Do you have multiple streams of income, is one of them residual? Do you have Time and Financial Freedom? Do you have optimum Health? Are you the best you can be?

ARE YOU IN YOUR COMPANY FOR THE LONG RUN??

Let's ask you.

Are you in your company for the long run?

Let us take you back to 1994 when we joined our company. I was a 2 year stage 2 cancer survivor back then and we knew we wanted all of the "ammunition" we could have to protect myself from a reoccurrence.

We also were familiar with residual income and network or direct marketing. Notice I said "familiar", not seasoned.

Those were the days that we were making shakes at the Del Mar Hilton and having meetings at private homes.

Our dear friend signed us up and in turn we signed up a few people, but quite frankly the most important factor was we did not know what we were doing. Some people call it Learn while you earn!

I recall one of our business partners, her husband made a Vow!!! I am going to crack the code of Network Marketing. There is a magic Bullet.

We went to a John Kalench seminar in Northern California, listened to a variety of tapes, and read a number of Systems that were in place from other savvy networkers. What were the other Gurus doing? The problem was that it was something different each and every week!

We opened up in Canada and oh my! That was a challenge within itself. Border issues, product that seemed to come by a ferry boat, will it ever get here, sent back product. You would not believe the issues. I lost a few people back then.

We also lost one of key partners who passed away.

I worked the cold market or Internet Marketing and signed up a person or two.

There were some people who fell out, they became impatient and it was not happening fast enough. There were some that they thought the grass was greener on the other side. An interesting and very exciting thing happened. Most partners did not go off the product. Did we have a unique stand alone, no comparison product here?? Hmmmmm

And then it happened!

The Distraction....

The high end caterer my husband and I worked for needed our expertise, management, and talent and that consumed more hours in a day.

We also looked at other businesses; maybe I could make money faster and easier like a pet recovery business. Wrong!

I could write a best seller on that subject.

In 1999 we attended the International convention,We had not been to one for the previous two years and we came back with a fire in our hearts!!

We looked at our business and the numbers we saw were amazing!! Wow! One side was exponentially Booming!

It was one person I signed up from Internet Marketing that signed up a dynamic couple and they signed up a couple with a Huge Health story and they took the business to the moon!

We read books, participated in conference calls, attended events and celebrations! We became savvy networkers.

We realized the POWER of residual income. The true understanding of leverage and the POWER of direct Marketing!

And I was now a 7 year cancer survivor! Where did that time go?

More importantly we understood this is a journey not a destination.

When we sign up partners now we explain to them our journey and we tell them if we could inject all that we know and feel about these products, company, business, and industry you would have the confidence, persistence, and fortitude to share this gift with all!!

Plus they would stay in the company for the Long Run!

Just like our new beginnings we were not on the product long enough to show the "Passion:We were Newbies in all aspects and our Team did not have a Story nor a journey or path they went down much less even a mentor who was seasoned.

We look back now and we tell people in the beginning you have a Little Vision and a Little List.

Expound your Vision and Your List!

Who do you know? The Memory jogger.

Listen to the people you meet each and everyday and share this gift!

Work the Internet Marketing avenue. It is a college education.

We are asked daily we need more people to talk to. We tell them Get creative!

We feel now we are one of the Greatest Networkers on the World, if you have ever read that book, if not Do it NOW!

We have gone through a journey, a road less traveled and we assure our people everyday, especially the new people and those that are thinking of joining,It is a process, a marathon, not a sprint!

