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Yep, it's to expensive. We were invited to participate and decided it simply didn't provide the value. Especially starting focusing on tech conferences, which are Lanyrd's core, each company which could pay for pro could also just code up their own page to do the same thing. It's a shame as I like lanyrd and want it to stick around.

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I think that is a false economy - yes you always have to understand what you are outsourcing but the opportunity cost of a developer good enough to get invites to conferences is a lot - and I should put him on making a video uploaded and catalog page when lanyd do it all day? Nah just a days extra "tidying up" will blow months of lanyard prices

The problem I see with the pricing is that the smallest tier assumes you have about 10-15 persons going to events on a regular basis. The tier implies "regular" to be around once every two month. Having so many employees attend conferences so often implies maybe 100 employees all in all - so this is uninteresting for a large share of the market. It's obviously a cool product, but for me at the current pricing just a no-go.

We're listening to pricing feedback at the moment. We'll definitely consider adding a smaller plan.

I would not offer a plan of less per month - that's where everyone will head.

Go for three tiers, with a carnet or book of tickets approach. Yes it's harder to implement but in think that if people pay for say hosting for talks in blocks of three or five then you canngrab the folks who just are doing one talknand want to look pros.

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