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Why Should Your Startup Be Using LED Lighting at Trade Shows?

November 20th, 2018 Comments off

Why Your Startup Be Using LED Trade Show Lighting

The trade show industry is in a constant state of change, and trends are always on the move. One area in which there have been some major changes in recent years has been in the field of eco-friendliness. As the world in general becomes more aware of the importance of reducing carbon footprints, companies and organizations everywhere have turned their focus towards finding new and eco-friendly options. You may not be surprised to learn that the exhibition industry is leading the way, developing more environmentally friendly and sustainable solutions for exhibitors and convention halls.

One of the ways in which the industry has been doing this is by designing more eco-friendly booth options and harnessing the potential of modern LED lighting systems for trade show marketers. Not only can switching to LED lights save electricity and reduce carbon footprints, but it can also help to create stunning exhibit graphic mural lighting effects. From wowing visitors with timed illuminating structures to amazing attendees with different tones, wash lights and spotlights, it’s never been easier to create a truly captivating booth environment in an eco-friendly way.

The Benefits of LED Lights for Startups


For any startup, attracting attention to your company and brand couldn’t be more important when exhibiting at a trade show or conference. Making the right impression on customers and potential investors is crucial to the success of your business, and therefore finding ways of making your business stand out from the competition is paramount!

Industry conferences are highly competitive environments, so you must make sure your trade show booth is eye-catching, visually appealing and engaging. What better way than by integrating LED lighting? Not only will you be showcasing your products and services in a high-tech and aesthetically pleasing way, you’ll also be showing your company’s commitment to protecting the environment.

A backlit trade show counter not only makes your brand more visible in the conference center, it also gives a more professional appearance to your company. An LED light box display is the perfect backdrop solution for any inline booth size, and with the incorporation of cutting edge SEG fabric graphic technology, it’s possible to create a new and fresh design theme for each show. The ability to easily swap-out your backlit graphics between shows, will keep your display fresh and interesting to your target market. Ultimately, LED illuminated logo designs will make your brand stand out from the crowded competition.

Since backlit displays come in a range of styles and designs, you can find a “quick-ship” portable backlit inline display or a customized modular LED light box booth structure that meets your needs for any promotional event. From SEG fabric pop up displays that can be assembled and dismantled within 30 minutes by just one person, to larger custom-sized modular backlit frames that are perfect for heavy duty re-usage for years, there are plenty of new generation trade show displays featuring LED light integration, that are perfect for showcasing startup brands. These solutions have proven to enhance brand building campaigns, while at the same time demonstrate a company’s environmentally sound status.

Top Reasons Your Marketing Team Should Upgrade to LED Lighting


One of the biggest problems associated with using traditional trade show stand lights is that they can produce a lot of glare (front attaching spotlights create glare on most display graphic material substrates). This, in turn, can result in your products not being displayed to their best advantage. Front attaching LED booth lights offer significantly less glare than traditional lights, which will allow you to showcase your products in an optically efficient “clear” manner.

Every business that participates in trade shows strive to keep profits high and expenses low. This is especially true for most startups. One of the greatest advantages of LED light technology is longevity. LED lighting systems last much longer than traditional lights, which dramatically reduces the number of times you’ll need to replace or purchase new backlit display and signage hardware components. LED bulbs are long-lasting when compared to incandescent and fluorescent light bulbs. The average shelf life of commercial LED lights is 10 years. As an added advantage, you’ll save money in other ways too. LED lighting systems tend to be less expensive to power than traditional booth lighting, reducing the amount electricity exhibitors will need to purchase from the show decorator. Most trade show event decorators, such as global provider Freeman, grossly markup booth electrical connection costs. Being able to consistently save money on your booth lighting services will quickly add up after just a few exhibitions. Of course, this is also extremely beneficial for the environment – a major positive point in favor of switching to LED lighting.

Convention centers and conference halls can be very warm, and long days spent at your trade stand can be very uncomfortable when you’re hot and sweating. The good news is that you’ll find you’re exposed to less heat in your trade show or conference booth when you use LED light technology. Backlit graphics powered by LED “edge-lit” light strips give off far less heat than traditional fluorescent light bars, so you’ll be cooler and more comfortable while promoting your brand inside a booth space.

LED lighting is advancing at a rapid rate. This means that if you choose to incorporate LED lighting as part of the integral components of your trade stand in the form of a backlit display or modular LED light box, you’ll be creating the impression of your company as a forward-thinking, modern business with an eye on future developments. This goes a long way towards boosting the reputation of your startup in the eyes of those within the industry and will help to move you ahead of your competition.

