{"id":2792,"date":"2008-10-10T01:28:33","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T08:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/10\/web-conferences-creative-booth\/"},"modified":"2008-10-12T05:23:44","modified_gmt":"2008-10-12T12:23:44","slug":"web-conferences-creative-booth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/10\/web-conferences-creative-booth\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Conferences: Does Your Booth Standout?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jeremiah_owyang\/2917204414\/\" title=\"This guy has NO idea there's a dead dude in his booth by jeremiah_owyang, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3069\/2917204414_ffe5659866.jpg\" width=\"475\" height=\"365\" alt=\"This guy has NO idea there's a dead dude in his booth\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I go to a lot of conferences, more than I want to admit.  Part of my job is to cruise the vendor rows and talk to folks to learn about what new offerings that they have.  It&#8217;s rare that I ever see a booth that grabs my attention, forces me to take a picture and then share it with many others.  <\/p>\n<p>Last week at Online Market World in SF, I stumbled upon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doba.com\/\">Doba<\/a> appears to be an inventory middle-man that connects ebay sellers with companies with merchandise allowing for a marketplace where the sellers don&#8217;t have to have physical inventory, I guess in a way this is a digital wholesaler.  <\/p>\n<p>Have you been to O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s Web 2.0 expos?  There are hundreds and hundreds of vendors crowded in Moscone West, it&#8217;s an absolute jungle and I hide my badge so folks don&#8217;t see I&#8217;m from an analyst firm and get stopped every few feet.  When the marketplace gets this crowded and everyone who walks by is a prospect, companies will need to stand out in order to get noticed.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the image to read comments, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisknudsen.biz\/\">Chris Knudson<\/a> of Doba ended up responding to me, a clever group.<\/p>\n<p>Help me caption the above photo, leave a comment below, have fun with it.<\/p>\n<p>Update: see this <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yk9q62\">gallery of other creative outdoor advertisements<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I go to a lot of conferences, more than I want to admit. Part of my job is to cruise the vendor rows and talk to folks to learn about what new offerings that they have. It&rsquo;s rare that I ever see a booth that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/10\/web-conferences-creative-booth\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Web Conferences: Does Your Booth Standout?<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}