Re: [AGA SC] Fwd: Reg Fees -- change horses?

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

I talked with Kathy last night about this.  My opinion is that we should 
stick to the original guns and close the early-bird thing at 50.  Or 
ASAP, if it's already at 50 (it was at 41 last night before I went to 
bed).  For one thing, saying "the first 50 people all registered in the 
first 2 days" makes it very clear that this is going to be a BIG 
convention, and becomes a great promo vehicle.  I think we've accomplished 
what we set out to do with the early bird program, which was to prove that 
we could pull in enough people to seed the treasaury and show that there 
was interest.  And we will have met half out "minimum" for attendance.  
Which is pretty darn cool.

  - Erik

On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, S. Hieber wrote:

> I think that's a very insightful assessment.
> 
> With what we have so far, I'm very confident we will draw
> at least well and probably much better than last year. So
> I'm confident that we'll break even financially. So I thin
> we should let the price go up to $59 at 50.
> 
> Btw, Those waiting for the last minute (actually the last
> week and a half) to register will have to pay $20 extra
> this year. And they might not get to buy  a Banq after Oct
> 31.
> 
> 
> sh
> 
> 
> 
> --- Karen Randall <krandall@rdrcpa.biz> wrote:
> > I suspect that after an initial surge, registrations are
> > going to slow way
> > down.  Hopefully they will continue to trickle in over
> > the next few months.
> > But the fast response so far only means to me that these
> > people were already
> > waiting there, money in hand, for registrations to open
> > up.  Most of them
> > are not only NOT new members, but they are people who
> > have attended previous
> > concentions.  IOW, we're preaching to the choir.
> > 
> > OTOH, I feel SLIGHTLY bad (not much, but slightly<g>)
> > that in all
> > likelihood, there are people who have not yet even seen
> > the notice that
> > registration is opne, who could miss their chance on the
> > discount.
> > 
> > I guess I could easily be convinced not to extend the
> > discount at all.  BUT
> > if we did want to extend it, in the hopes of feeling a
> > little MORE secure by
> > getting the numbers as high as possible as early as
> > possible, you could do a
> > middle-of-the road thing, by extending it not by a
> > certain number of people,
> > but to a certain date. (say April 15, just for argument
> > sake)
> > 
> > I do think that one thing tha will happen once the
> > discount period is over
> > is taht people will have NO incentive to register early,
> > and might,
> > therefore wait until the last minute.  Which probably
> > isn't the end of the
> > world... it has happened in the past.  But it makes for
> > more nervousness
> > among convention planners.<g>
> > 
> > Karen
> > 
> 
> 
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> S. Hieber
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