Author: Marlys Arnold
With experiences as both an exhibitor and a show organizer, Marlys Arnold has a unique perspective on trade show exhibiting. As an exhibit marketing strategist, she travels the country consulting and training on how to create experiential exhibits that produce significantly higher numbers of qualified leads. She’s led workshops for events ranging from local consumer expos to some of the largest trade shows in the U.S. She hosts the
Trade Show Insights blog/podcast, and is the author of
Build a Better Trade Show Image and
Exhibit Design That Works (the first book in the
YES: Your Exhibit Success series). She's also the creator of the
Exhibitor Education Manifesto and the
ExhibitorEd Success System and founder of the
Exhibit Marketers Café, an online education community.
As the U.S. dives head-first into Black Friday & beyond, this seems like an appropriate piece of advice to keep in mind.
(I wrote this article for TSNN.com and it was originally published as part of their 20th Anniversary series of historic show profiles – Reprinted with permission.) In early 1917, a few …
Are you using video as part of your marketing? Whether you’re a show manager or an exhibitor, there are many creative ways to include video before, during and after …
You’re entering another dimension … where normal, reasonable behavior can vanish in an instant. The following examples are not an illusion or figment of someone’s imagination. These exhibitors really …
Recently, the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) announced they were canceling their 2017 show, known as FMI Connect. The reason? A dramatic drop-off in attendance. Of course this came as …