I think I busted aga-announce. I need to fix it. :) I am wary of too much marketing. I think once a month is great. Not sure about too much more often than that, so I'll defer to others' impressions. - Erik On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Cheryl Rogers wrote: > (Oooops, sorry, Erik, I forgot & sent this from the wrong e-mail address. > No WONDER y'all didn't get it!) > > > I want to use the mailing lists to communicate with members and to > generate interest. I would post a message once or twice each month. > > Here are some ideas regarding message content: > > -TAG has been mailed--Watch for it! > -Did you get the latest TAG? > -Index of TAG articles for the previous year. > -Sales/discounts available. > -The AGA web site has been changed announcements. > -Please let us know when and where your local club meets. > -Get linked with the AGA! > -Aquascaping contest now open. > -Convention registration now available. > -Do you know of anyone who might be interested in advertising in TAG? > > and so forth. More ideas? > > How often is good marketing and how often is intrusive? > > I *know* that much of this really belongs on the AGA-annnounce list, but no > one ever uses it. I think that's because no one ever uses it. :-) Maybe I > should make these announcements for awhile on the AGA-member list to get > people used to seeing them, and then say that all future announcements will > be made on aga-announce, so subscribe thisaway if you want to be notified > of cool deals and get involved in the organization. > > What do y'all think? Comments? Critiques? > > Cheryl > > -- Erik Olson erik at thekrib dot com ------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, e-mail majordomo@thekrib.com with "unsubscribe aga-sc" in the body of the message. Old messages are available at http://lists.thekrib.com/aga-sc When asked, log in as username is "aga-sc", and password "incorp".