When I was a beginning exhibitor, I’ll never forget how I learned the importance of attendee promotions at one particular show. It was a local event which was open to the public, but took place over Mother’s Day weekend so it faced a lot of competing events around the city. On top of that, it was a new show, so hadn’t yet built a loyal following who looked forward to coming year after year. So while exhibitors had been promised a crowd of several thousand, it turned out to be more like a few hundred over the course of the