Trade Shows

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10 statements about Trade Shows, every show

Tindell: Trade shows are fading and not worth the investment
“Trade shows are fading, you know, we have wholesale websites and all of that. I wouldn't spend the money and time and effort into trade shows”
Kip Tindell Sep 10, 2026 ▶ 22:13 Advice Line with Kip Tindell of The Container Store
Hamdy: Trade shows belong in the mid-funnel, not top-of-funnel
“Top of funnel discovery is not for trade shows. It should be mid funnel.”
Bassem Hamdy Feb 10, 2026 ▶ 27:13 He wrote the book on Account Based Marketing. Here are his GTM secrets for enterprise. | Bassem H... · PMF Show
Trade shows were Herschel's entire initial retail launch strategy
“Our whole strategy was definitely going to trade shows. And it's where people congregate. It's where people after the trade shows have drinks at the bar if they drink or dinners. There's conferences around there. There's thought leaders in the space that usual…”
Lyndon Cormack Feb 27, 2025 ▶ 39:52 Advice Line with Lyndon Cormack of Herschel Supply Co.
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B2B Trade Show Businesses Can Last Decades Due To High Durability
“One type of business that I've brought up consistently is trade shows. And the reason why is I've noticed a trend where a trade show business can last many, many, many decades. Sometimes there's many examples of them lasting a hundred plus years. And these bus…”
Sam Parr Jun 20, 2023 ▶ 45:15 Joe Rogan Offers Vaccine Expert $100,000 To Debate on His Show (#467)
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Luxury retail markups and middlemen inflated suit prices by four times
“They made a product for a brand, and then this brand goes into a trade show, and these trade show, the customers, and there's agents bringing in these customers, or agents selling it to, you know, independent stores again, and if you then add it all up, becaus…”
Fokke de Jong May 1, 2023 ▶ 10:21 Suitsupply: Fokke de Jong
20VC Insight
Rhodes: Unsold inventory risk is the primary barrier for retail buyers
“The trade show solved like a really fundamental problem for retailers, which is when they are placing an order for a product, they need to know that it's going to sell. If it doesn't sell, they could go out of business. And so there's all this anxiety that's w…”
Max Rhodes Feb 18, 2022 ▶ 7:03 20VC: Faire's Max Rhodes on Three Steps To Hire the Best Candidates, Why Every Company Should Have a Strategy Doc and How To Do It & The Art of Referencing; How to Get the Most Out of Every Reference
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Styla Spends $15K-$20K Per Trade Show, Closing At Least One Deal
“It's probably 15 15,000 to 20,000 a month 20,000 per trade show, and well, we usually get at least one deal out of a trade show”
Franz Riedel Apr 22, 2020 ▶ 8:51 1733 They're Raising $5m Right Now on $3.6m in ARR
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Gorgias finds trade show leads yield $5,000 deals and negative churn
“The contrary is trade shows, so let's look at them. They spend 5000 dollars on average, so the deal is bigger. NPS is better, so which means they like the product better, and they're gonna tell their friends about it. And we have negative churn, which means, l…”
Romain Lapeyre May 15, 2019 ▶ 21:17 Lessons from Gorgias: How to Close your First 1000 Customers Based Solely on Data
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Memsource Attends About 50 Trade Shows Globally Every Year
“So just to give you an idea, we go to about 50 trade shows every year. Across the world.”
David Chaniak Mar 13, 2019 ▶ 15:16 1327 Prague Based Translation Tool Passes $5m in ARR, Bootstrapped
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Memsource Spends Between $6,000 and $10,000 Per Trade Show
“So we're talking, you know, we're talking about, you know, every trade show will, you know, could be something between, you know, like six to 10,000 dollars. So it will be approaching that figure.”
David Chaniak Mar 13, 2019 ▶ 15:39 1327 Prague Based Translation Tool Passes $5m in ARR, Bootstrapped

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