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<nowiki>***</nowiki> are Commitments | |||
<nowiki>~~~ are deeper notes about commitment ("wont do" items, etc)</nowiki> | |||
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May 3rd, 2024 @ 11am | |||
Events and Trade Mission Committee | |||
Chair: David Hoppe | |||
Notetaking: Beau Johnson | |||
Attendees: David Hoppe, Beau Johnson, Ross Cowman, Nicole Jekich, Mike Selinker, Chris Pramas | |||
Missing: Sec. Steve Hobbs, Stephanie Prentice | |||
+ Welcome, Introductions, and Announcements (5 minutes) | |||
Mike Slept for 20 hours | |||
+ Old Business (45 minutes) | |||
TGA Tokyo Recap: | |||
Ross: as a publisher, it was worth it (sales make, strengthen relationships new and old, new introductions with others in the japan industry, cafe industry and how people use them) | |||
Still a learning experience, and taking that forward to future travels and expos | |||
Chris: Overall it was good, sales a bust - japanese gamers don't speak english. No interest in our english books. Made sales in PDFs, actually (they can be translated digitally). | |||
Talked with different publishers and got leads, not just japanese publishers | |||
Chris: Not a lot of RPG big books, was smaller book focus | |||
Translator spent a lot of time at the booth, but didn't get to walk around with translators | |||
Nicole: understanding Japanese market and trends, community aspect of advertising games and such, visiting game cafes were interesting and how some game cafes are also publishers | |||
Mike: We ran the booth way would would normally do a booth, sold most everything - direct at con or to retailers direct | |||
Booth was well built, relationship with arclight was great, tons of meeting through gold key service and those led to lots of conversations at con and prior to con | |||
Cherry did well selling their game, Flatout made connections, overall went well - | |||
Went to state dept and talking with JCP building a plant to create cards, didn't know it was gonna happen but we might have sold it | |||
lot of unexpected moments but people handled them well | |||
All publishers interactions were positive and setup for future success | |||
Better definitions on what is being represented (lot of the successes were board game related, not necessarily RPG) | |||
Chris: it was interesting to do a US embassy briefing | |||
Mike: talked about Visas with US embassy people, was interesting | |||
Chris: logistically speaking, single guy was handling purchases | |||
Miss - wanted to talk with hobby japan (mike: but no one was there) (Ross: will hand work with their Hobby Japan contact, I got lucky on a demo of my game) | |||
Nicole: Committed to move forward on a feedback form instead of a meeting, also took notes of the critiques of the trip | |||
Mike: we did not have an empty table | |||
Report to SOS office: | |||
Ross: Want info about business deals, financial reports from con, etc | |||
Put together a spreadsheet, add notes / contacts | |||
Chris: will this be public record? | |||
Ross: There is no specific policy of what they (SOS) wants and commerce has their own needs | |||
What i think we should do: get a report together on each publisher, and will work on the privacy of those interactions | |||
Mike: some could cancel if those reports go public | |||
David: Get some internal reports and the SOS office could get some information from those reports and keep some sensitive or delicate interactions that could be affected by public announcements | |||
<nowiki> ~~~ Ross is on point for this</nowiki> | |||
STEP commerce surveys: | |||
Ross: they have been sent out, and ross will forward it to people as well if they did not get things | |||
Internal debrief: | |||
Ross: from all parties that went on trip and inform future trade missions | |||
*** Nicole: Committed to move forward on a feedback form instead of a meeting | |||
Steph has requested a meeting about essen candidates | |||
Ross: make a formal appointment on this, have this body make recommendations going forward | |||
Chris: They though mostly different companies going to Essen (Mike agreed and removed themselves from even thinking about Essen) | |||
Japan Games Market Meetup: | |||
Ross: make a general meetup and talk about and showcase the games we did | |||
Mox as a location? | |||
Essen Update: | |||
Nicole: last debrief, some reservations from commerce - want new companies, no repeats from Tokyo - getting confirmation on that | |||
Get "What's Eric Playing" clarity on going as they are considered an influencer | |||
Mike: Removing any company in any form - will there be enough companies that could apply? If not enough an empty booth would be not even worth it. | |||
Nicole: wait list candidates being reviewed, Thing 12 might be considered an exception - 5-6 candidates for essen on wait list | |||
Mike: I might post about this in my blog? | |||
David: This is our trade mission, and should keep that in mind this could diverge from SOS | |||
80% new companies would be a good focus | |||
Stronger companies should also go, and benefit from a wider audience. | |||
David: the challenge, start to develop fund parts of this ourselves | |||
Mike: They cannot be besieged with special requests (of the groups that we work with and reach out to on events) | |||
<nowiki>~~~ Mike: I have considered to step away from the Event and Trade group</nowiki> | |||
Nicole: meeting monday with steph on recommendations and what the asks are, and the membership side on hopefully an 80/20 split on attendees | |||
David: will need to consider long term autonomy and independence on future trade events | |||
Mike: As the booth manager at Tokyo, ask what are you looking for | |||
Nicole: Booth management, talking anne and molly on how essen is - I want to suss out what their plan and what expectations is to occur | |||
GenCon: | |||
David: good to have TGA do something there, any takers to head something (timeline is tight!) | |||
Ross: help out arclight with partner attendance at our booth, learned from working in Japan and showcase what Tokyo was for all parties | |||
David: half and half: What TGA is and what Arclight showcase from our Tokyo event | |||
David: awaiting the volunteer for this, get agenda and make sure it well placed and promoted | |||
Ran out of time - so other topics were not discussed: | |||
<nowiki>*</nowiki> Trade Missions - What Trade Missions should the TGA consider for 2025? | |||
<nowiki>*</nowiki> Support for Visiting Industry Professionals (Ross) | |||
<nowiki>*</nowiki> New Commitments Review | |||
+ New Business (15 minutes) | |||
+ Commitments Review (5 minutes) | |||
New Commitments Review | |||
+ Set Next Date (5 minutes) | |||
May 17th set! |
Latest revision as of 11:09, 31 May 2024
-------------------
*** are Commitments
~~~ are deeper notes about commitment ("wont do" items, etc)
-------------------
May 3rd, 2024 @ 11am
Events and Trade Mission Committee
Chair: David Hoppe
Notetaking: Beau Johnson
Attendees: David Hoppe, Beau Johnson, Ross Cowman, Nicole Jekich, Mike Selinker, Chris Pramas
Missing: Sec. Steve Hobbs, Stephanie Prentice
+ Welcome, Introductions, and Announcements (5 minutes)
Mike Slept for 20 hours
+ Old Business (45 minutes)
TGA Tokyo Recap:
Ross: as a publisher, it was worth it (sales make, strengthen relationships new and old, new introductions with others in the japan industry, cafe industry and how people use them)
Still a learning experience, and taking that forward to future travels and expos
Chris: Overall it was good, sales a bust - japanese gamers don't speak english. No interest in our english books. Made sales in PDFs, actually (they can be translated digitally).
