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<br class=""><div style=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 22 Sep 2015, at 12:58, <a href="mailto:b.j.kobben@utwente.nl" class="">b.j.kobben@utwente.nl</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">Hi all,<br class=""><br class="">Seeing that workshops are usually popular, and place is actually limited,<br class="">this seems to me an obvious candidate for getting people in early.<br class="">Something like "discounted workshops if booking before date x", or<br class="">"popular workshop y only available for early bookers"...<br class=""><br class="">Barend<br class=""><br class="">--<br class="">Barend Köbben<br class="">Senior Lecturer ITC-University of Twente<br class="">PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede (Netherlands)<br class="">@barendkobben<br class=""><a href="http://www.itc.nl/geoinformatics" class="">http://www.itc.nl/geoinformatics</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">On 22-09-15 13:33, "till.adams@fossgis.de" <till.adams@fossgis.de> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Hi Steven,<br class=""><br class="">your thoughts were exact ours ;-)<br class=""><br class="">The idea with the special benefit is the one that also came to my mind.<br class="">We'll think about that - I think we are planning lots of<br class="">side-activities, so thism ight be a suitable way.<br class=""><br class="">Regards, Till<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Am 2015-09-22 13:10, schrieb Steven Feldman:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">The challenge is to provide some real incentives for early<br class="">registration - price seems the obvious one but it creates 2 problems<br class="">either you discount price levels to such a low level that you might<br class="">lose money on early bird delegates or you artificially increase the<br class="">price of non early birds to create the differential and discourage<br class="">late bookers. Neither is ideal.<br class=""><br class="">One lesson from both past FOSS4Gs and other events is not to extend<br class="">the early bird deadline, this results in a loss of confidence in any<br class="">limited offers and encourages the expectation that there will be<br class="">further extensions so there is no need to book early. If an event<br class="">needs to offer an incentive after the early bird has expired there<br class="">are<br class="">several other ways to offer a similar (but slightly smaller discount)<br class="">e.g. book for 2 or more delegates and get x% discount off second<br class="">delegate<br class=""><br class="">Maybe a better option is to offer some other benefits to early birds?<br class="">Limited t-shirt? A free day of workshops? Privileged access to<br class="">something?<br class=""><br class=""> ______<br class="">Steven<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>