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which
runs through Friday (Sept. 17),
in a special interview with conference
founder Rob Monster that ran in
our latest monthly
newsletter. Incidentally, in
addition to the conference information,
that interview has some very interesting
views from Rob about the future of
domain development versus domain
parking.
Next
week the marathon continues with not
just one, but two shows going in
simultaneously - one in Canada
and another in Spain. Both will
start on Thursday, Sept. 23 when
the third annual Domain
Convergence conference gets
underway in Montreal and the Domaining
III meeting (also in its
third go round) kicks off in Valencia,
Spain. The keynote
speakers at Domaining III
will be Sedo co-founder and CEO Tim
Schumacher and the Castello
Brothers (Michael and David). The
Montreal show continues on the 24th while
Domaining III will run through the 25th.
(Update:
On Sept. 16 DomainConvergence announced
postponement of their show - it will be
rescheduled for next spring in Montreal
- tentative dates are May 12-13, 2011).
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After
a 10-day break, the schedule
resumes with the first of three
major October events - DOMAINfest
Europe in Prague,
Czech Republic October
5-7. This event, staged by DomainSponsor.com,
will feature Search and Social
Expert Bas
van den Beld as its
keynote speaker.
Bas
will be joined by an all-star
line up of speakers and industry
experts (details
here) and, for the
first time ever, free on-site
interpreters will be
available to help non-English
speaking guests from Germany,
Poland and the Czech
Republic get the most out of
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The
following week, the conference circuit
takes to the high seas when Chef
Patrick hosts the first
domain conference on a cruise ship! DNCruise
will sail from Miami on Monday
October 11 and the Carnival
Cruise Lines ship will make stops in
Key West and Cozumel, Mexico
before returning to Miami on Friday,
October 15. My wife Diana and
I will be on the boat and, like a lot of
people joining the cruise, we will stay
in Miami for the grand finale in
this six-show run - T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
South Beach.
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From
everything I am hearing this
event October 17-20 at
the fabulous Loews Hotel
on Miami's world famous South
Beach, is shaping up
to be one of the best
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conferences ever.
It
is the only show that
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. co-founders Rick
Schwartz and Howard Neu
are putting on this year
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they
are pulling out all of the stops
to make their return to South
Florida (where it all started six
years ago) a blockbuster
event. Wild horses couldn't keep
me away from this one. By the
way, you can keep up with the
latest T.R.A.F.F.I.C. South
Beach developments on a special Facebook
page the organizers
have set up. |
As you can
see, there are going to be a lot of
great opportunities over the next five
weeks to get out and start building new
relationships (or re-enforcing old ones)
and catch up on the latest developments
in a constantly changing business. With
the number of shows on the calendar
these days it is much easier to find one
that is close to you and priced within
reach (one of the benefits of the heavy
competition among promoters). We all
love our computers and spending time
online, but there is still no
substitute for meeting face to
face if you really want to jump
start your business. |
