<div dir="auto"><div>Sponsorship training is a great idea. Will it be at PyCon? I may have to be in Michigan on May 4th.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 21, 2019, 12:01 AM Don Sheu <<a href="mailto:dinaldo@gmail.com">dinaldo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Awesome everybody. Eloisa and I are getting ready for PyCascades. Looks<br>
like we'll sell out our second year. First year we sold our goal of 390.<br>
This year is 600.<br>
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Soon as we're clear and the BDFL retirement gift event with Guido, Anders<br>
Hejlsberg, Larry Wall, and James Gosling, Eloisa and I will plan the<br>
curriculum.<br>
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On Wed, Feb 20, 2019, 8:45 PM Aly Sivji <<a href="mailto:alysivji@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">alysivji@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> +1 from Chicago Python<br>
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> 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>
><br>
>> 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>
>><br>
>> - Bill<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> 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>
>><br>
>> > 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<br>
>> 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>
>> > 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<br>
>> 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>
>> > --<br>
>> > Don Sheu<br>
>> > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -<br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> > My Python user group convenes every month 2nd Wednesdays<br>
>> > <a href="http://www.meetup.com/PSPPython/events/232708762/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.meetup.com/PSPPython/events/232708762/</a><br>
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