[Deptheads]space and exposure

[Tim]

Perhaps, entries in the con book that specified which day (and approx 
time, morning, noon, evening) the demo's would be running and a sign 
being more specific...it would allow the dealers to adjust timing with 
only a day's notice and provide timely cancellation notices if necessary

Tim

Patrick Havert wrote:
> Tim,
>  
> Hopefully that would work, but we've seen that if it's not in the con 
> book, the only people that play happen to be there when it starts.  
> The Dealers room is different certainly, but we can only hope it works 
> out.  Maybe we could make a schedule page in the con book for Dealer 
> Demos?
>  
> -Patrick
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Tim <mailto:tim at stugiii.com>
>     *To:* deptheads at strategicon.net <mailto:deptheads at strategicon.net>
>     *Sent:* Tuesday, February 26, 2008 11:48 AM
>     *Subject:* Re: [Deptheads]space and exposure
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>     Perhaps rather then scheduling the dealer demo games in the con
>     book...there could be a daily sheet/poster at the entrance to the
>     dealer's room listing the day's events?
>
>     Tim
>
>     Janice Sellers wrote:
>>     Patrick,
>>
>>     On 2/26/08, Patrick Havert <patrickhavert at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>       
>>>     At this time, we just don't get enough submissions to make it viable.  The
>>>     people who were supposed to do the Skrall demos only showed up half the time
>>>     to run their own demos, so it made it a touch more difficult.
>>>         
>>
>>     That's interesting about Skrall, because that was one of the few
>>     companies that actually did run demos at the booth.  I don't know if
>>     that's why they only showed up half the time in your area, or if they
>>     were just flaking in general?
>>
>>       
>>>     Janice, if you let me know which dealers want to run demos, I'll be happy to
>>>     give them some tables near the entrance of the boardgames hall.  Eric
>>>     Burgess did quite well there, and so did Pirate King, so if they want to
>>>     demo we can get them space.
>>>         
>>
>>     Thanks very much.  I know part of the problem from your perspective is
>>     going to be that most of the dealers don't tend to actually schedule
>>     their demos (no matter how much I encourage them), so it will be hard
>>     to plan for them.  Obviously, that's something I keep pushing for.
>>     Maybe with the options of a demo table at the booth, one demo table
>>     just outside the dealer room door, and some demos space in board
>>     games, we can get more of the dealers to actually do demos, and work
>>     from there to getting more of them scheduled ahead of time.
>>
>>     Janice
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