One thing that we are privilege to is the Colo Sp'gs auditorium does is put
our activity on the marque on the main door. We actually have had folks
drop in for curiosity. Again...lack of follow up...getting their names,
etc. Our bad...
What about a newspaper article on the next upcoming event or an ad in the
"what's happening" part of the newspaper. Some people actually read that
from what I hear. Marketing is a whole facet of stuff...and guess who is a
marketing guy? Don DeLoach...our club is lucky to have him.
"We." the modeling community don't market ourselves very well...we just
think we only need to call our flying buddy and those who read this web group.
The MMM club has been very fortunate in that we are actually growing with
new members as a result of our "marketing" by way of word of mouth, NFFS,
AMA, etc.
'nuff said....
Rick Pangell
Editor of "The Max-Out" Newsletter of
The Magnificent Mountain Men FF Club of Colorado
In a message dated 10/12/2010 11:35:33 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
parkreation_at_msn.com writes:
Neil,
Implimentation maybe bigger than just the indoor community. NFFS should
see an opportunity and take advantage of this and offer both organizational
and investment backing.
As for ceiling hgts, other postals have a factoring system that works so
its not rocket science. But, a 30' ceiling limit can be used as most HS gyms
fit that parameter.
There will always be the unique kid who just loves indoor and freeflight
as a whole. Most kids are influenced by their peers as to what is "cool" and
what isn't. What I suggest stands, give a kid a tangible reason to be
interested that raises his/her social position, you will get their committment.
Ikara props level the playing field. That's been proven with SO many times
over. On a national basis, leveling the field is needed as the scope of
the competition already leads to high performance issues.
We need to have an open perspective. I am not expecting a glut of new
fliers. What I do want is EXPOSURE to the sport. BTW, my second daughter did
extremely well in SO and went to nationals 7 years straight. She built
bridges, towers and built/flew and then won Wright Stuff in DC. She's a sophmore
at Purdue in mechanical engineering. She also has a co-op now with General
Electric in KY. She was selected by GE because of the bridges and not the
flying. Our sport simply has an identity problem!! We are very low on the
Radar screen.
Tom Sanders
--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, Neil Dennis <wombatt_at_...>
wrote:
>
> Good thoughts, Tom: how would get it implemented ? And limit the
> flying site to school gyms, no "blimp hangers" ;-)
>
> FWIW, when I did SO (school dropped out {:-{ ) I started the group on
> Dennydarts, individuals either stayed or dropped out - did some weeding
> out. Then we went to a simple SO type where I 'cussed" the Ikara props
!!
>
> wombat
>
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