OK - here goes
Aly - you know I love you but BS on the show badges being the only profit, the floor space rates are stupid expensive
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At $.25 per net square foot per show day, the cost of Las Vegas Convention Center exhibit space is highly competitive with other facilities.
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Right from the convention center website
http://www.lvcva.com/meetings/lvcc_info.html
- so AVN buys space at about 75 cents a SF and sells it for $25.00 - now add in the silly amounts and advertising people buy, everything from the badge lanyards to the toilet sanitizer cakes, it there is so much profit for AVN it is beyond silly, so sorry but that dog don't hunt
Stop booking the damn thing right after New Years - it is a pain in the ass - everyone and their brother has too much to do around the holidays as it is.
As much as I love Vegas, it is a stupid location for wanting to get any business done, EVERYONE is more interested in hitting the tables or the nightlife.
No one other than AVN has made any money from the Internext show (except for a few that have won givaways)
Try building an atmosphere more condusive to doing business, and less of people showing off their dick size, or pulling in a porn star to get a bunch of barely out of puberty TGP gallery builders to line up for pictures and the show MIGHT be worth the time.