Seminars

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08-31-2011, 03:06 PM
Michael McGuire

Seminars

How do "Seminars" usually work? :confused:

Costs?
Who pays for them?
Instructor Booking?
Instructor Transportation?
Instructor Lodging?
Instructor's Food?
Seminar Tickets?
ETC.?

:) Thanks
08-31-2011, 03:34 PM
Chris Herzog

Quote:

Originally Posted by Michael McGuire

How do "Seminars" usually work? :confused:

Costs?
Who pays for them?
Instructor Booking?
Instructor Transportation?
Instructor Lodging?
Instructor's Food?
Seminar Tickets?
ETC.?

:) Thanks

Costs? Depends on the Instructor
Who pays for them? The Host
Instructor Booking? The Host
Instructor Transportation? The Host
Instructor Lodging? The Host
Instructor's Food? Most Instructors pay for their own food. But When I host an Instructor at my place I usually cover the cost of a dinner or two.
Seminar Tickets? The Host is responsible for keeping track and organizing the event including collection of the funds.
08-31-2011, 05:53 PM
Michael McGuire

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chris Herzog

Costs? Depends on the Instructor
Who pays for them? The Host
Instructor Booking? The Host
Instructor Transportation? The Host
Instructor Lodging? The Host
Instructor's Food? Most Instructors pay for their own food. But When I host an Instructor at my place I usually cover the cost of a dinner or two.
Seminar Tickets? The Host is responsible for keeping track and organizing the event including collection of the funds.

:) Thanks Chris Herzog for your reply but I was hoping for more in-depth answers to my questions. With all do respect, before I posted this thread I all ready thought that "The Host" would cover most of if not everything & that the "Costs" would depend on the Instructor. I guess I should have asked my questions in more detail. I will try and repost my questions in more detail so that if you or others would still like to help me & the forum understand the workings of "Seminars" more clearly, you may do so.

:) Thanks Again.
08-31-2011, 06:12 PM
Michael McGuire

:confused: "Costs"

What "usually" are all the "Costs" involved in putting a "Seminar" together?

Instructor Booking?; Seminar ADs?; Instructor Transportation?; Instructor Lodging?; Instructor's Food?; Seminar Tickets?; Chillin w/ Instructor after class, ie BBQ, ballgame, etc?;. . . . . . . . .What??
08-31-2011, 06:26 PM
Eddie Bravo

Every instructor has a different price.

My price is $2500 for 3 hours of instruction or 70% of the total money collected whichever is more, plus airfare and hotel. The remaining 30% goes to the host to cover expenses.

The cost to attend my seminars is $100 which means if 30 people show up you pretty much have the expenses covered :)

email me if you are interested, I am booked thru the end of the year twisterbravo@sbcglobal.net
08-31-2011, 06:37 PM
Michael McGuire

:confused: "Who Pays"

As I would imagine "The Host" would "usually" cover most of all the "Costs" but is there anything that the "Instructor" might cover or help cover like "Food"?

Do school owners ever have a group of their students come together and ask them if they would host a "Seminar" with such & such if they paid for it or at least some of it?

Do school owners ever propose to their students a "Seminar" with such & such if they help pay for it?

Have you ever put on a "Seminar" with a "Sponsor"? How did you set that up?

ETC.?
08-31-2011, 06:43 PM
Michael McGuire

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eddie Bravo

Every instructor has a different price.

My price is $2500 for 3 hours of instruction or 70% of the total money collected whichever is more, plus airfare and hotel. The remaining 30% goes to the host to cover expenses.

The cost to attend my seminars is $100 which means if 30 people show up you pretty much have the expenses covered :)

email me if you are interested, I am booked thru the end of the year twisterbravo@sbcglobal.net

:D Thank You Sensei Eddie Bravo
08-31-2011, 07:02 PM
Chris Herzog

Quote:

Originally Posted by Michael McGuire

:confused: "Who Pays"

As I would imagine "The Host" would "usually" cover most of all the "Costs" but is there anything that the "Instructor" might cover or help cover like "Food"?

Do school owners ever have a group of their students come together and ask them if they would host a "Seminar" with such & such if they paid for it or at least some of it?

Do school owners ever propose to their students a "Seminar" with such & such if they help pay for it?

Have you ever put on a "Seminar" with a "Sponsor"? How did you set that up?

ETC.?

The host pays for the instructors travel (flight) & Hotel and the cost of the seminar instruction which using Eddies rate is $2500. There isn't an expectation to pay for the instructors food. But I foot the bill when I have and instructor doing a seminar at my place and we take them out to dinner.

I've never had students assist in "covering" expenses when I host a seminar. I wouldn't even ask them. You don't see too many seminars having "paid sponsors".

Never heard of doing paid advertising for seminars. Best places to advertise are free, Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, other mma and Jiu Jitsu websites, etc. Also having a flyer and droping it off around other schools in the area should help as well. When I host a seminar I contact schools that I'm friends with, I may cut the instructor of that school a break if there bring say 5 students with them I'll allow that instuctor to attend the seminar for free.
08-31-2011, 07:05 PM
Michael McGuire

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chris Herzog

The host pays for the instructors travel (flight) & Hotel and the cost of the seminar instruction which using Eddies rate is $2500. There isn't an expectation to pay for the instructors food. But I foot the bill when I have and instructor doing a seminar at my place and we take them out to dinner.

I've never had students assist in "covering" expenses when I host a seminar. I wouldn't even ask them. You don't see too many seminars having "paid sponsors".

Never heard of doing paid advertising for seminars. Best places to advertise are free, Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, other mma and Jiu Jitsu websites, etc. Also having a flyer and droping it off around other schools in the area should help as well. When I host a seminar I contact schools that I'm friends with, I may cut the instructor of that school a break if there bring say 5 students with them I'll allow that instuctor to attend the seminar for free.

:) Thanks Chris Herzog, greatly appreciated.
09-01-2011, 03:49 AM
Luis Candelas, BCG

this is some great info...now i need to find 30 people
09-01-2011, 04:02 AM
John Hickman

$2,500 in 3 hours. Wow, that some quick cash. lol
09-01-2011, 04:33 AM
Chris Herzog

Quote:

Originally Posted by John Hickman

$2,500 in 3 hours. Wow, that some quick cash. lol

But its not 3 hours, its an entire weekend. Instructors have to get someone to cover their classes, spend time traveling to and from the seminar so your looking at about 50-60hours of an instructors time for a weekend seminar, depending on how far the travel is. Thats a little over $40/hr (at $2500 for a seminar)which is not a hell of a lot of money for an expert in a particular field.
09-01-2011, 02:02 PM
John Hickman

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chris Herzog

But its not 3 hours, its an entire weekend. Instructors have to get someone to cover their classes, spend time traveling to and from the seminar so your looking at about 50-60hours of an instructors time for a weekend seminar, depending on how far the travel is. Thats a little over $40/hr (at $2500 for a seminar)which is not a hell of a lot of money for an expert in a particular field.

*bows* I stand corrected. :) Yeah, Rhalan Gracie came down for a seminar, and I felt bad, because there was only 4 of us there for the second hour.