Budget Management
Need help crunching numbers? Here, you’ll find strategies, guidelines, and suggestions to help balance your budget, trim unnecessary expenses, and stretch your dollars.
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How to Calculate Your Costs
When you need budgeting estimates fast, turn to this handy article, which includes budgeting strategies, rules of thumb, stats, facts, and formulas.
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Buyer Beware
When the economy stumbles, everyone starts looking for the cheapest deal. But according to EXHIBITOR editor Travis Stanton, this type of penny pinching can bite you in the long run.
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Article Library (PDFs)
6 Step Shuffle
Challenged to build a new booth without a new influx of cash, Brandon Gross magically produces the money from within his existing budget. Learn the six secrets Gross used to conjure the cash.
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Weight Watchers
Burdened by massive products weighing up to several tons, three exhibitors use everything from high-tech software to low-tech models to lighten their loads.
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State of the Industry
The Center for Exhibition Industry Research's annual CEIR Index charts an unprecedented decline that is four times greater than any other in recorded history.
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Let's Make a Deal
Negotiation is often the first step in getting what you need at a price you can afford. But it's important to know what is and is not negotiable before you start making demands.
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Custom-Tailored Cost Cutting
When management decided to eliminate the most important show on her exhibiting calendar, Doreen Paquette fought back, cutting costs by more than $57,000 and convincing company bigwigs to reconsider.
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A Penny Saved
Seven ways to cut costs without visibly diminishing your company's trade show presence.
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Nip Tuck: 54 Ways to Cut Your Costs
When it's time to cut costs, a hatchet job can massacre program effectiveness. Instead, try a paring-knife approach — with a slice here and a trim there — to cut costs without drawing blood.
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Six Simple Snips for Significant Savings
When a corporate takeover lopped 60 percent off Jason Raddenbach's exhibiting budget, he cut costs by $150,000.
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Pay to Play
By subletting booth-space to partner companies Karen Carey survives budget cuts and sends return on investment through the roof.
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10 Tips to a Tighter Bottom Line
Real live cost cutting strategies used by exhibitors every day.
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Room For Rent
IBM's Randy Lee enlists strategic partners' participation, practically doubling his budget and increasing sales by nearly 500 percent.
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All-Star Awards – Pocket Change
Michael Mecham of Levi Strauss & Co. uses the buddy system to increase exhibit effectiveness despite budget cuts.
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Something Doesn't Add Up
How to audit invoices and avoid overpaying.
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Trade Secrets
How four exhibit managers used their bartering skills to stretch budgets, enhance exhibits, and market products.
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