Webmaster World Las Vegas

kath · 11-17-2004

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...

11-17-2004	#1
kath Members Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: California, USA Posts: 1,340	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...