Trade Show Tips

Going Green with a Bright White Crispy Clean Look

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Manny Stone Decorators is happy to introduce our LED 55W arm lamp – which produces more light with less electricity saving energy and money.

LED lamp

To give you an idea of the potential savings, follow us through this example: if six 200w Halogen arm lamps are ordered*, you would need to order 1 plug strip (E29) at a cost of $40 along with E27 which is 1000w – 1500w at a price of $220 (these prices are the advance rate).

But if you order six 55w LED arm lamps*, you still need to order 1 plug strip (E29) for $40, but your corresponding advance rate for the E25 (which goes up to 500w) is only $109. Your energy savings: 1000w; your cost savings: $103.

*The installation and removal of the rental halogens are subject to mandatory electricians services of $120 per hour straight time.

Take a look at the bright white cripsy clean look with these LED arm lamps:

trade show booth with LED lights

Foam board sizes in a metric booth space

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foam board sizes in a metric booth

Please forgive me if this lesson in trade show metric adaptation appears complicated or condescending. It is not intended that way.

Please look at the image.

The accurate insert wall “panels” at a 90.5 inches in height and 38.125 inches in width are NOT to be confused with the top-to-bottom measurements required when using foam board panels as perimeter walls. The foam board walls may be color coated with ink (not painted) or they may be used for applied graphics.

The foam board must be 96″ tall (standard height) so that it can act as an inner wall perimeter surface. The standard width is 48″ per panel.

The accurate measurements necessary for those metric measurements of the 3 meters by
3 meters exhibit space converted to imperial measurements in inches of 10’x10’x10′.

SO – THIS is accurate:

  • 3 meters – known as 10 feet (which it’s NOT) is actually 117 inches
  • For a 20′ back wall, 6 meters – known as 20 feet (NOT) is actually 234 inches. Therefore, one should use four 48″ wide panels and one 42″ wide panel when planning graphics.
  • For a 3 meter by 3 meter or 10’x10′ – IF you maintain the 48″ widths of the first two panels and size the remaining panel at 21.5 inches (allowing for the thickness of the side wall butting into the back wall ), you will SAVE one panel of foam board when assessing your total foam board needs.

This allows 8 panels to be used for a 10’x10’x10′ instead of 9 panels.

Try NOT to make your sides 117 divided into 3 equal pieces or it makes the costs climb for labor and materials.

You Be the Writer, I’ll Be the Editor

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dsc03546Rent a Custom Booth
by LLoyd Stone

Have a booth built to rent. Do not have a booth built to purchase. By renting, the booth should look like new each time you contract for its use. By renting, you attain great flexibility – something especially important during uncertain economic times.

Give us your wish list. You write the story. I will edit it. I can reflect your companies personality in a custom designed and custom built booth which Manny Stone Decorators will build to rent to you.

As you grow, you may need more space in which you can exhibit. Your exposures may change. One show you may have a corner, the next an inline 3 wall.

One show you may be able to build 8′ tall – another show the height restriction may be 12′.

Some shows have line of sight (low side wall) rules. Other shows allow 8′ height on all walls. By renting, you can roll with the punches and take advantage of show management’s sales department opportunities.

A rental exhibit allows you to change the size and configuration of your booth from show to show. Such flexibility allows you to experiment with size, shape and color to create the space that best presents your product.