RE: [GSAS-board] FW: The Talk for the Group

Good Morning Jim,

I never heard back from you regarding the amount for your plane fare reimbursement. We have a board meeting tonight, although, your reimbursement check can be cut anytime as soon as we know the amount – just let us know.

Thanks again for coming to Seattle and speaking to GSAS.

Rick

-----Original Message-----
From: gsas-board-bounces@thekrib.com [mailto:gsas-board-bounces@thekrib.com] On Behalf Of rick-rose@comcast.net
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 11:06 AM
To: jim@atchison.com
Cc: gsas-board@thekrib.com
Subject: [GSAS-board] FW: The Talk for the Group

Hi Jim,

Thank YOU for taking time out of your busy schedule to come speak to our group. There have been multiple postings on our member-email-list expressing very positive comments about your presentation. The meeting was a real success!

I'm very sorry that we didn't take care of the plane fare reimbursement while you were here. I'll copy this to the board so that we can find out the proper procedure for taking care of it now. I imagine they will want a copy of the receipt for our records. If you would send me an email with the exact amount, we can probably get the process started from this end.

Yes; I have seen the website affiliate program mentioned on your site and I had intended to ask you about it Tuesday night while on the way to your hotel, but it slipped my mind. I intend to present the idea at our board meeting next week. We have an official website policy, and I'm not sure if it addresses affiliate programs or not.

I must echo back your very kind words. It was a pleasure to meet and get to know you. I wish the time had not been so short - we could have had fun touring the various shops and sites in the Seattle area if it weren't four our pesky work schedules :)

Thanks again for all your kind considerations - splitting the proceeds from the culture sales, the extra booklets that you left for other members who weren't able to attend the October meeting, and allowing us to video record your presentation (complete with powerpoint slides) was very thoughtful and very much appreciated.

Rick Rose

Rick,

I can not thank you enough for the opportunity to come up to Seattle and speak to the Greater Seattle Aquarium Society.

It's always an interesting process after the presentation to sit down with myself, alone and put down on paper positives and negatives so that I can improve the total experience. There was a unique chemistry in the room and the notes that I have written were unique also, even the short coming that I want to work on seem to have a positive spin.

We did not have an opportunity to settle our the plane fare. What should we do in that regard?

Also, I know you have looked through our WWW sites. Did you happen to pick up on the hot link that we created for "affiliate" groups? Essentially it's a way for groups to place a link from their site to ours and sales that might be generated from the clicks on the link result in a 5% donation to the group. If the GSAS would be interested let me know.

Thank you for your hospitality. Your family is delightful and your club is very special.

Take care,

Jim Atchison