National Homebrew Club Ireland

So who isn't going to Brewcon and why not? That line up this year is something else, nobody in a homebrew conference in Europe has that calibre of speakers and I hear the value of the goodies like last year is the same as the ticket price! There will also be some special big spot prizes for you as a brewer and also for you and your missus.
If you are on the fence or never been before no matter what level of brewing you are at don't even blink, ticket sales are going well for members and recent spurt of non member sales happening now as well. Of course we'd love to see more members than non members go as it's your club and your event.
Most of all it's a great opportunity to learn and share thoughts ideas and this year beer from different clubs.
I'll certainly be annoying those Wee County fellas for trade secrets.
So this weekend be nice to her and ask can she spare you for a Saturday at the end of April.

 Next year so
And for those that are going is there anything you would really like to see changed from previous years?
All last years feedback was taken on board and applied

Slides/notes being made available afterwards would be great but I understand not everyone wants to give that detail out.

Quote from: CH on March 16, 2017, 10:46:29 AM
And for those that are going is there anything you would really like to see changed from previous years?

A late licence? Maybe some exotic dancers?  ;) :-*

Looking forward to it :)

I'm not going because my son's birthday is the 29th, he will be 3. I don't want to miss the party.

I've asked about attending for the evening part, but was shot down basically.  :(

I'm sure if you get a ticket you can choose to only attend the evening session.

Last year I made a suggestion for notes from speakers as it was impossible to write down as they were speaking. Or re oRd it maybe.  Also if Rosa sits down and chats to Alex again this year can we ALL get a beer to open 😂😂😂
Actually a beer while listening to the speakers might be nice 😎

I agree with you on the notes, issue is the speakers don't want to part with their work, not all of them mind!
I gather some were approached last year and info was mailed on.

Its fairly typical if you are being paid to speak somewhere to provide your notes though. Every guest speaker I ever attended in an academic setting provided either links or a mailing list for their notes.

Paid, nah nobody gets paid and why it's 50 odd and not 250

Speaker notes shouldn't be a problem.  :)

What's the story with Brewcon constantly coming up as promoted content on my FB page? I find promoted content really spammy and always block those that use it, so it will be goodbye NHC from my FB.

Quote from: Taf on March 25, 2017, 08:28:46 AM
What's the story with Brewcon constantly coming up as promoted content on my FB page? I find promoted content really spammy and always block those that use it, so it will be goodbye NHC from my FB.

Apparently promoted content is good for advertising events. We seem to get a lot more hits from using it anyway and it only costs a few quid.

Quote from: Taf on March 25, 2017, 08:28:46 AM
What's the story with Brewcon constantly coming up as promoted content on my FB page? I find promoted content really spammy and always block those that use it, so it will be goodbye NHC from my FB.

Its our bread & butter to get word out there. FB have a lot of options for you to customize what you see & don't see.

https://www.facebook.com/help/1075880512458213/?helpref=hc_fnav

If you're not interested in following us in your feed and getting updates from the NHC - just like any other page you can select what you want to not see anymore

Yes, I'm familiar with how it all works on FB. I just found it really spammy to see the same ad multiple times a day.

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Quote from: LASERBOY147 on March 29, 2017, 01:05:06 PM
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Is that directed at me? If so, gfy!

Quote from: Taf on March 28, 2017, 07:15:06 PM
Yes, I'm familiar with how it all works on FB. I just found it really spammy to see the same ad multiple times a day.

I doubt its anything to do with NHC and more to do with your cookies and facebook being creeps and knowing your every move

Quote from: Stecleary84 on March 29, 2017, 01:17:21 PM
I doubt its anything to do with NHC and more to do with your cookies and facebook being creeps and knowing your every move

I think all advertising content is targeted based on your browsing history \ cookies (as you say) unless you tell them not to? that's what google do anyway. Do the adblockers not block that stuff (I'm not on the FB)?

I use adblocker on chrome and google and FB still know every move. :(

If you don't want to see loads of ads on facebook don't use facebook. It exists to take your information, give it to advertisers and have them target you.

Folks - sorry havent been on here for a while -

With regards to the facebook ads - Im fully responsible for that - any complaints fire them my direction.

So - yeap - they look like ads - because they, essentially are ads - we have paid (3 or 4 times now) to boost our brewcon posts.

Its one of the best ways to get a message to your target audience.

We were on about 102 ticket sales (which is a loss) and very stationary - we started this campaign over the last 10 days or so and we have sold an additional 20 tickets - thats about 1200 euros worth.

The ads cost somewhere from 3/4 euro to 12 euro - depending on how many posts it reaches (not sure what qualifies as a reach)
So the total spend at the moment on that is roughly 30 euro

Of course the ticket sales arent 100% because of the exposure on facebook - the lads have done a lot on twitter and forum website etc...


Anyways - without rambling too much - we have one more ad to go next week. I hope you understand - and I appreciate people arent complaining - but I thought no harm to fill people in as to where and why the ads were appearing.

I hope that clears it up

Thanks guys - BrewCon is going to be bigger and better than ever !!!