China, honesty, Industry Changes, Job Search, lies, Portable Displays, Trade Show Displays, Uncategorized

Trade Show Industry Killed by Covid-19 – Why Are We Not Admitting It?

We won’t see trade show events again until some time in 2021. Maybe even later. And the trade show display/exhibit build industry is done as well. Picture this. It’s August 2020 and several states in the USA have lifted multiple restrictions for stay at home measures so the economy can get back to normal. However, each state still keeps some…

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Alibaba, Bad Employer, China, Communication, Discount Prices, Environment, honesty, Industry Changes, Internet, Knock Offs, Manufacturer MSRP, Pollution, Stock Market, Uncategorized, Waste

Will Alibaba’s $25 Billion Singles Day Kill Us?

What is the environmental footprint of the $25 Billion Alibaba Singles Day 2017 figure? If you are not aware, Alibaba hopes to eventually either shut down your e-commerce operation, or simply absorb it into the Alibaba portal realm. In North America you probably already thought this was a danger from either Walmart or Amazon. But those two companies have nothing…

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China, Color Consistency, Communication, Customer Service, Discount Prices, Industry Changes, Internet, Knock Offs, Large Format Graphics, Manufacturer MSRP, Trade Show Displays

The Race To The Bottom In Portable Exhibits

An industry insider view on how the Internet has changed the portable display industry in the last 16 years and where it will go. Around the time that the dot com bubble burst in 2000 there were some fantastic ideas of what the Internet could become. Unfortunately, at the time, the ideas were more developed than the technology available or…

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