Ideas needed (and dealers too!)

[Jantz]

Hi Scott,

I have a few ideas you can think about.

Offer door prizes to the customers. Albeit a small incentive, but its kinda cool to win something for free and shows that you appreciate customers coming to the show instead of sitting at home buying online.

Coupons are another incentive for customers. Hand out coupons to the dealers, if a customer spends say $200 or more with a dealer, the customer can present the coupon to the promoter for a prize. A type of reward for coming to the show.

Maybe offer something for the dealers as well. Enter all the dealer's names in a drawing and whomever's name gets drawn gets their table at half price or get there table for free at next year's show.

If you decide to go with door prizes or a coupon prize, make it something the customer will remember. No magnets, keychains or can koozies!

Hope this helps & wish I could attend.

Jantz

[Snapolit1]

Not a dealer so no great ideas. Good luck with it.
I will say that there has been a wealth of east coast shows in the past and coming months. Atlantic City. White Plains numerous times. Hofstra University coming up soon. Parsippany show back. Philadelphia. Smaller shows regularly held in Jersey. I am sure dealers have to carefully choose where to appear.

I'm sure collectors in other parts of the country wish they had such problems.

[drcy]

Many people plan ahead, while many people do things at the last minute.

I organized a group that had its first meeting last night. Some people joined a month ahead, while two people joined the day of. People do things differently. Keep the word out and you likely will get more new dealers.

[PolarBear]

Change the name to: First Annual Mauch Chunk Sports Card Show and Live Auction.

That should shake things up.

[slidekellyslide]

What is this thing you call a "card show"????

Sorry, I can't even recall the last time we had a card show in my town of nearly 300,000 people.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Originally Posted by PolarBear

Change the name to: First Annual Mauch Chunk Sports Card Show and Live Auction.

That should shake things up.

Ah, but east or west Mauch Chunk, that's the question.

[mintacular]

Just so you know, the "directions" link appears to be broken, at least for me...

[PolarBear]

Originally Posted by mintacular

Just so you know, the "directions" link appears to be broken, at least for me...

Take a right at Nesquehoning, you can't miss it.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Originally Posted by mintacular

Just so you know, the "directions" link appears to be broken, at least for me...

Thanks I appreciate the heads up. is it from a particular page or from all pages?

EDIT: It's fixed, thanks again for the heads up.