Trade Show Podiums

Offering Stanchions Of Support For An Injured Co-Worker, Siegel Display Shows ...

Online PR News – 21-June-2011 –MINNEAPOLIS, MN -- As a premiere trade show and table top display product company, Siegel Display Products is used to coming up with creative solutions for their clients' display needs. Perhaps that's why it is no surprise that the fun and creativity doesn't stop with the design process but carries over into the everyday work environment at Siegel. Even something as serious a broken limb can be made into workplace entertainment.

Take Barb, for example. She recently broke her leg and found herself the recipient of plenty of gag gifts and jokes. From a horn that squeaked every time she used her crutches to a fake can of Minnesota-based "SPAM-mail", the employees, and friends, had a good time ribbing each other. Siegel employees even found a way to tie the injury in to work by providing Barb with a pair of stanchions to use as crutches.

"It's kind of ridiculous how it happened, but I broke my leg earlier this year. Of all the ways I could have broken it, by skiing or slipping on the ever-present goose droppings here in Minnesota, I broke it by slipping on spaghetti! Don't ask me why spaghetti was underfoot, it just was. My esteemed co-workers turned the whole thing into a joke, which really did make me feel better and probably sped up my healing. I guess the old adage that laughter is the best medicine is true in my case," explained the formerly broken-legged Barb who has chosen not to reveal her last name for fear of even further embarrassment.

Many of Siegel's customers seek guidance from the company when creating their trade show displays. It may entertain them to know how much that creativity spills over into the rest of the company, beyond the marketing and design staff. Just as Siegel staff makes their work environment a fun place, Siegel's customers can spice up their office spaces too. The company provides much more than trade show displays. Table top displays, brochure and magazine racks , podiums, prize wheels and even director chairs can all be found at Siegel Display Products.

"We do have a fun culture. Our clients probably don't see that too often. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing, come to think of it. Just like any other workplace environment, staff members have developed friendships and can kid each other over things like this," noted Bernie, the self-appointed grand poo-bah for Siegel Display Products. ( http://www.siegeldisplay.

Can Podiums Help Strengthen Your Tradeshow Display? « Siegel ...

Podiums have long been a mainstay of speeches and presentations worldwide, but they can potentially offer another advantage that few companies recognize. When used in combination with a tradeshow display, podiums become a powerful tool, both for marketing a booth on the convention floor, and for making a presentation to a company in the boardroom.

You already know that conventions are all about getting foot traffic into your tradeshow display so your strong staff and dynamic presence can sell them on your company. Adding podiums to your exhibit only helps increase this reaction. People naturally gravitate toward someone standing at podiums because they will think (correctly, in this case) that whomever is standing there has something to say. Moreover, they also tend to feel that people standing at podiums are better prepared than those who are not, and that those people have more official background and education in their field.

Although podiums can be helpful, you don’t want someone standing there constantly; that would simply appear strange and detract from the overall image. Instead, some companies will operate scheduled speeches, demonstrations, or other events that use the podiums constructively and frequently while avoiding the problem of having someone standing at them constantly. Even the promise of future speeches from presently vacant podiums will help draw visitors to your tradeshow display, making it a strong investment with this technique.

As podiums can help a convention tradeshow display, a small tradeshow display can also help speeches given at podiums. The two tend to work very well together, and having a display that you can reference really drives home your various points. People naturally seek visual information, and a small pop up or tabletop tradeshow display can be a great way to deliver that. Simply plan out what you want to say ahead of time, and you’ll be able to highlight these statistics or important main points as you reference them in the text of your speech.

Some companies tend to prefer a PowerPoint slideshow over a tradeshow display for presentation assistance. In some cases this is preferable, but many theaters, ballrooms, and other speaking venues are not equipped with slideshow display features. Many well-prepared speakers have been forced to abandon their scripts and work without a visual aid simply because they didn’t know their venue was a bit lower tech than expected. One of the biggest advantages of a tradeshow display is that it is a known quantity. Wherever you may go, it will always be a constant presence until you deliberately ask to change it.

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