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I’ve been to many a MegaCon in the past but never drove a pedicab during the event before. I arrived fairly early on Friday. The rides were pretty consistent because there were so few pedicab drivers in the South Concourse parking lot. Only 3 of us when I got there. The weather was warm yet overcast. There weren’t hordes of people clogging up sidewalks. Traffic was light. It was a pretty easy day to work. There were 2 other conventions going on at the time: the Imprinted Sportswear Show (ISS) and the Magical Classic. The True Value Company convention had registration going on and was being setup at the time. I got a couple of rides for ISS and the response was the same: they wondered who the freaks were at MegaCon. They had no idea what it was, never heard of it, and didn’t know what to make of
Continue reading full article —-> My experience pedicab driving during MegaCon at the OCCC in Orlando, FL from 2/17-2/19/2012.
The first day of this convention was also the last day of the Builders’ Show convention. If not for this convention, it would have been a disaster of a day. This was the first time that I know and heard of that this convention took place in Orlando. Nobody knew what to expect since attendance numbers were pretty low. But since it was realtors, and they have money, and their website promoted this as being something big, I had a good feeling this would be a lucrative convention and it very much was. While others were still focused on the Builders’ Show, I was focused on the Keller show and was getting rides pretty consistently for a few hours for both. Others were complaining that they weren’t getting rides, not making money, and nothing was going on and some of them left early. They just weren’t where they needed
Continue reading full article —-> My experience pedicab driving at the Keller Williams Family Reunion convention at the OCCC in Orlando, FL from 2/11-2/12/2012.
This was anticipated to be a large convention, larger than the PGA, but it wasn’t. As the convention went on, I heard complaints from other drivers and attendees that there weren’t as many people and it wasn’t nearly as busy as years past. This was my first time working one that I can recall. I can confirm from being on my pedicab that the parking lots and garages weren’t all that full. There were people taking rides but not consistently. And the aisles of the exhibition floor weren’t all that full of people walking around, either. Yet, with all those things in place, from a pedicab perspective, it was still lucrative. It just wasn’t as lucrative as any of us wanted it to be because we compared it to the PGA convention which had less people announced. The first day of that versus the first day of this was
Continue reading full article —-> My experience pedicab driving at the International Builders’ Show convention at the OCCC in Orlando, FL from 2/8-2/11/2012.
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