Originally Posted by A1R3K

just like a few of the respected veterans said here, do not post a poll on GFY expecting results to help you make decisons. there are alot of posters here that do not go to shows, do not physically interact with people, and can easily skew your perception of what the people with the real money are actually thinking about internext. to say that there are some "undesirables" here on GFY would be an understatement. i'd do what John said and poll your advertisers and people that have exhibited in the last five years or so as well as attendees.

here is my suggestion. EMAIL your current advertisers, past advertisers, current exhibitors, past exhibitors, past and present show attendees for the INTERNEXT side of your biz model. set up a page on the avn online website with a polling database with your questions and surveys that you want to take.

in addition, call all of those people that spend the money to exhibit, especially the ones that exhibited this year. they are the ones that will have the best input. your exhibitors are the ones that need to be heard first, then attendees. both are expect roi on attending the show. there are companies that have had booths at every vegas internext since 99 when i went to my first one. talk to those people. because some of these companies have different people that set up the booth spaces and so on and so forth, if i were avn, i would find the person with the $. get the input from the actual person that is running the companies that shell out that money for the showfloor space. ask them specific questions. i definitely would not make it a combination survey/sales "hey wanna get a booth in florida" call.

take the time to listen. go back to the drawing board and then go to people once its been figured out. one of the main things that avn has always done when a problem comes up is try to fix it and make a sale in the same sentence. i hope you understand and receive what i am saying correctly and take it the right way, because alot of people wouldn't even take the time to write it or even put it out there like i am. this is 100% honesty and customer experience speaking here.