I contacted the Cleveland Visitor's and Convention Bureau to see what help they could give us on average prices, things to do, stuff like that, and they said they'd have some pretty solid hotel pricing for me by next Friday.
That will be good information to have. Don't go too overboard on getting all kinds of pricing on cities. We'll get our four top choices nailed down and then send out all the information to those cities with our RFP and get bids back. Ballpark prices are good at this point.
Jumping in towards the end, so the discussion right now is based around the following cities?
Austin
New Orleans
Nashville
Lawrence
KC
Minneapolis
Toronto
Cleveland
Is this correct?
ChiKat,
I think Lawrence was going on a line with KC. But apart from that, that's the list of proposed locations.
Memphis, and Atlanta have also come up, as has Denver.
Also, yes, we are treating Lawrence/KC as one entry.
I think all of the proposals should have theme songs.
Atlanta AND Toronto count as middle of the country? We're not going to have any East Coast cities left for 2007!
I think all of the proposals should have theme songs.
for the entire thread - "Where do we go from here"
I think all of the proposals should have theme songs.
Several cities already do:
New Orleans -- Has plenty. I vote Gary "U.S." Bonds's "New Orleans" for the sax riff.
KC -- Wilbert Harrison vs. the song from Oklahoma!
Memphis -- Gotta be Johnny Rivers.
Cleveland -- Well, all I got is the Drew Carey theme song.