Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > My God, $2M for a booth and "platinum sponsorship"? Maybe they would bite > at a $50K booth then. Can you imagine if 10 vendors did and there were > still plenty of $2K booths to rent to the smaller exhibitors?
As someone who has attended, planned, financed, marketed, etc. more trade shows and conferences that I would care to even remember, I would be happy to put on an evening of "Stupid Vendor Tricks: the trade show edition" regarding the way that vendors approach trade shows, the issues around them, why they cost so much money and how to put on an event "on the cheap".....and why few vendors would be interested in such an event. Even as technical people, you would laugh, cry, gnash your teeth and wonder why in the world computer companies went to trade shows, did road shows, or ever survived in the first place. I can promise you that the talk would be provocative, entertaining, and definitely one where beer would flow uphill to the second floor of Marthas'. I will be "at home" for much of the period of June 19th to July 15th. Let me know if you would like to take advantage of this. Regards, maddog P.S. This is an extention of my well known talk "Stupid Vendor Tricks: Why vendors do the weird and counter-intuitive things they do." -- Jon "maddog" Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 Amherst St. Voice: +1.603.672.4557 Amherst, N.H. 03031-3032 U.S.A. WWW: http://www.li.org Board Member: Uniforum Association Board Member Emeritus: USENIX Association (2000-2006) (R)Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in several countries. (R)Linux International is a registered trademark in the USA used pursuant to a license from Linux Mark Institute, authorized licensor of Linus Torvalds, owner of the Linux trademark on a worldwide basis (R)UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the USA and other countries. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
