decided to start my own anime con. i'm looking for advice on how to run it or stuff you guys would love to see at a con.>held at a hotel with 2 pools>more ticket sales = will expand to also rent out local bowling alley arcade>panels will be vetted by actual nerds, so you don't get "who is ash ketchum? what does yaoi mean?">r18 panels/merch allowed in separated area>baggage storage>hands-on cosplay panel tutorial where you actually make stuff>cosplay repair arealots more stuff under consideration. i'm financially prepared to eat the costs and pay for everything out of pocket and lose all the money if no one buys tickets, but i'd like to make this con fun and successful.
>>10920781Have you at least volunteered at an existing con or know the people that have organized them?Otherwise you have no hope. At very least you need a company insulating you, otherwise you'd personally be liable for a lot of shit.
>>10920781Make sure to serve booze. Where is the con gonna be?
TOTAL KIGGER DEATH
>>10920783have both volunteered myself and have 3-4 people who have been staff at other cons who agreed to be staff or at least help out with the planning at this con. also i studied event management, project management and bookkeeping in school, not that it means much irl.>>10920784police won't let us serve booze as an official part of the con, but no restrictions on room parties. i've been a bartender so was thinking of training someone to "unofficially" serve "anime style" drinks in the adult only room, or just doing it myself once the evening hours hit and most people have left.>>10920784washington state
>>10920781You know what city it's going to be in?
>>10920781Quick recommendation: Make social media accounts and a Discord server. That will get the message that your con is happening out to congoers.
>>10920789yeah. i plan to book the venue next month after our website and ticketing system gets finished and i double confirm everything with the hotel manager and the police. could be we have to suddenly change locations due to the police and municipality rules being a pain in the butt so i'll refrain from giving more precise details until after we at least have all that settled and the local advertisements out.>>10920791we have a discord (mainly just open to con staff until the ticketing system gets put in place and we start advertising), the instagram, youtube and other stuff will get made after we have the main website set up.
>>10920783>you need a company insulating youWill look into this. I dunno how I could get a company to do so - all I know is to run your own business as something like an LLC. The hotel has its own system for dealing with damages, drug addict customers and so on which I can build on in the contract for the tickets, but the hotel doesn't have a special system that covers stuff like "you caused a traumatic experience" or "a kid was kidnapped"
>>10920785Ok, Compass.
>>10920799If you don't have an LLC set up before the announcement you're setting yourself in a massive world of hurt. You will need an EIN and state tax ID. If you put your SSN as a tax ID you're now liable for everything.Never ever trust hotel sales in a single word of what they tell you. Everything must be in writing. Your contract is what will break you if it's not in there. The hotel will fuck you if you don't understand all of the terms.It also sounds like you haven't done jack shit on insurance research which will be required during the con.This is business 101 shitThere are groups out there who are organizers that can give you advisement. Do not do this because you hate the cons of how they're run.
>>10920808As stated, we are not announcing or advertising until we get all the basics set up. This includes the permits from the police, signed hotel contract, business accounts, ticketing system, and all that other stuff. We have a long time before the con, we're just starting out now after confirming it is actually possible to host and after conferring with different potential venues.>Everything must be in writing.Yes, we have an unsigned copy of the hotel contract in writing.>There are groups out there who are organizers that can give you advisementThe reason why I made this thread was for advice, not to advertise the con. I already said we are looking for advice and that we've recruited members with experience of con management. We aren't just going to ask for advice in one single place or ask for advice just a couple times then do whatever, we are getting advice throughout the whole way from various sources. It's not me who has the business experience, I personally am in charge of other stuff.
>>10920781>advice on how to run itGo to the AX thread, look at the kind of terrible opinions people have on running events and realize what an even worse idea it is to ask this here. Oh and there's also a book on the subject
>>10920813No, dumbass, there are specific groups in which hundreds of organizers who help run anime cons talk to each other. This is the worst place to ask for advice. They are easy to find if you take the time to speak to long-standing organizers instead of letting your ego get ahead of you.
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nice to see 4channers are planning their own dashcon for the upcoming 10 year anniversary
I hope you do it and it’s successful. I don’t have any advise but I want to encourage you. Keep us in the loop.
Also came to encourage you. You're right about getting opinions from different sources.
>>10920828Excellent idea
>>10920796Aaand that's a fail. You've never run an event of any size. Ticketing is absolutely not the first thing you do. Never take on all the cost yourself that's the worst part of this plan. What do you want? Attendees focus or celeb? If celeb you're not gonna be able to oop this. If atendee your scope is already way too big, 30 of your budget should be in advertising and expect about 200 head - no where near enough to need 2 pools and outside locations.What's your date?
>held at a hotelstopped reading there, gave you another chance then i saw>bowling alleydo you know what a convention is?
>>10926617It's another retard who thinks going to cons is easy therefore running one must be super easy. They can fail like hundreds of others.
>>10926624the problem is OP doesn’t seem to know that people like conventions for a myriad of reasons. how the fuck are you going to have an artist alley in a hotel or a bowling alley? i know everyone starts small but OP has too many close minded ideas, just too far in his own head about keeping out “the cashualz” and not the bigger picture
>>10926627>how the fuck are you going to have an artist alley in a hotelhotels have con rooms dumbass
>>10926617500 IQ post>>10926627Over 9000 IQ post
>>10926643and? no one wants to walk through several hallways/floors when most cons have one or two big floors, and if you barely have any attendees it’s gonna feel empty as fuck or if you have too many and not enough rooms reserved it’s gonna be sardines.
>>10926627>how the fuck are you going to have an artist alley in a hotelConference rooms, ball rooms, hallways
>>10920781You are going to need to do a paytron / paypal for about 1-9 HUNDRED THOUSAND dollars. (10 hundred thousand would be a Million.)Ask Mr. Beast to help, Lol.
>>10926627you do know most conventions started at hotels, right?
Easy access to water.>>10920781>>cosplay repair areaWhat materials are available here?
>>10926808yes, when back then conventions were mostly just people gathering to watch anime together and that was it usually. cons are way more active now in terms of events and that’s what usually drives people to go
>>10920828>look at the kind of terrible opinions people have on running events and realize what an even worse idea it is to ask this hereA month in, so far every other post on the subject (both here and AX thread) proves me right
>>10927019might as well go to japan with those pricing ideas LOL
>>10927019That idea is so stupid because high prices just attract the clout chasing influencers/youtubers for thinking its the new coachella/burning man/lollapolooza etc
>>10927019the only people who go to AX are people who just wanna bang and flex their money who the most normalfags of them all yet talk about how they should make it even more expensive to keep the normies out lmao
