I have always found it interesting how many different seasons there are once you become an adult. As a child you tend to believe in four seasons- spring, summer, fall, winter- or maybe two seasons- school season and summer season.
Yet, as we get older the more seasons we tend to run into. Add sports seasons, performance/recital seasons, vacation seasons. When I worked in college athletics there was preseason, the dreaded season of overlap when our fall/winter or winter/spring sports ran at the same time, and then off season. Cue a change in career and enter buying seasons, trench drain season, water heater season, rental parts season and finally, conference and show season. I had no idea there were SO many different seasons.
Conferences and shows can break your routine, take you out of the office and out of town for an extended period of time and make you unavailable to clients who need you and prospects you want to find. Yet, they are an important part of career development or sales strategies.
When I came across the article "Survive the Upcoming Conference Season" I gave it a read and realized I didn't think of some of the survival tips. It also made me think of a few others that aren't mentioned. In addition to their four tips, here are three more from me:
How do you make sure you survive conferences and shows? Do you have different expectations for your conferences and shows if you a a vendor or an attendee? Share with us your conference and show survival tips.