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

[Ghazanfar Ghori <ghorig@gmail.com>]

I actually contacted some vendors back in March - we'd already had
a firm date back then, but I after I got a couple of  - "contact us
closer to the convention", I backed off the phone calls & emails.


On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 09:04:24 -0800 (PST), S. Hieber <shieber@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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