Keep the Cash Campaign
This weekend we had the opportunity of attending WordCamp Utah. For those who haven’t attended a WordCamp, it’s a great opportunity to be inspired by and network with skilled developers, writers, webmasters, and entrepreneurs. We even had a town hall meeting with WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg and a live presentation from Will it Blend, yeah, seriously! Needless to say, we had a great time.
Even though we had a great time at WordCamp, there was a $30,000 problem that really bothered us. Each of the 153 attendees had to pay an additional $1.49 to cover the cost of registering for WordCamp through Eventbrite. With all the plugin development around WordPress, why would WordCamp not use Event Espresso to manage their events? Event Espresso only costs $59.95 for unlimited events, and no fee per registrant (compare that to $1.49 per registrant with Eventbrite). WordCamp could either use that $1.49 for cool WordCamp things, or they could give us all a discount.
There have been or will be 136 WordCamps in 2010 and if, on average, each WordCamp gets about the same number of attendees as WordCamp Utah, attendees could collectively pay $30,396 just to register for WordCamps! That could fund the development of a sweet new feature or theme or be used to publicize WordPress as a CMS. Developers can help their clients save more money too by using Event Espresso.
To help make WordCamp better, and save a lot of cash, we have decided to donate our event manager plugin, Event Espresso, to every WordCamp site. We do not want to see all that money go toward just registration fees – we’d like to see WordCamp use that money to make it better or let us all keep the cash. We’re here to help you manager your events better, so if you’re in charge of planning or hosting a WordCamp, contact us to get your free event manager plugin.
You too should make more money from your events, or make them more affordable with Event Espresso.
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Hear hear!
Hmm, seems like WordCamp Indonesia need to catch this opportunity.
Sent you the plugin. Let me know how it goes.
forget to tell you 🙂 fyi,
http://twitter.com/#!/WordCampID/status/24240154474
So true. Eventbrite turned me off with the fees. Thank you Event Espresso. I was so pleased with the free plugin, I purchased the paid version.
Mr-a, Honolulu, HI.
There’s still the credit card fee for EventEspresso no?
@John
Yes. With Event Espresso, you will still need to pay the gateway fees of PayPal or Authorize.net, whichever you decide to use. You also have the option of adding a surcharge to your events.
Here is a break down of the fees for each:
Here are Eventbrite fees: