Re: Door prizes for meeting
Re: Door prizes for meeting
- Subject: Re: Door prizes for meeting
- From: Alan Webster <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 23:04:26 -0700
Our members like raffles. It takes a little effort to get prizes. Not
much. Email the vendors and tell them what you are going to do for them
and follow through. Review in your newsletter and a demo at the meeting
before the raffle. Then send them a link to the Newsletter review. Stay
in touch. Cassdy & Greene is gone, but there are many others. We had a
big push when we needed to buy a projector, so we had more raffles then.
Many times a member will buy a program and like it. Since they use it,
maybe they will demo it! We then contact the company and ask for a
demo copy. Don't demo unless they send you a full version, not some
crippleware that doesn't work after 30 days. Your time is worth
something. (We did demo Ragtime Solo because it is a free program, they
sent enough disks for everyone and we are sentimental about the MacPlus
days when Ragtime was it) Only demo good stuff that you would buy,
because your members will buy on your recommendation. You don't want
them to end up with trash. Recently we had "Freeway" for making
websites, and ThinkFree Office. Those were good. I think we have BBEdit
next month.
I think User Group Connection has a list of friendly companies. Here
is link to some we have used.
http://www.geocities.com/wamug/sponsors.html
Of course, you are still left with the problem- who is going to demo it
and write the review?
Alan
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