[Deptheads] Re: Moving the Convention

[Evil5757 at aol.com]

A big reason for IE not showing up at GenCon was because very few had free  
passes.  I know one store in South OC that gave away 50 free  passes for GC 
SoCal that they were given to bring attendance up.  IE stores  didn't get any (if 
so, very few).
 
Honestly, I really feel the reason IE people don't do Strategicon is  because 
Strategicon abandoned them.  There was no real effort to include IE  in the 
mix.  All expansion was aimed at Long Beach, OC, everywhere along  the coast 
where the main stockholders lived.  We need to give them a reason  to drive 70 
plus miles to pay to come to our conventions.
 
At this point, most IE people have other things planned for our weekends  
because it's their "program."  We need to give them a reason to break out  of 
their "program" and come and try us out.  It will need to be a targeted  campaign 
to be sure, but the GT event WILL have IE attendees, hopefully bringing  back 
word of what we are doing.
 
John
 
In a message dated 2/13/2008 4:18:55 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
spinachcat at yahoo.com writes:

Also, OC has a bad history for cons.   Games University was a  really nice 
little con and most of the people I saw there were the same people  who came to 
our events.   Also, OC/IE did not turn out in  droves for GenCon SoCal. 
 
- Robert
 



 



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