The Core
Why We Are Here => Water Cooler => Topic started by: grnidone on October 17, 2012, 04:42:56 PM
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*shrug* Brett keeps the moneymaker Pubcon though...Wonder if my nick will be unlocked so I can post there?
http://www.internetmarketingninjas.com/blog/marketing/webmasterworld
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Blimey, I had not realised he was after so much real estate.
Heather, I am sure you could get you Nick back.. if you really wanted it ::)
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Looking forward to a design overhaul....
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Ah this is the 'big thing' that was announced on Cre8, after his taking over SEOChat and Cre8 (including Kim K-B hehe).
SC has still not had its own (promised) major overhaul tho, so those of you frequenting WMW shouldn't hold your breath either - methinks.
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Been a long time since I've been to WMW. I never thought Brett would part with it.
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how much $$$??
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Interesting. I don't know much more than what's been publicly announced. It sounds like they want to keep the place pretty much the same though.
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What next - buying all half secret forums? ;D
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I'm wondering what Boykin will do with all those forums. Is the benefit to him branding and exposure?
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Wonder what the mods cut will be ;D.? Quite a few years ago there were supposed to be shares and payouts made. I still haven't seen a penny, but did get a few lunches out of pubcon.
There seems to be a lot of money in conferences as there seems to be more of them sprouting up that I keep getting pitched to attend via various fb groups and online forums. Maybe I should start a beachcon.com webmaster conference for those that want to come to tropical island and talk shop before heading out for a fine evening.
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>Maybe I should start a beachcon.com webmaster conference for those that want to come to tropical island and talk shop before heading out for a fine evening.
That works. Trust me on this.
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>I still haven't seen a penny,
And you never will. Hell, if Brett could charge you to be a moderator there he would.
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>a beachcon.com webmaster conference
I love that idea! Which island?
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>Wonder what the mods cut will be?
Ouch! Considering that about half his original staff is here...
Off the top I have to say that the conferences will be a lot less of a draw without WMW for their sounding board.
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>Ouch
Hehe, yeah I know so that's why I threw it out there as there will be none of the promised.
Beachcon.com-- taken by a contractor called beach contractors.
Beachcon.org--Some sort of gamer site.
Beachcon.net-- Available.
I remember a few years back there was a webmasters in the sun conference which was for progressive marketers in the affiliate space and every year it was held at different venues and ended up in a lot of deals being put together.
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It helps those who are going to write it off as a business expense if the name sounds professional.
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Off the top I have to say that the conferences will be a lot less of a draw without WMW for their sounding board.
You think so? I just finished up with Pubcon and so many of the people here either have no clue what WMW is or they remember it from years ago, but haven't posted there in years. It's not like years ago where you put your WMW nick on your name tag and everyone there knew who you were.... for good or ill.
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Wonder what the mods cut will be ;D.?
Don't complain or we'll make you Mod the Google forum during an algo change!
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>I just finished up with Pubcon and so many of the people here either have no clue what WMW is or they remember it from years ago, but haven't posted there in years.
I think that is it exactly: WmW is more of a PITA for Tabke than something that helps the cause. Now that Pubcon is his breadwinner, he can devote all resources to taking care of that.
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>You think so?
I guess that's just me thinking it was 10 years ago. I haven't paid any attention to pubcon in a long time. Still, doesn't the event need a sounding board?
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>doesn't the event need a sounding board?
That's my thinking. It certainly did back when. I'm assuming that BT and Boykin have worked out some sort of cross-promotional deal in advance but even if they have I'm guessing that a lot of the other places that now promote pubcon vegas do so with an eye to the size of the forum membership. Separating them makes the continuation of that free 3rd-party promotion dicey after a year or two. This year will be fine but it'll eventually dawn on everyone that there was a split.
>mods/pay
That was the original plan, yes.
>write it off as a business expense if the name sounds professional.
This was a problem from the gitgo --one that just got bigger as the event grew. But keep in mind that we were 99.9% independent BH spammers in the early days and didn't need approval by corporate expense managers. BARconference in Irvine had even more negative impact from the name.
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Interesting.
Beachcon, count me in. We've done a fair share of smaller and larger private cons around the world.
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Beachcon - would there be a th3core VIP area?
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As far as I know, WITS still runs. It's Keith Hazeldens gig, I think
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>Beachcon - would there be a th3core VIP area?
It's ONLY a Core VIP gig. ;-)
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Hm, seems a strange time to be adding forums - thought these were generally suffering post Panda/Penguin?
And three forums with such a potential overlap? Sounds like overkill and a headache running them as separate entities and more so if he ever considers merging them.
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>suffering
I know I never see WmW in the serps anymore and I've been doing some deep searching the last few weeks on mobile web design and scripts. 18 months ago and prior on similar searches -particularly for the scripts- WmW would invariably be on the first page somewhere.
That said, I think Boykins is just setting up a network to harvest potential clients and the old forums will still probably do that.
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I have no idea what Boykin's current setup is like but maybe he feels he needs a community to counter seomoz.
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It's probably a good move for the site itself as Brett was never around much the past few years. It'll be interesting to see what direction it goes, as it's not like the members of the past will go flocking back... and the competition from seomoz, and places like stack overflow is pretty fierce.
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Would Jim be around much, really?
And surely nobody here believes in him just implementing a childhood dream of owning all the old forums? :)
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I wonder if he's made a bid on syndk8 yet ;D 8) :P
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>stackoverflow
Good point. I see that one in the top 5 serps all the time now.
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WITS was mooted for a return. The last one I remember was Spain a few years ago.
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So did anyone hear about a sales price yet?
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I wonder if he's made a bid on syndk8 yet ;D 8) :P
That would have been a bit too cheeky of him :)