I spent the weekend doing an aggressive early spring cleaning of our exhibitor database for New Media Expo. Over the last few months I’ve realized that although I’d like to have a large base of prospects to call on to have a booth at the show, quite honestly we’ve been spending too much time [...]

Blogs have definitely made tradeshow and conference planning more transparent. I didn’t come upon his post until just now, but Loic Le Meur, who organizes the Le Web event in Paris each year very publicly outlines where the event hit home runs and where they struck out in this post on their home page. [...]

So the rumors are flying that Apple has pulled out of NAB 2008. I posted that Avid had done so a while ago, meaning this is the second major exhibitor to opt-out of a booth at NAB 2008. It’s disappointing, for sure, but the red flag is in the comment by the Apple [...]

As if it’s not difficult enough to fill room blocks these days, we now have outside travel firms attempting to look like official travel vendors for shows. This has most likely been going on for a while, but the problem of rogue group travel companies attempting to snag attendees away from booking hotel rooms within [...]