Thanks for the tips. John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hans Franke" <Hans.Franke_at_mch20.sbs.de>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: VCF 5.0 date?
> > So far there has been very little interest from people in this area
and
> > the States around us. After asking for help on this list I got only
two
> > responses one person is working with me and the other said he would
come
> > if we had it depending on the dates. But other wise we could really
> > tell how people would come here for the show. We could not get
sponsors
> > without numbers to show a return on their investment. If nothing
breaks
> > for us soon we will have wait until another time.
>
> Well, that's the usual dilema for any new venture - Even guys
> like Benz and Ford had some problems to sell the idea of owning
> a self driven vehicle ....
>
> No, serious - I had the very same problem with VCFe 1.0. You
> will never get an even balance at your first try (and I will
> be happy if any time). But Money isn't only the thing to hassle.
> You have to balance two groups of people - your visitors _and_
> your exhibitors. If you, for example manage to get a whooping
> publicity and thousands of visitors, but you only have a few
> things on display, nobody will show up for version 2.0 - and
> the very same is true for your exhibitors - one may manage to
> round up every collector between Buffalo and Salt Lake City,
> but they won't come again if you can't herd in enough cattle
> ... err visitors.
>
> So the only way is to go ahead and try it at a friendly
> neightborhood sized version - a litte bit advertisement,
> and everything at a lever where it doesn't cost you more
> than lat's say a great vacation. After all, it is some
> kind of work out vacation :)
>
> VCFe 1.0 was made a reasonable success that way (and many
> thanks to Sallam, who did help quite a lot), and VCFe 2.0
> will now be a even bigger success ... only six more weeks !
>
> And it even looks like we may fork a second VCF site alteady
> next year in another European country.
>
> You got to take the flag and carry it on -
> There's no way to loose, only to miss a chance.
>
> Err... let's say I got carried away :=)
>
> Servus
> H.
>
>
>
>
> --
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> http://www.vintage.org/vcfe
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>
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