RE: While we're comparing common with other conferences...

Don,

This issue has been brought up before, by me. I don't understand it. I 
believe, and this has no foundation, that the thinking was that you might 
get people that only attended the Expo and not the conference and that 
would produce less revenue. Meaning not so much that we're lossing 30 or so 
registration fees because those additional 30 people are only attending the 
expo, but rather that we are going to loss 30 (or so ) people who decide to 
attend the expo instead of the conference.

Like I said, I have no basis for this theory, but it has been thinking like 
this that I believe led to the decision.

I would really like the attendee who is paying to come to COMMON to bring 
along the executive with decision making power. Let the two of them go to 
the expo, and the attendee then comes to the conference. What's the big 
deal? I believe the vendors would love it.

Perhaps something like, if you are a member of COMMON and you have anyone 
from our organization attending COMMON, then any other employee from your 
organization can also attend the expo. I don't know.  It seems like they're 
making too big a problem over this. And since the people that need to 
attend expo under this scenario aren't attending the conference, they are a 
silent minority.

Bob Cozzi
Bob@RPGIV.COM
www.rpgiv.com
AS/400 Books:  http://www.rpgiv.com/as400Books.html


On Monday, September 15, 1997 11:05 PM, Don [SMTP:dr2@access.digex.net] 
wrote:
>
>
> While we're comparing common with other conferences, I've got another
> question:  Why does common treat the expo as "an event" (common operator
> in Chicago this a.m.) and require attendees to register and pay for it as
> an event of Day 0 ???  (also per common operator)
>
> I've been to ALOT of technical and semi-technical conferences here in DC
> (and we've got a LOT of  'em) that all you do is fill out their form as a
> expo attendee, get your badge and presto you're in.  Frankly, I do this 
on
> a regular basis for conferences that I don't have a lot of time for or 
lots
> of interest in the conference but want to take an hour and blitz the 
expo.
>
> Why is common different?  This came up when I tried to get an associate
> access to the expo ONLY and ONLY for day 0....go figure...you'd think the
> expo'ers would want all the bodies they could get!
>
> Don in DC....
>
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