YNOT SUMMIT - San Francisco, pictures from F.U.B.A.R.

[Hell Puppy]

Originally Posted by rhetorical

The other thing that mitigates against conventions, is that those of us who are still around, have been around long enough to have all our ducks in a row and could probably be speakers at those forums.

I went to my first "adult industry" show for the web in January 1998 back when it was still mixed with audiotext. Now granted I NEVER have run the entire show circuit, I've always picked and chose and did maybe 2-3 a year. But in 13 years of doing that, again I can probably count the number of seminars I considered useful to ME on one hand and have a couple of fingers left.

No one in their right mind, me included, is going to share their recipes for making money. After being burned very early on, I don't even like to show my sites because there are little things in there that I don't want people picking up on and pissing in my well.

So the seminars tell you information that is already readily available with a little research. If anyone tells you anything "new", you can bet they've exhausted whatever vein it is, and it isn't very fruitful now.