By Guest Author Greg Niland:

Pubcon has a lot of great speakers and a wide variety of sessions that will help you with Internet marketing. Every night there are also great parties to dance, drink or just people watch at. Neither of those two things are my favorite part of Pubcon. My favorite and most profitable part of Pubcon is :

MEETING PEOPLE

Forums enable us to communicate and share information with others everyday. It is 110% better when you personally meet someone. You can build up trust and talk more freely. Often people are more open to collaboration after they have met face-to-face.

HOW DO YOU MEET PEOPLE?
If you are shy (even if you are not shy) a good way to network, make friends and find future business partners is to contact people that have posted good information online. If you have seen someone post a really good post, then you should sticky mail them & congratulate them. Also ask if they are attending Pubcon and if they would like to meet up for a drink (your treat to thank them for sharing helpful information ).

By first contacting via email you do not need to approach anonymous people in a bar. Also you can be sure to have at least one friendly face who will probably introduce you to five more friendly people and quickly you will be surrounded by smart, fun people.

VETERANS TAKE NOTE
If you are an old hand at this and already know a lot of people then take it to the next level. Contact some of your old acquaintances and schedule a sit down meal with them. This has helped me launch many profitable business partnerships.

Also by prescheduling some private meetings it helps guarantee that you will be able to meet up in a setting that you will be able to talk about sensitive details. It's fun to talk at the parties but you can make a lot more progress when you are meeting privately in a quite place.

See ya in Vegas

Greg Niland
GoodROI Consulting
http://www.goodroi.com