[Deptheads] Renaming the Cons

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The Grand PooBah has spoken.

My suggestion is that since nothing will happen until this autumn at the
earliest, let's put this renaming con issue to rest for right now.  We'll
revisit it after Labor Day.


On 2/22/08 1:50 PM, "Eric M. Aldrich I" <ealdrich at penguinlust.org> wrote:

> If we're going to change the name, it won't be this year.
> 
> Eric
> 
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 01:19:19PM -0800, Janice Sellers wrote:
>> On 2/22/08, Robert Lionheart <spinachcat at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> Would you have Winner OrcCon, Spring OrcCon and Fall OrcCon?
>> 
>> That's pretty much what I suggested, yes.  Except I put OrcCon before
>> the season, because the first word is what people notice more.  I also
>> suggested OrcCon and the name of the weekend.
>> 
>>> GameCon was a weak name.   ManaCon was good during the Magic days and
>>> ConQuest's smartest move was to brand their events with the same name so
>>> they have ConQuest San Francisco, ConQuest Sacramento, ConQuest
>>> Northwest...except for their odd CruiseCon.
>> 
>> And let's not forget, ManaCon became KublaCon.  With ConQuest, they
>> started out with different names and then have come around to having
>> them all be ConQuest.  My first thought on why it's called CruiseCon
>> is because the whole emphasis there really is the cruise, not the
>> gaming.
>> 
>>> BTW, we might want to offer a full page ad trade.   If they give Gamex a
>>> full page in their Vegas con book, we trade for a full page to promote their
>>> Alaska CruiseCon which happens in July.
>> 
>> If we want to start doing this type of exchange and marketing the cons
>> more aggressively, we should probably resolve the naming thing first.
>> 
>> Janice
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