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Hey Andrew if you and Rick make up do you think he will give you the award he wins every year but turns down? Seems like a nice way to make up.

I don’t understand what this means.

“Just did not fly in the face of FACTS!”

My entire post isn’t about facts; it’s all subjective. I think that’s pretty clear. I have my opinion, you have yours, and that’s fine.

“Professionalism – sessions start on time, professional/prepared moderators.”

Howard is the best in the business and our show runs like a clock.

Programming – quality of programming, including diverse speakers, “fresh” topics, programming scheduled well in advance.

And if our programming is so bad how come we set the tone and agenda that everyone else copies?? Plus we have brought in big name speakers from the get go that is hard to beat. As for an advanced schedule…..If you think you can set an agenda today for a show next year and have it be relevant, good luck!

I also went over all the other ratings. Funny how TRAFFIC was the only one to score “Low” on anything other than cost.

I stand by my original post! You lost all objectivity and you TRIED to do a hit job! Just did not fly in the face of FACTS!

Just because someone is critical of your product/service/company doesn’t mean that they’re your enemy. In fact the best way to look at it is to consider the fact that they even took the time to come to your show, offer their opinion, etc means they aren’t an enemy. Get some self-esteem. The world isn’t against you.

I’m surprised that you think this was a “Hit Job” on TRAFFIC because I wasn’t nominated for your award. Although awards are nice and I certainly like to get them, I think you’re thinking too highly of the influence your award has. I did notice that I wasn’t nominated, but it’s no big deal.

If you look back at DNW over the past several years you’ll see I’ve written plenty of good things about your show as well as plenty of ways it can be improved. In fact, when Rick Latona announced his partnership with TRAFFIC I wrote that he could “save TRAFFIC”. Certainly not a very positive thing to say about your show (although it included five concrete things the show could do to improve) but that was several months before your awards nominations came out.

Before I posted my article about show ratings, I ran it by a couple people who have attended many shows to see if they saw anything that seemed off. I received only minor suggestions; most agreed. I do question you guys scheduling your show right before DOMAINfest, but otherwise think it’s a good show. I think the Brooklyn show in October will be a big hit, too.

I admire what you’ve done for this industry and your business acumen. However, I certainly don’t appreciate you suggesting that my post was in any way affected by not being included in your awards.

Let’s talk about YOUR professionalism. Forget about that your own readers voted for TRAFFIC as the #1 tradeshow by a margin of more than 2-1, we both know the motivation for your post. You were not nominated for any awards by any of your peers. That was brought to my attention just HOURS before your “Hit job” on TRAFFIC.

Let me explain to you that Howard and I do not nominate, the attendees do. Nobody nominated you. It was brought to my attention after the ballots went out by a friend of yours. What was I suppsed to do? I told your friend to nominate you next year. What else would be appropriate? Now you post this. Well it shows about YOUR professionalism and I think I have a right to respond to your nonsense.

Now that your readers can see things more clearly they can balance out some of your nonsense.

PS: I told your friend you deserved to be nominated. I no longer feel that way.