Hi Steve, One of the conditions of WISPA supporting this show will be reduced costs for attendees. The promoters want as many attendees as possible and I told them that $250 is about the upper limit of what most WISPs will pay to come to a show like this. I'd like to see the non-WISPA 3 day pass under $300 range, and the WISPA member 3day pass under $200. We will be working on the details this month.
Matt Larsen vistabeam.com Steve Barnes wrote: > Matt, the only question I have would be the cost to attendees, vendors and > WISPs? I can attend computer shows all the time for $599 to $899 for a 3 > day show. I never do. However, a $75 to $200 show I've attended several. > When we were starting talking about the show on the promotions list it was a > lot smaller and easy to price low. What is this new groups price structure? > > Steve Barnes > RC-WiFi Wireless Internet Service > > > -----Original Message----- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > Behalf Of Matt Larsen - Lists > Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 1:31 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] [Wispashow] Decision on WISPA Show > > All due respect Marlon, but I'm going to disagree with your assumptions. > > I have spent the last three months researching the possibility of > putting on a show and evaluating our options. Before I started on that > process, I felt the same way that you do about WISPA putting on our own > show. I thought that it would be some work, but doable, and had some > potential as a fund raiser. > > What was truly eye opening to me is the amount of work that is needed to > put a show on properly. IMHO, WISPCON got lucky on the first show and > then it degraded when the organizational and sales efforts did not scale > up to the potential of the show. The market is quite different right > now, and I don't think that we would be as lucky as P-15 was back in the > day. > > Ed's group puts on trade shows - that is their focus. They are willing > to do it at no cost to us, and to help us build our membership up so > that both sides will benefit. They don't know much about the WISP > business, so we have an opportunity to work with them to design a show > that our members would all like to go to. They are going to do it on > a much larger scale than what we had planned on doing, so we can spread > WISPAs message beyond our own little community. Those are strong > positives. > > Most importantly, we will not have to commit our money or manpower to > the project. Money is not that big of a deal, but manpower is. We > will not be able to put on a show with volunteer manpower, and it isn't > really a question of just hiring someone because the job requirements go > far beyond just being an ED type or a sales person. These guys have a > staff of people who specialize in this kind of work and can get it done > more effectively and at a larger scale than we could ever dream of doing > on our own. > > All this being said - if the show is a flop, there will be an "out" so > that we can go back to plan A next year if that is what needs to > happen. For 2010, it makes more sense to work with professionals to > get a show put on. > > Matt Larsen > vistabeam.com > > > Marlon K. Schafer wrote: > >> forwarding to the list. >> >> Matt/Forbes, can someone please set the list to reply to the list rather >> than to the sender? Thanks, >> >> Matt, understood. I'd disagree with that plan of action though. We need >> our own show. It should be a fund raiser for WISPA. >> >> Near as I can tell Ed's planning on more of an ISPCon type of a show. I >> believe we need more of a WISPCon kind of event. Lower cost, more intimate >> etc. >> >> I'd suggest that we step back and set a show date for later in the year. It >> shouldn't take more than a few months to put something together. We know >> who the vendors and attendees would be. And we know, basically, what would >> need to be presented. >> >> The members want a show. The vendors want a show. Someone just has to DO a >> show. >> >> If we can't find anyone to run the effort that certainly changes things. >> I'm not interested in that job (putting together a Dirtbike one for here >> right now, it's not bad but does take time...) right now. >> >> laters, >> marlon >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: <li...@manageisp.com> >> To: "Marlon K. Schafer" <o...@odessaoffice.com> >> Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 9:53 PM >> Subject: Re: [Wispashow] Decision on WISPA Show >> >> >> >> >>> Marlon, >>> The tentative plan with Ed's group is that we will put our efforts into >>> his show, and that we will not be doing our own show as long as both sides >>> are happy with the performance of his show. >>> Also, since we are not putting any money into it, there is no profit >>> sharing. They put in the money and the manpower, they get the profit, if >>> there is any. Our goal in this is to build up our membership numbers and >>> leverage their promotional and marketing efforts to get the word out about >>> WISPA and get people to the show so we can turn them into members. >>> This is going to end up similar to our agreement with ISPCON, but we will >>> have more say in the structure and educational parts of the show. Also, >>> it should cost us little or no money. >>> Matt Larsen >>> vistabeam.com >>> Marlon K. Schafer writes: >>> >>> >>>> Hi Matt, In the end I still think we should have our own show. How clear >>>> will it be made to Ed's group that we'll still be working to our own show >>>> at a later date? Also, how are we going to insure that we don't end up >>>> with the same problem we did with Charles for his first show? Where >>>> there is no profit to split? >>>> marlon ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "Matt Larsen - Lists" <li...@manageisp.com> >>>> To: <wispas...@wispa.org> >>>> Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 10:59 PM >>>> Subject: [Wispashow] Decision on WISPA Show >>>> >>>> >>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
