[Deptheads] Marketing

[Eric Burgess]

Just for clarity - it should be Boardgamegeek Patrons and Boardgame News
subscribers (they advertise this for us because we extend the discount to
their paying members).

...ERB
www.boardgamebabylon.com

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Robert Lionheart <spinachcat at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Strategicon currently offers group discounts to BoardGameGeek<http://www.boardgamegeek.com/>,
> Boardgame News <http://www.boardgamenews.com/>, Camarilla<http://camarilla.white-wolf.com/>,
> DCI <http://www.wizards.com/dci/>, HMGS, Orange County Board Gamers<http://boardgames.meetup.com/40/>,
> Polycon <http://www.polycon.org/>, RPGA <http://www.wizards.com/rpga/>, Quest
> Club <http://www.questclubgames.org/>, SoCal ASL Club<http://www.socalasl.com/>,
> SoCal Gamers <http://www.socalgamers.info/>, SoCal Games Day, Westside
> Gamers, Bakersfield Board Gamers. Also the main page announces Group
> Discount which is very good.
>
> More groups is a good idea.  I will start putting the above list in my
> marketing spam on forums and such and see if that generates some movement.
> However, the main thing we offer gaming groups is the chance to play with
> new people and try new games.   For many home gamers, that is not an
> incentive.
>
> What ideas do you have to find these private groups?  If they can be
> found, they can be contacted which is at least a first step.
>
> - Robert
> **
> **
> **
> **
>
>
>
>
> *Evil5757 at aol.com* wrote:
>
>   I have always advocated a program where "groups" get discounts, one
> person from group sees it here, then tells the rest of their group.  We have
> gotten a number of gaming groups to start coming, we just need to expand
> it.  What else can we offer private "gaming groups" as incentive to gather
> at our place instead of theirs on our weekends?
>
> John
>
> In a message dated 4/8/2008 12:05:09 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> noldor at gmail.com writes:
>
> John, what would be your suggestions on getting groups like this
> interested in Strategicon?  How would you go about targeting these groups,
> marketing to them, infiltrating their ranks?
>
> I don't think anyone currently in charge of marketing the con actually has
> a marketing degree so we're all on the same "knowledge level" here.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>  ------------------------------
> Planning your summer road trip? Check out AOL Travel Guides<http://travel.aol.com/travel-guide/united-states?ncid=aoltrv00030000000016>
> .
> _______________________________________________
> Deptheads mailing list
> Deptheads at strategicon.net
> http://mordred.punk.net/mailman/listinfo/deptheads
>
>
> __________________________________________________
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
> http://mail.yahoo.com
>
> _______________________________________________
> Deptheads mailing list
> Deptheads at strategicon.net
> http://mordred.punk.net/mailman/listinfo/deptheads
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mordred.punk.net/pipermail/deptheads/attachments/20080409/09dec97e/attachment.htm