CEDIA EXPO 2010 - Exhibitor

CEDIA EXPO 2010 is three short months away and we don't want you to miss out on any valuable information! This newsletter includes the most important and up-to-date information that will help make CEDIA EXPO 2010 your most successful event for 2010. Below are this month's topics:

Don't miss the approaching deadlines below! Download our deadline checklist to help you plan and prepare for a successful show.

We want to remind all exhibitors of our NO soliciting policy. Any literature, samples, and giveaways must be disbursed from within the assigned exhibit space. No demonstrations or promotions shall be permitted outside of the assigned space. Refunds will not be provided for badges when an exhibitor person, firm, hired staff, or organization is asked to leave the premises. Any exhibitor person, firm, or organization shall not distribute advertising materials in the halls, or corridors, or in any way occupy or use the facility for any purpose inconsistent with Show Management’s Regulations. Exhibitors will not be allowed to project images onto aisles, ceilings, walls, or any other surface outside the assigned exhibit space.

A NEW policy for filming, video recording rights, and electronic messages will be implemented for CEDIA EXPO 2010.

Filming and Video Recording Rights; Electronic Messages: From time to time, photographs, motion pictures and/or video recordings may be made in the Show facility, which recordings may include images of Exhibitor, its employees, agents and related merchandise and displays. Exhibitors may not hinder, obstruct or interfere in any way with such photography or recordings whether by Show Management, its agents, attendees or other exhibitors, and hereby consent to Show Management’s use of such recordings for commercial purposes. To the extent necessary to fulfill Show Management’s express obligations hereunder, Exhibitor hereby grants Show Management a non-exclusive, royalty-free, revocable, non-transferable worldwide license (without the right to sublicense) to use Exhibitor’s trademarks, service marks, logos, trade names, copyrighted content, hypertext links, domain names, icons, buttons, banners, graphic files and images.

RTX INC. provides full specifications and lighting plot to GWCC and Champion for rigging and electrical requirement approval. Rigging and lifts provided by Champion Exhibition Services.

Please submit floor plans, details, and lighting requirements
to PROJECT@RTXINC.COM

Questions? Contact Ralph Traxler at Office: 404-325-9880 or Mobile: 404-644-9880

Looking for personal and professional transportation from the airport and your hotel in Atlanta? The Atlanta link is an exclusive shuttle service taking passengers to and from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and the main areas of Downtown, Midtown, and Buckhead. The rates for the Atlanta Link are as follows:

Group rates may also be available. To learn more about the Atlanta Link, please call 404-524-3400 or email info@theatlantalink.com.

Still need housing for CEDIA EXPO 2010? Our official housing provider, CEDIA EXPO Housing powered by Meeting Services Unlimited, still has availability at two four-star properties: Hilton Atlanta and W Downtown.

Hilton Atlanta | 4 Star Property | Only $185/night | NON-STOP Convention Shuttle to and from Hilton Atlanta

This newly renovated, full service hotel offers all the amenities you would expect from Hilton in beautiful downtown Atlanta. The Hilton Atlanta is less than a mile from the Georgia World Congress Center, offers nearby and onsite restaurant options and is connected by sky bridge to shopping and entertainment. Plenty of meeting space and great suites, perfect for entertaining, are available at this property for your after tradeshow hours events.

In the heart of Atlanta’s most sophisticated downtown area, the W energizes by day and inspires by night, a whimsical wonderland of sensual style amid major corporations, specialty shopping, upscale living and everything cool about Hotlanta. Cozy up with cocktails in our Living Room or succumb to decadent indulgences at our signature restaurant, BLT Steak. Come play in style.

To book rooms at either of these hotels, please contact CEDIA EXPO Housing powered by Meeting Services Unlimited at 877-307-0325 or CEDIAHousing@conventionmanagers.com.

The Omni Hotel at CNN Center features more than 120,000 square feet of premier meeting, pre-function, and special event space. The Atrium Terrace, a contemporary 15-story glass enclosed atrium, encompasses more than 12,000 square feet of multi-use function space. Our 20,000 square foot Grand Ballroom, with floor to ceiling windows, offers stunning views of Centennial Olympic Park and the downtown Atlanta skyline.

For more information about planning your special event during the 2010 CEDIA EXPO in Atlanta, please contact Erin McCommon at 404-818-4337, or emccommon@omnihotels.com.

In just three months, professionals within the residential electronic systems industry will converge in Atlanta for CEDIA EXPO 2010. Map Your Show (MYS) is once again producing the Interactive Floor Plan for the industry’s #1 tradeshow, and we want to make your experience top notch.

Purchasing an enhanced listing on the online floor plan gives you the opportunity to connect with attendees before the show begins.

Exhibitors with the Fully Wired Package are being viewed by attendees – your buyers – over five times more than the average exhibitor without an enhanced listing, and three times more than exhibitors with the Starter Package. These packages allow you to customize your listing with a logo, company description, images and text, and even multimedia presentations. This separates your listing from your competition, and gets you noticed.

Stand out even more by purchasing an ad panel on the Pocket Map for CEDIA EXPO. Space is limited, and you get a $200 credit towards an enhanced listing purchase for the online floor plan.

