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7 Arguments for Hiring Top Trade Show Staff

Smart Meetings

Running a trade show both an art and a science. Aligning all aspects of your show from getting the right venue, to publicity, to staffing is a job for professionals. You may only get the chance to get an annual show right once a year, so it is essential that you get it right. Saves Time. Customer Service Enhancement.

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Meeting Professionals International Experiments with Annual Meeting

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four times, all in Canada (Toronto in 2002 and 2019, Montreal in 2007, and Vancouver in 2010), drawing crowds of between 2,600 attendees four years go to 3,700 in 2007, when the event had a trade-show component. WEC has taken place outside the U.S.

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The Ultimate Guide To The History Of Event Tech

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And it was only in 2010 that mobile ads, specific for events and trade shows, really started to see huge growth. I was able to see, through this optical engineering society, an entry-way into a lot of technology well before we saw it broadly. Click To Tweet. Click To Tweet.

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2020 Offers New Thinking on Technology For These 6 Meeting Types

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In 2010, social media was considered a fad, the Blackberry was still the most popular phone, and we used our desktop computer as a primary source for online information. Conference or Trade Show. Conference or Trade Shows. Large conventions and trade shows are manpower intensive before and during the event.

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A Door of Opportunity

PCMA Convene

NAAA reasoned that the new door not only would benefit NAAA, which promised to commit to future conventions in Savannah, it also would enable SITCC to host other groups that exhibit aircraft as part of their trade shows.

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How to Move a 2,000-Person Expo to an MLB Stadium in 3 Months

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Three and a half months prior to my client’s largest annual trade show, we were notified that the San Diego Convention Center would be unable to host the program due to it being used as a temporary Emergency Intake Site. Since 2010, she has been vice president of global accounts at HPN Global.

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Connect Is Coming to Louisville in 2019

Connect Your Meetings

The appointment-only trade show brings together the most active planners, suppliers and experts in association, corporate, expo, sports and specialty meetings for one-on-one Marketplace appointments. “We The destination previously hosted Connect in 2010.

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