Sleazy,
You made some excellent points regarding private meetings at conferences. Thinking sessions.
The TGp2 Brainstorm was a similar success in that it brought people working together on one particular field together to work on doing more business and to work on doing more business together. One thing that really came out of it was seeing the top TGP2 webmasters making about $10k/month already on much less traffic (les bw costs). Very cool.
These type of meetings will probably become the wave of the future and it is cool to see someone else having come to the same conclusion. We missed each other at the show. It will be cool to meet in person some time.
As far as the big parties; we (Insite) do that too! We provided the inside area for the loud party and an outside quieter area for networking, doing business, etc. If more companies provide similar 1/2. 1/2 setting it would be interesting. This was a great success! But a LOUD, ROCKING party is great too! There is no other industry that can throw a great party like we can. These are the types of parties you remember for the rest of your life; the types of parties that other people wish they could go to. If anything, I personally am very grateful to all the companies that have provided such a great playground for me the past few years!
Sleazy, next conference .. I will MAKE you have a great time at the parties!
http://www.insiteadult.com/vegas/
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