Showtime: these tips for trade-show travelers will make your trips more productive--and pleasant. From: Pool & Spa News | Date: January 10, 2003| Author: Thill, Gary | COPYRIGHT 2003 Hanley-Wood, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

If you've been to a trade show, you've seen it. Joel Caesar calls it the "trade show stare." It's that blank expression on the face, of an otherwise smart, proficient attendee that means they are about to do or say a pretty silly thing.

"Something happens to people when they get to a trade show that they lose their focus and they don't see what's in front of them," says Caesar, Atlantic City Pool & Spa Show manager and executive director of the Northeast Spa & Pool Asso...