Every year my partner and I always plan on going to Vegas. As you may know or not now we are in both worlds...we are gay owed and operated video production company producing DVD's for retail and we also have a few websites we run and maintain. A company like ours is caught in the middle of the two worlds...the webmaster world and the video production world.

With that being said, we always wanted to go but when speaking to people who attend year after year from both the webmaster world and the video production world they all advise us to stay home and save our money. This year I priced it out and it would have cost us to fly to Vegas from South Florida roundtrip and stay in the hotels and purchase the tickets just to attend for both of us would have cost us over $3500.00 for just a few days. Based on the information we heard from many, they tell us its not worth it. I'm sorry to hear that many of you didn't like the Show this year and it seem to be more of a dissappointment and it proves to me that its still not worth spending the money and the time just to attend to try to conduct business. Our other thought was to go in "style" and spend the money on a booth and bring our models...but then I read the post by Corbin Fisher regarding the people coming up to your booth trying to sell you shit and push there services and products and again, it does not sound as if its cost effective for all the money you have spend.

We normally attend the August show in Hollywood (internext) and we get to network and meet many people. Since the August show is in Hollywood, it cost us next to nothing to attend since its down the street from us. This year we will be attending for the first time The Phoenix Forum and looking forward to that trip in March/April. I hope its a great function to attend since many that I have spoken to highly recommend this Forum.

My problem with all these gatherings is, why can't we have (gay webmasters & gay video producers) just have one convention. Why do we have to be bunched together with the str8 webmasters/companies and other studios...can't gay business men and women who run and operate gay owned video production studios and websites just have an exclusive gay only convention without the str8 studios and websmasters? A gay convention with gay only parties, gay meetings that pertain to our style of business, gay business men and women networking with other gay business men and women....just my thought!

-David
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