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    • wirestyle22W
      wirestyle22
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      6/10. I can appreciate what hes trying to do but it needs to be less obvious.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller
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        Are those the attendees? Do we have to wear grass skirts if we attend? 😉

        Does AstriCon do grass skirts like SpiceWorld does kilts? LOL

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        • DigiumD
          Digium @scottalanmiller
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          @scottalanmiller Attendees are free to wear whatever inspires them! AstriCon does a different theme every year, and it usually coincides with the location of the conference. Here's our VP of Marketing, Leslie Conway, with Digium CEO, Danny Windham, at the 2014 AstriCon in Las Vegas.

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          • coliverC
            coliver
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            No offence but those outfits remind me of booth babes at gaming/comic cons. Blatant marketing grab at male attendees to get them to come to your booth. I'm glad a lot of the big gaming conventions have banned that practice.

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            • RojoLocoR
              RojoLoco
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              @Digium if you don't send all those scantily clad ladies to Mangocon, you will be booted from this community! (Ok, maybe not booted, but please send the showgirls to Rochester...)

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @coliver
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                @coliver said in Your AstriCon Survival Guide:

                No offence but those outfits remind me of booth babes at gaming/comic cons. Blatant marketing grab at male attendees to get them to come to your booth. I'm glad a lot of the big gaming conventions have banned that practice.

                Gets females to come too. I"ve had lots of women mention, sadly, the lack of them at some conferences. Women like booth babes (and hunks) as much as the men do.

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller @RojoLoco
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                  @RojoLoco said in Your AstriCon Survival Guide:

                  @Digium if you don't send all those scantily clad ladies to Mangocon, you will be booted from this community! (Ok, maybe not booted, but please send the showgirls to Rochester...)

                  And Elvis too! That's awesome.

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                  • RojoLocoR
                    RojoLoco @Digium
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                    @Digium said in Your AstriCon Survival Guide:

                    @scottalanmiller Attendees are free to wear whatever inspires them! AstriCon does a different theme every year, and it usually coincides with the location of the conference. Here's our VP of Marketing, Leslie Conway, with Digium CEO, Danny Windham, at the 2014 AstriCon in Las Vegas.

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                    Yeah, so just keep Elvis, the old guy, and Kathie Lee, and send the other 2 to Mangocon, care of... wait, what's my room number?

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                    • DigiumD
                      Digium @coliver
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                      @coliver Well, to be precise, these were performers at AstriCon, not simply booth girls. They also welcomed all AstriCon attendees as they entered the conference

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                      • RojoLocoR
                        RojoLoco @Digium
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                        @Digium said in Your AstriCon Survival Guide:

                        @coliver Well, to be precise, these were performers at AstriCon, not simply booth girls. They also welcomed all AstriCon attendees as they entered the conference

                        And at the NAMM show in LA, Dean guitars used to employ a posse of topless showgirls to greet attendees, etc. They were rarely at the Dean booth, but they always had scads of people following them around... #justsayin

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                        • DigiumD
                          Digium @RojoLoco
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                          @RojoLoco Well.. Rock and Roll, baby. Our performers, however, have tops- fully intact.

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                          • coliverC
                            coliver @Digium
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                            @Digium said in Your AstriCon Survival Guide:

                            @coliver Well, to be precise, these were performers at AstriCon, not simply booth girls. They also welcomed all AstriCon attendees as they entered the conference

                            I'm not being prudish or anything, just never been a big fan of this type of marketing. Each their own.

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                            • JaredBuschJ
                              JaredBusch @coliver
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                              @coliver said in Your AstriCon Survival Guide:

                              @Digium said in Your AstriCon Survival Guide:

                              @coliver Well, to be precise, these were performers at AstriCon, not simply booth girls. They also welcomed all AstriCon attendees as they entered the conference

                              I'm not being prudish or anything, just never been a big fan of this type of marketing. Each their own.

                              Eye candy serves a purpose. Make people look at your booth.

                              Once the eyes are on your booth, your content has to retain the eyes.

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                              • DigiumD
                                Digium @JaredBusch
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                                @JaredBusch Just to be clear, these performers are there to greet attendees, perform, and then they leave. They are not used to attract anyone to a booth. They are there to entertain our guests- both men and women. We do understand not everyone loves a hula dance or cancan, and that's fine. Plenty of other fun things to see and do at AstriCon!

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                                • JaredBuschJ
                                  JaredBusch @Digium
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                                  @Digium said in Your AstriCon Survival Guide:

                                  @JaredBusch Just to be clear, these performers are there to greet attendees, perform, and then they leave. They are not used to attract anyone to a booth. They are there to entertain our guests- both men and women. We do understand not everyone loves a hula dance or cancan, and that's fine. Plenty of other fun things to see and do at AstriCon!

                                  I understand how you are using these people. I was mostly answering @coliver's complaint about booth babes in general. not implying anything from your conference.

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller @coliver
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                                    @coliver said in Your AstriCon Survival Guide:

                                    @Digium said in Your AstriCon Survival Guide:

                                    @coliver Well, to be precise, these were performers at AstriCon, not simply booth girls. They also welcomed all AstriCon attendees as they entered the conference

                                    I'm not being prudish or anything, just never been a big fan of this type of marketing. Each their own.

                                    It's standard in every industry. It is what it is, the best way to get customers' initial attention. It's very, very hard to draw someones attention to a booth with your... code.

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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller @Digium
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                                      @Digium said in Your AstriCon Survival Guide:

                                      @RojoLoco Well.. Rock and Roll, baby. Our performers, however, have tops- fully intact.

                                      Well that seems like an oversight 😉

                                      I kid, I kid.

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller @coliver
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                                        @coliver said in Your AstriCon Survival Guide:

                                        No offence but those outfits remind me of booth babes at gaming/comic cons.

                                        But they don't remind you of the attendees at those shows? I have a friend who attends, and she wears way less than these people.

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