whatEVAH

I’m not going to explain what the “BarCamp” in RE BarCamp stands for because it doesn’t really matter. Even if it was based on going to a bar, and it’s NOT, whatEVAH. It’s the name of this event. Don’t like the name? Organize an RE Tech Day or a Real Estate Unconference. Let me know about it and I’ll still promote it here. But our name is our name.

Would you change your name?

Last December, with two events completed, we sat in a conference call listening to a bunch of influential minds in real estate tell us that the name doesn’t work. We would need to change it for the event to grow.

We didn’t change it. We grew.

There have been RE BarCamp events that pushed 300 people in attendance. There have been events from one corner of the country to another. There will be three four (*see comments) in Virginia alone this year. They’re coming to Canada. There’s more than 30 events completed or in planning around the world.

Not every event is hosted on this website, but for those that are, I receive an email for every RSVP that is completed on one of the event sites. They all flow into a special folder now because they used to dominate my inbox.

Last week, the folder surpassed 3000 emails.

Look at the scoreboard and tell me again that we have a branding problem.

This really bums me out. REBarCamp turns one year old tomorrow and instead of thinking about how to make the event more meaningful in a real world way, we are still talking about how the name will never work.