TSNN Feedback Promotion, Month Three – "Vendor Feedback"
Win a $100 Visa Gift Card, Just by Providing Us with Feedback
Have you inquired about products/services from any of the vendors advertised or listed on TSNN from the past year? If so, we want to hear from you. Please send your responses to sales@tsnn.com by May 8, 2009. One lucky winner will be randomly selected to receive a $100 Visa gift card, as sponsored by SVM.
About Promotion Sponsor: SVM has been a leader in the gift card industry since 1997. SVM represents all of the major gasoline brand gift cards along with over 150 of the most popular retail, restaurant, hotel and universal gift cards. The ease of transporting and distribution make gift cards ideal for booth and event prizes.
To find out more or to order, visit us at www.svmcards.com or call 1-800-972-7481.
Rules of Eligibility: Winners will be chosen randomly on a monthly basis for the next seven months. Current and former employees/contractors of TSNN and the Tarsus Group plc are ineligible.
Announcing last month's winner of a $100 Visa gift card:
A. Karen Varrone, President
The Mission Group, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
What's New on TSNN?
SAVE THE DATE: JUNE 17, 2009
TSNN Proudly Introduces its First Complimentary Webinar with
Susan Friedmann, The Tradeshow Coach
Susan will be discussing "How to Exhibit in a Different Economy; 17 Strategies to Leverage Your Success."
Registration coming soon...
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Best Practices
Fabric Architecture: The Practical, Green Option For Trade Show Displays
As a marketing or trade show manager in today's economy, you know the need to get your message noticed in a crowded marketplace with minimum waste, maximum impact, and minimum budget. So how do you meet the corporate responsibility to create green, eco-friendly displays that leave a small footprint? If these imperatives weren't enough, your message must be big and bold.
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Did You Get The ROI You Wanted From That Tradeshow?
By Camberley Bates
The process of Marketing, Sales and ROI happening during events is always on our minds. As professionals we especially need to focus on the managing and generation of leads. It takes at least 6 touches to turn a response into a lead and it is vital to keep in touch with a new prospect with more than one e-mail or phone call.
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10 Ways to Master the Trade Show Giveaway Game
By Susan Friedmann
Make the right impression for the best price with these helpful tips from "The Trade Show Coach"
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Job Postings
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Editor's Venue Recommendation
Rosemont and the Stephens Convention Center: The Smart Way To "Do Chicago"...
Location Smart...
Being centrally located, very business savvy, wonderful restaurants and an important "Travel Hub", Chicago has enjoyed it's status as America's Great Business and Convention Destination. But over the years expenses have been creeping higher and higher. And other cities have been aggressively attracting convention traffic. Chicago was gaining the reputation as a great convention destination, but too expensive to actually choose. But Rosemont is changing all of that.
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Industry Updates
Las Vegas Still Rules Tradeshow Roost
By Rachel Wimberly
Las Vegas has had a tough time as of late, with more than 400 event cancellations since the beginning of the year. Even so, no major tradeshows have canceled as of yet, and, according to the just released 2009 Tradeshow Week 200, Sin City still rules the roost as the city with the most shows, 49, snagging 24.5 percent of the national market share.
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Skyline Exhibits Online Contest
Skyline Exhibits is holding a new product contest online to call attention to its record group of innovative new products. Skyline is asking exhibitors to go to the online contest to judge which new Skyline trade show display product is the best. The contest ends May 29, 2009.
As incentive for judging the contest, Skyline will award to a judge a free 10-foot display of their choice from the new products.
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CARBON TradeEx AMERICA SETS EXAMPLE FOR GREEN INDUSTRY EVENTS
"Act as you preach" – when recently conducting an industry show dealing with the future of the U.S. Carbon Market, the organizer encouraged delegates and exhibitors to join in the effort to reduce waste during the event and set an example for the exhibition industry.
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2009 National Gift Basket Professional Convention Announces Canton Ohio has been picked
Canton, OH (MMD Newswire) April 23, 2009 -- Ohio Entrepreneur is chosen to host this years "2009 National Gift Basket Professional Convention" and she has brought the convention to Canton, Ohio, her home town! Pam has promised to keep it Affordable, Educational, and the Best Convention ever!
