[Deptheads]space and exposure

[Janice Sellers]

On 2/27/08, Evil5757 at aol.com <Evil5757 at aol.com> wrote:
> My thoughts on it was that since we anticipated having some "extra" space,
> we could try encouraging dealers to do demos at their booths (and thereby
> have more automatic look-we're-here sales).  I still feel we should offer
> the demo tables for free to see who takes advantage of it after seeing we
> were serious about it for Orccon.  I would keep it free to encourage
> dealer's doing demos of stuff they bring for the rest of the year, and maybe
> charge $25 or something like that for demo tables in 2009.

Hugh didn't post to the list, but he also told me he was in favor of
keeping the demo tables free.  And Robert, our other marketing/PR
type, also thinks it's better to have them be free.  So my inclination
is to keep them free for now and maybe revisit the policy at the end
of the year.  I'll be keeping track of who asked for them and who
actually used them, to get a gauge of how desirable and how effective
they are.

> Having a White board at entrance to Dealer's room listing who is doing demos
> of what might help as well....maybe?

It certainly couldn't hurt, and it would go along with a lot of what
has already been said about better signage in general.

Janice