We want to read the following excerpt from Jeffrey Combs article

DEALING WITH SO-CALLED FAILURE

One of the most common problems I see in free enterprise and entrepreneurship is that people quit too soon. Not only do they quit too soon, they never even start and they often quit too early and too often. They then go back to what already wasn't working for them, usually a job, and give up on their dreams. I have found that if you don't have dreams, you end up working for people who do. In a job, typically. You're creating someone else's dream and that's not to say that jobs are bad, but will you ever get your promised land, producing results for someone else in their dream? That is an interesting question. Success isn't always easy is it! And definitely not a sprint, it's a marathon. Most people quit in free enterprise in their first 90 days, six months or one year. This is a usual pattern for most people, they don't stay in the game long enough to learn the survival skills required to win the game of their life. They dabble, they give it a shot, they try, they wish, they hope, they'd like to, they think about it. They take little action, get their feelings hurt, test the water and, most of all, treat it like a hobby, then it costs them enough money, so they quit and say, "It didn't work for me" or: I got burned"

Free enterprise is about going through mind shifts, evolutions of new consciousness, getting out of the box, off the sidelines, in the game, playing offense rather than defense, learning life skills so that you can get paid what you are worth. It is the opportunity to win the game of life on your terms, in your time frame. Quitters never win and winners never quit. Winners learn how to fail more intelligently. Isn't it time you learned how to treat failure differently? Isn't it time you changed how you have been changing?

Participate, show up, Read, learn, take your products everyday!

Talk to people, Talk to people, Talk to People.

Know deep in your soul what you have your hands on! An absolute gift!

Some will quit due to lack of Vision, due to lack of patience, lack of Vision, in the box thinking, or they have stopped dreaming and finding a way to realize their dreams.

But the people who never give up like the people in the Frontier days going to California panning and looking for Gold, the journey was and is worth it! And the Rewards will be beyond belief!

Yes there will be forks in the road, Do Not Give Up 5 minutes before the miracle happens!

We are now Gold Directors!

And I am a fifteen year cancer survivor!

Today we have a Global business, a wealth of knowledge, and we have added another avenue to excel our business well into the future, online business building and online presence!

How are you set for YOUR future?

How many people do you know that jump from ship to ship, company to company. Please find a company that is tried and true and fits the following criteria:

Huge expanding market, Leverage, Timing and Trends, Unique Consumable Product.

These 4 criteria are crucial for being successful in a business from home! Plus staying with a company for the long run!

If your workplace contains asbestos, originally used to improve the structure of a building built around the 1970s you might be in trouble. Asbestos can give out dangerous fibers that can result in serious illness and in some cases cancer. It is for this reason that asbestos should be taken seriously and dealt with by professionals only. If asbestos is contained in the building where your company is based, you should act now and consider your employees' health as well as your own. There is a real possibility that in a short space of time, those dangerous fibers can be released and your employees will be exposed to them.

The authorities are very strict when it comes to asbestos. They realise the potential threats that asbestos can bring and are quick to close the doors on any building containing asbestos and putting peoples life's at risk. All your furniture, electronic equipment and papers will be locked away until the asbestos has been treated. Asbestos is the greatest single cause of work-related deaths in the UK so protection of staff is a priority. These diseases may not affect you immediately however could develop later on in life, so there is a need for you to protect yourself now to prevent you or your staff contracting an asbestos-related disease in the future.

If you leave it too long, the authorities will move in resulting in downtime for your business. If it is done properly by trained experts, asbestos removal is simple and safe. The worst thing to do is ignore it or try to remove asbestos yourself.

When I ask a new client what kind of company they have, invariably they say that they have an LLC. When I ask if it's a Sole Proprietorship, Partnership, S-Corp, or C-Corp I get a look like I've grown a second head. "I don't know." They reply. While the S-Corp is very popular, it is not really understood by a large number of business owners. In this article we will examine the issues behind the subchapter S-Corporations and the advantages to making that election.

Not too long ago a new entity known as the Limited Liability Company (LLC) began and each year there are many new LLCs being formed. However, as popular as the LLC has become, the S-Corp status is still considered the favorite or most beneficial of all forms of incorporation. Unlike the C-Corp, in which the owner's get taxed both on the revenue of the company and on the distributions they take as well, with the S-Corp, the owners or shareholders are only taxed on their share of the distributions. That alone is a reason to form an S-Corp as it combines the advantages of getting taxed as a Partnership would with the protection of the C-Corp status. There are reasonable restrictions on the election of an S-Corp which cannot be formed as a pass-through entity nor can it be a foreign entity.

