Re: Congrads John Earl!

["Paul Nelson" <pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, but the labor costs are way out there. You've got to get an electrician
to come and plug in the equipment to the wall.

Paul Nelson
Arbor Solutions, Inc.
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708-923-7354 Home
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----- Original Message ----- 
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Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 2:44 PM
Subject: Re: Congrads John Earl!


> Didn't Chicago used to be one of the more popular?
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> I agree with Ken, except that I think the cities should be Anaheim, San
> Antonio, and Atlanta. Those venues have seemed to work well in the past.
> The
> lower attendance counts make these even more feasible.
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Graap, Ken" <keg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "'Midrange'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 1:24 PM
> Subject: FW: Congrads John Earl!
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> > >Note to everyone:  Please keep asking, poking, prodding and demanding
> from
> > >Me and from COMMON.  We need to know what is important, and what the
> value
> > >of COMMON is perceived to be.
> >
> >
> > I recommend that Common come up with 5 or so hotels in cities like Las
> > Vegas, Minneapolis, LA, Nashville, Cincinnati, Kansas City to name a few
> > possibilities... Cities with good conference facilities but more
> reasonable
> > hotel / travel costs. Maybe focus on Midwest locations to reduce the
> "time
> > zone" affects of travel.
> >
> > Then just rotate among these few locations. Hotels might provide better
> > rates if they know that Common would be returning to their facilities
> every
> > couple of years...
> >
> > Then again ... Do you know what percentage of attendees come to a
> conference
> > based on the "Disneyland" type of attractions? Is the draw... what to do
> > outside the conference or what to do within the conference?
> >
> > Personally I go for the "inside stuff". If I want to play, I use my trip
> to
> > Common as a jumping off spot to a place I really want to go to and spend
> the
> > following weekend there. For example, I went to Indy, enjoyed the
> conference
> > and then flew from Indy to Pensacola to visit friends and family,
> returned
> > to Indy and flew home the following Monday using the second 1/2 of my
> ticket
> > to the conference... Worked great for me!
> >
> > That's my 2 cents worth....
> >
> > Kenneth
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Earl [mailto:john.earl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 10:25 AM
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