269: Trade Shows with Chris Kappes
The How of Business - How to start, run, grow and exit a small business.
Henry Lopez, Levante Business Group
4.7 • 522 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Trade Shows for small business with industry veteran Chris Kappes. Chris is the founder and Chief Operating Officer at Exhibitshub - a technology company transforming the exhibiting experience. He shares his entrepreneurial story, including why he decided to become his own boss, and then provides his insights and tips on how to get the most from a trade show or other event for your small business. If you attend or exhibit at trade shows or other events where you have a both to promote your small business, then this episode is for you!
Henry Lopez is a serial entrepreneur, small business coach, and the host of this episode of The How of Business show – dedicated to helping you start, run and grow your small business. (TheHowOfBusiness.com)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How of Business with your host, Henry Lopez, the podcast that helps you start, run, and grow your small business. |
| 0:13.5 | And now, here is your host. |
| 0:16.3 | Welcome to this episode of The How of Business. |
| 0:18.4 | This is Henry Lopez. |
| 0:19.6 | And my guest today is Chris Capas. Chris, welcome to the show. Thank you What Business. This is Henry Lopez. And my guest today is Chris |
| 0:21.0 | Capus. Chris, welcome to the show. Thank you, Henry. Glad to be here. Looking forward to it. This is a topic |
| 0:26.7 | that we have not had at all on the show. And that's why I found it intriguing and in doing the research. |
| 0:33.3 | Obviously, it's a great story and excited to talk to you. But we're going to chat about Chris's entrepreneurial journey, how he got to where he is today. |
| 0:41.1 | And then he is an expert in the whole trade show world. |
| 0:45.3 | So as small business owners, depending on the type of business that you own, for example, with our car wash and the software that we developed related to car wash, we had a booth at the International Car Wash Association last year. |
| 0:57.8 | And so a lot of businesses have those opportunities to show up at a trade show or an event |
| 1:03.2 | to promote our business, to generate leads, whatever it might be. |
| 1:08.3 | And so I thought this would be a great topic to have Chris share with us, his experiences, |
| 1:12.7 | and also again, his entrepreneurial journey. |
| 1:15.4 | If you wanna receive more information |
| 1:16.6 | about the Howa Business, |
| 1:17.9 | including the show notes page this episode, |
| 1:20.6 | you can just text the word biz, B-I-Z to 31996, |
| 1:26.0 | and I'll reply with the link to the show notes page. So Chris Capus is an accomplished business |
| 1:31.2 | leader. He has, he is an over 30 year veteran of the trade show industry and he's held president |
| 1:38.5 | and C level leadership positions with several of the big leading exhibition agencies. He's a founder of four different |
| 1:46.5 | startups, and we'll chat about that a little bit. In the trade show design, build, service |
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