Where are the majority of your snakes from?
Do you get a lot from shows where you can hand pick in person, or do you like to buy online because the local pickings aren't so diverse. Do you do a lot of dealing with just a few friends, or did you start with a couple snakes and everything else is holdbacks? Do you take advantage of casual facebook auctions and the like, or are you a pioneer buying wild caught animals?
I wonder if selling online or at shows is more fruitful. For me to even guess, I'd have to know if more people go to shows with real intent to buy new breeding stock, or use the convenience of the internet for more than just window-shopping.
I personally don't live close to any real good shows, so I imagine I will have to pick up more uncommon morphs online. However, once I have space and revenue ready to expand my collection, I plan to pick up things that are not ball pythons in person (perhaps take a couple grand to Tinley Park in 5 years, yeah?) so I can evaluate them myself.