Comments on Profile Post by bixby

From Marjorie Baumert "And so it is with both sadness and anticipation for the future, we announce that the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest as we have all known it will be no more."

We should start up our own meet / show before Jude takes it over.

Whether I was based in the vicinity of Europe or Asia didn't make much difference: I was unlikely to ever get there. But I remember enjoying writeups, etc. Sad that it is over.

@purr1n we should talk about their model and why it didn't/won't work going forward. There might be a hole that can be filled here in 2022.

The model has been used for decades. Buy big space at set price, sell small bits at a price, make profit. Nothing complex. CV19 kills the economics when you cannot sell all (earlier multi year contracts at N size) and have too little revenue from tkts. And lots of marketing to make various sizes of this work.

It does take production chops to do a virtual event well. I have seen a few crash and burn hard over the last year.

True, I haven't tried any, but I can't see how one can do such a thing virtually. Not the trade-show side of it anyway. If we want to know about, say, speakers, we can visit the manufacturer sites, visit the review sites, the youtube pundits, the forums, etc etc. It's all done already. A show is about personal experience and contact, hands on: the virtual world is... virtual!