Sep 7, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min · 12 segments
What does it really take to turn an empty convention hall into a functioning trade show—and why do some of those seemingly simple services cost what they do? In this episode of **The Event Marketer’s…
Marc GhafooriGuestChris DunnHost
Brendon HamlinHost
And one of my first three years of my career, I worked on a lot of movies and commercials.
And then everybody goes home and you're still there and you got to clean everything up and make sure that the farm or the building or the house or whatever put back the way it was when you found it.
we're in production but it's slightly slightly different less glamorous sometimes i mean we do fun stuff but there's also the boring like we also bring hundreds and hundreds of tables and chairs and thousands of linear feet of carpet roll that out and like that's all boring stuff that like pipe you're walking in an aisle of a trade full down a trade show floor you're you're motherfucking everybody that's there because there's no carpet on the on the aisle and you've been walking on it for three days but we're the ones that have to put it down so like Think of me.
Think of this space the next time you're walking out of carpet, our carpeted aisle.
And what do you think other planners and organizers don't really understand about what you do?
Uh, you know, I would say if we're doing our job right, you don't know all of the things that we do and we don't want you to, uh, because we're, we're putting out fires behind the scenes.
I mean, I, I'm sure both of you guys have seen it on your areas of responsibility
There's only a certain amount that you want to let bubble up to the client for them to be able to see what happens and the chaos that's happening behind the curtain.
And one of my first three years of my career, I worked on a lot of movies and commercials.
And then everybody goes home and you're still there and you got to clean everything up and make sure that the farm or the building or the house or whatever put back the way it was when you found it.
we're in production but it's slightly slightly different less glamorous sometimes i mean we do fun stuff but there's also the boring like we also bring hundreds and hundreds of tables and chairs and thousands of linear feet of carpet roll that out and like that's all boring stuff that like pipe you're walking in an aisle of a trade full down a trade show floor you're you're motherfucking everybody that's there because there's no carpet on the on the aisle and you've been walking on it for three days but we're the ones that have to put it down so like Think of me.
Think of this space the next time you're walking out of carpet, our carpeted aisle.
And what do you think other planners and organizers don't really understand about what you do?
Uh, you know, I would say if we're doing our job right, you don't know all of the things that we do and we don't want you to, uh, because we're, we're putting out fires behind the scenes.
I mean, I, I'm sure both of you guys have seen it on your areas of responsibility
There's only a certain amount that you want to let bubble up to the client for them to be able to see what happens and the chaos that's happening behind the curtain.
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