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Old 04-08-2006, 04:55 PM  
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Originally Posted by AmeliaG
Definitely Cybernet. Probably XBiz. Webmaster Access. Other than that, I've been cutting back. I love hanging out with everyone from here and the shows are really fun. I hear ya on the vaction, Steve, because, for the cost of bringing 1-6 SpookyCash people to one of the shows, I could just take me on some pretty darn cool vacations.

I get kind of annoyed at the disappointing return on investment. Sometimes I find good new affiliates or a new service or new program to promote or am more motivated to promote a program I already knew about after a show. But, more often, drunk people who are out of their element tend to unsell me on stuff I was totally ready to buy.

There are so many shows now that a lot of people will be missing from any given one.

The culture of the shows has been evolving in this weird direction where there are people who are all "but aren't we friends?" when you want to do some business and "it's just business" when you expect them to act like friends.
Well put...

Like every year I'm doing Cybernet Expo, Internext Florida and YP Mexico (after having done PHX and Vegas Internext)... and that's about it. I did 8 shows last year and while I enjoyed them all... i just don't have the time or get the ROI to bother with more. 5 or 6 a year is optimal for me now.
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