Food Trade Shows: Industry Events and Insider Tips
You can’t be an exhibit wallflower at a food trade show and expect to succeed. Food shows are battlegrounds. Smart exhibitors have compelling exhibits with large format graphics, videos, and interactive games all designed to entice you into their booth, sample their products, and learn more about their services.
Rental Island Exhibits with Round Hanging Signs
Big round hanging signs will always attract crowds, like bees to nectar. The rental island designs RE-9196, RE-9197, and RE-9198 all have round hanging signs but in three variations. From a straightforward 16 ft. diameter sign to 16 ft. circles inset with a 12 ft. flat or 3D signs.
Travel Expo Success: Prep and Exhibit Design Tips
Travel Expos or trade shows are professional events for accommodation companies (like hotels and BNBs), industry experts, and technology providers. Typically, these groups interact to share experiences, exchange knowledge, and learn new skills.
Letter from Jim Shelman, GM of Classic Rental Solutions
In this post, Jim Shelman, the GM of Classic Rental Solutions, shares details about their sales growth. To keep up with the growth, CRS has added staff, significantly increased its inventory, and streamlined its internal processes. CRS currently has 25 FT employees handling orders from Classic Distributor Partners.
ESCA & EDPA Booth Stand Sustainability Guidelines — Part 1
Recently, the Exhibition Services and Contractors Association (ESCA) and the Experiential Designers and Producers Association (EDPA) released a comprehensive report called the Sustainability Guidance for Exhibition Stand Construction. You can read the full document as a flipping book.
What Does Portable Modular Really Mean?
The term “portable modular” is a slippery term. Probably 80-90% of the displays described as “portable modular” are rarely both. Those with both features are often compromised by complexity, poor quality, or the availability of accessories.
8 Display Stand Options to Showcase Your Products
When it comes to custom display stands, there’s no one-size-fits-all solution. Some exhibitors want counters, tables, and shelves on the trade show aisle, while others encourage attendees to enter the booth space by offering comfortable seating and demo stations.
Quick Ship and Rapid Rental Trade Show Displays
In Exhibit Design Search, there are (7) Rapid Rentals and (7) Quick Ship designs available. All are packed in portable cases or crates and include (8) 10 x 10 kits and (6) 10 x 20 kits.
The Power of Sensory Marketing at Trade Shows
When it comes to smells, tastes, sounds, and all of our senses, we are driven by memories and primal instincts. Sensory marketing is a powerful tool for all types of events —whether it’s a trade show, supermarket, concert, or sporting event.
Three Rental Island Exhibits with Meeting Space
When you think of navigating a trade show, the words “chaos” and “exhausting” often come to mind. Those two or three days on the show floor can be challenging for attendees which is why more and more exhibitors are creating casual, relaxing environments for attendees within their booth space.
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Your Guide to Designing a Custom Trade Show Booth
So, you’re considering a custom trade show exhibit. Start by keeping an open mind about what a “custom trade show exhibit” is. There’s often an assumption that it’s large or expensive or heavy or complicated. And, it can be all of those, but it doesn’t need to be.
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Michael Holzer Memorium — 10/28/1983 – 09/20/2023
In Loving Memory of Michael Holzer. Michael Holzer was smart, compassionate, and dedicated to his faith. His perspective on life was unique.
Building a Trade Show Booth: A Professional’s Guide
If there’s one “truism” in trade show marketing, it’s that experience matters and mistakes are costly. You’ll avoid the most common pitfalls by conducting research online, asking questions early and often, and working with a trade show professional.
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Trade Show LED Lighting: Bright Ideas & Examples
Light Emitting Diodes (LED) have transformed trade show exhibits. For the better. Not long ago, LED trade show lighting was a luxury, reserved for expensive island displays or tech companies with unlimited budgets. Now, LED lights are everywhere.
Watermelon Seed Spitting Contest and BBQ Potluck
Classic BBQ and Watermelon Seed Spittin’ Contest. It was a summer day like any other… until it wasn’t. So many questions… “I’ve never done this before. How am I supposed to spit?”
My First Seven Months at Classic Exhibits
It’s hard to believe I’ve been with Classic Exhibits for seven months (although I feel like I’ve been here for years). Thankfully, it’s been a smooth transition and everything that I hoped it would be and more!
Summer Savings on ecoSmart Sustainable Inlines and Islands
EcoSmart Summer Savings. Fifteen years ago, Classic Exhibits made a commitment to sustainable exhibits with ecoSmart Sustainable Displays. Our commitment hasn’t waivered with over 150 eco-friendly islands, inlines, and accessories.
Introducing Symphony Backlit Portable Displays
Introducing Symphony Backlit Portable Displays with three elegant 10 ft. and 20 ft. designs: SYK-1050, SYK-1051, and SYK-2039. All include SEG fabric graphics, LED lattice lights, fabric reflector, and portable roto-molded cases with wheels.
What is a Trade Show? A Guide for New Exhibitors.
What is a trade show? Trade Show, as a term, is often used interchangeably with other similar words like conventions, exhibitions, conferences, trade fairs, symposiums, and expos. And while they are similar, trade shows, and in particular professional trade shows, have a specific definition.
Trade Show Carpet Tiles: A Buyer’s Guide
Choosing the perfect trade show carpeting tiles. Trade show flooring options are often the last consideration an exhibitor makes about their display. Their first choice is often carpeting or carpet tile. The reasons are obvious.
Download the Gravitee Modular Panel Library
Download the Gravitee Modular Panel Library. From the get go, the Gravitee One-Step Modular Wall System was engineered to be an ideal purchase exhibit system and the backbone of our Classic Rental Solutions inventory. Not just a panels and parts system. We did all the heavy lifting of creating designs for the Classic Distributor Network.
If Hotels Were Run Like Trade Shows
If Hotels Were Run Like Trade Shows. A guest approaches the reception desk at a hotel and says to the desk manager, “Hi. I’d like a room for a week, perhaps longer.”
Trade Show Staffing: Assembling the Right Team
Who should be there? That’s easy. Bring employees who know the products or services, who have charismatic people skills, who are personally invested in results, and who participate in pre-show planning or post-show implementation.