Every business owner knows the importance of making their brand as visually appealing as possible. Finding creative ways to showcase products is paramount, and that’s where LED display enhancements can really come into their own. From backlit stage signage and wireless LED light towers to illuminated SEG fabric graphics with LED “edge-lit” light strips, the options are now endless for startups and small businesses wanting to utilize the power of LED brand illumination to help make a fabulous first impression.

LED Backlit Display Lighting Infographic

There are numerous benefits to switching to LED lighting for your next trade show, conference or retail promotion. Not only can you promote your business using today’s cutting-edge technology such as LEDs, touch screen monitors, drones and more, you have the opportunity to make your booth design stand out from the competition at an affordable price. Even better, you’ll be showing your startup’s commitment to innovation and customer experience. Utilize these technology trends to attract booth traffic with a fun and interactive experience. Trade show attendees are far more likely to remember your company if your brand features LED backlighting, fun promotional giveaways and organic interactions with your marketing team.

LED Eco Friendly Light Box Exhibit Design

Enhance Your Booth Space with Backlit Trade Show Displays

July 12th, 2018 Comments off

Enhance Trade Show Booth - Backlit Displays

Portable SEG fabric display booth systems have recently been popular amongst competing expo industry manufacturers. Once a manufacturer launches a newly-engineered product line, other suppliers within the industry are beginning to replicate the design and functionality within a few months. This situation is making it difficult for many exhibitors to purchase a truly unique display booth. Unless an exhibiting company incorporates full custom fabrication into a new booth design project, small to medium size exhibitors will find it difficult to create a perfect eye-catching trade show display that’s within budget.. However, recent advancements in LED lighting and SEG fabric technologies are being incorporated into standard display systems, making portable backlit trade show displays now the most sought-after booth enhancement option available in the exhibition industry.

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Backlit Trade Show Displays

Backlit Displays are the ideal modern exhibitor branding solution for standard inline booth spaces and larger island exhibit booths. Exhibitors can combine multiple double-sided LED modular light box SEG fabric booth walls (example shown above). In addition, display booth designers are integrating LED backlit structures into various layout configurations that include flat backlit circular hanging disc signs, large 12′ to 16′ tall square and circular LED graphic light towers, free-standing portable LED backlit graphic counters and new LED illuminated – elevated event flooring. Furthermore, apart from its ability to enhance marketing booths, Backlit Trade Show Displays are becoming increasingly popular in the commercial sign industry. In retail markets, Outdoor LED signage and interactive LED digital signage are becoming common branding options in commercialreal estate, retail market and hugebranding facilities like museums, airports and big outdoor venues.

 

custom backlit display

Portable backlit displays have recently been the rave of the moment in trade show booth designs. Thisis markedby a sharp drop in the price of the modern LED technology, where LED trade show backlighting has witnessedwidespread attention in the past two years. Illuminateddye sublimation graphics printed on premium opaque fabric materials like our premium “TriFab”, which significantly enhances the image and colorquality through modern ‘High Definition’ large format printing or HD dye sublimation quality printing. Also, a plummet in the wholesale price has been the primary reason behind the recent emergence of backlit trade show displays.

Backlit Display Lightbox

Want to grab the audience’s attention when they walk by your booth space?  Placing a 4’w x 8’h Modular edge-lit LED light box stand in the front of your promotional floor space will do the trick!  Use these displays in an inline booth space or in the front corners of an island booth space.  The modular LED light box displays are available in six different standard frame sizes with a single sided graphic or double sided graphics.  If one of these four standard sizes doesn’t work for your booth, let us build a completely custom size.  Floating seamless SEG fabric graphic monitor mounts, quick attaching brochure holders and floating light box display product shelving that instantly attaches to the modular frame using magnet connection, are just a few standard backlit display stand accessory enhancements that Indy Displays keeps stocked and ready for expedited delivery!

Backlit Table Top Display Enhancement Options

Indy Displays top-selling portable backlit exhibit wall is the brand-name Pliko modular LED “edge-lit” fabric light box display. This tool-less assembling modular 10’ x 10’ SEG backlit fabric wall, is one of the few portable exhibit solutions that can easily be setup and dismantled by one user, making it the easiest custom modular LED light box display to manage available on the market. The creatively engineered Pilko black powder coated aluminum free-standing single-sided or double-sided SEG graphic display frame, simply packs down in 1-flatpack wheeled hard case that can be affordable shipped standard UPS or Fedex Ground, making Pliko the lightest and most minimalistic LED edge-lit backlit display stand in North America.

