{"id":1898,"date":"2013-07-22T14:50:13","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T18:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.naylor.com\/associationadviser\/?p=1898"},"modified":"2013-07-22T14:50:13","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T18:50:13","slug":"readers-say-virtual-attendees-should-pay-fair-share-to-access-conferences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naylor.com\/associationadviser\/readers-say-virtual-attendees-should-pay-fair-share-to-access-conferences\/","title":{"rendered":"Readers Say Virtual Attendees Should Pay Fair Share to Access Conferences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">With travel budgets and time out of the office at a premium these days, more associations than ever are making portions of their conferences and conventions available to &#8220;virtual&#8221; attendees. Most organizations are still tinkering with the right mix of content offerings and price points, but the majority of respondents <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">(59.4 percent) <\/a><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">to an unscientific poll of <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-size: 10pt;\">Association Adviser eNews<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"> readers indicated that those who attend their live events virtually should pay at least half of what regular attendees pay. In fact, one in five respondents (20.2%) believed virtual attendees should pay the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-size: 10pt;\">full<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"> registration fee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.naylornetwork.com\/NAY-ADVISER\/assets\/aaenews%20july%202013%20piechart.jpg\" width=\"300px\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">*Chart represents consolidated responses from recent newsletters and AssociationAdviser.com.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">While nothing can replace the value of face-to-face interaction, learning sessions and professional development opportunities are becoming increasingly important to the association conference value proposition\u2014live or virtual. Our benchmarking data and conversations with industry experts throughout today\u2019s issue support this contention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Dan Stevens, president of <a href=\"http:\/\/workerbee.tv\">WorkerBee.TV<\/a>, recommends &#8220;pricing at market&#8221; by factoring in the total cost of attending the event (registration, hotel, travel, etc.), dividing that total by the number of sessions you expect to attend there, and then discounting that number since you won\u2019t have the networking experience that you would at a live event. WorkerBee provides online video content platforms for corporate and not-for-profit organizations.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Rate this article from 5 (Excellent) to 1 (Poor). Send ratings and comments <a href=\"mailto:associationadviser@naylor.com?subject=July%202013%20Did%20You%20Know\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With travel budgets and time at a premium these days, what should be the price of &#8220;attending&#8221; a virtual conference?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":1899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,63],"tags":[26,209,210,194,211,38,212],"class_list":["post-1898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-polls","category-did-you-know","tag-conferences","tag-content","tag-cost","tag-event","tag-registration","tag-video","tag-virtual-attendees"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Readers Say Virtual Attendees Should Pay Fair Share to Access Conferences - 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