Upcoming Trade Shows

Hope everyone is feeling better with the cooler weather. As I have stated in the past...cooler weather means that the trade show is not too far away. Kim has been diligently working on the registrations and we hope to see many of you in San Antonio. If you have any questions about our upcoming trade show please contact Kim or myself!

I recently attended a Small Market Meetings conference in Little Rock and it surprised me to see the changes that have taken place downtown and in the surrounding areas. The hosts of the meeting treated us to a dinner at the William J. Clinton Presidential Library and we had a great time...I think all of you would enjoy seeing it. So...that's on my radar for 2013. Also, on my radar is Tucson, AZ. The great people in Tucson have been trying to get me out there for about 10 years but they didn't have a hotel that would fit us. They are opening a new hotel 11-11-11 and they have invited me to come out and take a look at it. If any of you have any suggestions for upcoming locations I would love to hear from you!

Remember that this is YOUR ASSOCIATION. Any feedback is greatly appreciated and we are also always looking for guest bloggers or topics of interest for our blog.

Looking forward to seeing many of you in January!

You ask about suggestions for future tradeshows. If you are asking me and a good vacation site is the goal for future tradeshows, I respectfully decline. If you are asking me as a business person who has displayed every year since my company has been a member, then I have an obervation to submit. Every time the tradeshow has been held in a centrally located state, the amount of folks attending seems to be greater and those folks seem to be more business driven when they attend. These are very important factors for myself and my company. Therefore, that is what drives my suggestion to have the tradeshow as often as possible in a centrally located state. Thank you for the opportunity to respond.
Dave Coonrod, Area Diesel Service