Liam Martin - Founder of the ‘Running Remote’ Conference in Bali

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Liam is the founder of TimeDoctor and staff.com and also runs the
‘Running Remote’ conference in Bali. In this interview we
discuss:
How Liam started off with a plan to be a Sociology professor
but it didn’t work out as he wasn’t good at teaching How he started
the conference by finding a niche that no existing conference was
serving (a great tip for listeners Why Liam wears his ‘Running
Remote Conference’ t shirt every time he speaks at another
conference We discuss how not many people talk about the economics
of running a conference (apart from The Events Podcast) How Liam
focused heavily on the financials to make sure he didn’t lose money
How you can get hotels to pay you 10-20% of all room booking fees
How to negotiate with hotels How he is dealing with local
governments who want to pay to bring his conference to them as they
want to attract remote workers How it’s way easier to get sponsors
for your second conference (Liam 10x’d his prices!) How he gets to
break even just from sponsors Pro Tip: Get speakers to record a
promo video to show they are speaking at your event - great social
proof They sold 9% of tickets in first month, 19% in second, 30% in
third, 15% in fourth, 28% in fifth, 10% in sixth Pro Tip: If you
can get 50% of conference attendees to come again next year you are
doing great How they made a mistake only having vegetarian food in
year one If you have a VIP party….then charge for it How he got all
his speakers Diplomatic Immunity!

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on https://runningremote.com