Video from the Conference Session on The Changing Environment of Exhibitions

December 14, 2011

Last week at Expo! Expo! there was a session on CEIR’s new research study, The Changing Environment of Exhibitions featuring Nancy Drapeau, CEIR’s Director of Research, Chuck Schwartz, Chairman, CONVEXX and Scott Poncher, CEO, ReadyLift.  It was an excellent panel discussion which I video taped. In today’s blog post is the first segment of Nancy [...]

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Factors that Drive the Decision to Exhibit

December 1, 2011

The fourth fact sheet was released from The 2011 Changing Environment of Exhibitions Study which explores how the exhibition industry is evolving and provides key market insights on opportunities and threats.  In this series, the results reveals that attendance quality of an exhibition is the most prevalent factor driving the decision to exhibit (84 percent). [...]

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Statistics and Facts on the Current Exhibition Industry Outlook

November 29, 2011

In October of 2011 Doug Ducate, President & CEO of CEIR, provided an analysis to the Exhibition Industry Summit a U.S. Exhibition Industry Results & Costs Scan. In last week’s blog post we highlighted a statistic from this 44-page PowerPoint presentation (traffic density figure relative to satisfaction levels).  Today, we are sharing a couple slides [...]

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Numbers – What Do they Tell Us about Our Industry?

November 21, 2011

In October, Doug Ducate presented U.S. Exhibition Industry Results & Costs Scan to Exhibition Industry Summit held in Irving Texas. The main thrust of that presentation was to explain how the exhibition industry is doing in our current economy.  Today, we have a preview slide from that presentation.  In next week’s blog post, we will [...]

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Exhibitions are Uniquely Positioned

November 17, 2011

CEIR is releasing another fact sheet from the new study 2011 The Changing Environment of Exhibitions Study. This brand new segment from the overall study is titled: Exhibitions Deliver Unique Value Not Provided by Other Marketing Channels.   Key findings from this fact sheet is: Ninety-nine percent of executives identify what they consider to be [...]

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Key Value Propositions of Exhibitions in the New Economy

November 10, 2011

The new landmark Report from CEIR, The Changing Environment of Exhibitions will soon be released.  In last week’s blog post, Nancy Drapeau, PRC, Director of Research gave us a hint of the contents. In review, she stated: One little tidbit to share is that nearly all surveyed marketing executives, 99 percent, identified a unique value [...]

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New CEIR Research: The Changing Environment of Exhibitions

November 3, 2011

Nancy Drapeau, PRC, Research Director for CEIR has shared the following. CEIR recently completed a landmark study evaluating current and anticipated changes in the marketing and sales landscape and how the use of exhibitions is evolving with these changes. In the next month, a series of fact sheets will be issued reporting on the key [...]

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Continuing the Conversation about Predict

October 26, 2011

In this video clip, Doug Ducate and I continue to discuss the takeaways from the Predict Conference held in mid-September.  In our last post, the main discussion point from Predict was globalization and its impact on the exhibition industry.  Listen in as Doug shares a couple of other highlights from the conference. We would appreciate [...]

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Doug Ducate’s Review of Predict

October 19, 2011

Last week, I sat down with Doug Ducate at the CEIR headquarters and captured on film his thoughts and reflections about the first Predict conference.  From all accounts, it was a resounding success!  Listen in on our conversation: CEIR would welcome any comments you have regarding this conference and what you would like to see [...]

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Interview from the Predict Conference – Doug Ducate

October 13, 2011

In today’s blog post, we have an interview captured at CEIR’s Predict Conference held on 15 September in New York.  Doug Ducate, CEIR’s President and CEO, talks about the CEIR Index, and what the results mean for the future of the exhibition industry. We would like to hear from those that attended. What did you [...]

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