I realize that mainstream does some pretty silly things - but I was checking out some mainstream proggies tonight and caught a banner for the Webmaster World Conference in Vegas this weekend - $799 registration fee?!?

http://www.webmasterworld.com/conference/register.htm

I see SEGuru is on a panel - along with a bunch of Google, Yahoo!, Alexa, etc. folks.... but I don't see ANYTHING here justifying this $799 registration + travel + hotel + meals, etc.

Anyone ever attend this thing? Does it get a lot of traffic? Are mainstream/eCommerce folks STILL willing to sink this much $$$ in for educational conferences? I really kind of thought that with the death of Comdex the rates would at least drop for these mainstream thingies...

:huh:

I love this quote from their site..

Judging by a couple of the speakers and having heard them in the past.. it IS how much you pay ;)

I think you can learn how to optimize your radio stream for search engines if you listen to that panel...

Kath, check out the Calendar of Events at MW for more strangeness:

http://www.mainstreamwebmasters.com/gate.h...alender&op=list

Here's the bizarre thing ... the conferences to hear the speakers at these things often cost twice as much, yep, $1,400-$1,700 ... but to go through the exhibit hall only is between free and $25-$50.

I wonder how much we could charge for seminars entitled..

""Make a million from Adult Webmasters"

Learn from GENUINE Millionaire Pioneers in the Adult Web
(audited accounts and tax bills available)

Panel consisting of .....
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2 days all inclusive lectures and seminars , attendees afterwards will be offered our gold level package to include hosting , content and initial traffic all for the low low cost of $ ?????

Seminars to be held in San Diego ,LA ,Vegas,San Fran , Portland , Seattle ,Rapid City, Chicago ,eytc etc..

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....

had this idea before ,with JD of Wetlands, now might be the time to do it...

At the time I was gonna approach Greenguy ,Tommy , and some others...

I mean , isn't it about time that panelists proved there credentials?

24 Hours removed and what are those words ringing in my head?

Wibble