Hello all, Of the conferences we have organised and delegated , we have observed that providing online registrations has always helped +1 for that , but given that most of the students cannot buy tickets online let there be a provision of paying onsite after completing registrations online(hey could get a print out of confirmed registration mail or something for verification) and for those who want to purchase it online they could as well do that, this way we can have an estimate of the participants and also cater for their needs when they come to the venue. we could distribute the swag later during the day rather than in the morning as in we could announce in each of the halls to come and collect the swags and thus avoid commotion before the first keynote . Anil On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Shalin Jain <shalinjain@gmail.com> wrote:
There are problems with charging that high for a ticket. The venue sponsor is right now giving us the facilities at a very nominal cost. If we charge this kind of money, it wouldn't really work for them.
The registration money is purely to cover the swag and food. We're thinking of the whole early bird thing to encourage people to register early so that we can get approximate numbers.
Fair enough. 750 is just an example. Just to make it cheaper for Students and help subsidize student price by charge non-students slight more.
3. Alternative to Early Bird
Discount codes are great alternative to having early bird. For instance, I would launch with discount code 'ilovepython' or similar while announcing the opening of registrations. This code can be kept to a max quantity of 50, valid for first 3 days with a cash discount of 200 rupees (on Professional Pass) pushed mainly to the mailing list, twitter and facebook group. (Just an example!)
I don't quite get this. Maybe I'm getting senile before my time but this sounds a little complicated. Does this mean that the first 50 or so people in the first 3 days can enter "Ilovepython" or something and get a ticket for less?
Basically what I am referring to is: you can have discount coupons issued to promote early registrations. This is just an alternative to having early bird ticket. Basically discount codes could be time or quantity bound or both.
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