Abuses Cause IRS Tax Law Changes

As with any entity there are changes every year within the IRS to deal with abuses to the system. It became common for owners of S-Corps to under pay themselves as CEO's to avoid paying higher taxes on personal returns. Starting in this tax year, the IRS will be taking a closer look at those S-Corps whose CEO's are not earning what they consider a "Reasonable Compensation".

The IRS considers a "Reasonable Compensation" as being what the business owner would be paid by another company of similar size to do what he or she does for their business. If the amounts are not even close that business owner can expect an auditor to come calling.

Equally disturbing (to the IRS anyway) is the issue of excessive compensation. Exceeding the IRS's definition of excessive can also prompt the audit as well. Some business owners have even gone so far as to include supporting their mistress in a lavish lifestyle as an expense to the company. After all, the spouse would miss a $75,000 withdrawal from a personal account, but not necessarily from the business account.

Advantages to the S-Corp Status

1. Shareholder Benefits - Any officer with a greater than 2% share may have their medical insurance, Health Savings Account or Health Insurance premiums deducted from the company revenue before taxes. These benefits however, for the purpose of payroll must be treated as part of their salary, if indeed these officers are drawing a salary. Another limitation on this is that the deduction is limited only to the extent that the S-Corp actually makes income.

2. Office in Personal Residence - There is a two-fold test as to whether an area in a home may be deducted as an office in home. First, the area must be used regularly for business purposes. Regularly means of course, on a regular basis and whether that be 8 hours or more daily or once a week the concept is that it be on a regular basis. Second, the area must be used exclusively for business purposes. Nightmare stories are told about a business owner using the Home office deduction and it being completely disallowed because of a simple thing like his allowing the children to use the internet, watch TV, etc in the same room, or having a guest sleep over in the office during a weekend stay. If there is ANY activity occurring in that room other than strictly business related work, the entire deduction is in jeopardy.

One word of caution on this deduction for the S-Corp is that the deduction goes on the Form 2106, not as an expense on the 1120S. Remember that this income flows through to your personal return and you are personally taking this deduction for the home office.

For those 'creative' tax preparers who suggest that you rent part of your home to the S-Corp and deduct the entirety of the rent, utilities, etc. Remember then, that you will have to claim that rent as income on a Schedule E, and if the rent per square foot is not at Fair Market Value, the IRS may deny that deduction or at the very least, radically reduce the amounts of deductions you take.

S Corporation Red Flags

Any S-Corp with more than one shareholder may have an arrangement of convenience with the 'partners' who are more silent than they are 'partners' But these red flags will catch the attention of even the laziest IRS Auditor and should be avoided as it could lead to the voiding of the S-Corp status.

a. Disproportionate Distributions - all shareholders must be treated as equals. In other words, you cannot have one of a group of shareholders taking distributions and the others not taking distributions. Neither can you have one shareholder taking a disproportionately different distribution than the others. You must however; take into account the original basis the shareholder has in the S-Corp.

b. Distributions in Excess of Basis - if one shareholder has a 20% share in the corporation, all distributions must be based on that share in the corporation. I.e. you cannot have a 20% shareholder receiving a distribution of 35%.

c. Limits on the pass through of losses. - Occasionally, a company will experience a loss and in an S-Corp. these losses are passed through to the shareholders personal returns. But if the investment was a passive one and the passive shareholder is not actively involved in participating in the running of the business, that deduction for the loss may be disallowed.

For all the regulations and expense of operating an S-Corp it is and will remain to be one of the more popular forms of business.

If you're a coach, consultant, or other type of service professional, you know wearing many hats comes with the territory. You also know it frequently seems as if 24 hours in a day isn't nearly enough.

So how do you find time to do everything your business requires?

