{"id":186,"date":"2008-03-28T18:24:21","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T22:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/?p=186"},"modified":"2008-03-29T10:35:28","modified_gmt":"2008-03-29T14:35:28","slug":"dealer-expo-it-has-to-be-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/dealer-expo-it-has-to-be-said\/","title":{"rendered":"dealer expo &#8211; it has to be said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/expo-08-art_015.JPG\" title=\"this shouldn\u2019t be happening - but it is\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/expo-08-art_015.thumbnail.JPG?w=625\" alt=\"this shouldn\u2019t be happening - but it is\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the record, as an advertising agency we pay to attend most trade shows. This year&#8217;s admission to Dealer Expo was $100.\u00a0 SEMA charged me $15. Performance Racing Industries charged me $0. So when I packed for Indy did I expect a show almost seven times shinier than that automotive mecca in the desert? No. But we also didn&#8217;t expect holes in the traditional powersports categories large enough to fly a space shuttle through, holes plugged with some truly questionable merchandise. By the time I finished the dome I halfway wondered how I&#8217;d missed the Hoodia franchise booth. Read the followup to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siebenthalercreative.com\/opinion\/080215_Indy-Expo1.htm\" title=\"there's a change in the air\">February&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siebenthalercreative.com\/opinion\/080312_Indy-Expo2.htm\" title=\"upon closer inspection, we find a few flaws\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the record, as an advertising agency we pay to attend most trade shows. This year&#8217;s admission to Dealer Expo was $100.\u00a0 SEMA charged me $15. Performance Racing Industries charged me $0. So when I packed for Indy did I expect a show almost seven times shinier than that automotive mecca in the desert? No. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-road","category-marketing-and-promotion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfUeo-30","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}