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Originally Posted by fuzebox
Where's the incentive? I go to shows because I like to party and I can afford to go, but there is no business to be done for me. As an affiliate any information I need is right here on GFY, the last thing I need is a few hundred reps handing me business cards and telling me I should switch all my links to their program and they can hook me up with a super special $30 payout if I can send 200 sales a week.
Also a lot of the affiliates from "back in the day" have started their own programs and hired on new people, so those people are still going to shows, just not the newer webmasters.
When you factor in the lack of value of a show for a full-time webmaster nowadays (no companies doing big sponsored thank you dinners, lack of open bar at parties, no cool events like gameworks), the real question is "why should we go"  |
For our webmasters we would do sponsored dinners. We would also consider hosting open bar parties to meet new webmasters, but the problem is there are not enough webmasters attending... for the LA show I posted a thread saying that I want to meet webmasters, come meet and have a drink with the CE cash crew... we want to get to know you guys, webmasters are very important to us.