Originally Posted by NoWhErE

What I’m about to say is not a personal attack on you, please keep that in mind. I’m just sharing my experience from attending shows over the past 2 decades.

The topics you listed are for beginners. Any affiliate that can send decent traffic should already know these things as they are very basic skills.

Having said that, I’d like to point out that shows are meant to be networking events between service providers (programs, billers, hosts) and people who can send them sales.

The people financing these shows (service providers) have no interest in dealing with Joe Schmo whom is still learning the basics. They want to meet the people that can actually drive significant amounts of sales.

So if you start catering to newbies, you lose the people who are paying big money to attend. The show organizers business model would fall appart.

Now, having said that, let’s also acknowledge that times have changed. The lion’s share of traffic has been consolidated between a few dozen companies and the odd one-man-army.

Its hard for businesses to justify buying big packages while show organizers are dealing with shrinking profit margins.

Do I have the answer to their problems? No. But I definitely know that encouraging the growth of everybody’s business is the way forward, even if that means paying for tickets that used to be free