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Top Summer Tips for Fall Trade Show Trips

Contact your exhibit house today. Too many exhibitors wait until after Labor Day to get started, only to learn they have to get to the end of the line. Don’t wait until the last minute to get your booth pulled from storage to preview – or start a new exhibit. Advance prep enables you to avoid significant rush fees to move up in line. Meet with the booth staffing team.  Confirm your show goals, schedule training on new products and demos at the show, review the pre-at-post show promotional ...

Creative Insights for Your Next Trade Show Exhibit

Creative Insights for Your Next Trade Show Exhibit As exhibit designers we create trade show exhibits that promote your brand, generate visitor traffic and support your business development opportunities. In order to bring you fresh exhibit design concepts, we seek out creative inspiration from a variety of sources. Shapes, colors, textures and lighting ideas can be drawn from trends in other industries including visual merchandising, interiors and fashion. Yet we come by our best ideas exp...

Ion Exhibits Recognized As Best Places To Work In Illinois 2023

Daily Herald Suburban Business 2023 Best Places - Ion Exhibits The Daily Herald Suburban Business has announced the names of 57 companies, in 6 categories of competition, that are honored as the 2023 Best Places to Work in Illinois. This statewide survey and awards program was designed to identify, recognize, and honor the best places of employment in Illinois, benefiting the state's economy, its workforce and businesses. The 2023 Best Places to Work in Illinois list is comprised of 36 comp...

What to Expect in Post-Covid Exhibition Industry Recovery

What to Expect in Post-Covid Exhibition Industry Recovery Exhibitors have been witnessing the return of exhibitions in what is often referred to as the “Post-Covid” era. Until 2022 many companies were sending only top executives and decision makers. Exhibiting companies pulled back on, or postponed, their commitment to show space. Late entry into shows put tremendous pressure on exhibit houses. Shorter lead times could compromise design options and incurring rush charges while they were reco...

Fear and Loathing at Trade Shows

Fear and Loathing at Trade Shows Your exhibit partner’s number one job, as a trade show coordinator, is to make you look good to your boss and to your audience at trade shows. Murphy’s Law tells us that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. While many trade show display installations are free of major mishaps – it is just as common to encounter “issues”. The latter is when fear and loathing sets in for the exhibitor. Fear surrounds how the issue will affect the outcome. And the loathin...