographers, retailers and even those in the scrapbooking industries. Gathering together over 20,000 industry professionals and 200 sessions at this convention, there is an abundance of information to be ... More About: Marketing , Events , Advertising , Show , Trade
Chicago Bears - Rex Grossman Debate
2007-09-17 21:32:00 I love the game, I love the Bears, followed them for many years. I actually saw Rex in training camp his first year with the Bears, I thought to myself, wow..what an arm. The guy can throw..but let’s get some consistancy. One of our in house exhibit account executive’s is a football die ... More About: Marketing , Football , Chicago , Chicago Bears , Debate
4 Basics of Exhibit Display Design - Determine Priority
2007-09-17 14:30:00 Moving onto and into the depths of exhibit display & design, we find that after the Elements of the display and design are set - we like to move onto Priority: Whether you are planning on one trade show or several for the upcoming year, begin by focusing on the first trade show you are planning ... More About: Marketing , Design , Events , Advertising , Display
4 Basics of Exhibit Display Design
2007-09-13 21:07:00 Yesterday I took you through Marketing/Communications Strategy & Exhibit Display & Design - touching on four key terms that are a great breakdown, I am going to break down the first section today, which is Elements, gathering the trade show event goals from a client starts the process of determining Elements. Is the exhibit display for telling ... More About: Events , Basics , Tradeshow
Underwater Intervention 2008 Expo
2007-09-13 20:47:00 Wow..this is right up old Kevin’s alley, by accident we stumbled upon the Underwater Intervention 2008 website and the amazement in this technology really intriqued our little mississippi map. Taking place in New Orleans, January 29-31st, at the Morial Convention Center. I honestly have to say, I never even realized there was such a convention. Kevin got ... More About: Marketing , Expo
Marketing/Communication Strategy & Exhibit Design
2007-09-12 21:29:00 There was a time when exhibits were designed to “look cool” and any product or message would be pasted on it. The process started with “style.” Customers picked a style they liked and then made it work somehow. We believe that good exhibit design ought to begin with some sort of strategy. What is it that ... More About: Marketing , Design , Events , Communication , Advertising
Software License & Customer Service
2007-09-11 18:18:00 I must share a ?customer service? at its best with all of you readers, but first you will need a little background on what lead up to it. Over a year back, I purchased a piece of software to help us with our imports and database management, to work hand in hand with ACT 2007. ... More About: Marketing , Software , Internet , Life , Customer Service
Blogging? What is it all about?
2007-09-10 18:20:00 Have you seen my blog? What are you blogging about? Should I blog? Who else is blogging? This is a venture that I am truly a novice at, in reality, the blog-umbilical is still attached. I am in the infancy stages of this social media craze. I have found that blogging is fun for sure, I ... More About: Advertising , Blogging
Product Marketing Strategy - Visual Displays & Exhibits
2007-09-07 16:33:00 Satisfied customers as well as a quality product - is the bottom line to any business, when you are researching exhibiting at trade shows, you should be partnering with an exhibit house that handles every aspect of the production of your exhibit- from conception, to the return of the exhibit properties for storage until your ... More About: Marketing , Events , Advertising , Marketing Strategy , Strategy
MDM West Trade Show Expo 2008-Turtle Mascot Investigates
2007-09-06 19:16:00 Kevin - The Mississippi Map Turtle Mascot, was not real happy I shared his post about being depressed yesterday, so I got him online and we wanted to share some information the MDM - Medical Design & Manufacturing Trade Show . Coming to Aneheim California on January 29th-31st, 2008 at the Aneheim Convention Center. Whether your business is ... More About: Marketing , Events , Expo
Kevin the Mississippi Map Turtle Goes to the Crossroads
2007-09-06 03:13:00 Kevin came back early from his weekend home because he was “DEPRESSED” as Lauren put it…she brought him back to the hustle and bustle of the exhibit house chaos, but seriously, as we sit here this evening watching Crossroads, I think it is all about the music…mind you Lauren, he is from Mississippi and likes ... More About: Animals , Turtle , Kevin , Roads
CotC - Carnival of the Capitalists September 4th Edition
2007-09-05 15:26:00 Carnival of the Capitalist September 4th Edition is online and live hosted by Welcome to Help. Among the highlights are some interesting articles: Edith Yeung gives some great advice on how your words and attitude can help you be succesful. This advice and information is so plainly simple, but yet we as a whole have a tendancy to ... More About: Marketing , Carnival , Advertising
Trade Show Booth Design - The important facts
2007-09-04 15:53:00 Design process for trade show booths should be an integral part of everything an exhibit house does. One of the founders of Catalyst Exhibits, Inc. is a designer. A substaintail percentage of our team are designers. Design is important when it comes to trade show booths. It boils down to each trade show is different. There ... More About: Marketing , Design , Events , Facts , Advertising
Trade Shows - Before and After - What you need to know
2007-08-30 15:27:00 By: Lauren Rickert Trade shows are parades?in reverse. Your “float” is your exhibit?an integral cog in your well-oiled marketing machine. It’s essential that you understand the financial and logistical realities of the trade show industry if you’re to capitalize on this prime opportunity to market yourself, your organization and your product:1) DEFINE MARKETING OBJECTIVES2) ESTABLISH A ... More About: Marketing , Advertising , Trade Shows , Fore
Worldwide Foods 2007 Trade Show - McCormick Place
More articles from this author:2007-08-29 22:28:00 Kevin continue’s to eat, and continue’s to grow, with the addition of lettuce and spinach lately, he asked what other grub he could be munching on, which in turn got us thinking about; The World Wide Foods 2007 Trade Show which will be held at McCormick place on October 24th-26th, 2007. If your company has anything to ... More About: Advertising , Place 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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