December 5-6 in Memphis, Tennessee the premier 2008 Emerging church/Emergent/Emerging Christianity/Emergency (whatever you want to call this movement) event will take place.
The Great Emergence National Event.
The two days will be built around Phyllis Tickle’s new book by the same name.
There is no question in my mind that this is the event for those who are interested in not only the future of the church, but what possibilities are at hand for Christianity and religion in the coming years.
In addition to this being a great event for its content the structure of the event will also be innovative presentations from a fine roster of exciting voices.
Here is the really great part – you can be part of the promotion of the event and have all your expenses covered – registration, housing and travel.
Here is the deal: When you promote the event (through blogs, email, Facebook, Twitter, church bulletins, putting flyers on windshields or how ever you want) and people register using the four-letter code you establish you will earn points.
Each person registered = 1 point and with each 5 points earned you move to the next reward.
- 5 = Signed Copy of the Book
- 10 = Signed Copy of the Book and Free Registration
- 15 = Book, Free Registration and Two Night Free Hotel
- 20 = Book, Free Registration, Two Night Free Hotel and $300 in travel Reimbursement
Frankly, this seems like an unbelievable deal, but you can believe it.
So, here is what you need to do from here:
- Choose a 4-letter code (no numbers please)
- Send code, name, promotion location (site, facebook, etc), phone number and mailing address to Info@JopaProductions.com.
- Download the helpful marketing material here (headers, book cover, “register here” button)
- Start promoting the event and tell people to enter your 4-letter code into the Coupon Code Box on the registration page.
And the next thing you know you will be at the event and have your expenses paid for.
See you in Memphis, December 5-6.
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Doug:
Your “exciting voices” link is broken – a typo I believe
Sounds like a great idea.
I’m game.
Anyone up for a little Coupon Code known as POMO.
http://pomomusings.com/2008/09/11/great-emergence/
yeah the link is broken. looks like it should be ::
http://www.thegreatemergence.com/PR/TGE-PRPACK.zip
thanks, it is fixed now.
Who will I be helping if I enter BLOG in the coupon code? I would hope that it would not be one of the workshop leaders, but someone who really needs help getting to the event.
I want to be absolutly respectful as I bring this up.
I can’t help but think that when a conference can do this kind of marketing where they give away hotel rooms and essentially cash, then someone has to be planning to make a decent profit off of this event.
How does an event like this, (with some company making a profit off of it) fit in the emergent ethos?
Don’t get me wrong, I am all for people meeting together to descuss and network, and also don’t even mind (too much) having the conference be centered around one dominant voice, (though I would like to see us get away from this kind of thing). I just don’t see this kind of huge profit making conference as really fitting in with the emerging ethos.
See this post for another take on this. http://tallskinnykiwi.typepad.com/tallskinnykiwi/2008/09/slot-festival-p.html
Cool idea. I have a series of questions about the promotion of the event: 1) At the risk of sounding somewhat out of touch, how are the “helpful marketing materials” best used? I opened the file and looked at them only to draw a blank about how they were intended to be used; 2) What is meant exactly by “promotion location”? The 2nd step to helping promote the event and go for free says “Send code name, promotion location (site Facebook, etc.), phone number, and mailing address…” Is that referring to the one main Internet location which I’ll use to promote the event, all Internet locations that I’ll use to promote the event, or any means (Internet or non-Internet) which I’ll use to promote the event?; 3) Do I have to choose a 4-letter code not chosen by anyone else?; 4) When we promote this event and try to get people to register using our 4-letter code, is there something in it for them for using our 4-letter code? Do we as promoters have some incentive to offer them for using our 4-letter code? They’re supposed to enter the code into the “coupon code” box on the registration page, so I assume they get some sort of discount with our 4-letter code, right? Very important stuff to ensure we receive a fair hearing. Sorry for the length of the post. Figured I’d cover it all in one post instead of multiple ones.
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