{"id":2650,"date":"2013-01-31T00:45:25","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T05:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2650"},"modified":"2013-01-31T00:45:34","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T05:45:34","slug":"conference-business-thoughts-from-jeffpulver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/01\/31\/conference-business-thoughts-from-jeffpulver","title":{"rendered":"Conference business thoughts from @JeffPulver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some nuggets from a <a href=\"http:\/\/mixergy.com\/jeff-pulver-interview\/\">Mixergy interview<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffPulver\">Jeff Pulver<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeff_Pulver\">wikipedia<\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The conference business when it works, is one of the most highly profitable businesses that is legal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The more I charged, the more people came.&#8221; It&#8217;s a credibility thing. In telecom, its corporate money, take as much as you want (its not individual money). With competition, someone always wants to outspend another in sponsorships, etc.<\/p>\n<p>However with a waning economy in 2010, the 140conf charged $140. EBITDA is poor, but you get folk. Inspiration for these lower prices came from Fred Wilson&#8217;s post about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avc.com\/a_vc\/2009\/05\/conferences.html\">conferences<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t start out with a professional conference\/event management firm. He built conferences based on the ones that he had attended before.<\/p>\n<p>He never pays for speakers (with one exception: Scott Adams). He gets paid $40,000 per speech. He does occasionally cover travel costs. He has sponsors from hotels so accommodation is usually taken care of.<\/p>\n<p>Very open about his numbers, earnings, business (he had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulver.com\/jeff.html\">many<\/a> including a record label), failings, etc. in his interview. Well worth a listen if you have the time.<\/p>\n<p>Parting thought: you have to occasionally reboot your buddy list. I can agree &#8211; different friends take you thru different parts of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some nuggets from a Mixergy interview with Jeff Pulver\u00a0(wikipedia).\u00a0 &#8220;The conference business when it works, is one of the most highly profitable businesses that is legal.&#8221; &#8220;The more I charged, the more people came.&#8221; It&#8217;s a credibility thing. In telecom, its corporate money, take as much as you want (its not individual money). With competition, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[242],"class_list":["post-2650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-conference"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-GK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}