<div dir="auto">Awesome everybody. Eloisa and I are getting ready for PyCascades. Looks like we'll sell out our second year. First year we sold our goal of 390. This year is 600. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Soon as we're clear and the BDFL retirement gift event with Guido, Anders Hejlsberg, Larry Wall, and James Gosling, Eloisa and I will plan the curriculum. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 20, 2019, 8:45 PM Aly Sivji <<a href="mailto:alysivji@gmail.com">alysivji@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">+1 from Chicago Python <br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 4:45 PM Bill Israel <<a href="mailto:bill.israel@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">bill.israel@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I'd be interested in this as well. We've done well enough with PyTN the<br>
past couple of years, but I'm sure there are we can do better.<br>
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On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 1:00 PM Don Sheu <<a href="mailto:dinaldo@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">dinaldo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hey all, I've learned a lot with sponsorship sales for PyCascades last<br>
> year, and now with Eloisa Tran chairing our sponsorship sales this year.<br>
><br>
> Wondering if there'd be interest in participating in training for groups<br>
> around the Python community?<br>
><br>
> For PyCascades, we were profitable as an org our first year. Eloisa joining<br>
> as our leader of sponsorship sales, we doubled, we may triple our gross<br>
> revenue.<br>
><br>
> One example tactic I can share –<br>
><br>
><br>
> 1. Eight days before the conference meets on February 23, I sent out<br>
> reminder emails to past supporters of PuPPy, my group in Seattle<br>
> 2. The email copy was targeted to remind past supporters of PuPPy, we<br>
> are hosting PyCascades in Seattle this year<br>
> 3. Please alert their staff that we are approaching sell out<br>
> 4. Got 15 new registrations that totals in about $2000 in additional<br>
> revenue<br>
> 5. A silver level sponsor for $8000<br>
><br>
> My goal would be to include as many concrete examples like this in the<br>
> training. Eloisa was trained by the Anita Borg Institute to lead<br>
> sponsorship sales for Grace Hopper Conference. She donated $250k to<br>
> numFOCUS running sponsorship sales for PyData Seattle 2017, with about 800<br>
> attendees.<br>
><br>
> Let me know. I'll collaborate with Eloisa to create curriculum to share<br>
> with everybody.<br>
><br>
> What does everybody think?<br>
><br>
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