Quote: (03-31-2012 11:13 PM)Walnuts Wrote:
How often do you go out with friends?
Actually not as often as I should. Although I realize this was short notice I also realized that I don't really have many friends. I need to work on my social circle. I've been a little antisocial(staying in my apartment a lot) when working on my business.
Quote: (04-01-2012 07:33 AM)Gmac Wrote:
Hosting parties is not as easy as people like to think... Hmm sounds like a good blog post topic for me...
It's pretty hard. There are a lot of factors that go in. But once you have an established circle of friends and hookups; and people know your parties are good, they will come.
It's all expectations.
Thing is, I don't really have any base to work off of so that's where I messed up. I really should've not thrown it and prepared longer-term.
I think one way to attract people is offer keg, jungle juice, and cheap-ass shots. Then when you get established you already DHV so you can charge.
Quote: (04-01-2012 09:18 AM)Perseus Wrote:
From my experience, people in general, especially in North America they want to give you the impression that they have better things to do, or other parties on the list, and you're one option.
In many cases also, people don't like a 6-hour notice, as they will think "who does this guy think he is? for us to drop everything in 6 hours and go to his party".....that kind of mentality which you have to put into consideration.
But overall, don't be too hard on yourself, it's free beer, more for you and your buddy who showed up.
Yeah exactly, it definitely was too short notice. But I know for sure most of the people probably ended up doing something lame or nothing at all. I think it's stupid how in our culture you need to be given such a long notice because of the scare of looking like a "loser".
One thing I hate about American culture, such political correctness.
Quote: (04-01-2012 09:26 PM)el mechanico Wrote:
Back in the day you would have to turn people away if you let anyone know you had a free keg of beer. These days even though the economy sucks people are still a little spoiled and lazy. Don't feel bad about it and there's no reason to. Your FB friends would have to prepare for FB pictures if they came. Their online personas could have crumbled with such a short time to prepare.
I could do the same experiment here on facebook and invite 300 people from there and 10 by mouth or phone and guess who would be there?
^^ This. I realized that over and over. My friend invited 1,000 girls to his party once. (He had a special account called "XXX Bangers" and had around 2,000 college cuties added. - If anyone is interested in how to get so many people ask me. I know a little about facebook marketing and facebook software)
But like the party wasn't as crazy as we had expected it to be. Sure there was a decent 1:1 But he had invited only girls so we were expecting a lot more girls... and prettier ones... lol.
I think what you need to do is couple facebook event with mass text and calling. Word of mouth is better than some event.
If anything hire people to market for you.(If you're really determined).
Heh look at me now, giving the advice.
Thanks for all the replies. I considered each one and appreciate the community responses.