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- Doing the trade show dance
- The slow economy combined with the broad availability of information, insight and opinion on the Internet has taken some of the shine off of trade shows. Some organizations have come to see trade shows as boondoggles rather than serious use of time and money. by Dan Kusnetzky
- Tags: Trade Show, Internet, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-08-28
- Behind the failure of OpenSourceWorld
- Open source has, and will continue to do a lot of good in the world. But trade shows and badges? We don't need no steenkin' trade shows and badges. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Trade Show, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-08-14
- So you're going to sell software or work a trade show booth...
- ...it's time to get it right! I get pitched software 24/7. Along the way, I hear and see some pretty amazing things but too often I get my ear bent for way too long by folks who can’t get to the point. Why? Because these pitchmen and...
- Tags: Software, Trade Show, Empathy, Sales Strategy, Telemarketing, Tools & Techniques, Sales Force Management, Healthcare, Sales, Marketing, Marketing Research, Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- Can Macworld Expo survive without Apple?
- Yesterday's earth-shattering announcement that Apple will abruptly stop exhibiting at Macworld Expo after January's event sent shockwaves through the Mac community. After 25 years of anchoring the exhibit-hall with its massive booth and kicking off the event with a keynote address that people would literally wait in line for 24...
- Tags: Trade Show, Apple Inc., Macworld Expo, Notebooks, Memory, Desktops, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-12-17
- What does Apple's MacWorld departure say about future of trade shows?
- I had already scratched CES off of my January calendar but was starting to book meetings for MacWorld, leaving time open for the Steve Jobs keynote speech, of course. But now that Jobs is sending in a second-stringer for the big spotlight event, I'm starting to wonder if I should...
- Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, Steve Jobs, Trade Show, Apple Inc., Macworld, Social Networking, Microsoft Windows, Corporate Communications, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-16
- CES gets the carbon treatment
- Could the mammoth trade show that is the Consumer Electronics Show be in for the green treatment? I mean, after all, most of the vendors there will be preaching green goodness and yet the very act of traveling to a trade show is increasingly in for scrutiny. ...
- Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, Trade Show, Greenhouse Gas, Supply Chain, Transportation, Research & Development, Business Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- I went to Moscone Center and all I got was this stupid T-Shirt
- Where's the hot chicks? Yeah you heard it, Summer LinuxWorld Expo sucked. Again. No, I didn't go this year. In fact, I haven't gone in two years. So how can I say it sucked? Because everyone who I know...
- Tags: booth, trade show, webcast, linux, internet, rss, web site development, web technology, operating systems, software, jason perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- Eight mistakes trade show exhibitors and their p.r. people REPEATEDLY make that drive me batty
- I go to lots and lots of trade shows. Currently in San Francisco at one such event. Next week I will be at another in Boston. For longer than you want to know, I've been working this beat for ZDNet and other publications. I come because I...
- Tags: Booth, Aisle, Trade Show, Agency, Ziff-Davis Inc., E-mail, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing Research, Online Communications, Marketing, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-24
- Photos: The look of tech at Computex
- Motherboards are a way of life for the growing crowds at the Taiwan trade show. Plus: a new take on the megahertz wars.
- Tags: Computex, Taiwan, trade show, motherboard, photograph
- Image galleries 2007-06-07
- Photo: Sony Ericsson's W580 phone
- CNET.com Kent German, now touring the floor at the CTIA Wireless trade show, looks at the slim new slider Walkman phone.
- Tags: telephone, Sony Walkman, CTIA, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, trade show, photograph
- Image galleries 2007-03-27
- Photos: Samsung mobiles at CTIA
- A look at four Samsung phones introduced this week at the CTIA Wireless trade show in Orlando, Fla.
- Tags: Cellular phones, CTIA, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Orlando, trade show, photograph, mobile marketing, telephone
- Image galleries 2007-03-26
- Photos: Touring the floor at Ceatec
- One of Japan's biggest consumer-technology showcases, the Ceatec trade show presents a wide range of new and developing products.
- Tags: CEATEC, trade show, Japan
- Image galleries 2006-10-03
- Photos: Four-core Xeon at IDF
- Intel exec Pat Gelsinger shows off the upcoming Xeon processor at the trade show in San Francisco.
- Tags: photograph, trade show, processor, Intel Corp., San Francisco, Intel Xeon
- Image galleries 2006-09-27
- Photos: Cameras aplenty at Photokina
- At Photokina, the biennial German imaging trade show, lots of camera makers are showing off their goods.
- Tags: Photokina, camera maker, camera, imaging, trade show
- Image galleries 2006-09-25
- Photos: Sushi, sumo and mobile tech
- CNET News.com's Marguerite Reardon takes on Tuesday's media showcase at the CTIA trade show in Los Angeles.
- Tags: mobile marketing, Los Angeles, CTIA, media, mobile, trade show
- Image galleries 2006-09-13
- Photos: Apple's seeds at CES
- Apple's big trade show kicks off Tuesday, but signs of the Mac maker's influence were omnipresent at CES.
- Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, seed, Mac maker, Apple Computer Inc., trade show
- Image galleries 2006-07-20
- Photos: Homes of the future
- PCBC 2006, a homebuilding trade show taking place this week in San Francisco, showcases gadgets that may be found in the homes of the future.
- Tags: trade show, San Francisco
- Image galleries 2006-06-23
- Photos: Homes of the future
- PCBC 2006, a homebuilding trade show taking place this week in San Francisco, showcases gadgets that may be found in the homes of the future.
- Tags: trade show, San Francisco
- Image galleries 2006-06-23
- Photos: Homes of the future
- PCBC 2006, a homebuilding trade show taking place this week in San Francisco, showcases gadgets that may be found in the homes of the future.
- Tags: trade show, San Francisco
- Image galleries 2006-06-23
- Photos: Tuning in to GlobalComm
- More than 500 software and equipment makers have converged on Chicago for the Telecommunications Association's GlobalComm trade show.
- Tags: photograph, software, telecommunications, Chicago, trade show, GlobalComm
- Image galleries 2006-06-06
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