Platinum Tickets - awesome benefits

In yesterday's post, I mentioned that I would be following up, today, with the awesome benefits my wife and I received with our "free" platinum tickets.

Here's all the good stuff we experienced:

1. Walked right into Kemper Arena at 11:15am past a huge line at the front doors!
2. At the check-in table, we each received a "goodie bag" with 5-6 autographed books by Dave, coffee mugs, mints, etc.
3. We both personally shook hands with Dave. We also could have had our picture taken with him if we had brought a good camera! My phone camera was just not cutting it in a dark room!
4. We ate a great lunch of prime rib, roasted red-skin potatoes, green beans, roll, salad, and chocolate cake - it was tasty!
5. After lunch, we sat through a Q & A session with Dave - I could have asked Dave a question, but I couldn't come up with anything creative at the time!
6. We sat in the front, 3rd row during the Live Event; I didn't realize how big a benefit this was until I sat down. Last year, we sat in the nose bleed section!
7. During Dave's 2 breaks, we had complimentary snacks and drinks provided in the Platinum room - awesome benefit. I was stuffed when I left Kemper on Saturday night!

Winning these Platinum tickets made the event a great day of fun for us!

Dave Ramsey Live in Kansas City

This past Saturday, May 3rd, Dave Ramsey was live here in Kansas City at Kemper Arena for his Total Money Makeover Live Event. Kansas City is a huge radio market for Dave, and the crowd really turned out to see him. Kansas City now holds the record attendance to date for Dave's Live events - somewhere between 11, 500 - 12,000! Way to go KC!

This was the second year in a row that my wife and I attended. We weren't originally planning to attend since we went last year, but a number of different changes have taken place, including the following:

1. I became the church staff coordinator/leader for Financial Peace University back in January.
2. My wife and I attended a luncheon with Dave's team back in March, where we were given a plan to promote Dave's Live event in our church. Part of that plan included discounted tickets for church members.
3. Additionally, the church would benefit by receiving a free Financial Peace Leadership Kit (retail $300+) and DVD player if we could get 30 church members to sign-up.
4. If we were able to get 50 or more to register, we would receive 2 free platinum tickets.

My church registered 57 people to attend, so we obtained all of these freebies!!! My wife and I were able to attend using our Platinum tickets, which gave us these great benefits:

1. Lunch with Dave - You will enjoy a catered banquet with Dave in the Platinum room. During the banquet, there will be a Q and A session.
2. Gifts - Guests will receive an autographed copy of The Total Money Makeover, as well as other specialty gifts.
3. Platinum Break Room - During the Live Event breaks, you will have access to the Platinum room for complimentary beverages and light appetizers.
4. Priority Seating - Platinum guests will have the best front and center seating during the event.

Tomorrow, I'll comment on all of these great benefits we received with the Platinum tickets. It was awesome!

Dave Ramsey Live is coming to Kansas City

About 3 weeks ago, my wife and I attended a luncheon here in the Kansas City Metro area put on by Dave Ramsey's organization. The purpose of the luncheon was to encourage metro area churches to promote the upcoming Total Money Makeover Live event on Saturday, May 3rd. The two representatives from the Lampo Group explained that the desired progression for getting Dave's message into churches was this:

1. Drive as many church members to the Live Event as you possibly can in order to give them an overview of Dave's financial program.
2. After church members have attended the Live Event, promote additional new classes of Financial Peace University.

After hearing Dave's representatives say this, the light bulb went off in my head regarding the future of Financial Peace University at First Baptist Raytown. Even though we had just begun one class of FPU at the end of February and have had an incredible response (approximately 86 students!), my own personal desire and goal has been to offer multiple classes during the week all year round. I started to get the vision of getting hundreds of our church members down to the Live Event and then enroll them in FPU immediately afterwards.

We have begun initial promotion of the Live Event, yesterday, with hall posters, a small article in the church bulletin, and a lobby sign-up table. This coming Sunday, we are going to hit it even harder with a video promotion at the end of both services, a plug from the pastor, and I have the privilege of writing the "pastor's bulletin article" this week. I would love to see 200-300 of our church members attend and catch the vision of getting their financial houses in order.

Churches receive a special $23.00 rate per ticket for general admission, so this really is a good deal!

Larry