On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 16:23 -0500, Ian Darwin wrote: > A business card draw is the most common way to give stuff out at shows. > I suspect this is because it's the easiest.
Make sure that you check with show before hand. Most shows, and LInux
World is one of them, requires that contests follow rules and be
approved by the show.
> Maybe 15 mins before close of show each day, hold a "must be present to win"
> draw. It gets you lots of contact names, and holding the draw this way
> helps gauge the interest level.
My guess is that unless the prize is really compelling, most will not
wait around for the draw. You may see this kind of thing at a conference
but I don't recall seeing them at trade shows. The prize is usually
mailed out.
> Use the contact names for a one-time mailing from all our local VOIP
> businesses.
> (I imagine there are mailing list companies that will do this for you,
> assuming that
> our voip providing members would jointly fund the mailing). People know
> they are getting
> in for this when they go in business-card draws, so there's no
> ethical/privacy issues
> if you use a reputable mailing list to do the mailing "blind" from the
> businesses.
Businesses would pay for that list. That could fund additional prizes
and the shipping.
> Otherwise do the draws all at the end, but then you may have to pay for
> mailing costs :-(
>
> Of course there are always more creative ways, like a contest, but then
> you need
> somebody to judge it. Something like "Most creative new way to apply
> Asterisk".
> Results (winners and runners up) get posted to the mailing list (names
> and ideas, but
> not emails:-)) along with the winners getting copy of the book.
>
> I'm sure the more creative types can do better than this, it's just a
> suggestion.
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