WRSC hosts Surf Expo trade show booth in Orlando, Florida
This past week a crew from Witch's Rock Surf Camp Tamarindo (including myself Joe Walsh, my father PK, Larrydoggy and Yana) flew to Orlando to represent WRSC at the Surf Expo. Although I had been to a few action sports trade shows in the past, this was the first time WRSC went big and hosted our own booth.
The booth was designed by new WRSC employee Yana Farrally-Plourde (my new right hand man in surf crime), built by a friend of his in California, and shipped to Florida for the show. It was pretty crazy to show up to the convention center and see our booth hiding inside of these three giant crates.
A few hours later we had the WRSC tiki bar and lounge built and it looked awesome!
Until last week I didn't understand how busy we would be. There seemed to be no stop for three days straight, all day long, as we hung out and talked story with potential visitors, past visitors, people who want to book boat trips on the surf yacht, pro surfers, brands who might want to sponsor the camp, surf media, surf mags, travel groups and so on. Our booth was totally dope, everyone seemed to have heard (great things) about WRSC over the last almost 9 years since we started. Witch's Rock Surf Camp was the only surf camp at the trade show, probably the first one ever to have a booth at the show. We were totally stoked.
When we weren't talking about surf trips to WRSC, we were talking with potential brands about our new surf shop. We plan to open the expanded shop November 1st of this year, and its going to be SICK. Though none of this is official for a couple more weeks, brands you might see represented in the new shop and the online shop include:
Da Kine
Rip Curl
Boardworks
Resin 8
W.R.O.N.G.
Rusty
Volcom
Spy
Santiki
XM
Of course we are already carrying other brands right now, but the new shop is going to be five times bigger and way more legit. Yeah, its taken some time, but all good things take time.
I was pretty stoked when Tom Carroll cruised up to our booth to say hello, the guy is a total legend. Unlike some pros I'd met in the past, Tom was so cool it is hard to explain. He ended up chilling at the booth for 20 or 30 minutes while we discussed the finer points of big wave surfing.
Overall the Surf Expo went better than anyone would have expected. We packed up after the three day event and shipped the booth back to California where it will be waiting for us next month for the ASR trade show September 10-12 in San Diego. Are you going to be there? If so, give us a heads up by emailing us, we can hook you up with a pass to the show if we have any left. There will be a WRSC house party in SD as well, so prepare for that. Thank you to EVERYONE who has supported us over the years, if it wasn't for all of you none of this would be happening.
pura vida - Joe Walsh
The booth was designed by new WRSC employee Yana Farrally-Plourde (my new right hand man in surf crime), built by a friend of his in California, and shipped to Florida for the show. It was pretty crazy to show up to the convention center and see our booth hiding inside of these three giant crates.
A few hours later we had the WRSC tiki bar and lounge built and it looked awesome!
Until last week I didn't understand how busy we would be. There seemed to be no stop for three days straight, all day long, as we hung out and talked story with potential visitors, past visitors, people who want to book boat trips on the surf yacht, pro surfers, brands who might want to sponsor the camp, surf media, surf mags, travel groups and so on. Our booth was totally dope, everyone seemed to have heard (great things) about WRSC over the last almost 9 years since we started. Witch's Rock Surf Camp was the only surf camp at the trade show, probably the first one ever to have a booth at the show. We were totally stoked.
When we weren't talking about surf trips to WRSC, we were talking with potential brands about our new surf shop. We plan to open the expanded shop November 1st of this year, and its going to be SICK. Though none of this is official for a couple more weeks, brands you might see represented in the new shop and the online shop include:
Da Kine
Rip Curl
Boardworks
Resin 8
W.R.O.N.G.
Rusty
Volcom
Spy
Santiki
XM
Of course we are already carrying other brands right now, but the new shop is going to be five times bigger and way more legit. Yeah, its taken some time, but all good things take time.
I was pretty stoked when Tom Carroll cruised up to our booth to say hello, the guy is a total legend. Unlike some pros I'd met in the past, Tom was so cool it is hard to explain. He ended up chilling at the booth for 20 or 30 minutes while we discussed the finer points of big wave surfing.
Overall the Surf Expo went better than anyone would have expected. We packed up after the three day event and shipped the booth back to California where it will be waiting for us next month for the ASR trade show September 10-12 in San Diego. Are you going to be there? If so, give us a heads up by emailing us, we can hook you up with a pass to the show if we have any left. There will be a WRSC house party in SD as well, so prepare for that. Thank you to EVERYONE who has supported us over the years, if it wasn't for all of you none of this would be happening.
pura vida - Joe Walsh
Labels: WRSC Events, WRSC News
posted by Joe Walsh at
6:10 AM
2 Comments:
Make your shops more attractive to people when you need to display a show. Also, if your space is large and if you display is really attractive, more visitors are sure to visit your pop up show...
Surf Expo trade show seems like lot a fun and equally very informative. I will participate in an annual trade show in LA as planning to promote my new photography service for that. Will be getting high quality trade show displays to grab eyeballs.
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