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Answer To “How’s The Show For You?” Question That I Was Asked 10 Times Yesterday

Above is the question I’ve heard the most times during the past few days in particular. But if I real-time search my memory for the most frequently fielded query during a longer period of the past several weeks, I think it’s from other people who are trying to make various other business endeavors succeed, and they’ve been asking, with hope, something like whether I “feel things picking up in the market?”

Many of those who’ve asked about experiences in the economy have indicated that they themselves are rebounding and looking forward to more developments. Market7 is doing fine, adding impressive new customers at a good pace and steadily building revenues. But nothing’s been too steep, and the growth has felt more organic than environmental.

But maybe my perception’s changed to greater economic robustness during the past few days at the Streaming Media West event in San Jose.

I started to work on what’s now Market7 during 2006, so this year’s is my fourth consecutive Streaming Media West in this capacity. I believe that the number of exhibitors has more than doubled during that span. And this year a new development was having to navigate around people having conversations in the aisles. Not even exhibiting, and there more for partnering with vendors than for selling to prospects, Market7 scored two new customers.

So my answers to question are: the show was a good one for me; and I think I am now starting to feel things pick up in the market.