Re: [AGA SC] T-shirts - Pictures, brochures, amd That Fish Place,

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

Not an issue. I used what the brochure I made before,
udpdated the data, and took a crop of the AGA brochure
backround and put that in the background on the back (some
color on both sides). Not that I never stop stealing
material; I even return to the same source :-)

However, we should get something to GWAPA before
publisher-you-know-who gets a staple in their backside over
use of a Nature Aquarium pic. Frankly, I like my
brochure/flier better -- but why shouldn't I, Cheryl made a
very nice flier last year and it's still a great flier ;-)

Speaking of brochures, guess I might as well give a run
down on ThatPetPlace/ThatFishPlace.

After only one wrong turn I got there only a half hour
before opening. So much for getting up at 4:30 am. There
were already 50 or so people lined up for the tent
merchandise when I got ther. About 150 were waiting at
opening time. About a half hour later, they were halfway
around the building.

The place was packed until about 3:00 pm. Then traffic
steadily declined all the way until closing at 9:00 pm. I
imagine today will be about the same but with a later start
and earlier die-down in traffic. It was officially a record
attendance for TFP/TPP's annual sale.  There were about 400
parking spaces in the lots and parking remained a circle
and search operaton for most of the day.

The fish room uses a take-a-number system. When they get to
100, they go back to 1. They went back to 1 about 9 or more
times yesterday -- do the math; they use dup a lot of
plastic bags. Very roughly, about 800-1,000 people bought
fish. I'm hoping that Ray will relay actual tallies from
the office today.

Our posterboard was set up on one of Ray's tables along
with AGA and AGA2K4 brochures. During the week I printed
about 450 AGA2K4 brochures -- 3 to page really makes a diff
in production! 

Cheryl, God bless her, sent me a box of about 29 TAGs and
full box of AGA brochures for the ocassion.

I was keeping a good count of what I put out. Then Ray
added to the display some of the brochures he had on hand.
So the that made the counting much less precise.  From then
on I fanned the brochures on the table with ten brochures
between the 9:00 and 12:00 position. When ten were gone, I
replaced them back to 9:00. This worked until things got
really busy. I ended up measuring the stack of remaining
brochures and counting by difference. I thihnk Erik, would
have gone to that method first. Btw, there's about 100
fliers per inch of stack.

Roughly 150 AGA2K4 brochures were taken and about 100 AGA
brochures (an even roughler estimate). Compare that 150 to
the fish room count and you can see that GWAPA has it's
work cut out for it. You need a *LOT* of fish store
exposure to move the pamphlets in a fish store. Too bad we
don't have a way to know how many taken-brochures yield a
convention registration.

I stayed home Sunday. Well, techinically, I *got home*
Sunday given a few more wrong turns on my return trip than
on the way to the store :-\  Don't laugh, I grew up in
another place. I knew basic things like, Pensylvannia
Turnpike was in Pennsylvania but things were a tad murkier
beyond that ;-)  Yes I know about Mapquest but I didn't
know my printer had not printed a step or two when printed
out the directions.

Holding just a handful of TAGs for myself and about 100
each of the brochures, I left the rest with Ray. I said,
"How many of these do you want?" and he said, "I'll take
all you can leave me."

I also left the posterboard with him. Given that you didn't
expect to need it back before Nov, Karen, I figured it
would do more good in Ray's hands than mine. He said he'd
put it up at the rest of the shows/events he does this year
-- about 20 between now and the convention. Go Ray Go!

On a personal note, TFP had some (common) plants you don't
find in my neck of the woods so I bought E. compacta, E
grandifolia and Anubias caladifolia. Yippee!

sh
--- Karen Randall <krandall@rdrcpa.biz> wrote:
> Hi Scott,
> 
> Sorry I didn't come through on a photo.  I actually DID
> look, and had
> nothing digital.  And there was no time to get anything
> to Erik to scan.  I
> have no excuse for not letting you know, though, except
> for life!<g>
> 


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S. Hieber
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Aquascaping by Takashi Amano and more at
the AGA 2004 Annual Convention
Nov 12, 13 & 14; Marriott Crystal Gateway, Arlington, Virginia, USA
Aquatic Gardeners Association www.aquatic-gardeners.org

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