Show organizers were promoting hard on social media right beforehand, offering to waive registration fees for talent and affiliates both. So I knew they must be hurting on attendance or on filling their hotel block.
It was a LONG time ago that I went, and even when the affiliate money was rolling the expense was more vacation than justifiable for an affiliate. There’s not enough business upside from in-person networking to justify that hotel bill and those six dollar Fiji waters sitting there in the rooms with no price tags to fool rubes like me who think they are complimentary like the shampoo. 😀
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