Re: [AGA-mcm] Thanks! - Now AGA Vendors

["Karen Randall" <krandall@rdrcpa.biz>]

I have to say that I purposely went into the vendor room a number of times,
first to visit vendor booths, then to "schmooze", and other times just to
look in and see if there were other people visiting.

Now, I wasn't on the top of my game, but it seemed to me that there was a
pretty regular stream of people though there.  Actually, I would have very
much LIKED to talk to the Milwaukee folks, and they were never around when I
went into the vendor room. I didn't see the Kent or SeaChem folks either,
actually.

One other possible "improvement", with hind sight, might have been to put
the AGA sales table in the vendor room to draw people in.  I think our table
attracted a LOT more attention than we would have ever guessed. (not having
done it before)  I think that it could have done two things.  There would
have been an AGA "presence" to keep the vendors in the loop, and it would
have moved that bunch of people who hung out around the table into the
vendor room.  I think it would have had the same "energizing" effect on the
vendor room that having Lee Finley there does... people come to browse,
chat, and BUY.  The other vendors have info, some were giving away samples,
and of course, Ray's stuff goes into the auction.  But people think of a
convention as "vacation" time, and tend to want to _buy_ something.  The AGA
table gave them that.

Just some thoughts.

Karen

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>
To: "AGA Advisory Committee" <aga-mcm@thekrib.com>
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 3:01 PM
Subject: Re: [AGA-mcm] Thanks! - Now AGA Vendors


> The issue started with not being able to set up until
> Friday afternoon and then the room not being really
> available at 5 and I think the first thing set them up to
> react more negatively to each thing they didn't like. Along
> the way, they didn't have anyone to bitch to so I think
> they grumbled amonst themselves and fed their own fires.
> Actually they did have someone to complain to now and then
> but by Saturday I think they were living on their own
> fuel-fed burn.
>
> Also, the session swap with Amano's stuff meant that Sat
> night was basically dead for them so they felt like they
> could/should just close shop before the banquet. So
> basically they had only a partial day of showing for their
> money.
>
> Not a lot of folks would have been to the vendor room
> during the field trip and the vendors usually do tear down
> on Sat night or Sun morning and attend the banquet. So I
> don't htink it was as bad as some of them seemed to think.
> That's why I think, if we could have patted out the little
> fires earlier and seemed more "responsive," they would have
> left in a better mood.
>
> I only have this from a distance (second and third order
> reports) and I'm giving a very subjective version.
>
> sh
> --- Ghazanfar Ghori <ghorig@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Until now, I was not aware there was any issues with the
> > vendors
> > not being happy. I didn't have time to pay attention to
> > them, and Phil,
> > who was working with the vendors was sick on Saturday.
> >
> > What were their concerns?
> >
> > We may also want to consider making the vendor room the
> > breakroom,
> > with coffee, sodas etc. The hotel would have to provide
> > the refreshments
> > and the vendors can pick up the tab. That'll generate a
> > lot of traffic to
> > that room during the 15-30 min breaks.
> >
> > We did consider that this year, but since the hotel
> > wanted us to
> > buy the refreshments from them, we dropped the idea.
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by Jan Bastmeijer, two by Amano (one of which, Ben Bolton found to be a
ribtickler). . .Walstad, Senske, Olvier Knott from Germany, Krombholtz. This
was the most broadly international convention so far . . . People came from
the USA, England, Italy, Poland, Netherleands, Germany, Japan, Canada . . .
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