tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898420497743329790.post3837822204413205017..comments2010-05-13T03:37:13.577-04:00Alan Macomberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17968816445566112884noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898420497743329790.post-38739510249933946792010-05-13T03:37:13.570-04:002010-05-13T03:37:13.570-04:00very useful topic thanks for the post.Trade Show Graphicshttp://www.indydisplays.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898420497743329790.post-76950048006627889802009-06-23T07:05:38.233-04:002009-06-23T07:05:38.233-04:00Thanks for this informationRetail Displayshttp://www.thompsonkerr.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898420497743329790.post-68093127425270406672009-05-26T02:56:29.270-04:002009-05-26T02:56:29.270-04:00Nice informative postTrade Show Displayshttp://www.thompsonkerr.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898420497743329790.post-24678285940237260382008-12-16T21:27:00.000-05:002008-12-16T21:27:00.000-05:00Are bloggers &amp; social networks killing the big shows?<BR/>from Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger by Robert Scoble<BR/><BR/>I’ve noticed a trend lately (actually I noticed it back when I worked at Microsoft and my bosses kept refusing to buy booths at conferences, saying they didn’t return the ROI, but that trend has grown and grown big time). Big companies are throwing their own parties to get news out inside of going to big trade shows. Last night I was at Facebook’s party, where they told everyone they had just passed 140 million users. That deserves a blog post of its own, but we’re here to discuss the trade show crunch.<BR/><BR/>Earlier in the year we attended a day-long event where Electronic Arts introduced a bunch of bloggers to Dead Space, here’s our video with the producer of that.<BR/><BR/>I’ve watched as Apple invites a few hundred bloggers and journalists into a conference room at its headquarters in Cupertino and gets the news out to the world without having to go to an expensive venue.<BR/><BR/>What changed?<BR/><BR/>Blogging and online video.<BR/><BR/>Big companies are looking at the millions of dollars they spend for booths (not to mention bringing employees to) and are realizing that it’s just not getting the return on investment that they should get.<BR/><BR/>My sponsor, Seagate, told me they are reducing their spend this year at CES. AMD and Delphi are doing the same thing and I’m hearing about many other companies who will either stop going, or reduce the size of their booths, either this year, if they could, or in 2010 (contracts make it tough to shrink booths as fast as companies might want).<BR/><BR/>The news is all over the place about Apple’s decision to stop going to MacWorld. It’s being discussed on FriendFeed big time. This post’s thesis got 40+ comments in about an hour.<BR/><BR/>To me this makes total sense. Why? 44,000 people go to MacWorld. Hell, a lot more people watch Engadget report from that much cheaper conference room.<BR/><BR/>And Apple has the personal touch already thanks to their stores. They don’t need to meet with consumers anymore in expensive trade show booths that, simply, aren’t a very good experience anyway.<BR/><BR/>So, what should we expect over the next year? A lot of bad news for big trade shows.<BR/><BR/>What’s killing them? The Internet. You can launch a product live now from a living room. Thanks to Stickam, Ustream, Qik, Kyte, YouTube, Flixwagon, Viddler, Vimeo, SmugMug, etc and blogs.<BR/><BR/>Just give the people on Facebook something to pass along and talk about and your product is out there, big time.<BR/><BR/>I wonder, will 2009’s CES be the last one I attend? I remember when I thought that about Comdex, which everyone thought was too big to die.<BR/><BR/>I think it’ll be a miracle to see CES make it to 2011. Why? Blame it on the bloggers.<BR/><BR/>That all said, I’m participating in a bunch of events at CES and I’m tracking them all (and ones at Macworld) on my Upcoming.org calendar. Hope to see you there. It might be our last time!Alan Macomberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17968816445566112884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898420497743329790.post-34720156463614195302008-12-04T07:22:00.000-05:002008-12-04T07:22:00.000-05:00Trade show displays are the physical screens banners and other paraphernalia used to fill a temporary exhibit space at a trade fair.<BR/><BR/>---------------------------<BR/><A HREF="http://www.thompsonkerr.com" REL="nofollow">Trade Show Displays</A>Trade Show Displayshttp://www.thompsonkerr.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898420497743329790.post-71374316310090506252008-10-20T21:44:00.000-04:002008-10-20T21:44:00.000-04:00Alan, we at My Vintage Baby definitely agree with you. You are very correct in the fact that all we hear about from ENK is how many manufactuers they've added at each show- but where are the reports on how many retailers attended??? Often the people strolling the trade show both aisles are other manufactuers- not exactly who we all travel away from our families and pay a lot of money in order to show our newest designs, huh?Jessica Wiswallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06098394973573689454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898420497743329790.post-62419780579928814552008-10-19T22:05:00.000-04:002008-10-19T22:05:00.000-04:00Maybe it's time to move more into on-line market and new markets outside of US.<BR/>All kids shows for the past 2 years are not attracting enough buyers. ABC kids show and ENK was a disaster, exhibitors not making any money.<BR/>It would me nice to have a virtual tradeshow, where all buyers can view product on-line 365 days a year.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898420497743329790.post-56828306917726838662008-10-15T09:57:00.000-04:002008-10-15T09:57:00.000-04:00Hey Alan, haven't heard from you in awhile so I thought I'd stop by to see how you're doing. Good to see you're still at it!kathleenhttp://www.fashion-incubator.comnoreply@blogger.com