[Deptheads] Re: Moving the Convention

[Robert Lionheart]

While LA is a gamer wasteland, I do not know if that is equally true for the Valley and South Bay.   We need to look at demographics, population numbers and game stores to know if going to the OC is best. 
   
  I am not negative on it, but we need to do research.   LAX is very central for LA / Valley / SB.  If we do move, we will lose known attendees in exchange for the hope of more future new attendees.   Bird in the hand vs. two in the bush... 
   
  BTW, I have posted our marketing blurbs on IE gaming forums on Yahoo and I have gotten emails for IE gamers who have been very positive on Strategicon and do attend. 

  - R
   
  
DB <noldor at gmail.com> wrote:
  I’d love to see data on how many folks actually fly into LAX to attend the con as opposed to driving in from out of town.  If the number isn’t significant, moving the con east towards IE wouldn’t be a bad idea.

As far as I’m concerned, L.A. proper is a wasteland for gamers and the con should move closer to suburban areas where gamers are at.  

But barring that — john, how do propose we appeal to the IE crowd?  Strategicon disenfranchised a lot of people in the ‘90s — the IE folk are on a lengthy list.


On 2/14/08 11:09 PM, "Evil5757 at aol.com" <Evil5757 at aol.com> wrote:

  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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