There is only one way - with a focused strategy and a weekly and daily plan. Without this focus, something isn't going to get done and unfortunately, it's frequently marketing that doesn't get done.

But if you can stay disciplined and persevere in these 6 areas - business will be booming!

1. Planning/strategizing - Devote at least 1 hour each week to big picture planning and strategizing. This is where you check to make sure that your strategy and tactics are still on track to achieve your overall goals.

2. Outsourcing/delegating - It's very easy to slip into doing things you shouldn't be doing. Schedule at least an hour a month to go through your calendar and action lists and confirm you are not doing things your assistant or webmaster should be doing or things that shouldn't be done at all.

3. Operations/Admin - Depending on the size of your business, and what you have outsourced, you will need to spend between 2 and 6 hours a month on these types of tasks. For example, you may need time to review reports from your bookkeeper, set up procedures for a new area of your business, and hire/fire employees. Many operational type tasks can be delegated but you are always going to have some type of oversight responsibilities.

4. Marketing - Marketing requires daily activity. That's not as bad as it sounds. You can batch marketing activities for certain days of the week. For example, if you attend a networking event every Wednesday, schedule time for follow-up each Thursday. Even if you only schedule an hour each day, put it on your calendar. In addition to calls, marketing includes updating your blog, writing articles, writing your ezine, and any other activity that will bring attention to you and your business.

5. Track and measure your results - Although you may have someone running reports for you, you need to review your web and blog statistics, your article stats and the results of any other marketing that you do. Do this weekly if you have a web site and daily if you are running online ad campaigns or have multiple sites. Don't forget to include networking events when you're tracking and measuring. How much money are you spending on networking and what results are you getting? In some cases, you might really have to think through how to determine your results but it will be worth it.

6. Make adjustments - This can be one of the most difficult things to do. If something is not working, change it. You may not need major changes, just tweaking. The important thing is not to wait to make the adjustment. Adjustments may relate to something you're doing with your marketing that's not as effective as you hoped or an assistant who is missing skills that you need. Don't wait to make changes since things will only get worse.

Schedule time to work on each of these areas and you shouldn't have to worry about anything falling through the cracks. You also will also be able to build your business because you will not neglect your marketing.

A famous quote says that "Those who ignore the past are doomed to repeat its mistakes." No one wants to do that.

However, finding lessons from a company's past is becoming harder and harder to do. Fearing law suits and wanting to save on storage costs, many companies frequently trash all of their older records. We all know that success has many parents while failure is an orphan. So discussing corporate history is often of little use. What can a leader do to unearth and reconstruct the past lessons?

The typical solution among the most effective business-model-innovating leaders was to perform something that is best described as corporate archeology. Archeologists go out to find what remains of the past. After carefully observing what they can locate (which is usually a tiny fraction of what originally existed), they begin to draw lessons from the materials they observe.

If bone tools are present and bone pieces appear to have been smashed in the same location, an archeologist may hypothesize that the site was used at one time by a bone tool maker. Carbon dating can tell how long ago this occurred. The archeologist can go on to create modern duplicates of the tools and try to use those duplicates in various ways, in order to make hypotheses about what the tools were used for in the past. The archeologist may go one step further and look at the bone implements still used today by people living in less industrialized cultures for possible clues.

Company leaders seem to do something very similar to what the archeologist pursues. In their search, the business leaders are usually looking for the most extreme forms of success and setbacks. Having found these results, they then go back to sift through what happened to locate what was different about the successes and setbacks from the company's usual experiences.

Discount broker Charles Schwab early on noticed that many of the company's telephone calls were to find out if financial securities were purchased yet and, if so, at what price. Realizing that this behavior meant that customers probably always wanted this kind of information, the company began automatically calling customers after every trade was executed to share the details. Many customers complimented Schwab for this service.

That success stayed clear in the organizational memory. When the Internet became important, Schwab was among the leaders in developing this way of communicating to make it easier for customers to find out about their accounts, positions, and trades. From these insights concerning problems and successes, Schwab became the leading on-line broker.

