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Originally Posted by MaDalton
i think you are wrong here. everyone starts small and attending a show can give also small guys a push and help them to understand the business better. plus learning from others, meeting program owners etc bla bla - you know it.
i think the barrier to attend a show should be much lower. and i don't just mean moneywise, but also considering the attitude of many participants. i read from many small webmasters here over the years that they are more or less afraid to go to shows and i'd blame champagne pics, coke adventures and flying chairs (just a few samples).
that serious business can be done - also for small guys - is very often overshadowed by all the debauchery threads after a show.
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You may be right, there is no real way to know. My suggestion was that, if you can't afford the price of the show and some travel, how in the world are you going to pay for Visa, hosting, content (unless you or your girl are the star), marketing and so on. It's not cheap to run even the most basic site if you do it right.
With that said, yea, everyone deserves a chance. But, Google is free, so is GFY and every other board. If AVN wants to help noobs, they should devote an area to their site to a directory where noobs can learn for free without breaking the bank. Maybe they already have that, I dunno, I stopped going to their site a long time ago.
My first show I was a total noob. Most people didn't want to talk to me and those who did talked about stuff I had no idea about. I didn't find it a good place to get my feet wet, but that was just my experience. A lot of it was over my head and seemed out of reach. Many topics in seminars were too advanced. Things just cost too much. I wish I knew about boards before and there were more online resources to jump start me a little, like there are now. Buuuut, I survived and am here 11 years later.
