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Originally Posted by EmporerEJ
...But I will give you a bit of marketing philosophy we use, since you've been so kind.....
ANY appearance, ANY...where the outcome is to expose our product to one new potential user, marketer, or media source is worth it's time in gold. Compensation aside, I think I would consider PAYING for an appearance that meets my criteria...
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The rest of that post is unimportant - but this is a gem.
Do you not realize that AVN knows this as well, so while their getting 4-6 experts in a field to speak for free, they are charging the people that are there to learn from them $100-150 per person.
And then there's the spam part - you're not the only one to sit on a panel & use self-promotion. But what does that say to the person that forked over money to hear the speakers basically spam themselves.
That's one of the reasons that I've fucking hatred EVERY "traffic" panel I've been on with the exception of last month's XBiz seminar - there's always a Search Engine or traffic buying/selling person on the panel giving away tiny bits of the puzzle, then plugging how you can find them after & the URL of the website where they will help you buy or sell traffic so that they can get their cut.
XBiz finally figured this part out & had 4 of us up there that had nothing to sell anyone listening. We were Link List owners & a blog guy explaining to the everyday webmaster how to get traffic for free.
I'm not saying that I didn't plug my site as well as the board. I'm saying I had nothing to sell anyone that was listening. I was there to give out advice - like I do every day here on the board & have done for the last 8 years.
So go grab your media exposure & speak to people that paid AVN to hear about what your product does
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And to answer your initial question - AVN & AVN Online are the same when it comes to the independent webmaster, because they have no idea who any of us are - we barely exist in their eyes.