Re: [AGA-mcm] Convention 2005

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

--- Karen Randall <krandall@rdrcpa.biz> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I just got a call from the SF contingent... . . .
>  They want our 
> take on whether people will go to $120 for a much nicer
> location.

I tdon't think this is enough info to make a good judgement
on. But if the reg and banquet fees are close to or maybe
just under $100, there is free transport between
hotel/airport, and we have a strong star for speaker, then
$120 can work.

However, I think it's worth reminding ourselves that what
folks will spend depends also the reg and banquet fee. For
the most part, folks do reg *and* banquet so the total cost
needs to be considered.

If the hotel charges to the AGA are high enough, including
banquet costs, then reg and banquet fees will need to be
high to cover those. And what the reg and banquet fees will
be depends partly on the number of attendees. So one
probably has to go through the iterative process of
negotiating with the hotel, estimate possible attendances,
and then seeing how sensitive the numbers are to diff fees.
This is what we did the last two years to  get an idea of
what the break even attendance would be at diff fees ane
with diff hotel deals.

> The other thing they asked is if they could get the
> report from the 2004 
> convention.  I suspect that when they first asked for
> this, it wasn't 
> available.  But I think it's done now, right?  Can
> someone send it to them?


Report? GWAPA didn't need to show no stinkin' badges, uh
reports. Ivo supplied a "final" speadsheet based on the
budget spreadsheet I originally made while they were
developing their proposal. I made modifications to that and
Ivo made some corrections to the numbers he first reproted
after the convention. We can send them that (corrected)
"final" budget. We can also send the report on AGA2K3 that
I wrote.

sh
 
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