{"id":191,"date":"2011-03-26T14:42:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T14:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edpaintingonline.com\/blog\/for-contractors\/home-show-is-it-still-worth\/"},"modified":"2011-03-30T14:14:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T14:14:37","slug":"home-show-is-it-still-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edpaintingonline.com\/blog\/home-show-is-it-still-worth\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Show, is it still worth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am exhibiting at the Convention Center, <a title=\"Hartford CT Painters\" href=\"http:\/\/www.edpaintingonline.com\/\">Hartford, CT<\/a> home show this weekend. I was wondering if this is still worth doing, it&#8217;s not the same as it used to be 7 years ago that&#8217;s for sure.<br \/>\nBenefits are: you get some leads, you get to see and talk to many of your old customers which is always great, you get to talk to many nice people, you get a lot of exposure.<br \/>\nDown sides are: it&#8217;s expensive, you get tired (set up booth, stand around all day, break down and pick up booth, overloaded with leads for the following 2 weeks), stand next to the beef jerky guy for three days and eat a lot of that, then you have to work even harder to burn those calories lol.<br \/>\nWhat do you think?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edpaintingonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/20110326-104036.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edpaintingonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/20110326-104036.jpg\" alt=\"20110326-104036.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am exhibiting at the Convention Center, Hartford, CT home show this weekend. I was wondering if this is still worth doing, it&#8217;s not the same as it used to be 7 years ago that&#8217;s for sure. Benefits are: you get some leads, you get to see and talk to many of your old customers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[32,33],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-contractors","tag-contractors","tag-painters"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Home Show, is it still worth? - House Painting CT<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.edpaintingonline.com\/blog\/home-show-is-it-still-worth\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"ermand\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.edpaintingonline.com\/blog\/home-show-is-it-still-worth\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.edpaintingonline.com\/blog\/home-show-is-it-still-worth\/\",\"name\":\"Home Show, is it still worth? 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