Originally Posted by Michael O

When I worked full time as a webmaster I never went to a show for different reasons.
To expensive
Going to the US, $200-300 for the pass, the hotel where the show is held is the same price per night. 4 nights, pass, plane ticket and spending money + a couple of extra days now the trip is made quickly gets expensive and not knowing what to expect for a small time webmaster its not worth it.

Get a group of 5-8 sponsors together of different kinds, paysites, cams, dating, pills and so on.
Then have smaller local events focusing on the small to medium sized webmasters and have seminars that are useful:
TGP scripts and how trading is done best.
TGP/Free site submissions how to get the best results.
How to promote cam sites.
How to sell penis enlargement programs.
Filtering traffic.
Know your niches.
And so on you know useful stuff so if someone only doing cams want to venture into something else he could pick up some info.

Have "trade with me" meetings where webmasters can meet and find some new trades, exchange partner accounts and so on.

Have a decent registration fee, no need to have it in a 5 star hotel, keep it simple and at a fair price. Have a few parties but they shouldn't be the main events it should be main focus for everyone to learn how to make more money.