Comments on: (Don’t) Make Your Startup Look Stupid With Booth Babes And Chotchkies!

By: More Brains, Fewer Crotches - The Lone Sysadmin

More Brains, Fewer Crotches - The Lone Sysadmin — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 19:42:01 +0000

[...] Stephen Foskett: (Don’t) Make Your Startup Look Stupid With Booth Babes & Chotchkies! [...]

By: Booth Babes | Bonillaware

Booth Babes | Bonillaware — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 05:09:02 +0000

[...] Como (no) hacer que tu startup parezca estúpida: azafatas y galletitas [...]

By: Mike Shields

Mike Shields — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 14:03:34 +0000

Of course, I attend trade shows for the free stuff and to flirt with the booth babes, as I’m pretty sure the booths in question would rather talk to a thousand people than a hundred, based on your suggestions above.

By: Seriously, stop with the booth babes | Standalone Sysadmin

Seriously, stop with the booth babes | Standalone Sysadmin — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 03:11:57 +0000

[...] friend Stephen Foskett went off on this back in 2009, and I agree with most of what he [...]

By: Storage Letchworth

Storage Letchworth — Sat, 28 May 2011 10:12:51 +0000

This boothbabe phenomena is rife throughout many types of industry and their conferences / trade shows. As you say, it is difficult, as a man, to ignore the attractive young ladies, the lure of free glitzy techstuff and even the stunts. This is mainly because we all become brain dead whilst prowling the floors and corridors of such shows and because there are so many stalls that of no interest to us anyway. It is depressing how little business is generated by such events and I often wonder if you would actually generate as many genuine leads by having a very low key, small display where only potential customers who were actually interested in you / your product, bothered to stop by. You always see the big flash stalls getting a lot of foot traffic but know that 99.9% of it is a complete waste of time. Of course the option you suggest of real tech knowledgeable staff and the opportunity for customers to try things out would be even better, but I do wonder about the cost / success ratio of the low key / low cost approach

By: Donate Your Swag to School Kids In Need – Gestalt IT

Donate Your Swag to School Kids In Need – Gestalt IT — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:04:17 +0000

[...] are a veritable swag-fest, some with great loot and some with junk. I’ve been critical of the booth babe and chotchkie phenomenon, but my friend Kevin Houston has a better suggestion: Donate your (useful) swag like [...]

By: Donate Your Swag to School Kids In Need – Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat

Donate Your Swag to School Kids In Need – Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:45:54 +0000

By: Interop Show-Floor Gimmicks: What’s the Tie-In? – Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:06:33 +0000

[...] No booth babes are included in this video, though they were all over the show floor. I have a problem with companies using booth babes and chotchkies, but it might not be what you think! You might also want to read these other posts…Extreme Tiered [...]

By: SiliconANGLE — Blog — Booth Babes Revisited: Just Plain Stupid or Universally Appealing? [#CES2010 Leftovers]

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:51:23 +0000

[...] I was immediately reminded of a post Stephen Foskett put out just after #VMWorld2009, “(Don’t) Make Your Startup Look Stupid With Booth Babes And Chotchkies!” [...]

By: dj

dj — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:48:35 +0000

those babes are the closer’s…you just need to be invited back to the hotel room