Joint Meeting???

[RevReefer]

Sounds good Mel! You know the Chatt Town Reefers got love for you guys!!!!

[ctvol]

Good... Glad thats straightened out!!!!! lol Looking forward to seeing you folks...

[bkv1997]

I'm all for a joint swap. Either club could have an ok swap, but honestly need both clubs working together to make it a great one.

For those of us in Chattanooga getting the facility, posting bulletins and getting people to the swap, getting a PA system, getting donations from manufacturers etc would be good tasks.

For those in Knox-Vegas help getting items to raffle from retailers and spreading the word maybe even do a fragging demo....( I have a few larger acros which I could donate to chop up if i can stand to leave them in my tank that long)

Just some suggestions. Start throwing out ideas on how we could split the tasks up without making things a communication nightmare.

Brandon

[EvilMel]

I would have no problem at all doing the fragging demo. I have done it a couple of times. No big deal at all (if I can tear myself away from the selling that is!).

Got any suggestions on who we should hit up for raffle items? Should we just start to contact whoever we can? I think we should make a list and then get certain people started on certain retailers, so that we don't hit them up more than once, ya know?

Oh and I can frag up my giant leather again, in case anyone wants softies. The thing is that it's pretty dang common by this time, so I don't know if folks will want to see it fragged. Either way, a softy, a zoa colony, and an acro might be good (especially if we could get a decent sized colony of something like dragon eyes).

[Ironman]

sounds pretty good, Most of the people we had at the demo last year didnt really care alot what they were getting, just to see that you can cut things up and them survive attracts people, plus it seems like the common softies are always the hot sellers. we are however wanting to try and focus alot more on getting some rarities this year, that was one of the few complaints from last year. we would like to get some more acros, acans, micros, blastos,, palys.
as for raffle items, last year we made a huge list of vendors and there contact emails. then we designed a flyer and a basic letter descrbing the event and emailed it to all of them. this worked ok but if you looked at how many vendors we contacted and how many donated the percentage was pretty low. so we need to get and idea of how to get some better donations. another club whos last frag swap had some very nice donations gave us some tips. they came up with several ways to offer advertisement on internet sites. they sold the spots to vendors plus got huge donations. that is a big part to the success of the swap is finding a way for the vendors to nock our doors down wanting to particiapte. instead of us begging them. so everyone get your brains working and lets come up with some ideas. maybe we can have alot of inpute at the joint meeting and get alot done.

[JellyMan]

I'll be there depending on my deployment departure date.

[bkv1997]

on the raffle items...

I was thinking one club could hit up manufacturers (Sea Chem, Ken, PFO, etc...)

and the other club could hit up retailers (Dr. Foster, Reefermadness, Marine Depot, etc)

That way we weren't conflicting with each other and each club could manage how they did their part, but we would need to use a common flyer and formal letter requesting things. I think I still have the ones from last year that could be quickly modified.

Brandon

[Ironman]

no offense brandon but we arnt using the same flyer! dave is in charge of a flyer. have you got anything going on the flyer yet dave?

[bkv1997]

Good... I didn't want to do it last year either, but after 4 months someone had to step up to the plate.

[Ironman]

hold that thought! we may get there again. but I have faith in my good buddy dave!