New England Home Show 2016 – Ova’
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Its official, we wrapped up our very first home show this past weekend. Overall we saw a great turn out and got to speak with many interested homeowners, business owners and developers.
What was great about exhibiting at this year’s New England Home Show in Boston at the Seaport World Trade Center was being able to quickly showcase our Services to those who were interested and feature our Portfolio of projects as reference.
Long, Long Days of Exhibiting
Given our work environment features more online collaboration through multiple consultants and designers, I wanted to best represent the company as the architect available for questions.
What surprised me a little was how “impressed” some people were that I wasn’t a Sales Rep for the company in comparison to many of the other design / build firms that were present.
I had one guy come up to me and say “So your Neil? Your the guy? Hey, he’s the guy!”
After a little over an hour of setup, the booth was up and running.
Based on some of what we saw with other setups and what drew interest from passersby, there is already a running list of small improvements to make for next year.
In addition to the New England Home Show in Boston, next year we’ll be eyeing showcasing at the New England Home Show at Patriot’s Place, Rhode Island Home Show in Providence, Rotary Home & Garden Show of Hyannis, Greater New Bedford Home Show by the Chamber of Commerce and perhaps the Worcester Home Show.
That is all based upon the success and return on this year’s investment.
Friday, was a Slow Day
The start to the home show was a little slow considering it was during work hours. However it gave us an opportunity to not only recover from the “tools free” setup but also to sketch some images.
I have several others I forgot to take pictures of. But my favorite was of a little boy who was with his family and wanted to see me draw. He kept asking if I could draw the Titanic and something told me he knew it for every detail so I asked the 5-6 year old if he could show me.
Sure enough he spent about 10 minutes crafting yet another drawing of the Titanic as his mother mentioned he loved planes, trains and boats. When I get the notebook scanned in I’ll post his contribution to my notebook, which he signed for me ‘Noah’
We proceeded to discuss how they were building the Titanic 2 to which Noah was concerned it would hit another iceberg and sink. Not only that but then they would continue to build more Titanic boats and each subsequent vessel would crash into more icebergs.
Clearly a tragedy that would only plague the existence of any boat christened Titanic.
Overall a Great Time
I got a chance to meet many people interested in a forthcoming project (hopefully they reach out to me) and we’ll see what 2016 brings 8TFive Studio.
Once again a special thanks to Chris with Stonefish Workshop for assisting with the design of our exhibit booth graphic and web banner. Find our more about the company as one of our consultants we featured in the following:
You can also find the video displayed at our booth featured here:
Neil has over 20 years’ experience on a range of large (15,000 sf) and small (500 sf) residential, non-profit, and commercial projects with a small business focus. He has two kids with his wife, Victoria, and loves family time camping, hiking, and traveling. While he grew up in New England, Neil is a diehard Buffalo Bills fan!
