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MisterX said:
In closing I will point out that the large majority of positive comments about this show were about the parties and the great people who attended the show.
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Business is 90% human factor.
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MisterX said:
In my honest opinion it seems that, except for booking the hotel and delegating tasks to other people, Tradeshow Productions did little or nothing to earn what they charged people.
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Of the 9 girls that the outfit I worked for hired from Eromodel, at least 8 were of the same opinion concerning the fee Eromodel charged. Yet, the referral fee was only a modest part of their wages (typically 10%).
And all of these were eager to bypass the agent (Daniel) whenever possible. Some of them are still listed on Eromodel site, some others are not anymore.
My point is that it's all a matter of perspective. It's always easier to conclude that others are "making money on our back". But ain't we are all doing it? Money is made to move.
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MisterX said:
Which is what that letter is all about. Tradeshow Productions organized this show for ONE reason. To make money.
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May they have made a bundle ! Good for them !
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JFK said:
Its the new lean and mean model of a show , as we have seen in Phoenix. No show floor, people get together for seminars and to network. As far as the seminars and round table discussions at this show, they were well organised, and professionaly presented. You do not need a show floor to do business!
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I think here lies the crux of Daniel et al. recriminations.
It all depends on the type of business you're operating.
Daniel's running, among other ops, a model agency; he surely would have liked to display his girls in a booth...
Booking twenty girls at 150$ each would have cost him 3 grands. He'd have to book girls at least thrice each at 70$ per referral to break even (taking into account his overhead).
Daniel's well established. I suppose it is difficult for him to "do business" or "strike deals" due to the very nature of how a model agency operates.
The concept of "deal making" hardly applies to his modus operandi, as it is difficult to do a deal on an unspecified girl. Proof is, every model agency displays a girl portfolio. You don't buy the services of the agency, you buy the referral to one model and that's that. It's very often a "cash and carry" business.
A booth would have provided him with a controlled environment where he could introduce his models to the industry, while also maintaining a certain control over how the model represented his business.
Furthermore, I've never met a porn model who's never toyed with the idea of going private, of bypassing her agency. In that sense, paying the fee of 20 girls and let them roam free runs the risk of becoming a loosing proposition in more than one way. It is one thing to organize an event with 20 girls in public, in a bar, with possibly some people of the industry around but mixed with the general public, and an entirely different thing to bring twenty girls in a convention where they *know* that they will be surrounded by prospective clients. The temptation to go private will probably be overwhelming.
So, for all of these reasons, I can understand why the show, with it's lack of conventional structure, was not good to him.
If I had been in his shoes, I'd have gotten very creative in trying to strike a special deal with the show organizers. Him being a seasoned businessman, he probably tried anyway...
As far as I'm concerned, the show was fantastic to me. The contacts I made and Mark Tiara's seminars were well worth the overall 350$ that the show cost me (registration, meals, transportation, etc).
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