Who's going to Internext or AEE?

[miz_wright]

Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn

A trade show isn't about pitching anything. People will avoid you if you are coming on like a pitch man trying to sell yourself that hard. You have to think in the long term, and just hang out and network and meet interesting people and pick their brains. Sometimes you learn something or meet someone you never expected to and it turns out to lead to business or opportunities weeks or months later. Even if you have the smallest niche business and don't think that you need anyone else or need to sell services of any kind, there is always something to be learned or accomplished through casual conversations with other successful people in all apects of the biz from billing to blogs to pay sites to designers and programmers or whoever else you meet. That's how I look at it.

Originally Posted by Toby

I agree with all that, but there are far better shows for doing that than Vegas Internext.

There are as many ways to work a show and build a business as there are people at that show and businesses in the world. What Works for Jim may not work for Toby, and Toby's methodology may not be appropriate for HellPuppy. Everyone has slightly different goals when they make the choice to go or not - some go because they are better in person than online, some go because they are looking for another job, some go because it's a way to expand their personal sphere.

None are more right than the others, they are just different goals for different people. *shrug*