[Deptheads] Cross-Marketing with WyrdCon

Sat Jan 11 19:54:05 PST 2014

I haven't heard anything more from Brandi.  I'll ping her again.

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> On Jan 11, 2014, at 4:10 PM, Ryan McMullan <rmcmullan at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hey gang,
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> Has there been any progress in collaboration with WyrdCon?  I'm getting a lot of questions from my GMs about that as they look ahead to May.  Many of the GMs have said they prefer working with us, but their regular players prefer Wyrdcon.
> 
> Ryan
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>> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Victor B <fhoenix88 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I am all for cross-marketing and Ira at Wyrdcon is too. Kryssie  can work her magic with them to benefit us both.
>> But it is not because our LARPS our weak. Our main larp events rock. I have been contacted by hotel security at different times because of the noise from the larps bothering hotel guests. They overflow into the hallways- they had to. Some of the same people running events at Wyrdcon ran events at strategicon and had to stop because the Sheraton did not like them fighting with boffer weapons--so those events got stopped during that convention and were not added for future ones. We also had to cancel or disallow several LARP events because of lack of space for them.
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>> We have been at capacity for several cons and only way to add space for live-action events is to eliminate several other events. It isn't like adding 1 or 2 tables for a tabletop event---we have to add several rooms plus account for live action participation and noise. LARPs take up a lot of space....and prep time is huge when you have to section off a room, set up props and hand them out, npc coordinate, costuming and makeup, special effects, etc. A 4-hour larp will take 2 hours or longer prep and set-up and at least an hour teardown--longer if the event is far away from loading area since they cannot start setting up and unloading until they have the space to use. I still larp and run events and in order to run a line course or world course you need more space than we are currently giving them--and they are running multiple larps in the space 1 larp should run in and doing it bare bones on props. They are making due with the available space.  
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>> You really need an entire hotel layout to run several live-action games, transmedia games and ARGs (as well as space to run tabletop games and rpgs along with the larps). Radisson was great because it gave us the outside cabanas and lots of space outside for fighting. Westin was perfect for our larps there. I ran several larps events back in the day at the westion for strategicon (ifgs, etc). We had the patio area outside and sectioned it off with tarps and piping like a dungeon. Same thing done in small ballrooms for larp line courses. The Hilton will give us more space but still unless you are a larp con you aren't running more than 1 awesome big larp per day plus room larps and tavern games. I am proud of what the larpers accomplish at strategicon given the hand they are dealt--and they overflow Saturday night.
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>> We should always try to cross promote and be open to all gaming types and fandoms.
>> Galifrey One is feb 14-16 which is during orccon .......it is at the LAX Marriott next door so we should touch base with them as well. There were several of our volunteers that worked both cons. One took a few of us to Gallifrey late Saturday night with her and it was fun and we even got some of them to come to strategicon on sunday badges. We have such a large variety of things going on during the weekend at our con  it is worth it for some people to go back and forth. Cross marketing is a great idea and can only help our convention grow and reach other markets of fandom and gamers.
>>  
>> Victor
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>> On Wednesday, October 23, 2013 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.  
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>> 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. 
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>> 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....
>> 
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