Re: [AGA-mcm] Re: AGA convention 2K5

["S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>]

Erik makes a very good point. Sometimes the pricing from
the hotel requires either exhorbitant registration fees
(which no one will pay) or a high volume of attendees. With
the deal in Dallas, we had a lot of leeway in terms of
turnout but DC was much more demanding. Do SF hotels have
an "off" season? If so, I'm thinking Nov might be in it.

Hotel pricing pretty much fixes location, dates,
registration and banquet pricing, and the nunmber of
registrants necessary to ensure a financial breakeven.

A decent turnout probably needs several months of repeated
marketing announcements -- each announcement seems to bring
a few more folks off the fence and into the convention. So
even though no specific deadline was established this year,
still, if a hotel deal isn't worked out before March, imo,
serious thought should be given to 2006. 18 months might be
just the right amount of time to plan and execute a
convention. Seven months is certainly a squeeze.

sh
--- Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com> wrote:

> 
> What's your timetable Tom?  We're getting kinda close
> (really we've 
> already gone over by several months) this year's
> deadline, and unless 
> things are sketched out in the next month, it might be
> better to shoot for 
> 2006 than 2005 if you want to have any promotion.  (If
> the budget allows 
> for a small convention, then you might be OK though. 
> Definitely would not 
> have worked for DC.)


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author of the best current authoritative text on aquatic plants 
will be a featured speaker at 
The Northeast Council of Aquarium Societies 30th Annual Convention.
March 18-20, 2005 at the Marriott Hotel, Farmington, CT
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