Here on the Best In Show blog for Catalyst Exhibits we’ve been covering topics ranging from key changes to Chicago labor laws that will help revive the ailing exhibition and events market to why renting rather than buying is a clever move when it comes to getting the right stand.
Today, we thought we’d pass on some tips from EXPO Magazine about how you can use SMS/text messaging to boost the number of visitors coming to your event.
Here are EXPO’s Top 10 reasons why you should be using it:
Some argue that owning your own exhibition stand is a better investment in the long run but, that only works if you can see the future of your business in your crystal ball. Since that’s unfortunately not possible, the best option – especially in the current, dangerous economic climate – is to rent your stand.
Andy Besic at Catalyst Exhibits says it’s like buying a car, where you pay a lot up front and then find yourself paying out for expensive maintenance – not repairs – a few years down the road.
“Think of a time when you bought a car from an incredibly helpful salesperson that left you with an overall euphoric experience. Now fast forward a few thousand miles when you are standing in front of the service manager and he is giving you an unbelievable list of maintenance items. You know the type of thing: “you really should do with this oil change.”
As the A-Team’s Colonel John ‘Hannibal’ Smith always famously said: ‘I love it when a plan comes together’.
The setting couldn’t have been more fitting either as the Catalyst Exhibits’ stand for Booz Allen Hamilton scooped ‘Best In Show’ at the Department of Defense Intelligence Information Systems’ (DoDIIS) Annual Worldwide conference.
The show, held in Phoenix, Arizona, provided the perfect showcase for the multi-billion dollar strategic and technologic consulting firm at the forefront of the national security, defense and civil sectors.
The conference is the stomping ground of elite defense solution providers, dedicated solely to the collection, analysis, and presentation of intelligence to policy makers and tactical users.
Chicago is seen as an expensive place to hold conferences and exhibitions but hugely important changes in labor legislation were made law last week, which could stop the loss of major events to other cities.
Sweeping legislative changes have been made that will make McCormick Place and Navy Pier far more competitive and attractive to exhibitors.
One vital change…….
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