[Deptheads] Planning ahead

[Evil5757 at aol.com]

The best thing we can do to attract people away is ensure that our events  
are up as soon as possible. The first thing people compare when deciding 
what  convention to go to is "What is there to do?" With that in mind, we need 
to get  our events up quickly and COMPLETE WITH DESCRIPTIONS. Not everyone 
knows what is  involved in playing "Container," or "Malifaux," or whatever. 
We have too many  events listed for Gamex that are just day, time and title. 
As Karl said at the  meeting, it's easy to cut and paste descriptions and 
it's something we should be  doing for all events.
 
Show people we have more to do and they will choose us over them.
 
 
 
In a message dated 3/8/2011 10:33:00 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
ealdrich at apple.com writes:

We're  going to start something radical for us starting this con -- we're 
going to  plan ahead :-)

With that in mind. I want all special events/gusts set  in stone for Gamex 
by the end of this month. Then I want to focus on Gateway.  I want all the 
special events and guests arranged for Gateway by the week  before Gamex as I 
want to launch the Gateway advertising campaign AT  Gamex.

Why? Well, in case no one noticed we have THREE competing game  conventions 
running against us on Labor Day weekend in California. Conquest SF  is 
already advertising (it's essentially do or die for Mondo, so he's pulling  out 
all the stops), and Celesticon and SoCal Smackdown will step it up soon  
too. We've already lost a few things to the two northern cons, and with the  
competition up there we can expect few people making the trip south.

I  think we're up to the challenge, but I don't think it will be easy. 
Gateway  last year was a smashing success, but it's going to be a lot of work to 
equal  or surpass that. 

Eric

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Eric M. Aldrich I
Apple Core  Audio Engineering
Audio  Codecs




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