Great to see you there Rick and to spend time hearing about the damage to your area by Sandy. That's unbelievable. I hope your area comes back strong. I'm sure it'll take time.
Also great to get some insight into different things we do work on together. So thanks for coming to the show. Great information.
Spent some time talking to Kevin with SignVox as well. Went through some of the demo. Looks like a really powerful program with a ton of capability. Very polished product as well. I didn't see anything missing, it seemed to handle things from beginning to end very well. Nice to meet Kevin as well. Hopefully both you guys had good traffic.
I'd say the highlight for me was something I've never experienced much before. I went into the bullpen in the middle of the day and some guy walked up and said "The piece you were just looking at belongs to that guy there" and then started talking and asking us what we were interested in, what we did,etc. Once we told him that, he took us around to people that did those things and they were all super helpful and willing to offer up priceless tips.
That was great.
Did a seminar from Grandpa Dan again, and then one on Color Management. Both were excellent. I think the color management one was fantastic for me. We don't have a printer, so it was just education for me and it was a great education. I did get the feeling that a large number in the class WITH printers got an education as well, even though it was a basic color management class.
So all in all, a good trip. I really hope some of the big players will come back to this show. There used to be 3-5 cars around and people doing wraps, wrap training, etc. This time I didn't see a car. Might have been one there. If so, I missed it. No Oracal, no Avery, no nothing. No R-Tape, none of the people that have been there in the past year after year.
The vendors did seem to be VERY happy to talk to people in detail, which was great and a welcome change from "let me swipe your card" and moving on. I thought the traffic looked good at the show. I saw right many people, I thought. I guess others can tell if that were true or if I just hit it at a spike.
Rick, Kevin- thanks for supporting shows like this. I personally really appreciate it and I know others do as well.
Take advantage of it.
