3Twins Cookout (looking back)

So, we had the 3Twins cookout/meeting/party on Sunday. It was a very good turn out. Everyone who said they were going to be there came with the exception of a couple of people who had a last minute family emergency, and one who's family decided to throw him a birthday party. I think we (the 3twins) learned a lot about our fans and our site. First of all we put together a survey which was pretty insightful on what things are liked and what are not so liked on our site. Steve is going to compile the data into some sort of tangible form so we can have an even better grasp of that but I think that it will help us to shape our site in the future to better fit the personality of our fan base as a whole.

We had the meeting video taped for future reference and today I captured that on my computer and watched it while doing so. I was somewhat surprised that the actual meeting portion of the time took only around 13 minutes and we really didn't convey as much as I think we thought we did (if you can follow that). Also, the setting was in our friends home opposed to last year where it was held in a restaurant party room. I think that last year felt too much business and not enough fun and this year was the total opposite. So, for next year we will try to find a half way medium.

One draw back is that Andy, Steve and I live in Garret Indiana, Grand Rapids Michigan, and Schoolcraft Michigan (respectively) we don't get to have a meeting with the 3 of us all together very often, so we met the morning of the meeting and had to compile what would happen when and such with only a couple of hours of preparation. Which I think because we were focusing on making sure our guests were going to have a good time we sacrificed a little bit about what our plans our for the future and some of the pitfalls and lessons we have learned over the last year.

We also played a trivia game based on our site and that seemed to be pretty fun for everyone. Eric was the ultimate winner of a Limited Edition 3Twins T-shirt, with our runner up, Tom receiving a glossy of the first Hatman comic cover.

At the end we passed out 11"x17" posters of our comic covers to everyone and I was really surprised that a lot of the people wanted our autographs. I really look forward to doing this again next year with the possibility of adding a second one in the winter perhaps.