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Social Media
Using Social Media to Make Your Next Event A Success
As a Trade Show Professional you want to know all the tools and technologies available to you. There is an increased use of Social Media for marketing purposes being used and it's important to think about how to market events in new ways. Take a look at how to leverage this growing field and figure out the best solution through implementation of different channels.
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Twittering Your Trade Show and Making Money From It
Twitter is becoming a popular tool. Learn how tradeshow professionals can use Twitter to market their next event. One of the best features of Twitter is it allows for conversation and opinion generation by industry peers. For example, exhibitors, speakers and attendees can "tweet" at a live event!
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MeetingJobs.com
TSNN has partnered with MeetingJobs.com to bring you the meeting industry's most comprehensive job search website. The goal is to more effectively put hiring officials and job candidates together. MeetingJobs.com posts between 40-60 new meeting planner jobs per month and receives between 7000-9000 hits per day from qualified meeting planners seeking open positions.
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Featured Vendors
- 4AllPromos
- 40 Main Street
Centerbrook, CT 06409
866-732-3386
- APlasticBag.com
- 3741 Merced Dr.
Unit# F1
Riverside, CA 92503
877-992-2247
- Attendee Interactive
- 10281 Baltimore National Pike, Suite 201
Ellicott City, MD 21042
410-480-8148
- EmailDataGroup (Formerly ListOrbit)
- 14781 Memorial Drive, Suite # 1155
Houston, TX 77079
800-708-7993
- ExpoCad
- 69 South LaSalle Street
Aurora, IL 60505
630-896-2281
- GES Exposition Services
- 950 Grier Drive
Las Vegas, NV 89119
702-263-1500
- Lancaster County Convention Center
- 3 E Vine St.
Lancaster, PA 17603
866-503-3786
- SVM Gift Cards
- 999 E Touhy Ave, Suite 250
Des Plaines, IL 60018
847-553-9100
- The Donald E. Stephens Convention Center
- 5555 N River Rd.
Rosemont, IL 60018
847-692-2220
- vConference Online
- Virtual
520-760-2400
- Boston Convention Center
- Two Copley Place, Suite 105
Boston, MA 02116-6501
617-867-8286
Make Your Own History at the Boston Convention Center
Call 877-393-3393 or e-mail us to arrange your site visit and see why meeting planners worldwide are making the Boston Convention Center their #1 choice.
Featured Events
- American Payroll Association's 27th Annual Congress
- Show Type: Trade Show with Conference
Long Beach Convention Center
May 19, 2009 – May 23, 2009
- China Textile & Apparel Trade Show
- Show Type: Trade Show
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
June 16, 2009 - June 18, 2009
- NAHC Financial Management Conference & Exposition
- Show Type: Trade Show with Conference
Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel, Boston
July 29, 2009 - July 31, 2009
- The 20th Annual VISIONS: The Women's Expo
- Show Type: Public Show
Dallas Market Hall
August 28, 2009 - August 30, 2009
- The 17th Annual World Congress on Anti-Aging Medicine and Regenerative Biomedical Technologies 2009
- Show Type: Trade Show with Conference
San Jose Convention Center
September 10, 2009 – September 12, 2009
- NAHC 28th Annual Meeting & Exposition
- Show Type: Trade Show with Conference
Los Angeles Convention Center
October 10, 2009 – October 14, 2009
Event Organizers seeking more ideas on best practices for their events can access tsnn's enewsletter archive at http://www.tsnn.com/newsletter_archive.asp.
Do you have a story on a new and/or best practice that garnered successful results for your event? Whether it's sales and marketing, operations, customer service or any new idea that can benefit your peers in the industry, WE WANT TO KNOW! Send your ideas, stories or press releases to Arlene Shows, tsnn.com online editor, at ashows@tarsus.com.
For advertising and sponsorship opportunities on TSNN, please contact Seng Weiland (sweiland@tsnn.com, 262-754-6920) or John Rice (jrice@tsnn.com, 617-201-7088).
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