Rich Brooks

Yes, so that would be it.

And that's an expensive year for us, quite honestly.

But sometimes part of what I wanted to do is I wanted to bring fresh voices to Maine because a lot of Mainers don't necessarily leave the state to go to something like NMX.

or social media marketing world or one of those type of events.

So, you know, I wanted to take some of that magic and bring it back to Maine and get people excited about some of these new marketing opportunities.

I always try and leverage as much of that as possible.

Like you mentioned in the introduction, I am the tech guru for basically what's the evening news program here on the most popular NBC affiliate in the state of Maine.

And I've been able to go on there last year.

I actually was able to bring in John Lee Dumas, who grew up in Maine, and the two of us got to go on TV together and talk about the conference.

Um, we're expecting three 75 to 400.

And it really just, that's been the numbers we've been hovering at.

We cap it at 400, but we also have a digital pass and that's a whole nother aspect to it as well.

We've hired a local company that comes in, they record everything, uh, and they do a live feed.

So a lot of people, we usually sell anywhere from a hundred to 300 tickets.

It

of people who are either gonna watch the live stream of the event or will watch it on demand after the conference is over.

Well, that's awesome.

I should actually hire you to run my numbers from the beginning because that was the clearest anyone's ever explained to me how I made a profit on this.

You're welcome.

The other thing that I would say is if you are doing this for business, I mean, yes, I love making a profit at this.