Originally Posted by
boyfunk
Two years in a row, we went to the Diplomat and the hotel's service was so abysmally bad both years, I finally filed a formal complaint with corporate and said, in so many words, they needed to fire the general manager. I got a call from him, but didn't let him off the hook. I'm guessing it will be more of the same this year.
As for the conference itself... 2005 was better than 2004, but so sparsely attended that it's hardly worth going, and this year, I keep hearing that NOBODY is attending.
We are going, because we have movies to promote. Not sure about getting a booth, though.
Straight from Chad Beecher at AVN, that isn't a rumor. He says there will *not* be an Internext in Vegas in January, but that they *might* have one at some other time of the year, and/or in a different place.
I always said they should switch Florida and Vegas around... so that we get nice warm weather in Florida come January (instead if suffereing through hurricane season in August) and nice Las vegas heat in August, instead of rain and the cold and occasional snow that we get in January.
I've heard rumors of a collaboration between AVN and somebody else on a new trade show for gay webmasters (this in addition to Gay Phoenix Forum) but no details yet.
A. Price things more reasonably. CCBill manages to get enough sponsors to provide free food/drinks, excellent conferences, great resources, and webmasters pay nothing except their hotel bill. AVN could learn from this.
Well put. I spend thousands on Internext every six months and it barely gets me any return business. Just an expensive way to show your face.
B. Don't hire lowest-bid fast food rejects to handle registration. Spend the extra 50 cents an hour and get people who aren't 800 years old, and can type and process registrations quickly and efficiently.
Try having 5-6 models lined up for registration with the type of person you described... Las Vegas was a nightmare.
C. Scrap the entire seminar format and start from the ground up. Don't use any of the same people (except, perhaps, the attorneys) Come up with new topics.
I even question using the attorneys... it's been the same "booga booga they're gonna GETCHA so hire us before they come-a-knockin" crap for the 4 years I've been attending. That's why I shoot movies instead of going to the seminars
D. Have someone that ACTUALLY KNOWS HOW TO MODERATE moderating the seminars to prevent one or two blowhards from monopolizing the topic.
Or, a shorthand way of saying this:
Hire CCBill to run your shows.
YAY FOR PATRICK!!
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