When I announced to my parents that they were going to be grandparents, I received a huge, gimongous tote bag my mother called The Mommie Bag. Five weeks after my son was born, I knew what that bag was for… everything up to and including the kitchen sink.

I am the tradeshow coordinator for Nomadic Display. My first show with Nomadic was Exhibitor 2007. I dug through my closets, found what I was looking for and soon, my Mommie Bag and me traveled to Vegas for a non-stop week of tradeshow terror.

Boy, was I glad I had that bag with me! When the wrong couches were delivered, I had the order form with me to prove that I ordered… oops… the wrong ones. When the AV equipment arrived with three laptops instead of two, I had the order form to prove that I ordered… YES… two laptops.

That bag saved my sanity. It held extras of everything: pens, pads, paper clips, Windex, tissues, Velcro^® tabs and strips, badges, business cards, water, aspirin, non-aspirin, gum, breath mints, batteries, the list goes on and on.

And under all those business must-haves? A brand new pack of baby wipes, just in case.

So, while packing up to go to your next trade show event, go through your closets, grab the bag and pack it to go!

Dianajean “DJ” Tasker
Marketing Coordinator