Just to be clear about my involvement with the Experience shows

[Mikey P]

Vendors and cleaners alike have been asking if I'll be participating in the upcoming Experience shows this year. My involvement outside with the truckmounts, the auctions and some classes, I've been told over and over, were the highlight of the show for many. Now after 5 shows joint ventures, two back east and 3 in Vegas, Larry Cooper and I are no longer doing business with one another.
I enjoyed my time working with "The Big Show" but it's time for me to focus on my Fests more and making my small, some one say "grass roots", shows even better.
My plans are to do two events a year with a summer/fall and a winter gathering.
Expect charitable cleanings, real user truckmounts instead of empty show trucks, demo cleanings at our venue and educational seminars lead by movers and shakers.
This coming October we'll be in Scottsdale AZ where we'll clean three more Ronald McDonald houses and have two additional days of demos and classes. Featuring Mark Saiger, Joel Riggs, Bryan Thomson, Ryan Kettering, the Amazing Adam Hale and many many more great speakers, vendors and cleaning superheros.
Stay very tuned...

 

[Desk Jockey]

Who are you again?

Ohh yeah, you're Monique's dad.

I like the grassroots much better. All the MB crew in one place, its just too cool!

Thanks Mike I know you work many thankless hours doing this!

 

[Bob Pruitt]

In time... Mikey's Fest will be the big show.

 

[PrimaDonna]

In time... Mikey's Fest will be the big show.

I hope not. Something about the intimacy we have at these events. And not a big sales expo.

Some day it will be THE show of shows.

 

[hogjowl]

See? I told y'all there was no way he wrote that thing Pemberton was bragging on him about.

 

[Old Coastie]

If it is any comfort, I am not attending the Experience either.

Solidarity!

(of course I don't get to go to Fests either...)

 

[Cleanworks]

Going to Mikey's Fest in Vegas was quite the Experience.

 

[Desk Jockey]

 

[Mikey P]

Going to Mikey's Fest in Vegas was quite the Experience.

that was not a MF Ron...

 

[Cleanworks]

that was not a MF Ron...

See, I'm learning all the time. Looking to a real MF.

 

[BIG WOOD]

Im looking forward for my first visit to Arizona to be an awesome one

 

[Desk Jockey]

I love Phoenix that Valley is beautiful...well until it rains.

 

[Onfire_02_01]

I was wondering about that.
Ah well, it was fun meeting you at last years expierence. Hopefully I will see you and saiger again sometime.

 

[Jimmy L]

Not a place for women to go to..............leave them home

 

[darcie smith]

Not a place for women to go to..............leave them home

I'll stay home if you're going, Jimmy

 

[amygeorge]

I am on record somewhere in this massive forum board, that I never liked replacing the smaller MF's with the The Experience show venue. Not the same - now way! However, the MF area did improve the show by leaps and bounds for the cleaners attending. They will miss it. Their loss is our gain. Plus, it gets me out of Texas more often.

 

[Mikey P]

I was wondering about that.
Ah well, it was fun meeting you at last years expierence. Hopefully I will see you and saiger again sometime.

You make it sound like you wouldn't come to a MF, or am I reading this wrong?

 

[darcie smith]

You make it sound like you wouldn't come to a MF, or am I reading this wrong?

When are you doing the MikeysFest Cruise? Cause I'd be totally into that. Those boats need cleaned, too.

 

[Mikey P]

In two weeks actually...

 

[darcie smith]

In two weeks actually...

That doesn't give the rest of us enough time to book. Mikey, Mikey...

 

[PrimaDonna]

Cruise would be awesome. Let's get on that (Howard Partridge style. Seems like something he'd do. ).

 

[Desk Jockey]

Maybe the IICRC would foot the bill? We might have to be on the board to get the free pass. I hear they've been doing it for years.

I've paid my dues for decades. I think it would be a nice perk!

 

[hogjowl]

Ain't no way I'm getting on a boat with you idiots.

I couldn't leave early when y'all start getting on my nerves!

 

[Sierra Clean Care]

In time... Mikey's Fest will be the big show.

The show...... Every industry has one,I am into audio..... I plan on attending 'the show' in Munich Germany........

 

[Mikey P]

Ain't no way I'm getting on a boat with you idiots.

I couldn't leave early when y'all start getting on my nerves!

Im sure you'd be tossed overboard before that ever happened.

 

[GreenTechAgain]

Sorry I missed the recent MF in Clearwater. I hope that it comes around again soon and I can plan on being there.

So I guess I'm still sort of a Newbie on MB, but to be honest the whole agenda for MF was vague. Was part of the reason for me missing it.

When I go the Experience in Clearwater I really don't plan on it because it is so local. I just sorta drop in if I have time.

Wasn't too sure if I could have just done that at MF in Clearwater, or if I needed a ticket?

Yeah, talking to people who are owner/operators and who actually own the equipment is a big difference over just talking to a sales person/rep for the company.

 

[Onfire_02_01]

You make it sound like you wouldn't come to a MF, or am I reading this wrong?

No offense intended but probably not. The expierence in Las Vegas has a better total package draw for me. Bring MF to Minneapolis and I am there; hell I will even help you plan it.

 

[Mikey P]

Weren't you the guy complaining that you were bored stiff at the last Experience after a day?

 

[Mikey P]

Sorry I missed the recent MF in Clearwater. I hope that it comes around again soon and I can plan on being there.

So I guess I'm still sort of a Newbie on MB, but to be honest the whole agenda for MF was vague. Was part of the reason for me missing it.

When I go the Experience in Clearwater I really don't plan on it because it is so local. I just sorta drop in if I have time.

Wasn't too sure if I could have just done that at MF in Clearwater, or if I needed a ticket?

Yeah, talking to people who are owner/operators and who actually own the equipment is a big difference over just talking to a sales person/rep for the company.

Correct, MB is a fluid event from beginning to end.

Just dropping in will leave you confused.


We should be back in Florida next year

 

[Onfire_02_01]

Weren't you the guy complaining that you were bored stiff at the last Experience after a day?

Don't think so? Might have wanted someone to have fun with, but always something to do.