Comments on: Why I Don’t Attend Many Conferences

By: Teknoloji Haberleri

Teknoloji Haberleri — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:42:31 +0000

Wow that is a major pain in the butt :/

By: hacetsizlik

hacetsizlik — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:11:44 +0000

There is no way that it should take you 21 hours to get from Nanaimo to New York.

By: gurtey

gurtey — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:56:38 +0000

travel should not be your concern…to be in a press conference is like very good to make new contacts!

By: Jesse

Jesse — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:54:18 +0000

I’m in Victoria too.. 20 minute Helijet ride and you’re in downtown Vancouver, quick ride to the airport and less than 7 hour direct flight from YVR to JFK.. It’s not that hard

By: Free Arcade Games

Free Arcade Games — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:50:30 +0000

Did you sit in the economy class or coach? I always sit in economy class as I don’t make money like some of you

-Mike

By: Michael Kwan

Michael Kwan — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:13:17 +0000

Although it’s debatable whether a conference is necessarily worthwhile for you or not, you are way overestimating your travel times.

You do not need to get to the airport three hours in advance for international travel to the States. Give yourself an hour and a half to two hours and you’ll be fine. If you’ve already gone through customs through YVR, you don’t need to go through it again.

Similarly, you don’t have to go through security again, because you would already be in the secured zone when you are transferring flights (if you need to transfer flights).

Yes, traveling can be stressful but it can also be very rewarding. Get out there, see the world, and meet some interesting people.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:50:24 +0000

I understand why conferences would be helpful for networking now Tyler, since you have publisherchallenge and publisherspot and you can promote those sites to the attendees. But what about when you didn’t have those websites, when you just had tylercruz.com, pokerforums.org, etc. How would the networking in conferences have helped you then?

By: gurtey

gurtey — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:18:33 +0000

Yeah, i agree, we can make many contacts by attending conferences..advantage!