Trade Show News
News blog for trade shows and expos, tips, dangers, reports, and general newsworthy items.
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Exhibit Transport Proudly Sponsors Goingbybikes.com
Thursday, May 31, 2012 | Chad Thomas
Anja and Eric are two intrepid travelers using two bikes laden with everything they need for one year to travel all the way around the globe. Anja is an internet marketing consultant from San Diego, and Eric is Exhibit Transports own Information Technology manager. Both Eric and Anja have been planning meticulously for two years to make this dream a possibility. Read more...
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Trade Show Tips and Tricks
Sunday, January 22, 2012 | Exhibit Transport
With 15 years of experience in the trade show shipping industry and hundreds of thousands of hours spent at trade shows worldwide, Exhibit Transport has amassed a wide range of knowledge when it comes to making a trade show appearance successful. If your company is considering making an appearance at an upcoming industry trade show, these handy tips and tricks can help you get the most out of your experience! Read more...
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Apparel for Your Trade Show Team
Saturday, January 21, 2012 | Exhibit Transport
Trade shows are naturally one of the best ways to maximize your company's exposure to your current and potential customer base, by giving you an opportunity to demonstrate your company's products and services first-hand as well as giving your customers a unique opportunity to meet you in person. However, what is also equally important to making your trade show appearance successful is establishing the identity of your company in order to make sure that your customers know exactly who you are and who they can approach if they have questions while the trade show is in progress. Read more...
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How to use QR Codes at trade shows
Monday, October 10, 2011 | Eric Rex
How can QR codes be used effectively at trade shows? Marketers where all swept up into the QR code frenzy about a year ago when the trend fist started making some big strides. Some companies have dropped their use altogether (like Google Places) while others have built a business model on the technology. While the rest of us are somewhere in the middle trying to utilize the tool to return some kind of ROI where the "I" is essentially free. Read more...
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Shipping via Ocean Container? 5 Tips to follow.
Sunday, October 02, 2011 | Eric Rex
Each vendor will have a selection of Ocean Line Carriers to choose from when shipping via Ocean container. Different lines offer different routes and have different availability depending on season, much like airline schedules.
When you are quoted an ocean rate, it is ALWAYS subject to change no matter who quotes you because between the time you get your quote and the time you give the go-ahead to book space, the cheaper lines that are usually quoted first always fill up first. Much like airfare. So the key is acting fast and having a very thorough line of communication with your vendor so you know they are looking in to all lines instead of one with which they favor. In addition, if Exhibit Transport is able to book your shipments at a lower rate than quoted, we will pass the savings on to you. Read more...
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Going Green, Exhibit Transport Green Girl Project
Tuesday, September 07, 2010 | Eric Rex
Global Warming has recently become a highly recognized global issue.
Global warming is an increase of Earth’s surface temperature, which is mainly caused by human activity that produces greenhouse gases. The carbon footprint was created in order to allow people to measure how much carbon dioxide their daily activities are producing. Awareness of a company or individual’s carbon footprint, they can take action to reduce their contribution to global warming. Read more...
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International Trade Show Disasters
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 | Eric Rex
Exhibit Transport has heard just about every conceivable international trade show shipping disaster from clients who have come to us from our competition. Just when we think we have heard it all along comes something new. Share your experience with us. We will publish the best story in our newsletter.
Many things can go wrong in trade show shipping, the strict timelines these shows have create a very unique challenge to both the exhibitor and the company they hire to ship the goods. Just-in-time logistics is a concept that has been around for a couple of decades and many manufacturers utilize it to keep a zero inventory and thus a much lower risk level. Exhibitors might think that since this strategy has been used to a great extent for manufacturing why can't it be just as easy to implement for trade shows? Read more...
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Denali National Park Alaska
Monday, July 14, 2008 | Eric Rex
We recently shipped a container from Virgina to Denali National Park in Alaska. This was a particularly interesting undertaking. The shipment had to enter the park after visitor hours at 10 PM for a three hour drive on a winding road. I thought, how creepy is that, driving a small winding road into wilderness at that hour of the night. To my surprise, Alaska has 24 hours of day light this time of the year so the 1 AM delivery was in bright sunlight, weird. I asked the client, did you see any wildlife and he replied, yes, their were grizzly bears roaming the area where you dropped the container. The delivery went as expected and delivered exactly on time. Read more...
