gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards"

"Unless you have a story worth telling, trust, authenticity and fifty cents will get you on the bus."

You need lots of luck too. They don't make bus drivers like they used to anymore.

I would change the order. Trust and authenticity are nice and all, but if you have no story, no one is going to listen.

And therein lies the reason I stopped trying to get trade show and conference organizers to blog regardless if they had anything to say. 95% of them don't. So I gave up that ghost last year.

Although that hasn't stopped a multitude of other consultants to state unequivocably that blogging is for every single show and conference out there. It's just $X thousand dollars and you'll be seen as the expert. Ad dollars will flow in. Sponsors will come knocking.

Yeah.

The interesting this is that 4 of the 5 remaining organizers don't realize that they do have a story. That's where this gets fun.

now just when i suspect that hugh is getting a little los on his quotient of "reaaly good" cartoons, he comes up with this one. ahh, so good, so true, so what all this is about.

I used this delightful and insightful line on one of my posts...http://kimklaverblogs.blogspot.com/2006/07/new-currency-is-trust-authenticity-and_03.html

Hehe.

I think that these cartoons are great.