Tellabs founder Michael J. Birck has noted that you have to keep testing your successes for their future relevance. When the telecommunications equipment provider was launched, Tellabs had to succeed with the regional Bell operating companies or not survive. Succeeding meant thinking and acting just like Bell Labs had done in the past, and being conservative in adding equipment to the established network.

In the meantime, telecommunications networks are increasingly being provided by agile companies like QWEST, Williams, and Frontier which want to establish new technical models and ways of operating. Tellabs needed a variable organizational structure and technology focus to match the needs of these two different kinds of customers.

What can you learn from corporate archeology in building a better business model for today . . . and tomorrow?

A great business opportunity will create significant income for its members via excellence in service, excellence of product and quality leadership.

Great opportunities have excellent communication systems because most business failure is a result of faulty or untimely communications. Companies that make you wait days for simple answers will not make it in our instant gratification society. A business opportunity that truly values its members is quick to respond and quick to teach powerful methods of success.

Relevant products and an efficient delivery system are at the core of a great business. Products which help the company grow and are useful for almost anyone are essential.

Price points. Let's face it, there are different income strata in our society and any business must address these strata in the form of varying price points. A great business will strive to draw people to higher and higher levels of attainment. A good analogy of this can be found in the automotive industry. For example, one might purchase a small low-cost car when working on the assembly line and later when promoted to a managerial position buy a large luxury car. A great business opportunity will create entry points almost anyone can afford and then pull its members upward as they achieve more and more success.

A great business has a heart and cares about its lowest worker. We all have to start somewhere and great companies create systems that make it easy for anyone to spiral upward.

Training (I don't like this term because I relate it to training animals and people are infinitely more).

Simple to follow step-by-step instructions which are proven to work separate the great companies from the duds. So many companies assume that a new member knows what to do and as a result by-pass very important steps in the learning process. Dropping the ball here is responsible for many failures.

Great companies make it simple enough for even the newest of the newbies.

Great companies have great leaders. Every action whether positive or negative filters from the top down. Look for leaders with high ethical standards. Leaders who truly care if you succeed. Leaders who are committed to the long-term success of the company. Leaders who are willing to show the way to a successful lifestyle by sharing ALL their successful secret methods.

Keep these points in mind and you will avoid many of the scams on the internet today.

There are many good companies out there, but only a few are truly great.

There are 3 main areas that determine success or failure in any business:

1) External Communication
2) Technical Knowledge
3) Internal Image and Communication

These are the three main areas that cause success or failure and they have been referred to as the Success Triangle. It is extremely important to Master all three areas of this triangle. When I say master these areas I do not mean read and understand but apply test and test. Look at your results make adjustments and test again.

External communication -
is very important as it is how the market finds our about your products and they YOU are selling them. Then when you have made contact you capture there interest by providing them with what they want. Not what they need what they want. External communication is the marketing you do, the ads you run, the Google ads, the articles, the print. It is the communication you have at first meeting with your customer and it is the presentation they see in your print, product and online presence.

Technical Knowledge is not only the knowledge of the products, the back office systems. It is how to take a prospect from lead to buyer to client to associate. It is how your run your business through collecting money, recording information and sending out products.

Internal Communication or Self Image is how the most important of the three areas. It is proven in testing over and over that the most successful entrepreneurs and sales people have extremely high self confidence. It allows the to learn more quickly and not be afraid to make the moves necessary to be successful. Internal Communication is 90% of the cause of success or failure in any business. But is more pronounced in the home based business world.

Key to developing strong self confidence is personal development. Personal Development helps people overcome negative self image and limiting beliefs and helps conquer their daily projects.
When starting a home based business it is of the utmost importance that the owner encompass a personal development program to guide their internal chatter.

