Re: [Fsfe-uk] Upcoming Exhibitions

[Phil Driscoll]

On Tuesday 04 February 2003 4:05 pm, Chris Puttick wrote:
> I've been and it's horrid - to get any attention you need a central stand,
> professionally turned out and plenty of slick sales people. Preferably then
> everything needs an enormous pricetag on it so the heads et al are
> impressed. You'd do better at NAACE  - which is tomorrow :-(
>
> BETT is just too much about money to get a look in unless someone with some
> cash (~£25k) is prepared to back the effort. IBM for tea anyone?

A friend of mine who until recently was managing director of one of the big 
shiny companies with a stand in the central area at BETT did a costing, and 
if you divided stand and staff costs by the opening hours of BETT, it cost 
them 3UKP per second to be there!
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Phil Driscoll