We’ve just wrapped up the interviews and I wanted to jot down a few thoughts on what I’ve seen from using the process that we have today: The time requirement for the NomCom members seems reasonable We still have a lot of work on explaining the “why” of the tasks so that we get year […]
Read more "Thoughts On the NomCom Process"Reg count at 479. Looking very good for hitting 500! First sponsor sent out a geo-targeted message for us, another one working on it, more to go. We wrote a ‘suggested’ message to decrease the friction. First vendor even sent back open rates on the email! Karla/Shawn dropped in at ONETUG meeting last night to […]
Read more "SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 42"Ah, an interesting week for registrations. We’ve jumped to 426 registered, making my goal of 500 doable. The jump is in part due to timing, in part due to only having mailed to the “already registered” list only last week (a goof on my part). This week we’ll have two messages going on, one to […]
Read more "SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 41"I wrote Titles Matter – Part 2 based on lessons learned the hard way not long ago. Titles matter because they help the rest of the team understand where you fit in. Titles are the ultimate elevator pitch – this is what I do. I was pleased to see one comment where someone changed their […]
Read more "SSC Editorial-Titles Matter – Part 2"Last week we were at 332, this morning at about the same time we’re at 356. Not bad for a week that included Labor Day. Chart makes it look a little worse than it is, it shows the actual against the goal for the next report period. Here’s the last 4 weeks of […]
Read more "SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 40"Registration is 332 as of 8 am on August 26. We added a whopping 40 registrations last week – a very good week! Our standard Tuesday email will go out about 10 am this morning with topics on MVP’s in attendance and lunch. On Friday we’ll have our first “special” email go out to those […]
Read more "SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 39"I just checked in again on our LinkedIn campaign, had a couple days with good impression counts. We can still only tie 1 registration to all of the LinkedIn effort so far. Keep going, or ? I think I’m going to see if I can change the URL to a tinyurl, don’t know if that […]
Read more "SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 38"Got this in morning email from Khan Academy. Not sure if I agree that we all can learn anything, but I love the video anyway because the best lesson to learn is that learning takes time, effort, and stumbles. I watch my own kids struggle with this, and think how long it took me to […]
Read more "Odds and Ends To Think About"Busy week, should have blogged about it before the event Did a remote presentation on securing credit card data First time using Lync for remote, not hard to use, but not good to try 10 minutes before hand either (my fault) Camera in the room was nice, had a sense of the place at least […]
Read more "Notes on the August 19, 2014 Pinellas SQL Group Meeting"I just spent a few minutes reviewing the 2015 PASS budget, things that I noticed: Anticipating a change in revenue of 1.1 million. That seems…optimistic IT spend is now $550k, up $150k over 2014. Probably good, but what are we doing with that? Ah, the budget doesn’t say Chapter spend is reduced $50k, from $141k […]
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