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Originally Posted by mpenguin1 Just off the top of my head, there were more than "20" no-shows, think about the cost involved, they could have had food & drinks for 40 people rather than 60. |
That's
exaaaactly my point.
These things are expensive and labor intensive to set up and you're literally in limbo for 8 months trying to figure out if X people are going to fit into a particular space, then registration may double to 2X so you start looking at other venues. Then you have 3X and we start sending out information to people about how many attendees we're going to have, plan food, beverages and timing around a certain amount of attendees.
To register and then say "can't make it!" a few weeks out is dandy, but to confirm shortly before an event occurs, we started thinking about if the SMS message was sent correctly, if people are lost in the hotel and a lot of time and effort is spent making sure everyone got the word where it's taking place because, after all, they
confirmed their attendance.
Not that we're disturbed or upset, we're just trying to error check the system so we can continue to throw NJC events tailored to what our users are flying all the way out to Las Vegas for, or devolve the event into what we did back in 2003 which was a weekend-long 'meet and greet' without a centralized meeting point and thousands of dollars less expensive.
If we're throwing events that turn people off, or that don't seem worthwhile, we need to hear about it so we can re-tailor the event.
It's 100% planned around attendee feedback.