Indy Displays’ modern LED backlit display solutions create stunning SEG stretch fabric graphic mural illumination, without graphic hot-spotting or fabric panel wrinkling. The term “hot-spotting” refers to internal light shadows visible from the front side, which are created by poorly configured internal light box hardware or uneven light distribution. These issues are commonly seen on cheaper low-cost backlit display alternatives that include direct ink jet printing on the topside of thin fabric materials and improper light bar hanging or LED light strip placement.

The Pilko ultra-portable LED edge-lit light box free-standing sign wall remains one of our top-performing backlit trade show display. However, the emergence of the hybrid SEG fabric backlit pop up display (released in late 2017) has quickly become our #1 low-cost alternative to the well-known brand-name Pliko light box display. Unlike Pilko, the Hybrid SEG backlit pop-updisplay promises an even more portable and user-friendly booth setup and dismantle. The new SEG backlit pop up display system is a hybrid spinoff system of the traditional Burst tension fabric backlit display, except with much better graphic attachment components, 100% wrinkle free SEG fabric panels and sustainability. This hybrid frames can be reused by exhibitors for years and can also reconfigure into large backlit display stands and different SEG light box booth wall structures.

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Up until 2017, our top-selling backlit trade show displays were the Pliko ultra-portable LED edge-lit light box display and the traditional Burst fabric backlit pop up displays. However, this year the Indy Displays innovative team added the new hybrid SEG backlit pop up display product line. Unlike our long time best-selling Burst backlit pop up display system, the new NEXT! SEG hybrid backlit pop up display and our next generation LED illuminated SEG modular pop up system offer simple user-friendly setup similar to the Burst display, plus an all new hybrid light box frame configuration! Now enjoy light box brand and logo illumination with your portable backlit pop up system without the worries of possible fabric graphic wrinkling (common fabric display issue that occurs after the user doesn’t properly repackage the display kit).

SEG Hybrid LED Pop Up Backlit Display

Backlit SEG Hybrid Pop Up Displays

combine the seamless wrinkle resistant SEG finishing technology with a unique pop up display that offers an all new and ‘next generation’ portable LED light box exhibit booth solution. Also, apart from the wrinkle-resistant fabric sign graphic panels, the SEG pop up systems also come in modular booth resize options that were up until this point only available for aluminumdisplay hardware. Now, you can easily increase the size of your pop-up stand from 8’ x 10’ light wallto a bigger 8’ x 20’ portable SEG light box booth wall by easily adding an extra pop up frame, SEG graphic bars and extra light bars.

Portable LED Pop Up Backlit Display Enhancement


Light Box Backlit 3D Cube Structures

has quickly become a popular backlit signage system for innovative exhibiting teams and commercial interior designers. This Graphic Cube features a lightweight modular aluminum frame, SEG fabric graphic panels and internal LED lighting on all sides. The 3D backlit graphic structure may also be used as floor standing cubes – commonly used as a 3-unit floor stack display – and can be suspended from a convenient ceiling height and used as a hanging light box sign.

This modern state-of-the-art illuminating graphic structure is available in standard frames and can easily be customized to meet any display booth fabrication requests. Also, the Backlit LED graphic cube setup and breakdown is user-friendly and very similar to standard custom modular light box display kits. Printed graphics are brilliant and rich thanks to the latest HD dye sublimation output technology that reveals a rich saturated color when illuminated. Each SEG fabric panel is stretched using a silicone edged strip attachment that makes for a wrinkle-free and stunning 3D illuminated signage structure.

Process of Designing A Custom Backlit Display

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Drone Technology for Trade Show Marketing

March 18th, 2018 Comments off

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When you have a trade show display, you need to make every square inch count, because you don’t get that many of them. Ten feet by ten feet, that’s all you get. Possibly twenty by twenty feet, if your company is willing to shell out the big booth space rental bucks. In a sea of trade show displays, it can be a struggle to stand out and get noticed by prospects, especially when your brand is only visible inside a limited floor space.


If business professionals want to really stand out, they can’t simply adjust one or two things here and there, they need to reframe how they approach common problems. So, what if, instead of a mere hundred square feet, you had access to the whole showroom? That is exactly the kind of capability drones provide you at a trade show. When the ground is full, look to the air. Trade Show Drones provide a unique way of overcoming space limitations, as well as shattering the old way of doing things. Drones are unmanned arial gadgets that capture real-time views of conference meeting and convention hall space. 


