After attending CES for several years, you would think that I would have a better handle on the planning side of this event.  I have exhibited and attended as a sales person and even attended as a journalist.  I have managed the setup and design of booths and contracts with the CEA, but every year I always seem to neglect my travel arrangements.

This year is no different and as I approach Christmas I still have a plan for where I’m going, when I’m going, or which hotels in Vegas or even to be on the top of my list this year.

I have no problems in setting up meetings and ensuring that I have a productive stay at CES, but I just can’t seem to bring out the inner travel agent in myself.  I typically book most of my stuff through Expedia, or these days and even sometimes go directly to the hotels themselves to book a room.

But I never feel like I got the best deal, and all of the other arrangements are much easier and a much more natural fit for my personality. 

We can do a lot of things on the Internet these days, but I suspect that some of us despite all of the ala carte do-it-yourself type of options that are out there, you might be better off in the hands of capable professionals that specialize in the aspects of life that we have severe weaknesses.  For me, that’s booking travel arrangements and phone menus. 

If you’re going to CES this year, please drop me a line and I’d love to come to meet up with you somewhere at the show.

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Every year I tend to go to recycle where I tend to travel to trade shows more often. I usually end up getting burned out on it by the end of the cycle and take several months off of the trade shows. Next week I’m going to attempt the podcast and new media Expo in Ontario California. Shortly after that the EcomExpo kicks off in a completely virtual tradeshow setting, which is one of my favorites. Then I’ll be heading to Blog World and PostieCon in Las Vegas.

That will probably be the craziest tradeshow of the year I suspect as bloggers turn out from all over the world on Las Vegas. Many bloggers have been making a lot of money online over the last 12 months and turning all those bloggers lose in Las Vegas with spare cash in their pockets is sure to make for an interesting trade show.

After that the next tradeshow that will come up for me is CES in January. This is the equivalent of a trip to Mecca for consumer electronics geeks. The only thing as once you’ve seen God, you’ve seen God. This particular show does go a weary from time to time especially during seasons when there are no significant innovations being displayed. Right now there is very little buzz about the next greatest big consumer electronics gadget and I suspect that CES may be a bit of a dud this year.

In addition to visiting the trade shows this year, I’m also going to be traveling from college to college working on recruiting thousands of new students to join into Softduit’s Pro blogger internship. So while I’m in Las Vegas in attending the trade shows their November and January, and probably had down the road and visit some of the local colleges. And I’m sure I’ll probably wince at the latest Las Vegas Real Estate developments in the billions of dollars being spent to turn a sandbox into a playground.

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The PayPerPost sponsored PostieCon ‘07 conference is confirmed. The event will take place on June 1 through June 2. Is a weekend to Memorial Day weekend.

Roberts Scoble will headline the event is the keynote speaker. The theme of the event is that lawyers are a rock star.

The goal of the blog conference is to bring bloggers together and help them learn new and better methods for blogging gaining traffic and monetizing their websites with PayPerPost.com.

The registration price is $200 if you register late after May 18 the price goes up to $250. The event will likely be a an excellent. opportunity. There will be in award banquet and an open bar which probably justifies the $200 price tag.

Other Speakers and Moderators

David Ponce, Dan Rua, and Paul Lewis

Events and Sessions

The itinerary for the events are not filled up yet. PayPerPost still looking for additional speakers and moderators. This is the first event for PostieCon. So it’s probably to be expected that it’s going to be a little green or rough around the edges. The big advantage of this event will be for bloggers to network with other bloggers. Everyone will get a chance to learn a great deal of information and benchmark about best practices.

The event is not open to other paid to post companies or networks. So this should be really looked at as an industry event but as a private event. It remains to be seen what type of turnout will show up for this event. PayPerPost has over 10,000 blogs in its networks these days and a couple thousand advertisers. However this is a company that’s based on an Internet model with people blogging and advertising from all around the world. Many of the bloggers have been categorized as “mommy bloggers” and it’s unknown whether any of those bloggers will actually be able to show up for event such as this.

So as these shows go especially when they’re launching, missile and probably par for the course. No big great opportunity for people it to attend to get in at the ground level because PayPerPost is will will only be a little less than a year old at the time this event takes place.

Softduit Partners Attendance

I will likely be at the show representing Softduit Partners as well as several of our advertising customers. For any of my readers or fellow bloggers or my sponsors and advertisers that we’ll be able to go, I look forward to meeting you there!

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