Industry Conferences and Trade Shows
After visiting Internext for the first time, I see that there's a whole raft of conferences out there geared at our industry:
Internext - Vegas
Internext - Florida
Phoenix Forum
Cybernet Expo
Webmaster Access
GayAVN Awards
Venus - Berlin
AOE - Prague
And I'm sure others.
If you could only choose three to attend over the course of a year, which would they be and why?
Equally helpful: For the ones you'd opt out of, why?
Cheers
Dzinerbear
Re: Industry Conferences and Trade Shows
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Originally posted by Dzinerbear
If you could only choose three to attend over the course of a year, which would they be and why?
Internext - Vegas
Internext - Florida
Phoenix Forum
As a company for the last 4 years we hav only attended the three shows mentioned above for the simple reason that we get more business done at them than any of the others we have attended.
The Vegas show, whilst probably the largest, is, im sure you will agree, limited by the amount of time you get to spend with people often because, everyone wants to see everyone else.
The Florida show, is much more relaxed than the Vegas show and you actually can get a little more business done there plus, for us, its only a 3 hour drive away so we have no excuse NOT to attend LOL
The Phoenix gathering is without a doubt our favorite event of the year, the last 2 Phoenix Forums we have attended have been extremely productive from a business standpoint and i honestly do beleive that is due to the whole atmosphere of the gathering itself.
This year, we are also considering the San Diego show for the first time whilst it has been a Cybernet show, we did San Diego events in the past when they were strictly 'gay' orientated and got to see our friends and business associates whom we hadnt seen for a while. From what i hear of the last San Diego show there wasnt a huge 'gay presence' at it but im hoping that wont be the case this time around.
I think the main thing to consider no matter how few or how many shows you attend as an individual or, as a company is that you MUST come back from everyone with at least 1 peice of business oterwise, they just arent worth going to.
Regards,
Lee