Drone technology provide professionals with a new dynamic in treading the trade show waves. Drones provide unparalleled digital advertising opportunities, innovative access to customer data, and that special “wow” factor tech marketers are always chasing. Event drones can also help with exhibition hall logistical issues. How many times have you dealt with show services (union labor or show decorator) misplacing, losing or delaying your display booth delivery? Convention halls get extremely messy during show move-in dates. Aerial drones can be used to locate packages and trade show crates by searching aisles and storage areas. 

 

billboard drone display

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The uses for trade show drones at exhibitions, conferences and outdoor events are limited only by the the pilot’s imagination. The most straightforward use is creating a moving billboard advertisement. Instead of stationary free-standing signage at the booth, exhibitors are using pairs of drones to fly billboards through the convention hall, taking the advertising to their customers. Since humans are normally drawn to movement, and drones are new enough to still be a novelty, this is a great way to grab eyes. While there are prototypes for digital billboards retailing for upwards of $20,000, drones can modernize traditional printed banners for a much more reasonable cost.


Exhibition drones also provide marketers an exciting new way of garnering consumer and prospect data. Drones are already being put to use by municipal authorities for crowd monitoring and control, and marketers should take notice. Gone are the days of roaming the convention hall floor guesstimating the size of competitor crowds and intuiting what is working and what isn’t. In mere seconds, a drone can provide a real time, bird’s-eye view of a trade show audience. This innovative technology enables marketer to see exactly where the crowd is drawn and how long they linger within a particular location. Drone software provides an exceptional way to capture and analyze data about the quality of specific exhibiting campaign tactics. Using data analysis software tools, companies can turn previously qualitative, intuitive insights gleaned at trade shows into quantitative data and integrate it into their overall marketing strategy.

Trade Show Drones

Indoor Flying Trade Show Drone


Perhaps the most humanistic benefit to using drones as advertising tools is the fun factor they provide. Trade show drones are a unique novelty and really quite amusing. Marketers that invest in this technology now will get the infamous “early-mover” bonus. One does not have to be a marketing guru or “growth hacker” to imagine show displays making use of the interactive nature of drones.


Whether it is as simple as hovering it a few inches off the ground, or as monumental as virtually allowing participants to soar through the host city while standing within a
ten by ten foot booth space, drones foster attendee engagement. All of this interaction and attention, influences more visitors to engage with sales representatives.


There has never been a better time to bring trade show drones and other exhibition booth technology into your overall marketing plan. If properly integrated, trade shows are a great way to show customers, employees, and stakeholders how much energy and goodwill your company offers. When an innovative company makes strides to rise above the competition, it can create a valuable positive impression. Drone technology isn’t the end-all-be-all but with the right people and strategy in place, drones can take advertising campaigns to the next level. 

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LED Backlit Displays – Top Exhibiting Trend 2 Years Strong

July 1st, 2016 Comments off
LED Backlit Display Design Trends

LED Backlit Display Design (10′ x 15′ corner booth)

 

LED Backlit Display Design Trends

 

It’s no surprise to us that backlit displays are continuing to out sell all other portable display products. Portable and Custom LED backlit displays are a growing exhibit design trend for young marketing entrepreneurs, tech startups and companies wanting eco-friendly “green” exhibition booth solutions. For companies interested in LED trade show lighting solutions, Indy Displays continues to grow the largest online catalog of affordable backlit exhibit solutions, that includes ultra-portable SEG backlit fabric pop up light box displays to fully custom designed modern modular LED backlit display booth design solutions. Our goal is to continue adding new portable backlit booth wall exhibiting packages for both purchase and rental, plus fully customized light box exhibit structures that include the latest HD printing and LED technology. LED Backlit Displays include seamless opaque SEG fabric graphic panels, premium LED edge-lit light strips or LED ladder light curtain panels for equal bright light illumination throughout the entire graphic light box graphic wall.

custom LED edgelit SEG enclosed light box exhibit

 

Additional LED backlit display system features include user-friendly modular aluminum frames, floating flat screen monitor mounts, floating shelves, optional double-sided backlit SEG graphics, seamless light box graphic wall mounted sign kits and convenient wheeled hard case shipping. Additional portable backlit exhibiting stands include light box pop up displays, wireless LED illuminated graphic tower stands, custom designed LED backlit fabric hanging sign structures and much more! Here’s a quick portable backlit display product list of the 4 most popular portable LED backlit trade trade displays, as of July 1st 2016!

