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mbiersner (User)

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Re:Wall Street's woes and our industry 2 Months, 1 Week ago

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Something that was interesting with our recent annual - we had record attendance. Final numbers aren't in yet, but all indications point to our largest show yet (last year in Boston we hosted 27,400+). While looking back on our post-show euphoria last year and predicting upwards of 35,000 this year (is a 128% increase in attendance reasonable? If it's your 50th anniversary?). Could we have hosted more attendees in a better economic climate (and with better weather on the final day (Hurricane Hannah was making herself known)? Probably. Are we still on cloud nine and amazed that we had record attendance this year. Absolutely.

Of course, with our other events - and in planning for next year in Vegas - we're still having to be strategic in all that we do.

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