One thing that Spacevidcast
epic is supposed to do is bring in enough income to help pay for trips to conferences. This is good for the space community because we want to bring you as much coverage of stuff as possible. The idea has been working, but since it is so new, we're still a bit limited in what we can do.
Our goal was 20 members in the first month and then 30 new members each month after that. Well I'm happy to say that in Feb 2010 we got over 40 members! But March has slowed quite a bit, in no small part to us being busy and not pushing
epic as much. Also a part of it is that many of the people who were waiting to buy
epic now have it and don't need to buy it again.
So here we are. Great start, but not enough. Both Cariann and I were able to go to SpaceUp and bring you as much awesome coverage as we could, but Spacevidcast
epic simply was not big enough for us to both go to SxSW. This was the conference that I really wanted to go to, but had a hard time justifying over SpaceUp, ISDC and shuttle launches. So we opted to send Cariann all by herself while I stayed at home.
We attempted to record the Moon 2.0 panel but I'm not sure how much we were able to get. Cariann is also making a bunch of great contacts at SxSW and hopefully some of them will pan out. Spacevidcast
epic is nice, but we're not opposed to having advertising dollars in the bank too. Hey, we have grand visions for Spacevidcast and that all takes money.
So if you guys have any ideas on how we can raise more cash and get to more conferences, events and cool things that you want covered, please drop a line in the comments below. Each trip on average costs around $2,500, so keep that figure in mind. Once we hit 250
epic subscribers, we should be good to go to 1 event per month!
