Trade shows, why don't we let in the general public?

[Greenguy]

Paul - you know what the problem is? You're asking this question on the wrong board. There are not a lot of program owners that are regular posters here on the board & of those, I can't think of too many that have a name/personality that surfers would want to meet. The one that I can think of that has a remote association to this board is jaYMan Cash & Raven Riley.

You've got to realize that you're asking a group of webmasters that, for the most part, work out of their house, building link lists & tgp's & free sites & galleries & helping/running the occasional paysite program where there is no big name associated to it.

You might get a favorable response over at Lightspeed's Solo Girl board, but in the end, I still think it's a stupid idea

[docholly]

Since Comdex folded here a couple of years ago, they have replaced the Adultdex with something called "Adultcon" which runs at the same time and across the street from the SEMA show, the automotive afterparts show. What is funny is to see the quick migration of girls that are holding hub caps in the SEMA show run in their 5" spiked heels across the street to the Rivera and be in their bikini in time to 'sign' autographs to the schmucks that pay 35.00 per person to see them.

Yes a case can be made that AVN is an adult extention of CES but truthfully AVN wants the 130K locked in audience that looks at digital widgets for 2 hours then rushes over to look at hot porn stars for the other 6. You can bet that a large % of those CES attendees rush home to their computers and google the name of the chick they just saw "in person" maybe join the website or maybe not, maybe buy a video, maybe not. And for the 10-20K whatever the exhibitor spent on their cost for the 3 days of AVN, think how much that money could have bought in google key words or other online advertising to meet the millions surfing the web.

....and if you mean by "in the life" that the people you associate with everyday in real time are also in the business count me in. I have no real life friends that aren't involved in the adult industry.

Originally Posted by Greenguy

Paul - you know what the problem is? You're asking this question on the wrong board. There are not a lot of program owners that are regular posters here on the board & of those, I can't think of too many that have a name/personality that surfers would want to meet. The one that I can think of that has a remote association to this board is jaYMan Cash & Raven Riley.

You've got to realize that you're asking a group of webmasters that, for the most part, work out of their house, building link lists & tgp's & free sites & galleries & helping/running the occasional paysite program where there is no big name associated to it.

You might get a favorable response over at Lightspeed's Solo Girl board, but in the end, I still think it's a stupid idea

On this you have a point. In fact I think this is true of 99% of the industry. But I will let you buy me a beer when the 1% do it.

Lightspeed, Playboy, Penthouse, Hustler, Private, Vivid, Wicked, Evil Angel, Girls Gone Wild, Paul Markham, Bang Bros are names that come to mind immediately.

Nothing wrong though with the 1,000 who work from home. I was this morning.

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by Paul Markham2

...Lightspeed, Playboy, Penthouse, Hustler, Private, Vivid, Wicked, Evil Angel, Girls Gone Wild, Paul Markham, Bang Bros are names that come to mind immediately...

Most, if not all of those names are already at the big AVN show where the general public has access to them, so why would they want to put up another booth at a different convention at the same hotel/venue?

[docholly]

Originally Posted by Greenguy

Most, if not all of those names are already at the big AVN show where the general public has access to them, so why would they want to put up another booth at a different convention at the same hotel/venue?

10 out of 11 do..the other one