Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head

Possible answers (and my reply to them):

B. To "network" with other industry people and drum up new business.

My reply: That's bullshit. How much "business" has ever actually been done at these things. The usual end to a typical conversation there is "hit me up when we all get back from this". So why couldn't you do your business in the first place without going? Has anyone ever signed a contract at a convention?