[Deptheads] Cross-Marketing with WyrdCon

[Dean Taylor]

Got it.  In my defense, their Wikipedia site refers to WyrdCon as a LARP
convention.  Still, I get defensive when people say Strategicon is just for
board games, so I'll watch my words.


On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Nekojin <nekojin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Please be VERY careful in how you approach Ira with this. He is very
> adamant that WyrdCon isn't a LARP convention, that it's a *storytelling*convention, and that LARP is merely one of many facets of storytelling.
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Dean Taylor <deanatay at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Strategicon has been weak on LARPs for most of the time I've been with
>> you (although our live staged theater events seem to be doing quite well).
>> Cross-promoting with a specialty LARP con like WyrdCon seems like it would
>> help both of us.  The Westin's only 2 blocks east of the Hilton, so people
>> could wander from one con to the other pretty easily.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Nekojin <nekojin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Polly and I went to Wyrdcon 3, and we were the ones who suggested to the
>>> Wyrdcon executives that a cross-promotion with us might be beneficial.
>>>
>>> A little backstory, if you haven't gotten this from them yet: They'd
>>> decided that their current hotel was simply too small for their convention
>>> to grow any further, so they started hunting for another hotel. They
>>> settled on the LAX Westin, but the only weekend that the Westin could give
>>> them was the Memorial Day weekend. They would rather NOT be on that
>>> weekend, since they're aware that puts them in conflict with... well,
>>> everything. But they needed to land the hotel first, and then start seeking
>>> for a better date for NEXT year.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Kryssie <phantom.hopscotch at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> I was contacted (along with Shawn) about cross-promotions with WyrdCon
>>>> during Gamex.
>>>>
>>>> I don't know what others' feelings on WyrdCon are, but it may be
>>>> something worth discussing and doing....
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Kryssie Mackey
>>>> Marketing Director
>>>> 310-766-9954
>>>> phantom.hopscotch at gmail.com
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