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Originally Posted by Jdoughs
Is there a reason for "affiliates" to go to these shows, they seem much more like a social environment where sponsors can promote themselves, to themselves, and quite frankly, I'm not interested in that.
Maybe since Im not 25 yrs old and interested in the big party scene, or maybe its because how I run my own stuff is sort of hush hush (seo network), but even when Ive been invited down and been offered free rooms/flights, I always say no.
Just for the record and for your question Trixxxia, Im an affiliate, family man, have a show within 4 hrs, 2 within 8 hrs, yet I've never been to one. Just dont see a real reason.
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Honestly, Jdoughs - I worked in the biz for over 3+ before I went to a Montreal show and it definitely changed a lot going. Simply because when I did get to that first show there were a SHITLOAD of webmasters at it - people were discussing their general ways of doing business which opened up a lot more ideas/shortcuts/networking - even the panels actually gave 85-90% information you can use and the rest was a subtle sales pitch.
As the years passed though and the more shows I went to in different places, it seems like the core meaning of a show got lost. Somewhere along the line, shows lost their effectiveness for sponsors and webmasters alike. Too many shows - each show/travel costs going up - affiliates don't have million dollar budgets to go to them - so other than sponsors promoting to sponsors (which essentially can be done on the phone or ICQ after you've met them once) I'm wondering if I'm missing something (maybe I'm getting old LMAO).
My question is really, where are the webmasters going - have they just 'stopped' going to shows? Did they all move to mainstream? Or is it a matter of the influx of new and upcoming webmasters having trickled down to very very little?