My second blog entry while I’m at NSSEA covers Days 2 and 3 of the show. You may get the impression from my entries that all I ever do is schmooze and party, but trade shows encompass much more than that. I must have played selected recordings for buyers hundreds of times, shaken hundreds of hands and greeted dozens of friends. I really like participating in this show. We had terrific neighbors at the stands adjacent to ours and across the aisle and we met so many people that I could never have possibly featured them all here. Oh well. Maybe some day!
I’m including photos of a few of the visitors to our stand. It was great to see Gini Phillips of Math ‘n Stuff. Gini hails from Washington state and so the only time I see her is at these shows. It was a treat too, to meet Deborah Spooner of HoneyBeez in the Barbados. Up until now, I only knew Deborah from correspondance and orders in cyberspace. Once we carried on lengthy correspondance over a missing package which eventually showed up in the Barbados. (How do you like that? Cyberspace never loses messages. The brick and mortar postal system misplaces packages!)
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Gini Phillips [left] and Deborah Spooner [right].
Linda Kirk stopped by the booth with Judy Berry and Vickie Thomas. All three are with The School Box. Linda and I tried to hook up for lunch this past January my odyssey trip. Due to challenges in our schedules we never got to meet so it was great to finally meet her in person after so many months of email and telephone correspondance!
This was my second time to meet Rob Bonczkiewicz of Beckers. (See Day 3 of the Blog.) During the odyssey I’d stopped by Becker’s warehouse but Rob’s associate, Linda O’Neall, hadn’t been available. Now, because of NSSEA, I was able to meet Linda too!
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Judy Berry, Linda Kirk and Vickie Thomas of The School Box [left] and Rob Bonczkiewicz and Linda O’Neall of Becker’s School Supplies [right].
Terry Thompson and his wife Diane stopped by our booth. Terry is the owner of School and Carnival Supplies in Gulfport, Mississippi. While on the odyssey, I had stopped in to Terry’s store where I met Genna and Theresa. It was really an incredibly large store and very busy with customers. (See Day 24 of the Blog.)
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Terry and Diane Thompson of School and Carnival Supplies, Inc.
And of course, we met lots of NEW people. I mean, hundreds! Check out the photos below!
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Marcia Beatty of School Stuff in Hammond, IN [left] and Jorge Melecio and Damaris Sifuentes of La Libreta School Supply in Puerto Rico [right].
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Barbara Bundgaard of Teaching Stuff in Phoenix, AZ [left] and Gayle Fuller, Lynette Van Horne, Mary Steward, and Cassie Fuller of The Learning Patch in Plano, TX [right].
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Don, Sheri and Kathy Tarman of Creative Apple in Chico, CA [left] and Pasquale Pagliuso, of TecknoQuest in Edmonton, AB [right].
What would a trade show be without a little partying? Mulate’s, The Original Cajun Restaurant has incredible food and dancing. It’s an experience not to be missed. Mulate’s is located very close to the convention center. Check it out if you ever come to New Orleans.
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Dining and dancing at Mulate’s, the Original Cajun Restaurant.
So long for now. The NSSEA show is now over and I’m going to do some serious partying and sight seeing for the next couple of days. I’ll try to take some photos too!