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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hey Everyone,<br>
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Just a quick obvious comment.. it is pretty interesting that the
pattern seems to be the same year after year.<br>
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I may be wrong, but thinking about it, there may be a
who-else-is-going factor. Once people hear others they
like/respect/want to talk to will be there, they sign up too.
Giving people the option to let others know they're attending, in
addition to social media & person to person, might be
beneficial.<br>
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A<br>
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On 23/09/15 18:40, Eli Adam wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">I really like ideas being floated about explaining the value of early
registration, and providing extra non-financial rewards to attract early
registration.
Maybe even have a way for people to provide an early indication that they
plan to come, but the payment is in the company payment system. Eg: Pay $20
reservation by (early bird + X weeks). (We expect this will be covered
personally). The $20 will provide you with preferential treatment to
accommodation, t-shirt, workshop, whatever we decide to offer these people.
Later, the person's employer will pay the conference attendance. This will
give organisations an early indication of expected number of attendees.
I've updated the graph of the Seoul metrics further to break out
international and local registrations.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BpkO5WOFQ_DZEWNMLj_hAhEre0m0io_j-JGf7geAW5Y/edit#gid=57">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BpkO5WOFQ_DZEWNMLj_hAhEre0m0io_j-JGf7geAW5Y/edit#gid=57</a>
International registrations spike during early bird, then slowly but
steadily increased. This is in line with metrics from prior conferences.
Local registrations spike about a month before the event. It appears there
was a successful publicity campaign or similar resulting in lots of
registrations? Maybe the LOC can enlighten us.
For prior years, where we have metrics for local attendees, we do see many
late local registrations, although Seoul appears to have had an unusually
late spike.
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For 2014 in Portland, email blasts, blog posts, and some other
publicity actions each gave our registrations noticeable increases.
Darrell or someone else on the LOC who was paying attention to
registrations might have a better idea and more information. Mostly I
was working with a few others generating and sending emails and not
paying attention to registrations other than Darrell would say that
the emails work and to do another.
Eli
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Cheers, Cameron
On 23/09/2015 5:06 am, Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting OSGeo.nl wrote:
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Three more thoughts:
1. For SME's (and larger companies) it might be useful to make 1 or more
non-personal reservations.
A lot of SME's know long in advance that they will send 1, 2 or even 3
three
participants to FOSS4G, but will decide just shortly before the conference
who exactly these 1,2, 3 lucky ones are.
2. Explain to the audience why we use the early bird discount principle.
That might persuade people to register early. Not because of the discount
itself, but because of the "kickstarter-like<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ideabehindit.3.Letparticipantexplain(ontheregistrationform)howtheyheardaboutFOSS4G.That'sduringtheregistrationmonthsalreadyvaluableforFOSS4G-2016itself,andofcoursealsofornextFOSS4Gs.Regards,Gert-Jan-----Oorspronkelijkbericht-----Van:conference_dev-bounces@lists.osgeo.org[mailto:conference_dev-bounces@lists.osgeo.org]NamensGert-JanvanderWeijdenVerzonden:dinsdag22september201516:03Aan:conference_dev@lists.osgeo.orgOnderwerp:Re:[OSGeo-Conf]InvitationtohearyourwisdomaboutFOSS4G2015SamegoesfortheBaseCamphostel:alotofpeepleseemveryenthousiastaboutthiswonderfulplacetostay,andthenumberofplaces(120)hereislimitedaswell(althoughIrealizeit'sabitcomplicatedtomakeapackagedealoftheFOSS4GregistrationandtheBaseCampregistration)IalsolikeSteven'ssuggestiontodoa">" idea behind it.
3. Let participant explain (on the registration form) how they heard about
FOSS4G. That's during the registration months already valuable for
FOSS4G-2016 itself, and of course also for next FOSS4Gs.
Regards,
Gert-Jan
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[mailto:conference_dev-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] Namens Gert-Jan van der
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Onderwerp: Re: [OSGeo-Conf] Invitation to hear your wisdom about FOSS4G
2015
Same goes for the BaseCamp hostel: a lot of peeple seem very enthousiast
about this wonderful place to stay, and the number of places (120) here is
limited as well (although I realize it's a bit complicated to make a
package
deal of the FOSS4G registration and the BaseCamp registration)
I also like Steven's suggestion to do a "</a>buy 2, get 1 extra for half
price"
discount (or similar "enterprise-discounts").
Regards,
Gert-Jan
Steven Feldman <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:shfeldman@gmail.com"><shfeldman@gmail.com></a> schreef:
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<pre wrap="">Good idea
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Steven
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<pre wrap="">On 22 Sep 2015, at 12:58, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:b.j.kobben@utwente.nl">b.j.kobben@utwente.nl</a> wrote:
Hi all,
Seeing that workshops are usually popular, and place is actually
limited, this seems to me an obvious candidate for getting people in
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early.
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Something like "discounted workshops if booking before date x", or
"popular workshop y only available for early bookers"...
Barend
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On 22-09-15 13:33, <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:till.adams@fossgis.de">"till.adams@fossgis.de"</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:till.adams@fossgis.de"><till.adams@fossgis.de></a>
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<pre wrap="">Hi Steven,
your thoughts were exact ours ;-)
The idea with the special benefit is the one that also came to my mind.
We'll think about that - I think we are planning lots of
side-activities, so thism ight be a suitable way.
Regards, Till
Am 2015-09-22 13:10, schrieb Steven Feldman:
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The challenge is to provide some real incentives for early
registration - price seems the obvious one but it creates 2
problems either you discount price levels to such a low level that
you might lose money on early bird delegates or you artificially
increase the price of non early birds to create the differential
and discourage late bookers. Neither is ideal.
One lesson from both past FOSS4Gs and other events is not to extend
the early bird deadline, this results in a loss of confidence in
any limited offers and encourages the expectation that there will
be further extensions so there is no need to book early. If an
event needs to offer an incentive after the early bird has expired
there are several other ways to offer a similar (but slightly
smaller discount) e.g. book for 2 or more delegates and get x%
discount off second delegate
Maybe a better option is to offer some other benefits to early birds?
Limited t-shirt? A free day of workshops? Privileged access to
something?
______
Steven
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