http://www.tradeshowstartup.com Lessons From the Launch of Tradeshows & Internet Media Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:29:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A favorite meeting blogger, Sue Pelletier, comments and links to a completely bizarre situtation, in which the attendees of a conference began receiving charges on their credit card when the event organizers failed to pay the hotel bill. I would have thought it to be an April Fool's joke, except the ... http://www.tradeshowstartup.com/2008/04/06/charging-attendees-when-show-management-cant-pay/ I always like to see two areas of interest coming together. In this case, it's online video and tradeshows. TradeShowNews.tv recently launched. Looks like a great way to bring your show to anyone who can't attend and it might just convince them to attend the following year. ... http://www.tradeshowstartup.com/2008/04/01/online-media-and-tradeshows/ Interesting article in the Wall Street Journal today about how the South By Southwest event is dealing with the flood of outside parties. It's a difficult balance. You want attendees to have a lot of reasons to attend. Yet if more and more dollars go to the outside event ... http://www.tradeshowstartup.com/2008/03/14/on-the-issue-of-outside-parties/ Something new always seems to come out of the SXSW event in Austin each year. The music/film/technology conference has attracted lots of folks in the technology field over the past 3-4 years. Last year the big story was how everyone was using Twitter to communicate and organize impromptu ... http://www.tradeshowstartup.com/2008/03/12/the-new-twitter-emboldened-conference-attendee/ Yesterday was the day we sent out all of the acceptance and rejection letters to speakers for the New Media Expo in August. I have a love / hate relationship with this day because I know I'm going to make a few people very happy and a lot of ... http://www.tradeshowstartup.com/2008/03/06/speaker-acceptance-turn-down-day/ 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 ... http://www.tradeshowstartup.com/2008/02/24/cleaning-house-on-the-exhibitor-database/ 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 ... http://www.tradeshowstartup.com/2008/02/14/trend-going-public-with-successes-and-failures-of-your-event/ 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 ... http://www.tradeshowstartup.com/2008/02/07/apple-not-exhibiting-at-nab/ 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 ... http://www.tradeshowstartup.com/2008/02/05/unscrupulous-group-travel-companies-stealing-your-attendees/ So Avid won't have a booth at NAB this year. As usual when an anchor exhibitor and sponsor exits, a few people are talking doom and gloom for the future of the show. A blog over at CreativeCow.net has interesting discussion about the issue. On the one hand, I think ... http://www.tradeshowstartup.com/2008/01/04/when-an-anchor-exhibitor-leaves/