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Every opportunity to discuss your brand, service, or market position is a choice between simply pitching the benefits of your product or sharing a personal, meaningful story that connects you to your listener.

The first time I heard about the “death of the trade show” was in fall 2001. The tragedy of 9/11 struck fear in the hearts of personal and professional travelers alike, grounding a significant portion of the populace and spawning conversations around if, when, and how we’d ever travel again in the face of such considerable risk.

When it comes to marketing communication, no one likes to be sold to, but everyone loves a great story. Learn to tell a better corporate story, and the payoff for your brand and personal career will be immediate, extensive, and lasting.

When was the last time you read and retained every word of a speaker’s bio? Or got to the end of a bio that actually made you more excited to attend that speaker’s session? Don’t worry if you can’t recall one; speaker bios are notoriously predictable, clinical, and uninspiring.

Knowing how to pack – and more important, how not to pack – can make the difference between an extra glass of champagne at the neighborhood bistro or a lost afternoon at the baggage carousel.

Whether you enjoy and look forward to delivering a presentation, or fear and avoid giving talks in front of others, you can quickly and easily become a more successful communicator. And while you may not like taking the microphone, you can get better at it.

Success or failure of any corporate story relies on a proven hierarchy in how humans humans hear, interpret, and accept any message that arrives as part of a daily input of 10,000+ bits of stimuli, all screaming and jostling for attention. Understanding that hierarchy, then crafting brand messaging that honors and follows it, is key to assuring reliable marketing impact for you, your company, and your product.

Companies that succeed at CSR are the ones who do it because they genuinely want to do it, regardless of the story it tells or the profit it derives. Those companies have leaders who not only directly and aggressively support their CSR team’s efforts, but who actively participate in it themselves. The fish stinks or swims from the head down.

When guests step out of the aisles and into your trade show booth, is your team ready to make the most of that golden opportunity?

Conferences can be rewarding, powerful opportunities to interface with new and existing customers, discover trends in your market, and capitalize on valuable interactions in ways we can’t during our typically siloed work days.

Raise your hand if you love working trade shows. Anyone? Anyone? Buehler? Buehler?

No matter what industry your brand plays in, there’s nothing like an intelligently strategized, well-run booth at the right trade show to generate new leads, grow and expand existing customers and partner relationships, and pay powerful long-term profits.

Corporate Storytelling is about passion, not product.

No matter what industry your brand plays in, there’s nothing like an intelligently strategized, well-run booth at the right trade show to generate new leads, grow and expand existing customers and partner relationships, and pay powerful long-term profits. Here are 5 ways trade shows will boost your business, along with 1 simple solution to help guarantee event success.

Raise your hand if you love working trade shows. Anyone? Anyone? Buehler? Buehler? The truth is, most of your company’s employees don’t choose to work a trade show booth. They’re team leads, designers, developers, and SEs whose specialty is miles away from hour after hour of face-to-face customer interaction.

Trade shows promise miles of walking, sore feet, heavy bags of premiums, and staffer tedium. You can help by paying attention to how your booth solves some of these challenges.

When guests step out of the aisles and into your trade show booth, is your team ready to make the most of that golden opportunity? Most event leads would answer with a resounding no. That’s not just a problem, it’s a crisis. Every minute of a live customer-facing event is a chance to make new connections, win new business, differentiate your brand, and convert prospects to solid leads. If your staff isn’t performing at their very best, it’s time for strong booth staff training.

Picture yourself on a trade show floor; it’s loud, confusing, bombastic. Lights buzz, people shout to be heard, your feet ache from miles of trekking across thin-carpeted concrete exhibit halls. Competing messages assault you at every turn and your brain is filled to capacity with statistics and superlatives

Corporate interviews can be fun to watch or the most mind-numbing, torturous media ever created. We’ve all sat through countless meetings or suffered through endless videos where a nervous, stumbling company representative is interviewed by someone robotically reading questions off a card, in written order, regardless of the flow of conversation.

It’s no secret business successes are built on relationships. Endless data over decades and thousands of measured interactions proves that our customers doesn’t buy what we do, they buy why we do it.