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



Bob, 

The issue goes even further.  Some people want to goto just the expo and
not the conference.  We have alot of conferences here in DC that have
decent expo's and frankly are worth the 1-2 hrs it takes to blitz through
them...and in alot of situations, I have no want or intent to got the
conference.  I'm talking things like FOSE, CSI, and there's a big client
server one in November...I'm going to the expo but have no intent of going
to the conference...and the expo is FREE.  Frankly, I don't have the time
to goto every conference that wanders down the pike...but I do like
wandering through the expo's to see the state of the art first hand...and
to ask my dumb questions to the folks that can give me decent answers...

Helps both me, my clients and the vendors...

Go figure... :)

Don

On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Bob Cozzi wrote:

> 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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