Shoe Shining the New Booth Tchotscky

One of the best experiences I had the ad:tech San Fransisco show was getting my shoes shined.  I had never had my shoes shined, but it is one of those things, like getting a hot shave at a barber shop, that every man should do at least once in his life.  Brett Duggan, an aspiring comedian/writer/producer/director from Boston, shined my shoes.  It was nice not to be sitting on my floor getting polish all over myself like a kid in finger paint.  We talked about a bunch of random stuff and joked around.  It was like talking to an old friend.

Seamus McDonagh, another man shining shoes sat down in the chair next to me (business was slowing down at the end of the day).  Seamus is a former boxer.  He fought Evander Holyfield in 1990.  Not only was he a boxer, but he has two films on currenttv.com on boxing headed to the Cannes Film festival. They are actually good.

As I was sitting there, I came to the realization, that shoe shining should be part of an exhibitor’s booth.  I was a captive audience for about ten minutes.  People remember getting their shoes shined.  As an exhibitor, why get a bunch of little crappy toys to hand out when you could engage your customer with a shoe shine?  Here’s their contact info, you’ll thank me later when you get time to talk to your customers.

very interesting…

By De La Hoya vs Pacquiao on 2008 08 29

very interesting…
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By ches on 2008 08 29

I should have found this earlier and gone there making my shoes shined, too. Thanks for sharing.

By FunGames on 2008 09 23