I think most conferences are a waste of time and money. However, there is the occasional gem that makes it worth the time away, hotel, flight, meals, and conference costs.
For the people that exhibit at conferences usually a customer or two makes it worth the fees. Or for the people that sell at trade shows. They can get half a years worth of orders at a single show if they nail it. I know one successful business that does about $5 million a year in sales that does all their business through three trade shows per year.
But. For the people that pay to attend. I doubt that it’s usually worth it. Some people hype up the out of session networking. Or how cool it is to hang out with people and talk shop. When I read SEO Black Hat’s Conference Strategy posts, I thought, good idea.
With so many sessions at leading conferences getting video taped, it would be quite easy for someone to aggregate and organize the information online so that people can get the benefits of the worthwhile sessions. Although. They’ll still miss out on the late night bar sessions that few remember any way!
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