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Trade Show Marketing Best Practices

Construction Marketing

No question trade shows are one of marketing’s biggest budget line items including exhibit construction, storage, transportation, erection and space rental, not to mention staffing and travel expenses. Below we will why trade show marketing can fail and trade show best practices, including promotion, customer interaction, and measurement.

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Michael G. Smith Writes about the Value of Cob

Natural Building

I attended my first natural building workshop in Oregon in 1993. When the workshop was over, I approached the instructor, Ianto Evans of the Cob Cottage Company, and asked if I could join his team. Although the constant travel became tiring after a while, I wouldn’t trade those years for anything.

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Five Well Established Eco-Villages Around the World

Natural Building

Some ecovillages also run educational programs for residents and visitors. The Farm also runs a well-recognized midwifery center with workshops, an international development and relief nonprofit, a K-12 school, a book publishing company, and the Swan Conservation Trust to protect nearby lands, among other projects and initiatives.

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Two Nomad Earth Builders in India

Natural Building

Stanzin discovered his love for architecture, community building and natural materials at SECMOL, an alternative education center. I learned about sustainable architecture and its concepts through workshops, traveling around India and working on different projects,” he says. Both of us also like to travel a lot.

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Bamboo Building in Myanmar

Natural Building

When he was asked to design a new school in Shan State his bamboo education began. Richard traveled to the Green School in Bali to take part in a two-week introductory bamboo training course. Before this he had no knowledge of bamboo construction.

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The History of the Straw Bale Revival with Matts Myhrman

Natural Building

So Roger got interested in those structures as well and on his travels he began asking around about these hay buildings. There still weren’t many written resources at the time, and we hadn’t yet published Build it with Bales, so a lot of information traveled byword of mouth and people came over looking to get involved and pick your brain.

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The Marvels of Kinstone

Natural Building

If you ever travel near Kinstone outside of Fountain City, Wisconsin it is worth a stop to visit this marvelous site. This small light straw-clay building was fashioned during a workshop. It was created by 12 people during a 10-day Dry-Stack Wall Building Workshop in 2014. The walls are built with limestone from a local quary.