I know this is the $64,000 question, but who such a high percentage of no-shows?
With 300 ppl in attendance but a <50% attendance rate why not charge a refundable RSVP fee? I guess at some point there s a tipping point between quality and quantity. On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 10:35 PM Peter J. Farrell <[email protected]> wrote: > We send out reminders three days and the day before our monthly > meeting. One month we forgot to send out reminder messages and it > didn't make any difference. > > I agree that the upsetting sponsors over food waste is embarrassing and > has caused some of our sponsors think twice for about hosting us again. > > We have also sent some of the chronic no-show members personal messages > and that didn't help either... > > I'm out of ideas except to have people put some green skin in the game > and move to reserved RSVPs. It's just more work for us... > > On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Simeon Franklin <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 8:13 AM, Don Sheu <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Our point is not to charge for the monthly meetup. Our no-show has > >> been all > >> over the place recently. Earlier in our org's life, RSVPs were pretty > >> accurate. > > > > This plagues us as well. SF Python Meetup typically can fit 225 > > people in our largest venues. We have used Meetup to take > > reservations and send at least 1 "Please release your reservation if > > you do not intend to attend" email in the day or two before each > > event. We still can count on 45% no shows (350 registrations <200 in > > the house) and the percentage fluctuates sometimes up to as much as > > 65% no show (only 120 in the house). > > > > The main harm this causes is food wastage which annoys our sponsors. > > We could also do some promoting to drive up attendance if we knew in > > advance that attendance would be low... > > > > We have kept some attendance sheets and are considering doing an > > email campaign to frequent no-shows reminding them not to RSVP yes if > > they don't know if they'll come. Has anybody reached out to frequent > > no-shows and had a positive impact? > > > > -regards > > Simeon > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > https://mail.python.org/mailman/private/group-organizers/attachments/20150611/6233d2d6/attachment.html > > > _______________________________________________ > Group-Organizers mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/group-organizers > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.python.org/mailman/private/group-organizers/attachments/20150611/26f7acfc/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Group-Organizers mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/group-organizers
