Re: [AGA-mcm] Vendor [solicitation] Feedback

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

The problem with scheduling up front is that the date must
depend on what we can get from the hotel. This year, diff
dates were avail at diff hotels. So unless we wait until a
contract is in hand, we'd be locking ourselves in on hotel
options and negotitating strength.


Buuuuuuuuuuuuut ----> All the more reason to do the hotel
much earlier too ;-)

sh
--- Phil Edwards <biotypical@hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> >We could find other ways to honor vendors like Seachem
> that want to go 
> >above
> >and beyond base prices, while still not making it
> cost-prohibitive for the
> >very interesting "little guys".
> 
> Interestingly, it wasn't the cost of the table that was
> an issue.  Most of 
> the folks who could afford it had already scheduled their
> reps to be at a 
> trade show elsewhere that weekend.  The folks who 
> weren't able to afford 
> the table (I assume) also couldn't afford the ticket out
> there.  Table cost 
> wasn't really an issue from what I gathered talking with
> the folks.  
> Overall, it was the late notice that most got.  There
> were some companies, 
> like Hellolights.com that needed more advance warning to
> be able to plan for 
> the cost of the event.  Had they the time it is likely
> they would have come.
> 
> The biggest issue I came across was the late notice.  The
> biggest issue was 
> representative scheduling although some of it is also
> budgetary in nature.  
> We need to be getting in touch with the companies as far
> in advance as 
> possible to get a rep scheduled.  Eight months isn't too
> early in my 
> opinion.  Also, companies like Eheim have a
> marketing/donation budget that 
> is already used up by this time of the year so we need to
> get on their books 
> before that happens.  Once we get that it's just a matter
> of
> 
> How viable is it to schedule the weekend of the
> conference in advance, even 
> before a host is found?  If we can get on the companies'
> calendars in 
> advance I'll estimate a 2-300% increase in attendance
> from vendors.
> 
> Best,
> Phil
> 
> 
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The biggest AGA Convention was an outstanding success. Two presentations by Jan 
Bastmeijer, two by Amano (one of which, Ben Belton found to be a ribtickler). . 
.Walstad, Senske, Oliver Knott from Germany, Krombholtz. This was the most 
broadly international convention so far . . . People came from the USA, 
England, Italy, Poland, Netherlands, Germany, Japan, Mexico . . .and one from 
even farther away, Oak Point Texas ;-)
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