TradeshowGuy Monday Morning Coffee, March 13, 2017: Natural Products Expo West 2017
Long days on your feet. Snacking on tasty samples from one side of Anaheim Convention Center to the other. Setting up tradeshow exhibits. Tens of thousands of industry people checking out products, thousands of exhibitors vying for attention in crowded halls. “There’s nothing quite like it!” I’m sure you’d say the same thing about CES, […] Read more
TradshowGuy Exhibits Shows Off Three New Client Booths at Expo West
it was a good Natural Products Expo West 2017 for all of us here at TradeshowGuy Exhibits! We welcomed three new clients at the show: Dave’s Killer Bread/Alpine Valley Bread, Schmidt’s Natural Deodorant and Wedderspoon Manuka and Organic Gourmet Honey. Dave’s Killer Bread/Alpine Valley Bread got it started with a 10×30 booth; 10′ is dedicated to […] Read more
Expo West 2016: Notes from the Swirl
Natural Products Expo West 2016 is in the books. I’m sure they’re still counting the numbers, but I have no doubt the final tally of visitors and exhibitors will top last year’s 71,000 (update: final numbers: 77,000+ attendees, over 3,000 exhibits, 600+ of which were new this year). It’s my 13th time I’ve walked the […] Read more
Meet Me at Expo West for a TradeshowGuy Button
Nothing like a shameless promotional plug, eh? Given my recent propensity to do more promotion that usual (see TradeshowGuyWebinars.com), I had one of those middle-on-the-night flashes: GET SOME TRADESHOWGUY BUTTONS! And GIVE THEM AWAY! Of course. Why not? So if you see me at a show, ask. I should have a handful in my pocket. […] Read more
Expo West 2015: Blisters, Wacky Booth Awards and Show Reflections
After 62,219 steps, a couple of achy legs and a few foot blisters in four days of Expo West, it came to me: “Tradeshows ain’t for wimps!” Certainly not if you’re walking the floor, nor if you’re an exhibitor who’s shepherding a booth (and staff) from the home office location to the show floor, through day(s) […] Read more
Expo West 2014 Tradeshow Guy Booth Performance Awards
Just returned from Expo West in Anaheim where I had a number of tradeshow booth clients, including Bob’s Red Mill, gDiapers, Aisle7 and Hyland’s. One of my goals at this particular show was to do informal assessments of a couple of dozen booths, including booths that I picked at random, and those of companies that […] Read more
Join me at Expo West in Anaheim for the TradeshowGuy Booth Performance Test
Natural Products Expo West is the biggest natural products tradeshow in the US, with some 3,000 exhibitors and 60,000 attendees. Yes, it’s the big time. 2014 will be my 12th consecutive year at the show. Many of my tradeshow clients have been exhibiting there for year. For example, come see Aisle7 in booth 1668, gDiapers […] Read more
Expo West 2013 Re-Cap
(Warning: self-promotional blog post. Not recommended more than once or twice a year…) It was my 11th year at Expo West as a representative of a company that provides exhibit booths for exhibitors. First: 11 years? Kidding, right? No. The first booth client I had way back in 2003 was Kettle Foods of Salem, Oregon, […] Read more