With travel and coming back to a lot of “catch up” work, I haven’t been much of a blogger this week. I am sure you can all relate to times when your days were full, leaving little free time or free thought. This week has been just that.
I first travelled to a small conference in Arizona and had a great time along with two full days of learning and sharing. From Arizona, I was off to Atlanta, Georgia where I attended my first Big Seminar. That was a power packed 3 days for me as well. I have never met more talkative and networking friendly people than I did in Arizona and Atlanta. I am finding out more and more as I attend different types of conferences and meet people from numerous backgrounds, that building a successful internet business is all about relationships.
Now I know that there are some very large forums that didn’t require the help of anyone else and never had a business relationship that was profitable to them, but they are few and far between. I also see that if there is an easier path to success, then why not take it. That is a smart move that will only save time. In everything you do online and offline, always understand that relationships are beneficial and can be profitable.
I wish you success! 
How does one attend a summit / conference for webmasters? Are they private or open to the public?
So how was the ‘Big Seminar’?
Do you get more out of the content that was presented or out of the networking that you participated in?
It was very nice, especially having my wife with me. I got a bit more out of the networking overall, but it was close. A lot of the content was good and I definitely learned some things.
Jim, there are numerous seminars and conferences in our webmaster / publisher arena. I have have only been to a few like Big Seminar, Webmast World’s PubCon, and Affiliate Summit. I would think those are good, but I know many others are great as well, like SES.
I just attended Pubcon, and I wouldn’t really classify it as a webmaster conference. It’s all about marketing. Search engine marketing to be specific. That’s an important issue for webmasters, certainly, but since it’s narrowly focued on marketing, I wouldn’t classify it as a conference for webmasters. Someone wanting to learn about design, coding, community development, and many other topics other than marketing would be disappointed.