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

[<karenran@verizon.net>]

Very cool!  Ray can keep the poster as long as he wants.  Hey, I'll make him a 
new one if that one wears out!  I can make a new one for us when we need it 
again.

It sounds like it was a productive day all the way around.  Hopefully Cheryl 
will see a big influx of memberships from PA!

Karen

> 
> From: "S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>
> Date: 2004/03/28 Sun PM 06:15:22 CST
> To: aga-sc@thekrib.com
> Subject: Re: [AGA SC] T-shirts - Pictures, brochures, amd That Fish Place,
> 
> 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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