Who's going to Internext or AEE?

[Jim_Gunn]

Originally Posted by rhetorical

I guess if I thought I could make any money out of it, and it was close I would go. But all I see is pitchmen pitching pitchmen and that is not my business. I think that somebody like Jim who is pitching photo services would do more business at something like that than a small niche business. But the donuts were tempting.

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.