Louis,
I really don’t have time to play this game with you whereby you are churning up mud and make misleading statements to your readers here, but I feel the need to help you with your understanding of the situation, yet again.
Please let this soak in once and for all …. iCAfma.org is NOT the organizer of this event. It belongs to the River City Group.
RCG is doing just nicely. The attendee list is growing a pace and already way more than your group of affiliates. There is no trouble with the selection of speakers either. The audience will be well catered for.
Furthermore, a few emails to the organizer last week, and one this morning, asking when I can give her a call, does not exactly constitute a “siege”. I was merely trying to reach out to her and suggest a few ways your group can be better catered for, within the overall GIGSE event. Sadly, she was unable to take my call.
Why was I trying to reach Dominque? (Certainly not to grovel or “to help save the RCG show” as you state. How would you know? Are you privy to the RCG planning information?)
The reason I was reaching out to your group is to try and salvage some of the mess you have created. Not for the sake of RCG, iCAfma.org or anything else, EXCEPT for the good face of affiliate marketing in general. Due to this irrational and unprofessional behavior of straddling an existing casino industry event, you certainly have not made any friends at River City Group. In fact, I would not be at all surprised if Sue Schneider does not ever touch affiliate marketing with a barge pole again. I can’t say I blame her at all.
Don’t you see what a great opportunity has been lost here? To get the casino revenue share business model into the limelight at GIGSE and give it the recognition it deserves. I’m surprised that a man with your intelligence did not sit and think this through. You have caused a blow to the affiliate marketing industry that will take a while to repair.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m happy for you that your gathering is going to be a hearty one. However, I fear that with this sort of clique behavior and “we are so important” attitude, all your efforts have achieved is perhaps to sooth your own egos.
All the best with your event. Please have the good manners to leave Sue Schneider in peace, as she strives to serve the casino affiliate marketing industry, by opening the door for it at GIGSE.
Thanks for your understanding.
Herby