Re: GWAPA Proposal rough draft2 (fwd)

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

Welcome back, Cheryl and David.


--- Cheryl Rogers <cheryl@wilstream.com> wrote:
> . . .  I thought having both a silent and a live auction 
> at the
> same time was 
> confusing.

But it seemed to allow us to move twice as many items in
about the same amount of time. However, the Live auction
brought in twice as much money in that time even though an
awful lot of some really nice specimens were inthe Silent.

I know the Live went on for quite a while after the Silent
ended but I think most of the buyers were gone by then
except the real bargain hunters and we didn't make much per
item in that last hour. So doing it all quickly is
important. 

Maybe we can make it less confusing.  Part of the problem
in Dallas is that there was absolutely no procedure for
conducting the Silent Auction nor to handle the money from
the Silent Auction until about 20-30 minutes after it
started! IT would have been better to have a process
established ahead of time (duh). And then to have it
printed up so folks could read it understand how things
were going to work. Heck, it would have helped to have
something written up for the folks the jumped in to do the
Silent. We just made it up as we went along.

By the third round or so, I think the Silent folks had the
thing down pretty well.


> I see nothing in the budget about mailing registration
> flyers to AGA 
> members, only to pet shops. Their call, but based on the
> number of 
> people who prefer to mail me a check rather than pay
> online for 
> membership, I think this is a mistake.

I've mentioned this to them several times. They think what
they have for marketing will cover mailings.

> 
> I'm very pleased to see all of this stuff being thought
> of so far in 
> advance. While the Dallas organizers did a bang-up job, I
> got the 
> feeling that much of the "planning" was really "seat of
> your pants" 
> and "the person with the biggest mouth gets put in
> charge." 

Sounds just like committee work ;-)

>. . .  I'm just relieved that I don't have to
> do any of 
> it. :-)


Don't tell *anyone* in GWAPA that you can do layout and
printing!

sh

PS: Hope you found your mail in order.

PPS: Since you weren't here, you apparently volunteered for
about 35 AGA2K4 commmittees.

=====
S. Hieber

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