I've seen a lot of conferences and trade shows come across my desk. I don't go to these. Conferences, trade shows, anything like that, are nothing more than people who have no idea what they are talking about trying to sell an "idea" to someone who has no idea what they are talking about.

My personal favorite ones are the ones were you get to learn how to make money on the internet. Or perhaps the ones that are seminars that discuss using web 2.0 to increase your site's customer interactions. Right! Like there is a silver bullet with this shit. C'mon people. I've been saying it a lot recently, if you don't know how to run a web site, all the fucking conferences and seminars in the world won't show you.

Another point is that when i got into this game 10 years ago, if you wanted a web site, an e-commerce site, or anything, you went to a guy. One fucking guy. That guy, knew everything. He could code, do graphic design, internet marketing, the whole nine yards. Now, there isn't one guy. There are like, 10 guys. All those guys don't take into account the other guys and marketing just gets fucked up. Marketers today have no web experience but think it's like any other media. How much they have to learn.

The successful internet companies were started by a guy or 2 or 3 guys. Name a successful internet company, I dare you! Fine chicken-shit, i'll do it for you:

Facebook - one guy
Myspace - one guy
Youtube - three guys
Digg - one guy
Google - two guys

How about some old stuff?
Amazon - one guy
ebay - one woman
Paypal - three guys

Now, sure they had some VC's at some point, but they didn't have 80 departments who had different jobs. They did it all or told people exactly what to do. So my advice to you, is if you don't have the vision to know your customers and lead by doing what you feel is the ebst thing to do, then don't bother going to conferences, just find a new job.

-Walhalla