Compatibility and compliance are two important factors in the implementation of any ERP system in the organization. Both of them form an important part of the concept of ERP system integration. The thing is that the Enterprise Resource Planning solution must be able to integrate in the current information technology infrastructure of the organization. Any solution which demands massive upgrades is not at all welcome. After all the ERP system is to be deployed for the company and not the other way round.

Any organization which is planning to deploy an ERP solution must already be having at least an entry level information technology infrastructure in place. This would for the core production and communication process of the organization for example even the internal e-mail system would be counted as base infrastructure. All the inventory keeping, production monitoring solutions etc are the base level information technology infrastructure.

As the ERP solution is being deployed, it would need to interface with these solutions which are already being used. Unless the ERP solution is able to interface with the base infrastructure, there is not much point in the entire exercise of the deployment of ERP system. They are supposed to work as one solution and not as two separate solutions with no ability to communicate with each other. This ability to interface with each other in a seamless manner is called compatibility.

Proper compatibility is the key to the success of any ERP system implementation because it is the be all and end all of the ERP system integration. Unless the system is able to integrate with the current infrastructure, it would not be able to observe what is going on. This means that the business management would still remain in dark about the operations of the business at micro level. With proper ERP system integration, the management can keep an eye on every component of the work flow.

Moreover the lack of proper ERP system integration would mean that the data would have to be manually exchanged between the current infrastructure and the ERP system. This cause a number of troubles because data especially if the data is not being properly exchanged between the two solutions. Loss or mutilation of data at the time of export would mean that a lot of complications would arise and the company may even have to suffer a lot of losses.

The developers of CRM systems and ERP software packages go extra miles to ensure that maximum possible degree of ERP system integration is achieved but it would not always be the case out of the box. In order to ensure proper ERP system integration, it is a must that the business must do proper testing before deployment.

In the Enterprise and Developer editions of the software SQL Server 2008, a new security feature of transparent data encryption (TDE) has been included. It has a slightly negative overall performance impact on the SQL Server optimization. It is to the extent of 3 to 5 %. However, if most of the data is stored in memory, the impact is lesser.

The encryption is highly CPU (central processing unit) intensive as it takes place at the database level. Moreover, it is performed at I/O (input/output).

Therefore, servers that experience a high CPU load and high I/O are impacted more. The performance impact is to the extent of 28% in such a case. However, in the case of servers with low I/O and low CPU load the performance impact is low. Even so, the primary reason for the performance impact is the CPU load and the high I/O causes minimal impact if the CPU load is low.

The encryption is at the file level but does not occupy disk space as TDE does not pad the database files on disk, even if it does pad transaction logs. Therefore, the experience of a user who accesses the database and sends a query is that the response of the software is as fast as it was in SQL Server 2005 in which only cell-level encryption feature is available.

Even backups of a database become encrypted when TDE is enabled. Therefore the certificate that protected the DEK (data encryption key) is backed up and stored along with the database backup. If the certificate is lost, the data will become unreadable. Therefore, it is better to have two backups of the certificate and both of which are sent for archiving safely separate from the database backup for security.

On the other hand, in the case of cell-level encryption, the performance impact on SQL Server optimization is 20% more than it is for TDE. This is because the encryption and decryption process in this case is manual. Further, due to encryption the value of the column attributes changes and therefore the data type of the column must be changed to varbinary and then recast back to the original value after decryption. The manual process means that none of the automatic techniques used by the SQL Server query optimizer will work.

Cell-level encryption has a number of advantages over the database level encryption provided by TDE in that the encryption is more granular and that data is not decrypted until used. It can be useful for a targeted security environment. However, the burden of extensible key management for the administrator is a distinct disadvantage.

The greatest disadvantage of cell-level encryption on SQL Server optimization is in the high performance penalty and the cost of administration. Even query optimization is affected as indexes on encrypted columns offer no benefit.

Contrary to popular belief, having to wear a suit and tie to the office every day does not always prove to make the big deals happen. If you look at the major trends of today, business owners are becoming younger. The focus is no longer how long you have been in business, but rather if you are in business and are you comfortable being who you are.

