We were standing in line at Prosper with a guy who does $100 million in aggregate sales. You don’t meet someone like that on a cold call or on the street. If we can turn one or two contacts into customers, this trip pays for itself. Day one at Prosper Show was really promising. Through the show app we’ve been able to schedule a few dozen meetings, so that has worked well.

Last year’s Prosper changed our business in extremely beneficial ways. The consensus I’m hearing is that it’s been an excellent show—better than last year and I got 20 leads per week from the people I met here last year. Prosper is about the partnerships. We really enjoyed the SkyFall event, by the way. People are looking at Canada with its similar culture.

We’ve had good traffic and a decent number of qualified leads and conversations. Las Vegas is great.

Foot traffic has been constant with sincere customers and lots of curious people. We are getting specific questions from people who have never considered selling their business.

We are back as an exhibitor. We took a five-year break and it’s been a pretty successful show with many prospects. There’s been good quality content for sessions and the foot traffic here is engaged and serious. It would be nice to have sessions closer to the exhibit hall to make it even more convenient. You need a more distinctive color coding on the badges to quickly identify people. The show was also stingy with the coffee.