[Cialug] Stirring the Pot for Installfest

[Lee]

I'm certainly no advertising guy and this may have already been discussed.
But if I may suggest a strategy that works very well. When advertising an
event you generally recruit partners who stand to gain from your event. Has
anyone ever approached CompUSA, Best Buy etc. With a little sponsorship or
co-advertising? CompUSA in paticular seems receptive to this sort of thing.

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From: cialug-admin@cialug.org [mailto:cialug-admin@cialug.org]On Behalf
Of Theron Conrey
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 8:41 AM
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Subject: Re: [Cialug] Stirring the Pot for Installfest


Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:

>Why not make two posters?    One for mom and pop and one for the geeks?
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>On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 08:16, Theron Conrey wrote:
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>>David Champion wrote:
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>>>Theron Conrey wrote:
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>>>>Does the LUG generally distribute posters etc prior to an event such
>>>>as this?
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>>>>http://www.conrey.org/installfest.png
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>>>Theron, thanks for submitting your poster concept... I like it.
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>>>Yes we do usually distribute posters to promote the Installfests. In
>>>the past we've had pretty good success with them. The most recent
>>>Installfest we did last fall didn't get very well promoted, and we had
>>>poor attendance.
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>>>-dc
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>>Thanks,
>>I think that your comments are important in regards to the last
>>installfest.   I'd like to help whomever it is that is in charge for
>>installfest (Barry can you hear me?) this year in getting together what
>>is really going to draw folks to an installfest.  First off, IMO we
>>don't need to dilude the reason that people that don't know anything
>>about GNU/Linux, might come, such as distro logos catchy statements
>>etc.  These types of things mean nothing to say............my dad.  My
>>dad, however, does care about malware, viruses, and other associated
>>nasties that plague his windows computer.  So to get technically savy
>>people to commit to coming, even just to visit, we've got to pique thier
>>curiosity, not shower them with logos. (yes I suppose that includes even
>>the microsofties).  (Phew that was first?!?!)
>>Secondly, for the student or generally speaking geeky type guy who is
>>ready to dump windows but dosen't know where to start, We don't want to
>>say anything on our poster that he or she may not understand i.e. makes
>>us sound pompous, i.e. scares him or her away.
>>Of course, all of this implies that there will be enough people in the
>>LUG willing to assist.
>>Thirdly and to end this tirade with a challenge  There need to be ONE
>>poster that the LUG is using for the event,  (a poster yet to be
>>designed), so as to give us, the appearance at least, of being a
>>cohisive group.
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>>Theron
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>>Where to distribute posters?
>>Add to the list:
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>>Grandview Campus
>>Drake
>>DMACC (all campuses)
>>Skywalks
>>DM Public High Schools All
>>All local TV and radio channels (we don't need money for advertising,
>>Linux is big enough that it MAY spark a freebie.  This happened when I
>>was living in NJ for a LUG there....)
>>CoffeeHouses
>>Downtown Gatherings
>>Churches
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Not a bad Idea, the issue becomes one of where to distribute.  If I'm a
geek and I see an Installfest poster, curiousity piqued.  However if I'm
mom and pop and I see a geek poster, no way.  The idea is to create one
poster, that can be distibuted EVERYWHERE, and for reasons stated above.

Theron
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