Since my folks went out of town over the Father’s Day weekend (which was a first for them in many a years) I spent the weekend helping a friend, Roger, who I met when we both worked at a car repair service center back in the 80′s. So we have known each other long and have always been there to help each when we could. So when he emailed me last week asking me to help him at a local Trade Show so that he can try and drum up some business for his mail and packaging businesses that he opened only a few years ago, right before the economy started taking a major dive.

Trade shows are a great way to promote your company and a great place to do some major networking at the same time. He went and bought a ton of stuff for his booth/spot, like some good quality trade show flooring for starters. It is definitely not something that one person should even try and do by themselves, it would actually have been nice to have a few more helping hands with some strong backs to help as well, I was working up a sweat there at the end. There was a logo canopy, some good looking logo mats and a good sized roll of some trade show carpet that he had his company’s name printed on it, which came out pretty good I might say.

Anyway it seems to have been a success. There were only a handful of the give-a-ways left on the table. He ran out of business cards by mid-day, in which I kept razzing him about, he really should have brought more as back up, but I was just the free help there to lend a hand, in which I did a pretty good job I have to say. I’m glad that is was a success and I wish him all the luck in the world and I’ll be sure to send as many people as I can to him that need that type of mail and packaging service.