Publicity

Michael Palin

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We're delighted to announce that Michael Palin wil be guest of honour at the banquet on Saturday evening.
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Lots of Enquiries!

Well, the mail shot seemed to go well. Less than 5% undeliverable, which is excellent. A few people no longer want to be included in future mailings, but not many. 159 people looked at the web site on Friday and over 60 completed the enquiry form. One problem is that three people said they could not access the web site. Not at all sure why that would be. Difficult to replicate without knowing much more. My suspicion is that they are using a very old browser.

Going to work on the database for registration this weekend. I'll finally get the fee set this week too. The last conference was £475. The current fee will be slightly more. I'm just not sure if I can keep it below £500, but I'd like to.
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Mailing

Tonight I'm going to send out a mailing for the conference, to let people know it's happening! I'll try to encourage them to visit this web site and fill in the enquiry form. It will also give me a chance to see which email addresses are no longer valid and who doesn't want to be on this list.

Apparent people liked the publicity postcards at ASHA, so that's good.
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Printing Postcards

I thought it might be interesting to keep a diary of what I"m doing to get the Conference running. At the moment I've just printed about 240 postcards for distribution at ASHA. And now I'm busy carefully separating the cards (they're printed four to one sheet). Also today, spoken to the other conference organisers, emailed one of the key note speakers and had a Skype chat with another presenter. Probably do a bit more on the web site before bed!
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