[socal-piggies] save your py-dollars: meetup.com organizer

Mon Oct 6 23:29:56 PDT 2008

man, fear the dotnet creepies...lol  I don't know anyone who programs in
"microsoft" anymore...lol

Anyways what i meant was i'm prepared to spend $1 per.  Ah I didn't mean to
imply for you guys to spend that much.  I do agree with your idea with
videos.  I think all of our unique contributions will drive people here.
I've got a camcorder and tripod, if someone wants to borrow it for taping...

I'll volunteer hosting the videos off my servers if someone makes them.

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 11:14 PM, James Shamenski <2010games at gmail.com>wrote:

> Um I disagree with Alex and this advertising approach,
>     A 1$ member acquisition is a completely unsubstantiated. Without going
> into it, I'll just say that conventional advertising doesnt work for grass
> roots membership drives. I propose fostering a community rather than buying
> it.
>
>     I've been to maybe 4 of the last 7 meetings. Ive enjoyed all. I would
> have watched a video of the 3 that i had missed. I would assume that other
> python members would do the same if they missed a meeting. Better yet,
> publishing our videos would serve as a real indicator of our offering thus,
> attracting serious potential leads. A good video would spread throughout
> python chatter and be seminated for the good of the macro python community
> further driving interest to our chapter. If the videos gain any traction
> then we could serve adsense on the page and use the proceeds for a ppc
> purchase (call it acquisition arbitrage).
> cheers,
>      James
> PS- The .Net user group was laughing about wiping out our campaign in 10
> minutes with their fraudulent clicks. (Joke)
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Alex Chang <maverick.chang at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Thanks Paul.  Yeah I think it's worth it to us if our group head count
>> increases with a maximum cost per acquisition of $1 per person.  Meaning if
>> it's $0.10 per click and 10 people click on the ad and then 1 person joins.
>> The cost to acquire that member was $1 CPA.
>>
>> I guess since i'm in the internet marketing business I just jump into
>> these things.  Keep on sending your suggestions for keywords...it can't hurt
>> to test them out.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Paul Hildebrandt <
>> paul_hildebrandt at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I was skeptical of the whole ad word approach but color me convinced.
>>> Good idea Alex, thanks for doing it.
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----
>>> From: Alex Chang <maverick.chang at gmail.com>
>>> To: SoCal Python Interest Group <socal-piggies at lists.idyll.org>
>>> Sent: Monday, October 6, 2008 9:40:09 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [socal-piggies] meetup.com organizer
>>>
>>> Hey Jeremy!  Welcome.
>>>
>>> Yeah i'll add pythonista and python programmer to the list.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Jeremy James <jjames at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I just found the group last night.  I was likely one of those
>>>> impressions (though I clearly didn't click through - I found the
>>>> mailing list easily enough).
>>>>
>>>> You might trying throwing out "Pythonista", admittedly unofficial and
>>>> potentially confusing.  It is at least disambiguating and economical.
>>>>
>>>> Otherwise,  Python developers would have worked on/for me.
>>>>
>>>> Jeremy
>>>> On 10/6/08, Chuck Esterbrook <chuck.esterbrook at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> > You can tell Google to run an add on a geography. So you can advertise
>>>> > for the Los Angeles area for "python".
>>>> >
>>>> > Another potential phrase:
>>>> >
>>>> > Meet friendly Python programmers.
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > Although I like the word "developers" better than "programmers" we
>>>> > could end up with snake breeders showing up.
>>>> >
>>>> > -Chuck
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Alex Chang <maverick.chang at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> >> Whoops.  I must have cut it off because of character length.  I'll
>>>> just
>>>> >> remove the word "program"...  Just didnt want some guy looking for a
>>>> pet
>>>> >> python to click on it. lol.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> some keywords are:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> local python group
>>>> >> los angeles python
>>>> >> python group
>>>> >> python la
>>>> >> socal python
>>>> >>
>>>> >> But don't click on the ad....or it'll charge....
>>>> >>
>>>> >> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Chuck Esterbrook
>>>> >> <chuck.esterbrook at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Thanks for your efforts on this.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Can you cap "python":
>>>> >>>    "Join the Python program revolution."
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> And if there is room, it should be "programming". If not, maybe we
>>>> >>> should come up with a different phrase.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> What keywords trigger this? I'm in LA and searching for Python and
>>>> >>> "python language" didn't bring up the ad.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> -Chuck
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Alex Chang <
>>>> maverick.chang at gmail.com>
>>>> >>> wrote:
>>>> >>> > Fyi, I've been running an adwords campaign since last week.  Looks
>>>> like
>>>> >>> > 30
>>>> >>> > impressions so far and zero clickthrus.  But that's ok...  cost no
>>>> $$$.
>>>> >>> >
>>>> >>> > Los Angeles Python Group
>>>> >>> >
>>>> >>> > Join the python program revolution!
>>>> >>> > Monthly meetings, free, and local
>>>> >>> > python.meetup.com/187/Los Angeles, CA
>>>> >>> >
>>>> >>> > I'll leave it running for now.
>>>> >>> >
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