Now that November is well underway, it seems like we're on a sprint to 2018. We're in the holiday zone: that time of the year when we race through Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year's Eve, New Year's Day and finally finishing with the big one on January 8: Elvis's birthday! Let's rock!

New to the blog this past week: 

When it Comes to Tradeshow Exhibit Design, Are You Stuck in a Checklist? This came up during a discussion with colleague Marlys Arnold and her comment stuck with me.

Three Extraordinarily Useful Tradeshow Marketing Exhibitor Magazine Articles. Yes, there is a lot of good stuff here. You should spend time on the site regularly.

TradeshowGuy Monday Morning Coffee for November 13, 2017: Roger Courville, long-time communications teacher and more, joins me for a fun and interesting conversation (BTW, that photo below is a picture I took when I was a teen - it's the A-frame house in the Oregon Cascade mountains that I grew up in).

How to Benefit from Tradeshows Without Exhibiting. You can still meet and greet and even drum up some business without the benefit of a tradeshow exhibit.

Pretty self-explanatory: It's Always Cell Phone Courtesy Month in a Tradeshow Booth