That's kind of sad, when you think about it. It's like it is the responsibility of the customer to offer free business consulting to someone selling a product so their business remains viable.

Usually the free market model is the customer votes by simply purchasing a different product and the vendor must ASK the customer why, do their own research, or hire someone to tell them what they are doing wrong.

The sad thing in the case of advisor is if they'd just listen to you, Andrew, Ceil or any of their writers who are in touch with the community - or for that matter just post a simple message on UT asking people why they *didn't* go to DevCon (or if they'd go to the next one) they could figure it out.

I certainly wish Advisor and Advisor Devcon well, but in reality I think if they don't proactively work on solving their problem Whilfest and KC will eat their lunch.

More content, less money, more compact and economical venue. It's that easy.


>>Seems it would be Advisor's responsibility to figure this out. Wasn't Hawkins actually there? Doesn't he look at the attendance numbers? Doesn't he wonder why?
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>>Do the people who plan advisor devcon have the good sense to ask people like you and Andrew?
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>You may be right, but you guys are the customers. A flood of messages asking for DevCon in a less expensive, easier to justify venue will mean a lot more than me and Andrew saying it (and we have).
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>Tamar