Find the Joy in Exhibiting
By Barry Siskind

Are you happy with your trade show efforts? I am not asking if you are satisfied with your results but rather if your efforts bring you satisfaction. Exhibiting takes a lot of time, requires a tremendous amount of energy and puts you under a considerable amount of pressure to perform. Exhibiting requires a herculean effort to be the best you can when you are meeting clients face to face.  Are you happy doing what you do?
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Upcoming Webinar:
Navigating Internal Processes – Creating Mutually Beneficial Outcomes
Tuesday,  June 15, 2010
Keith Reznick

Your success, and the success of the people with whom you interact – your manager, internal and external customers, associates and suppliers – are interdependent. You can’t succeed without them, and they can’t succeed without you.
Each person you work with has specific goals, challenges and needs. Each also has specific criteria upon which their performance will be measured and evaluated. Unfortunately the goals and needs of a show or event’s stakeholders are sometimes in conflict with one another putting a trade show manager in a seemingly no-win position.
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Meet Our Member: Rick Rinderle, CME, CMP
By Laura Fitzgerald

Welcome to our Meet the Members Section.  This is a place for our members – Active, Allied, Board Members and TSEA staff – to introduce themselves to the TSEA community and share their experiences and insight on and about the Association. 
Rick Rinderle, Senior Meetings and Events Planner at Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, will round off his first year as an Active Board Member at TS2 in July.  Rinderle talked about his role at Novartis Pharmaceuticals and the importance of being a contributing member at TSEA, describing his role at Novartis Pharmaceuticals as “rewarding and exciting.”
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Nominate Now for the Exhibitors' Choice Awards

The Trade Show Exhibitors Association (TSEA) Exhibitors' Choice Awards will once again recognize the best in the exhibition industry. The Awards identify companies and individuals who have made outstanding contributions to exhibitors' success in the face-to-face events industry.  TSEA is asking exhibitors to submit nominations for their preferred TSEA suppliers and shows in any or all categories. (Nominations due by June 11th)
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TSEA Foundation Gala
Wednesday July 14, 2010
The TSEA Foundation Gala is back! On Wednesday, July 14, 2010, from 7-9:30 p.m. during TS2, Trade Show Exhibitors Association members can attend this action-packed annual event.  In order to make this event a success, TSEA members are needed to get the word out.
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