Talked with different publishers and got leads, not just japanese publishers
Chris: Not a lot of RPG big books, was smaller book focus
Translator spent a lot of time at the booth, but didn't get to walk around with translators
Nicole: understanding Japanese market and trends, community aspect of advertising games and such, visiting game cafes were interesting and how some game cafes are also publishers
Mike: We ran the booth way would would normally do a booth, sold most everything - direct at con or to retailers direct
Booth was well built, relationship with arclight was great, tons of meeting through gold key service and those led to lots of conversations at con and prior to con
Cherry did well selling their game, Flatout made connections, overall went well -
Went to state dept and talking with JCP building a plant to create cards, didn't know it was gonna happen but we might have sold it
lot of unexpected moments but people handled them well
All publishers interactions were positive and setup for future success
Better definitions on what is being represented (lot of the successes were board game related, not necessarily RPG)
Chris: it was interesting to do a US embassy briefing
Mike: talked about Visas with US embassy people, was interesting
Chris: logistically speaking, single guy was handling purchases
Miss - wanted to talk with hobby japan (mike: but no one was there) (Ross: will hand work with their Hobby Japan contact, I got lucky on a demo of my game)
Nicole: Committed to move forward on a feedback form instead of a meeting, also took notes of the critiques of the trip
Mike: we did not have an empty table
Report to SOS office:
Ross: Want info about business deals, financial reports from con, etc
Put together a spreadsheet, add notes / contacts
Chris: will this be public record?
Ross: There is no specific policy of what they (SOS) wants and commerce has their own needs
What i think we should do: get a report together on each publisher, and will work on the privacy of those interactions
Mike: some could cancel if those reports go public
David: Get some internal reports and the SOS office could get some information from those reports and keep some sensitive or delicate interactions that could be affected by public announcements
~~~ Ross is on point for this
STEP commerce surveys:
Ross: they have been sent out, and ross will forward it to people as well if they did not get things
Internal debrief:
Ross: from all parties that went on trip and inform future trade missions
*** Nicole: Committed to move forward on a feedback form instead of a meeting
Steph has requested a meeting about essen candidates
Ross: make a formal appointment on this, have this body make recommendations going forward
Chris: They though mostly different companies going to Essen (Mike agreed and removed themselves from even thinking about Essen)
Japan Games Market Meetup:
Ross: make a general meetup and talk about and showcase the games we did
Mox as a location?
Essen Update:
Nicole: last debrief, some reservations from commerce - want new companies, no repeats from Tokyo - getting confirmation on that
Get "What's Eric Playing" clarity on going as they are considered an influencer
Mike: Removing any company in any form - will there be enough companies that could apply? If not enough an empty booth would be not even worth it.
Nicole: wait list candidates being reviewed, Thing 12 might be considered an exception - 5-6 candidates for essen on wait list
Mike: I might post about this in my blog?
David: This is our trade mission, and should keep that in mind this could diverge from SOS
80% new companies would be a good focus
Stronger companies should also go, and benefit from a wider audience.
David: the challenge, start to develop fund parts of this ourselves
Mike: They cannot be besieged with special requests (of the groups that we work with and reach out to on events)
~~~ Mike: I have considered to step away from the Event and Trade group
Nicole: meeting monday with steph on recommendations and what the asks are, and the membership side on hopefully an 80/20 split on attendees
David: will need to consider long term autonomy and independence on future trade events
Mike: As the booth manager at Tokyo, ask what are you looking for
Nicole: Booth management, talking anne and molly on how essen is - I want to suss out what their plan and what expectations is to occur
GenCon:
David: good to have TGA do something there, any takers to head something (timeline is tight!)
Ross: help out arclight with partner attendance at our booth, learned from working in Japan and showcase what Tokyo was for all parties
David: half and half: What TGA is and what Arclight showcase from our Tokyo event
David: awaiting the volunteer for this, get agenda and make sure it well placed and promoted
Ran out of time - so other topics were not discussed:
* Trade Missions - What Trade Missions should the TGA consider for 2025?
* Support for Visiting Industry Professionals (Ross)
* New Commitments Review
+ New Business (15 minutes)
+ Commitments Review (5 minutes)
New Commitments Review
+ Set Next Date (5 minutes)
May 17th set!