Creative Services
MEC understands one-on-one / face-to-face marketing at trade shows. Exhibitions and live events offer a live face-to-face opportunity to meet potential customers within a personal and interactive environment which you control.
How do you create messaging that relates to your customers? Messages that relate to the problem, want or need of your target customer are essential in getting your message across in an instant, which is about all the time that you have. Brainstorming, and, a lot of experience, that's how.
Our consultants have an average of well over 20 years in the industry and can help to take you through the entire process simply and easily. We are experts at the process. Great solutions are experienced, which is how you will be remembered best. We help our customers develop the critical message, and then execute in a way that can be experienced at its fullest. It is always our goal at MEC to provide you with new ways of seeing and doing things. It is our primary objective as your partner at Trade Shows to help you experience the growth you are looking for.
- Tradeshow Exhibit Design
- Corporate Showrooms
- Briefing Centers
- Media Centers
- Retail Design
Program Management
Internal Management for the following:
- Account Management
- Program Management
- Logistics Planning
- Field Management including Labor and Dedicated Supervision
- Asset Management
- Graphic Management
- Construction Drawings
- Engineering Drawings
- Maintenance
- Show Services
- Estimating
- Exhibit Maintenance
Fabrication
- Custom Fabrication
- Graphic Production
- Large Scale Digital Printing
- Fabric Integration
- Laminating
- Lighting
- Maintenance
- Metal Working
- Specialized Painting & Finishing
- Structural Certification
Field Service / Labor & Supervision
As an MEC client, your program is administered on site by your dedicated supervisor. They are consummate professionals trained to get you in and out of a show with the least amount of stress. They will be there strictly for your company and your efforts as its leader.
MEC Dedicated Supervisors generally manage the "pull and prep" of your exhibit in our shop whenever possible. This helps to maintain their level of intimacy with your structure, knowing and understanding its abilities and limitations and keeping track of needed and finished repairs.
- Strong, consistent dedicated supervision
- Dedicated on-site supervisors manage most exhibit inspections and prep
- MEC started as a labor provider
- Maintain experienced supervisors
- General Contracting
Production Management Tools
Plan plan plan, did we say plan?Plannning ahead. What was normal? What does that mean today? In the exhibit industry is now dramatically different.
Creating a schedule for each show you attend, as far out as possible, consisting of installation and dismantle, shipping (to advanced warehouse vs. direct to show), material handling, utilities, exhibit elements, carpeting and padding, graphics and product, can greatly assist in developing and tracking your event plan on a per show and yearly basis.
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We help you understand the differences in various unions in working in different convention facilities, rate variations from city to city and state to state, and which states have right-to-work laws.
Budgeting
By planning these essential components of your program early, we can help you establish realistic budgeting parameters, real world achievable metrics.