With demographics changing, so are wardrobes and how we view what a professional is supposed to look like. I recently read a statistic that mentioned that when the average salesperson wore a suit while making a presentation, closings were an average of 43% higher than those who would wear a sleeved shirt with a tie, but those who wore slacks and a polo were 60% higher than those who wore just a sleeved shirt and tie. What does this say? This tells me that the days of the power suit are going away and that it was not the suits or the polo shirt that closed the deals, but rather how the person presenting presented themselves along with their idea.

The focus of the young professional is on their presentation and the idea that can sell rather than the label on the sleeve, as well as them feeling confident in who they are and how they present themselves. I recently had a series of meetings with a client and upon the first meeting I did in fact wear a suit and tie. When I arrived, the business owner was dressed in a nice shirt and jeans. Needless to say the next meeting I was in jeans as well. The client was more interested in his business, and not my finely pressed suit and nice smelling cologne.

Now, I am most definitely not saying that you do not bathe daily and utilize deodorant, but rather that a first impression will be a lasting one. If I wear a suit that is to flashy and all my client or prospective customer remembers is my suit and nothing I presented, I obviously missed the mark for why I was there in the first place. My emphasis must be on how I present myself along with why I am there in the first place

The young professional desires to make an impact. They desire to be themselves, as well as make a great impression and close the deal. The question most professionals have today, can this be done? I firmly believe that it can.

Recently on the television show The Celebrity Apprentice, Stephen Baldwin was in the board room in jeans, a nice shirt, with a blazer (he did in fact have tie, but he was still in jeans). Earlier in the broadcast he made mention to the fact that he was the only Project Manager on the show with two wins. While others were in their power suits, Baldwin was focused on looking professional and seeing the victory through. Pint in case, the suit is not what made the wins happen, but rather the person.

I believe that there is a new surge in the marketplace. I love what the Master Motivator himself, Zig Ziglar, says, "...people buy from people they like..." So enter the day of the square toed shoes, trendy shirts and nice jeans. Bankers beware, there is a new type of business professional rising, they are strong, confident, and poised, they look great, and, they are not wearing the power suits. Stay strong. Stay confident. Be comfortable.

I was in the market for some new tradeshow exhibit panels to replace the old and faded ones that were on our current exhibit. They had gotten wet in their crate a while back when they returned from a show. We did not discover this until we unpacked the crate to get it ready for the next show almost a month later. The water had caused some discoloration on the display panels that were the bulk of the booth.

I began looking on line for a company that had a wide variety of tradeshow exhibit panels to choose from and could meet my budget & time line. What I found was a website for a company that had just that. Their choices for exhibition panels were tremendous. I did not know that they came in all those different ways.

There were those that were made with velcro receptive fabric that came in many different colors and styles. There were plush fabrics that had sort of a smooth sheen to them. They also offered a velvet like fabric that reminded me more of the fabric that I have seen work with hook and loop. Then there was a similar fabric that was ribbed to give it a pattern. All of these fabrics came in at least 15 different colors and each had it's own unique name.

They offer single tradeshow exhibit panels that are made up of different components. The bottom and top of the panel was fabric but in the middle was plastic slat wall that allowed you to hang hooks or baskets and shelves on it. They also had them with a combination of slat wall and wire grid.

The panels can be made from rigid materials like sintra or acrylic and be attached directly to the frames or walls of an exhibit. They can also be made from luan or cardboard and cover with something like a laminate or a fabric as well. These tradeshow exhibition panels can also be made of less rigid materials like thin PVC or a maybe a polycarbonate. These panels are the kind that can come off a frame and roll up to be stored in a case for a portable exhibit that travels well.

And finally, there are tradeshow exhibit panels that are graphics. They can be rigid of flexible depending on their intended purpose with graphics being laminated to the backer. Source: Tradeshowdisplayinc dot com, Louis Zhang