Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 02:32:17 -0400
From: heyhoot-AT-mindspring.com (Christopher Hudert)
Subject: PUPT: Pup Mag, fest update # 8.2, etc


  As I have waded through the convoluted cob webs of lines drawn between
cigar smoking, tie dyed, beared, smelly, magician, to puppeteer anologies
and who has the most mags, one single thought kept coming back to me over
and over again... Why are we not selling ads to the folks that are
supplying us with materials?  We are supporting them with our business.
They could be supporting ours. Plus they have a target market without
having to do any research. What more could they ask for?  We sell ads to
our peers (who all make less than 7K and can't afford food much less an ad
in the program or Journal) why not to the companies that we as a group buy
from?  This crit is full of requests for suppliers names and addresses.
Perhaps if we sold a few ads in the mags people would know who to call. I
belong to several other organizations and all of them have ads in their
mags, some admitadly more than I would like but perhaps if the amount of ad
space were kept to a small percentage of overall mag space that would also
keep the price per ad to a high but reasonable fee. We're a not-for-profit
organization. Can we say corporate sponsorship? I believe there was some of
this going on at the National Fest because there were thank you's announced
at the Friday Gala show. But why not, just for the festival, the
Sprint/Kane theater, The Wal-Mart/Hub exhibit gallery, and so on. Are we
too proud? Does their money not spend like ours? A little underwriting
could go a long way to keeping fest costs down.  Alright, I'm getting
wound. I've said my 2 cents worth and then some. Anyone else want to chime
in here?


Christopher




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