yrocaz

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by yrocaz 3y ago
> "If our goal was to be recognized as awesome at a certain time by a certain group of developers, we succeeded. A huge number of connections were made, and a huge number of reputations were bolstered." ROI if there ever was on
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by yrocaz 3y ago
> "Not only did we not make money for the hundreds of hours we poured into our labour of love, but that was hundreds of hours that we didn't spend building our actual business, which more than defeated whatever growth goals we
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by yrocaz 3y ago
Thanks for this. Looking at our attendee, sponsor and vendor lists, we can thankfully say that we're in the "quality over quantity" boat. My co-founder and I are splitting a pretty serious loss, but we knew the risks going in
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by yrocaz 3y ago
Yes, we did early bird pricing rounds, we offered 50% off at each meetup for attendees in the audience (we converted a handful each time), and until last week we offered $50 off to members will a completed profile making the tickets $100&#x
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by yrocaz 3y ago
The idea was to leverage the strength and success of the local conference to bring national-level styled conferences to the local area. To be seen if that will be successful long-term! I obviously can't argue that there were issues wit
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by yrocaz 3y ago
Next week my co-founder and I will be throwing our first paid conference, so this is a rather timely thread that we’ll be monitoring closely. Following the advice of the parent article & some comments thus far, we first packed the house