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

["S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>]

I wish I had thought of that.

sh
--- Karen Randall <krandall@rdrcpa.biz> wrote:

> 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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> Two presentations
> 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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