You ask for Internet access in your hotel room; that’s $24 for 24 hours.  Two computers?  Double that.  Need it on a plane? That’s $10 to $25 per flight.  Seems pretty expensive until you order trade show wireless Internet as an exhibitor for your booth (cue the horror flick music).

How about five PC’s accessing the Internet for your booth? Are you sitting down?  Have you taken your blood pressure medicine today?  How about $3,500?  REALLY? Are you (insert your frustration-based adjective(s) here) kidding me? I wish I were kidding. It makes me feel good about that first text message bill for my daughter’s new cell phone many years ago. It was $200. Chump change by comparison.

There was a time not long ago when the only option to show labor was.. floor labor.  You didn’t even think about screwing in your own light bulbs.  There was a time …