[group-organizers] Sponsorship Sales, Fundraising for Community Orgs

Tue Feb 26 06:58:12 EST 2019

Me too!

On 26/02/2019 11:56, Rami Chowdhury wrote:
> +1 please count me in. And good luck Don & PyCascades crew, have an awesome
> conf!
> 
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2019, 00:01 Don Sheu <dinaldo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 20, 2019, 8:45 PM Aly Sivji <alysivji at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> +1 from Chicago Python
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 4:45 PM Bill Israel <bill.israel at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'd be interested in this as well. We've done well enough with PyTN the
>>>> past couple of years, but I'm sure there are we can do better.
>>>>
>>>> - Bill
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Bill Israel     bill.israel at gmail.com
>>>> 901-493-1436
>>>> http://billisrael.info/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 1:00 PM Don Sheu <dinaldo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hey all, I've learned a lot with sponsorship sales for PyCascades last
>>>>> year, and now with Eloisa Tran chairing our sponsorship sales this
>> year.
>>>>>
>>>>> Wondering if there'd be interest in participating in training for
>> groups
>>>>> around the Python community?
>>>>>
>>>>> For PyCascades, we were profitable as an org our first year. Eloisa
>>>> joining
>>>>> as our leader of sponsorship sales, we doubled, we may triple our
>> gross
>>>>> revenue.
>>>>>
>>>>> One example tactic I can share –
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>    1. Eight days before the conference meets on February 23, I sent
>> out
>>>>>    reminder emails to past supporters of PuPPy, my group in Seattle
>>>>>    2. The email copy was targeted to remind past supporters of PuPPy,
>> we
>>>>>    are hosting PyCascades in Seattle this year
>>>>>    3. Please alert their staff that we are approaching sell out
>>>>>    4. Got 15 new registrations that totals in about $2000 in
>> additional
>>>>>    revenue
>>>>>    5. A silver level sponsor for $8000
>>>>>
>>>>> My goal would be to include as many concrete examples like this in the
>>>>> training. Eloisa was trained by the Anita Borg Institute to lead
>>>>> sponsorship sales for Grace Hopper Conference. She donated $250k to
>>>>> numFOCUS running sponsorship sales for PyData Seattle 2017, with about
>>>> 800
>>>>> attendees.
>>>>>
>>>>> Let me know. I'll collaborate with Eloisa to create curriculum to
>> share
>>>>> with everybody.
>>>>>
>>>>> What does everybody think?
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Don Sheu
>>>>> 312.880.9389
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>>>>>
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>>>>> http://www.meetup.com/PSPPython/events/232708762/
>>>>>
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