The video is an interview-style recap of the Builder Block Expo 2025 featuring a series of short testimonials from exhibitors and participants. Speakers—including Rick Burgess of C97.7 Radio, Jay Lemieux of Superform Products/Rocky Mountain Pools and Spas, Marwan Radwan of Lyons Furniture, Anish and Trevor O'Neill of Total Fencing Solutions, and Carlo of Smart Space Technologies—share their experiences at the show. They discuss the value of the expo as a networking hub, the quality and quantity of leads generated, the importance of personal connections over simple card exchanges, and specific business outcomes such as new client interest in pools, saunas, fencing, furniture, and smart‑home solutions. The recurring themes are the expo’s role in fostering relationships, the multi‑year participation of many vendors, and the excitement about future growth of the event.
Chapters
Those are the contacts that we've been looking for for a long time.
Builder Block Show has always been good for me. I've been participating for many years. Always get a lot of good leads from contractors for Designing our in-ground pools.
It's our first year here at the Builder Block Show. We're super excited to be a part of it. The connections we've made have been pretty nice so far.
Hi, I'm Rick Burgess. with C97.7 Radio, Calgary's '90s and Now station, and I've been part of this show for about 5 years now with Brianna.
Hi, my name is Anish. I work for Total Fencing Solutions as our lead fence installer. We've been coming here for the last 2 years. Hey, my name is Trevor O'Neill.
I'm with Superform Products out of Pincher Creek, Alberta. This is our first year at the Builder Block Expo. My name is Jay Lemieux. From Rocky Mountain Pools and Spas. We've been attending the show here for over 3 years, my colleagues probably longer.
I'm Marwan Radwan, I'm the sales manager at Lyons Furniture, and we've been on this show— this is the second year for us.
Hi, my name is Carlo. I'm here with Smart Space Technologies. We are a full-service smart home and home technology company.
We've been a big part of this. We're very excited for the future of the show, and we look forward to seeing you out here.
I could do this show over and over and over again, and I think it's given an opportunity to maybe have a little bit more of an intimate conversation rather than, here's my card, call me, kind of thing.
I dealt with the builder today. He offered to give me his information, his card. Asked me if he wanted to go for lunch in the next week or so, as he has a lot of projects and people asking for pools and saunas.
This morning we had a client come in. He's been working with wood fencing, one of our competitors. We blow that product right out of the market, and he was really ready to connect and see how he can utilize us in his day-to-day work.
How many connections have you made today? Almost 25 connections today, and some of them, they are a great connection to us. Some of them, they are highly interested on like some of our products. And we met with other connections. Actually, they might be like a mutual business between us and them.
