Re: newsletter advertisers

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

Hi Marie,

We changed over editors in January, and our new editor Joe is still
learning the ropes.  It's taking me a while (as the old editor) to
remember all the esoterica I need to tell him.  For instance, the February
newsletter didn't have the membership cards in them because I didn't let
him know he's supposed to include them for new members (based on the
labels). I think at the last board meeting I was able to finally get the
cards to president Clay to sign, so with luck Joe included them this
month.  It sounds like luck was not good for you, however.

Now the back page is an entirely different problem.  They aren't ads;
they're free announcements of stores that give member discounts.  Most of
the stores on the back page gave us an informal agreement several years
back.  Generally the stores forget our existence; certainly they don't
send business cards to us.  In order to update this, WE have to go visit
those stores and pick up new cards (this is an all-day, possibly
all-weekend event) and then redo the back page.

Was the store that went out of business Amazon Pet Place?  I had no idea
they had gone under.

  - Erik



On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Marie Weiler wrote:

> It's a little hard from the board list to tell who to address this to, but I
> just thought someone might want to know that the advertisers on the
> newsletter aren't exactly current. A couple of weeks ago I thought I'd pop
> over from Kenmore to Bothell to check out whatever pet store it is that has
> their business card (sorry, can't remember the name) on the back of the
> newsletter. Upon seeing the vacant store, I recalled some vague recollection
> that they'd gone out of business a year or so previously. Are they really
> still paying for the ad? Anyway, there was a nice note on the door referring
> me to a new holistic pet store in Woodinville - just a hop and a skip away -
> but again, nothing but a vacant space. Last weekend, I thought I'd check out
> Blue Sierra in Issaquah. Trusting the business card on the back of the
> newsletter I got there at 10:10, only to find they've changed their hours
> and don't open till 11. Guess I should have called first, but maybe they
> could provide a new card so other unsuspecting members don't make the same
> mistake and end up whiling away their time and money buying fluorescent
> lightbulbs at the new Home Depot down the street.
> 
> Then I'm wondering whether I will ever actually get a membership card
> (joined in early January) so that if I do want to patronize these businesses
> I'll have something to show them, or is "membership card" just an
> expression?
> 
> thanks!
> Marie
> 
> 
> Marie Weiler 
> Managing Editor, Marquand Books 
> tel: 206/624-2030 fax: 206/624-1821 
> e-mail: mariew@marquand.com 
> 
> 

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Erik Olson
erik at thekrib dot com