Last week on June 17th we hosted a webinar about generating qualified sales leads and attracting more buyer-prospects to your booth during CEDIA EXPO 2010. If you were unable to attend, click here to listen to the 20-minute webinar.

Special offer: Any company that listens to this webinar and purchases an ad package on the map and/or an enhanced listing video or banner package within a two-week period will receive an additional 10% discount off their purchase. Listen to the webinar today!

Contact Alyssa Rosinski, CEDIA Online Sales Associate at arosinski@mapyourshow.com or 207.363.5634 with any questions or to purchase your enhanced listing today.

THE CEDIA EXPO MOBILE APP – WORKING FOR YOU

What if we told you that there was a new way to inexpensively attract attendees to your CEDIA EXPO booth? Would you be interested? How about if it brought tens of thousands of page views to your company profile? Or, if it prompted many tens of thousands of downloads of your corporate brochures and product literature? What if your customers and potential customers could have this information at their fingertips all year long?

For the low, low price of NOTHING, you can include your company logo, corporate logo and downloadable product information on the CEDIA EXPO Mobile App. Statistics show that “… of the many tens of thousands of mobile app page and profile view

s, half of those views were to those companies who posted their logo on the interactive map and uploaded their documents.” Take advantage of the Mobile App and the FREE “Green Package” today.

In addition to the “Green Package” the CEDIA EXPO Mobile App offers exhibitors the opportunity to buy reasonably priced sponsorships that go and target your specific customer base. For only $2.73 a day, the $1,000 mobile app banner ad package puts your ad in the forefront of CEDIA EXPO users for the entire year! For only $4.10 a day, the $1,500 multimedia package puts your company’s promotional video (along with the banner ad and full-screen ad) in the hands of those users 24/7/365! Click here for more sponsorship information.

NEW for 2010! Attendees’ Choice Award - Still Accepting Entries Until July 30th!

This year CEDIA ESC members who attend EXPO will have a chance to select their favorite new products on the show floor. Enter your latest product(s) in the Attendees’ Choice Awards competition and let the masses decide. Submit your products between now and July 30. Voting will occur onsite at CEDIA EXPO. Only CEDIA EXPO exhibitors are eligible to submit and only ESC attendees will be eligible to vote.

It's only $25 to submit a product and you can submit an unlimited number, as long as they are new for 2010. For more details and to enter now visit www.cedia.org/awards. If you have questions please email awards@cedia.org or call 800.669.5329.

Start creating buzz and increase foot traffic to your booth before CEDIA EXPO even begins. The CEDIA Pre-Show Product Showcase is an interactive online resource for EXPO attendees to find out about your products in advance.

CEDIA Pre-Show Product Showcase product posting opens
June 28, 2010 and goes live August 2nd through October 2,2010. All that is required is a JPG photo of the product(s), 50 words of copy per product, your EXPO booth number, your URL, and your appointment contact e-mail address.

Don’t delay – make the most of your investment in your exhibit at CEDIA EXPO 2010 with the CEDIA EXPO Pre-Show Product Showcase! Click here to learn more.

CEDIA’s Marketing and Public Relations team can help promote your company to the media. Simply take a moment to fill out the PR Summary Form. The form is used by CEDIA’s Marketing and Public Relations team to promote exhibitors, their new products and technologies, and the residential electronics systems industry to media outlets nationwide and globally leading up to and during CEDIA EXPO. It is important that you complete and submit this form, including as much information about new products/technologies as possible.

All PR summary forms must be completed online. Click here to fill out the PR Summary Form.

All information must be submitted on or before Wednesday, September 1, 2010 to be included in any CEDIA EXPO 2010 press materials being issued to the media before, during and after the show. No exceptions.

Have You Scheduled Your EXPO Press Conference?

Slots for EXPO press conferences are filling up. Click here to submit your press conference schedule request. The CEDIA EXPO press conference room is available for use by any EXPO exhibitor free of charge. Exhibitors also have the option of hosting their press conference at their booth and/or at an off-site location hosted by the exhibitor.

All exhibitors will be responsible for their own A/V equipment, catering, and furniture not included in the standard room set. The standard room set includes theater seating for up to 100 and a podium.

Note: Even if exhibitors are planning to host a press conference in their booths or at off-site locations, CEDIA requires that exhibitors complete the online press conference form in order to have these events listed on the "Press Events" calendar as well as to avoid numerous overlapping events.

For more information on CEDIA Press Conference Scheduling and available times, click here.

Gain exposure among the EXPO audience – announce your new products and company news in The CEDIA EXPO Daily. The CEDIA EXPO Daily is the newspaper everyone at EXPO will be reading.

Contact NewBay Media today to secure your ad and product release placement. For more information on the CEDIA EXPO Daily advertising opportunities, contact the NewBay team:

To submit product releases and photos, contact:
David McGee at dmcgee@nbmedia.com

Make it easy for press to have access to your company’s press materials – utilize the Virtual Press Office. The Virtual Press Office offers you a way to give journalists and analysts instant worldwide access to your materials before, during, and after CEDIA EXPO 24 hours a day.

This web-based media service lets you post press releases, backgrounders, images, and much more. The material you post will remain visible to the influential media outlets your dealers and consumers rely on for industry news.

There were 11 new residential electronic systems contractor (RESC) CEDIA members in May 2010! Click here to see if any of these new members are in your area!