Richmondevents.com
So I just got back from the Richmondevents.com Super Cruise. I was planning on blogging live but I didn’t have wireless internet on the ship and instead I got to live like a normal human being without phone, fax or email. It was friggin amazing! I highly recommend detox’ing yourself. It’s refreshing.
The cruise itself was great. It was the CIO Forum, Marketing Forum, HR & Logistics Forums all rolled into one. The way Richmond works is the delegate (buyer) is free to attend as long as they have a multi-million dollar annual budget and the suppliers pay between $20,000-100,000 to be on the ship. The whole event is based around double optin one on one meetings so buyers get to meet suppliers they may want to work with and suppliers get 30-40 meetings with potential clients all once. It’s a super networking event. It also happened to have been the friendliest biz event I ever attended. Everyone was nice and friendly and just looking to make friends. Really cool environment. Also, the food was amazing and the hot tub very nice.
Richmond even ports in these lovely British chics to stand outside of rooms and look pretty (seriously). They are there to be eye candy. No good event is complete without trade show models with British accents. Did I say, I love British Accents.
To Roger, Joel, Shane and co…kudos on a great event. Also, the founder of Richmond, Marc looks like the head doctors on Scrubs.
Some interviews will follow in the next couple of days as I post them up…
