Thoughts from David, non specific to what we do, just a place to say what’s on my mind and to have a blether.
It's mid November and we are winding down our stand building for the year...and what a year! Covid shutdown is a distant memory! At this time of the year I feel like our team can breathe a little easier and give ourselves a break, take 5 and do some cleaning!
It's all for my boys! Well that was epic! 1 month down and I feel that I need a weeks holiday! It seems in the events space that opportunities come in waves. Well I've been fighting and trying to keep on top of the wave these last 4 weeks. Getting a new productivity software into working order as the enquiries start flowing. Tricky! Getting in the region of 75 stand build enquiries in a month is like running as fast as Usain Bolt into Iron Mike Tysons right hook! When you're the person making the decisions it sometimes takes its toll. By [...]
Following quickly on from my last post Redblu have also another string to our bow which we haven't told anybody about (because we are a small company without a marketing person) and we've been very busy post covid working. Excuses! Redblu is an exhibition stand contractor. So yes, we design and build our individual exhibition stand projects and deliver them across the UK. From 6sqm tiddlers to over 100sqm monsters. But....... We also deliver whole shows as an exhibition stand contractor. Like this big boys like Full Circle and GES (but on a much smaller scale) To date our biggest conference [...]
I've got so set in my ways when describing what we do here at Redblu that I've lost track of the other ways of saying the same thing. Confused? Let me explain - I always say when asked what Redblu do is that we offer a variety of Creative Branding Solutions and we specialise in modular exhibition stands. Full service, from brief to delivery, including the 3d design, project management, logistics, installation and dismantle. Well that is fine for the UK customers, but not from abroad. Our friends from overseas describe exhibition stands as booths. So it follows that we at Redblu [...]
We were back up at the P&J live in Aberdeen recently. Couple of stand builds to do and just realised it is so good to be back working on stand design and build again. Last September was the start of a year and a half of anxiety but we weathered the storm and managed to get through it quite well and now we are cooking with the proverbial gas! ASIT Exhibition Stands We live chatting about all things exhibition stands, so get in touch and have a chat with me.
Edinburgh Gin @ The Ideal Home Show Another new customer on board and this was the first little stand we've produced for Ian Macleod Distillers with their Edinburgh Gin Brand. Pretty simple 4m wide backwall with tension fabric graphics, counters with storage for all their sampling stock and the usual services required to deliver the stand. We re-used their shelving display unit and gave it a makeover. All good, client delighted and onto the next event, Food and Drink Expo in Birmingham.
Well it's been a long time coming but EXHIBITIONS ARE BACK! Hallelujah! Nobody could have imagined when the government locked us all down in March 2020 that everything would change so much. However, change it has and life won't be the same again. Our love of exhibiting has remained and through the tough times we tried to stay as positive as we could. It's tough staying positive when there's nothing but bad news and negativity. I wonder how you all coped? So we've now been allowed to open back up and start our business proper again. We're back into the factory and [...]
I had a walk around Livingston Designer Outlet and the Centre on Sunday past. Actually quite enjoyed the experience as it was quiet, easy to park and easy to get in and out of shops and with lockdown I hadn't had to endure the shops for a few months. Well, while I was walking around with my family trying to keep my 2 monkeys entertained while the better half browsed it was interesting to take note of what the retailers were doing to draw in customers. So you've got The Body Shop using hanging posters in their [...]
I remember my dad always saying to me when I was at school, "this is the best time of your life, you have tonnes of time to do what you like, when you want". Well he was right on the time aspect. Where does it go? With my boys being 2 and 4 they tend not to like playing too long on their own. Dad, can you come play, or can we go for a walk? So at the moment I get work done in short, irregular bursts. Hazel my wife works for the NHS and an aesthetics clinic so she is [...]
I was sitting at my he office most of yesterday working on our new website. Our existing Drupal website is version 7 and it's quite cumbersome to update so decided rather than upgrading professionally to version 8 jump onto WordPress. Anyway whether it was a lot of screen time or something else I was whacked. Fell asleep while the boys were having their dinner. Not done that ever. Feeling much the same way this morning even though Fitbit tells me I had a good sleep. Busy day coming up with trip to Glasgow, meetings and then back to Edinburgh for meeting on [...]
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