Internext Las Vegas 2007 - Give me some feedback! (Part 2)

[Greenguy]

Right after I read this last post, I decided to go back & listen to the show that Farly (AVN) & Far-L (HomeGrown) did with us:
http://www.greenguysboard.com/radio/ggaj051206.mp3

I was going to make a little "clip show" of sorts & 20 minutes into it, I realized I was the only thing I took out was the show intro & 2 minutes of introductions.

Go back & listen to this show again - I know, it's long (90 minutes)

I'm 30 minutes into it & so far I've heard that $170 is a reasonable price for the badge (up to $250 this year), that the show floor is the place to meet people & do business (if there was no poker tournament, it'd have been empty), that the seminars will be great for learning & very informative (in the basement with a lot of crowd noise & staff waling around)

Listen to all the promises that were made before last years show & seriously rethink all of this.

I think you're wasting your time.

[Dr Bizzaro]

Originally Posted by Greenie

Right after I read this last post, I decided to go back & listen to the show that Farly (AVN) & Far-L (HomeGrown) did with us:
http://www.greenguysboard.com/radio/ggaj051206.mp3

I was going to make a little "clip show" of sorts & 20 minutes into it, I realized I was the only thing I took out was the show intro & 2 minutes of introductions.

Go back & listen to this show again - I know, it's long (90 minutes)

I'm 30 minutes into it & so far I've heard that $170 is a reasonable price for the badge (up to $250 this year), that the show floor is the place to meet people & do business (if there was no poker tournament, it'd have been empty), that the seminars will be great for learning & very informative (in the basement with a lot of crowd noise & staff waling around)

Listen to all the promises that were made before last years show & seriously rethink all of this.

I think you're wasting your time.

I know, I remember the radio show. (Or that he was on saying this and that.)

My point is that no big changes were really made last year to the over all show. So really all he was doing was trying to get people to go.
That's his job.

$170 is a fair price to get into the show. I agree. Not last years show though.... If NO changes were made this year, it would be a no brainer for me to. I would not be going.
But since they are changing things up a bit, I am curious as to what they are going to do. I really can't judge on what's to come, if it's different from what happened last year.

"The show floor is the place to meet people & do business"? That is something they will say at every show.
I think for the most part, the show was dead was mainly because of AVN being right next door at the same exact time.

I did not attend any seminars last year, nor do I usually. All I know about them, is what I hear from those of you who went. I certainly can't say anything about them one way or another, since I did not actually attend. You can, because you were there and that’s fine.

I'm not defending them, nor am I trying to sell people on buying a badge. I'm just trying to gauge WHY people are on the fence about going or WHY they are not going at all. So I can give them feedback as to what could be changed to get more people to go and making it a more successful show.

Let's say that you don't go this year. And hypothetically when we get back you hear that this was a cool show from people who went. The seminars were informative, the floor was small but, the this was cool, the that was ok, but in general people thought it was pretty successful. .

Now January 2008 rolls around and based on feedback from webmasters in 2007, they decided to try a few other new concepts as well as a reduced priced badge to get more people to come and make it more successful. $150 or $170 badges.

Now since last year (2007) you heard that the show was cool and with a reduced priced badge would you still not go? Just because it had been going downhill in 2004, 2005 and 2006?