 

modern edgelit SEG backlit exhibit walls

 

4. AGAM Eco-Friendly Hybrid LED Lightbox Displays. These increasingly popular green trade show displays, continue to catch our online shopper’s eyes, when browsing through our website while chatting live with our team. All eco-friendly modular backlit’s are very similar to our standard Custom Modular LED Light box Displays. We consider our “green” lightbox kits, to be Hybrid Booth Displays, with their eco-friendly components, and AGAM recyclable aluminum frames. Like our standard kits, AGAM eco-friendly display frames can reconfigure into larger backlit island exhibits or smaller version, such as a 10′ x 10′.

portable edgelit LED backlit display strips

 

Like most of our LED trade show light systems, the Eco System lights will last for many years, and consume a fraction of the electricity that standard trade show flood lights do. Simply connect the LED light strips with magnetic strips, that already come assembled on each strip and inside each vertical extrusion column.

 

custom LED lightbox display trends

3-Piece 12′ High Lightbox Wall 20×20 Booth (backside)

 

3. Burst Backlit Pop Up Displays. We have really enjoyed our industry partner Optima, and the quality Burst Backlit Booths they keep helping us produce at such a high level weekly. The Burst is a well known portable display brand-name, being it was one of the first tension fabric pop up displays in the industry, when it was introduced over 10 years ago.  The backlit version of the Burst, includes a large HD printed graphic on TriFab fabric (top quality fabric material used on all premium backlit trade show displays).

 

LED fabric SEG pop up lightbox display


Trifab
is heavier than the standard tension fabric material and more 0paque, preventing the displays’ frame hardware and light bars from being obviously visible. The pop up is finished with a seamless white back cover, that attaches securely with industrial strength hook velcro. The Backlit Burst is available as an 8′ x ’10 Flat Fabric Backlit, 8′ x 10′ Curved, 8′ x 8′ Flat or Curved as well. Indy Displays also offers a 5ft curved backlit table top version as well.

 

Burst Backlit Popup Display

Curved Backlit Popup w/ QuickShip Banner and Expand Case to Counter (10×10 booth)

 

2. Custom Modular LED Lightbox Displays. These backlit displays have been widely used for 3 to 4 years, but have absolutely exploded in the past 12 months. LED edge-lit SEG displays and other modern trade show displays, have a significant edge over their counterparts. Complicated Truss Systems and environmentally wasteful completely custom wood and laminate panels exhibits, are starting to get looked down upon as a waste of marketing dollars and more importantly leave behind a large carbon footprint. Ready to order in 5 or more stock frame sizes, bring a custom stylish feel back to your booth space, without overpaying a dated and overpriced large custom house.

New this year, Indy Displays now powders coat modular aluminum frames! Show up to your next event, exhibiting with LED trade show lighting that will be illuminating your TriFab graphic murals, finished with SEG technology, and matching LED lightbox pedestal counters to complete the fully modern exhibit space.

 

custom modular LED fabric SEG lightbox display

8’h x 20’w LED SEG Lightbox w/ Twist Portable Counters (lead time – 5 biz days)

 

1. Backlit Pliko Portable Light Box Display. The last two years have been record setting for the Pliko Light Box. Despite extremely poor marketing and dealer support from it’s supplier, The Pliko system stands on its own and sells its sell. Truly the only ultra-portable modular LED lightbox display, The Backlit Pliko Display offers the exhibitor both portability equal to our Burst Pop Up Display, combined with the same premium LED internal track lighting system, that always produces an even light distribution throughout the TriFab mural and preventing evening the slightest hot spotting. Pliko gives exhibitors truly the best of both worlds, and mostly likely why this LED sign wall has been flying off our shelf all your long!

 

Pliko Backlit LED Lightbox Display

Best-Selling Pliko 10′ LED Lightbox Portable Display Back Wall (rentals now available)

 

The Pliko edge-lit LED lights can last for a decade or more. Backlit Pliko Portable Light Box Displays are the most affordable and lightweight modular system available on the market and can be set up by a single person in 10 minutes. The portable aluminum frame can be assembled without tools and is ideal for the lone exhibitors or 2 sales reps. The Pliko will continue to grow it’s customer base. CHAT LIVE with an exhibit consultant today for more information on the Pliko Display and the latest product additions to our online backlit trade show display catalog!

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