[Deptheads] All hands on deck! Last minute flyer to gamestores

[Kryssie]

Who's responsible for drawing up the fliers?  Marketing?

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 3:05 PM, <shawn350 at gmail.com> wrote:

> So I have been to a little over a half dozen stores today. Game empire,
> collector's paradise, emerald Knights, game ogre, all ways gaming, comic
> odyssey, Last grenadier. I saw that some had put the date on the fliers
> they already had, I gave them more and all was good, but I got to thinking
> about  the ones that I went to that were not very familiar with the con and
> their customers have no way to discern from the flyer what it is about.
>  One magic store said oh go hang it by the comics and was disinterest along
> with the customers standing about. I mention magic events and what the con
> was about and I passed out 6 fliers right then.
>
> Not that this matters now but for the next conference we should put a
> header that says something like.
>
> Orccon 2012 - A non stop weekend of Boardgames, Miniatures, RPGs and CCGs
> of all kinds!! Register now before you favorite event fills up!!!
>
> It says what we do, it encourages pre registration and leaves plenty of
> room for the gorgeous artwork that makes them look at it in the first
> place. We got their attention we just didn't sell them anything.
>
> Anyhow, I am educating as I make my way to these comics shops, card stores
> and game stores and learning that we have market to be reached and a
> emerging group of board, card and miniature gamers that the word
> Strategicon carries no information for them.
>
> Thoughts? Feedback?
>
>
>
> Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Eric M. Aldrich" <ealdrich at mac.com>
> Sender: deptheads-bounces at strategicon.net
> Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:00:27
> To: <deptheads at strategicon.net>
> Reply-To: deptheads at strategicon.net
> Subject: Re: [Deptheads] All hands on deck! Last minute flyer to gamestores
>
> Hence why adding the date and web site fixes at least part of the problem.
>
> I don't know how we all missed noticing this at the meeting -- it was
> correctable then....
>
> Eric
>
> On 12 Feb, 2012, at 20:36, mike fryer wrote:
>
> > Bob LaMarre, my faithful #2, saw the flyers at Metropolis comics this
> weekend and mentioned that not only is it missing critical information, but
> it does not give even a hint as to what the convention is about. I took a
> look and I agreed. My guess would be Vegas Showgirl convention or cosplay,
> but definitely not a game convention.
> >
> > Mike Fryer
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Eric M. Aldrich <ealdrich at mac.com>
> wrote:
> > Man, I finally get a night to look at stuff.
> >
> > If anyone has time and is willing to loan the con a few bucks until the
> con (cause I won't be able to get cash to you until then), we really need
> to reprint the flyers with the proper info on them and get them to as many
> stores as possible,
> >
> > http://www.strategicon.net/forms/Orccon12FlyerBW2.jpg
> >
> > We left two critical pieces of info off the one we sent out, and I
> didn't catch it due to other circumstances until this evening. Fixed as
> best I can.
> >
> > Please, download this, print it out, and drop them off to any every
> store you can think of. Redundant effort is fine.
> >
> > Thanks. They look great, but they won't do us any good unless they get
> out there with some useful info on them. If you want to see what's missing,
> look at the color flyer that's still up there....
> >
> > Eric
> >
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