New Orleans Strip Clubs: Joe Sharkey: A new meetings industry emerges from the ashes
February 7, 2010
His company will do about 1,000 virtual events this year, he said. “We’re digitalizing the expo event,” he added.
The home page of Strickland’s website, expos2.com, opens with a physical layout of a convention center, with links to programs and exhibits. Navigation is as simple as the virtual home tours that real estate sellers use to display a house. Lectures and presentations are live and interactive, but also can be archived. Costs to mount or attend an exhibition are a small fraction of a physical event.
Ah, but what about those after-hours parties? “I actually had someone say to me, ‘If you keep all those sales people from going to conventions in Las Vegas, how are they going to go to strip clubs?’ ” he said. “I simply didn’t have an answer for that.”
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