RE: Reunion update

[Pam Testani]

Hi team,

 

After a little more research today, I’m not sure if this is the hosting vendor I think we should use (I’m now leaning toward ClassCreator.com since it’s more visually appealing, but I want to triple-check that I’m not missing something on pricing).

 

However, it would still be great if you could review the site below for content/suggest any other info you think we should have in there by Friday.  Then I can work Saturday on finishing the site, and can pay for it before my 7-day free trial expires and we lose all the work!

 

You’ll see that I mention on the site electing a new slate of class officers.  We do this every five years, at major reunions, for my college class, and I think it keeps people involved and works really well.  I also want to include—if I didn’t already—a field that asks who might be interested in helping plan the next reunion, in case we don’t get much take-up on the officer front (wouldn’t be surprised).

 

Let me know what you think!  Once everyone has accepted the Google Group invite, I’ll migrate solely to that e-mail so you don’t get these 2x.

 

Thanks!

 

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From: Pam Testani
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 1:19 AM
To: 'Stefanos Marcopoulos'; Tara Morales (morale...@gmail.com); jenna....@gmail.com
Subject: Reunion update

 

 

Hi team,

 

I set up a trial account with MyEvent after doing a little research, and created this draft website to serve as a homepage for registration, class poll, etc.

 

The interface kind of sucks, but it is the best one I was able to find in my exploration.  It is slightly more expensive than Reunion Manager, but believe it or not, these websites seem much more sophisticated than what I could find there!  And we couldn’t have that site directly host the class poll, which I thought might detract from people taking it.

 

If we like this kind of thing and can deal with its dark-ages web design, it will cost us $80 (from my quick read) to sign up for four months (from now until our reunion).  All of these sites charge a flat fee and then as a result of their payment processors, a per-payment fee.  Collectively these will probably cost us almost $5 of leakage per ticket.  Personally, I would rather choose less fancy food to get food price as close to $50 as possible and then pay up to go with this easy registration/payment route rather than try to figure out how to build our own website and route people through the free side of PayPal, but let me know what you think.

 

I also created two e-mails for us.  We should probably use walter-panas-...@googlegroups.com as it will get all of us at once.  But I also created panascla...@gmail.com as the administrator of the group.  The password is Panathian.

 

Let me know what you think!

Pam

 

Pam Testani

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.

555 California Street, 51^st Floor

San Francisco, CA  94104

P:  415.315.6597│F:  415.723.7644│M:  914.420.9628

 

 

 

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[Stefanos Marcopoulos]

Pam et al,

I had a look at the site you created and I think, although clunky, it's great!  I also checked into classcreator.com and it looks more robust and visually appealing.  That being said, I am good with either and happy to help.  Perhaps classcreator offers more "bang for the buck"

At any rate, we should make our choice as a board this week and get it live by week end.  

As for the $5 of overhead/ticket, I think I will just have to figure that one out w/ Table 9 and our other expenses.  

I got us a DJ - we actually graduated with him - Steve Gioaccini.  He works at Table 9 as a bartender and does this for a side business.  He said he would do it for $300.  On 60 tickets, thats $5/person.  

Back of envelope math right now looks something like this:

$55-60 - Table 9

$5 - DJ (Fixed cost, declining)

$5 - Payment Processing / Site Infrastructure

$5 - Donation to Student

It's tight - I am also willing to kick in personally a little bit if needed to make this whole machine run well.

Happy New Year to you all!

Stef

On Dec 31, 2012, at 4:43 PM, Pam Testani <Pam.T...@kkr.com> wrote:

Hi team,

 

After a little more research today, I’m not sure if this is the hosting vendor I think we should use (I’m now leaning towardClassCreator.com since it’s more visually appealing, but I want to triple-check that I’m not missing something on pricing).

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[Pam Testani]

I’m going to try to move everything to ClassCreator.  In the meantime, if you guys have other things you want me to add, let me know.  I’ll let you know when I know final cost so we can budget for it.  We’ll also have to budget for however many comp tickets we want to have.

 

I would rather not have to get us into a situation where anyone has to kick in personally!

 

Do you guys want to have a 30-minute call this weekend just to talk through everything including game plan for getting website info out there?