Re: Congrads John Earl!

Yes, but the labor costs are way out there. You've got to get an electrician
to come and plug in the equipment to the wall.

Paul Nelson
Arbor Solutions, Inc.
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708-923-7354 Home
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Subject: Re: Congrads John Earl!


> Didn't Chicago used to be one of the more popular?
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> I agree with Ken, except that I think the cities should be Anaheim, San
> Antonio, and Atlanta. Those venues have seemed to work well in the past.
> The
> lower attendance counts make these even more feasible.
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Graap, Ken" <keg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "'Midrange'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 1:24 PM
> Subject: FW: Congrads John Earl!
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> > >Note to everyone:  Please keep asking, poking, prodding and demanding
> from
> > >Me and from COMMON.  We need to know what is important, and what the
> value
> > >of COMMON is perceived to be.
> >
> >
> > I recommend that Common come up with 5 or so hotels in cities like Las
> > Vegas, Minneapolis, LA, Nashville, Cincinnati, Kansas City to name a few
> > possibilities... Cities with good conference facilities but more
> reasonable
> > hotel / travel costs. Maybe focus on Midwest locations to reduce the
> "time
> > zone" affects of travel.
> >
> > Then just rotate among these few locations. Hotels might provide better
> > rates if they know that Common would be returning to their facilities
> every
> > couple of years...
> >
> > Then again ... Do you know what percentage of attendees come to a
> conference
> > based on the "Disneyland" type of attractions? Is the draw... what to do
> > outside the conference or what to do within the conference?
> >
> > Personally I go for the "inside stuff". If I want to play, I use my trip
> to
> > Common as a jumping off spot to a place I really want to go to and spend
> the
> > following weekend there. For example, I went to Indy, enjoyed the
> conference
> > and then flew from Indy to Pensacola to visit friends and family,
> returned
> > to Indy and flew home the following Monday using the second 1/2 of my
> ticket
> > to the conference... Worked great for me!
> >
> > That's my 2 cents worth....
> >
> > Kenneth
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Earl [mailto:john.earl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 10:25 AM
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