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Way back when we promoted up and down that our industry could and should have its own show... after countless posts claiming it could never be done, there wasn't enough vendors, our industry wasn't big enough, we could never generate enough revenue to support our own show, or whatever... who said it would never work that we didn't have enough vendors. Who said that because I think it is time to finally step up and say YUP I WAS WRONG!
Did anyone see this page here: http://www.twevite.com/vr2/shows/hkit12/start.html
This show is now pushing 250 vendors and I'll bet next year it will go over 300. I also remember everyone trying to compare this show to other haunt shows saying they had more vendors or blah, blah, blah... I think now we can all admit this was the best thing that ever happened for the haunted house industry.
I just wish sometimes the naysayers would at least step up and admit when they got it wrong. Eat some crow baby! I personally remember people lined up two miles long blasting me telling me I was a moron for even thinking any of this was possible. I remember people saying they would never go... but now not only does everyone go we are seeing people we never knew existed
I remember saying there was more than monsters and masks that if we had our own show we'd attract other types of business that want to sell to us which would grow the show... I think we got like 5 different ticketing companies, to companies selling ATM machines, to heck people selling cameras to help you with facebook. I can only say I'm more proud of myself and those who didn't listen to all those people who blasted the idea for months.
Let me tell you guys something the same people who don't believe you can do anything you want are the same ones who can't seem to grown their business.. you don't gain anything without taking risks, having a lot of confidence in what you do, and then you can achieve anything. The honest to God's truth is that TW themselves didn't even really believe this was going to take off... but those who did and pushed for this deserve some respect and appreciation for doing what was right for the whole industry.
Now we'll see companies offering you more unique products than ever before... see our industry is better than you thought and no one can deny that now.
Four years later the show is getting bigger, and becoming the event that we can all be proud of so much so that St. Louis City hangs banners up and down the street.
This isn't some small show anymore... this is a major league event!
People can say whatever they want about me, all I know is I was right about this show, about national public relations program, and many other things that associations to groups of people tried to do everything they could to work against me on. Well I'm pretty happy that this industry has a show that is running with the big dogs, that attracts companies like Universal, Six Flags, to anything and everything between.
The world knows about our industry now and it's time for you to push your event to the next level, take advantage of this show and make it work for your benefit!
The one thing I'm going to tell EVERYONE is if you listen to idiots you will fail, if you listen to those morons who always huddle together and conspire against people like myself you limit yourself to only what is right in front of you. My whole entire life I have never accepted second best, the notion you couldn't do something, and have never listened to those who doubt me. I do what I believe in and support what I think is right... and I've NEVER been afraid to fail. You have to reach for your goals and through this years show you can put yourself on that path. Attend the seminars that make sense for you, talk to the people who respect, get as much information as you can, use it all and make it work for you and simply remember there was more people who doubted this would work than there was who thought it would. So what does that tell you?
It tells me this is just another example where we proved to those guys they were WRONG AGAIN! And fact is they will continue to be wrong for years to come while people like YOU pass them by on the road to excellence.
Larry
Did anyone see this page here: http://www.twevite.com/vr2/shows/hkit12/start.html
This show is now pushing 250 vendors and I'll bet next year it will go over 300. I also remember everyone trying to compare this show to other haunt shows saying they had more vendors or blah, blah, blah... I think now we can all admit this was the best thing that ever happened for the haunted house industry.
I just wish sometimes the naysayers would at least step up and admit when they got it wrong. Eat some crow baby! I personally remember people lined up two miles long blasting me telling me I was a moron for even thinking any of this was possible. I remember people saying they would never go... but now not only does everyone go we are seeing people we never knew existed
I remember saying there was more than monsters and masks that if we had our own show we'd attract other types of business that want to sell to us which would grow the show... I think we got like 5 different ticketing companies, to companies selling ATM machines, to heck people selling cameras to help you with facebook. I can only say I'm more proud of myself and those who didn't listen to all those people who blasted the idea for months.
Let me tell you guys something the same people who don't believe you can do anything you want are the same ones who can't seem to grown their business.. you don't gain anything without taking risks, having a lot of confidence in what you do, and then you can achieve anything. The honest to God's truth is that TW themselves didn't even really believe this was going to take off... but those who did and pushed for this deserve some respect and appreciation for doing what was right for the whole industry.
Now we'll see companies offering you more unique products than ever before... see our industry is better than you thought and no one can deny that now.
Four years later the show is getting bigger, and becoming the event that we can all be proud of so much so that St. Louis City hangs banners up and down the street.
This isn't some small show anymore... this is a major league event!
People can say whatever they want about me, all I know is I was right about this show, about national public relations program, and many other things that associations to groups of people tried to do everything they could to work against me on. Well I'm pretty happy that this industry has a show that is running with the big dogs, that attracts companies like Universal, Six Flags, to anything and everything between.
The world knows about our industry now and it's time for you to push your event to the next level, take advantage of this show and make it work for your benefit!
The one thing I'm going to tell EVERYONE is if you listen to idiots you will fail, if you listen to those morons who always huddle together and conspire against people like myself you limit yourself to only what is right in front of you. My whole entire life I have never accepted second best, the notion you couldn't do something, and have never listened to those who doubt me. I do what I believe in and support what I think is right... and I've NEVER been afraid to fail. You have to reach for your goals and through this years show you can put yourself on that path. Attend the seminars that make sense for you, talk to the people who respect, get as much information as you can, use it all and make it work for you and simply remember there was more people who doubted this would work than there was who thought it would. So what does that tell you?
It tells me this is just another example where we proved to those guys they were WRONG AGAIN! And fact is they will continue to be wrong for years to come while people like YOU pass them by on the road to excellence.
Larry
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