{"id":6173,"date":"2012-02-20T09:33:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T09:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=6173"},"modified":"2023-06-05T00:48:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T00:48:30","slug":"stop-offering-mwc-tickets-on-their-own-as-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/02\/stop-offering-mwc-tickets-on-their-own-as-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop offering MWC tickets on their own as prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of mobile sites offering a free ticket to MWC which happens next week (here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/windowsteamblog.com\/windows_phone\/b\/windowsphone\/archive\/2012\/02\/17\/come-fiesta-with-us-at-mobile-world-congress-in-barcelona.aspx\">Microsoft&#8217;s Window Blog<\/a>, as one example). A little note for those sites&#8230; the ticket to MWC is not the issue. The price of a flight, along with\u00a0accommodation\u00a0in Barcelona at short notice, that&#8217;s the problem. And it&#8217;s a problem that isn&#8217;t solved as part of your prize package.<\/p>\n<p>Same goes for SXSW badges, if there are no hotels available in Austin, don&#8217;t offer a badge without offering to help with accommodation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of mobile sites offering a free ticket to MWC which happens next week (here&#8217;s Microsoft&#8217;s Window Blog, as one example). A little note for those sites&#8230; the ticket to MWC is not the issue. The price of a flight, along with\u00a0accommodation\u00a0in Barcelona at short notice, that&#8217;s the problem. And it&#8217;s a problem that isn&#8217;t solved as part of your prize package. Same goes for SXSW badges, if there are no hotels available in Austin, don&#8217;t offer a badge without offering to help with accommodation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[2309,22,4,38],"tags":[3570,921,3569],"class_list":["post-6173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2309","category-conferences","category-pocket-computers-and-phones","category-sxsw","tag-hotel","tag-mwc","tag-prize","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-1Bz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67654,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6173\/revisions\/67654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}