You know, I was pleasantly surprised by many things at this, the inagural Georgia Dive Show.
1) LOTS of vendors. I saw lots of "old friends" and met quite a few more.
2) A steady flow of visitors, right up to the end. Many shows start breaking down right after lunch. You couldn't do that here. As with any show, we could use more visitors and there were some conspicuous absenses. Gary Gentile commented how he sold more books in the last few hours than all of Saturday.
3) Most vendors want to return. There was one guy at his booth with his MP3 ear buds in. When I finally got his attention to ask him how the show was going, he complained about no one stopping by. I had to laugh... so many walked by because they saw he wasn't interested.
4) This was BY FAR the easiest show on the vendors. CRIKEY! I think I walked less than 30 feet from my hotel room to my booth!
5) People really liked our Internet Cafe' booth. That, or they were too polite to laugh at us to our faces!
6) It was incredibly intimate. Visitors got to talk with the vendors and quite often the good conversations became a crowd as they all probed the vendor with their queries. Of course, I got to see a LOT of the vendors at the Hotel bar at night and that was awesomely kewl.