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From: covertr@force.UUCP (Richard E. Covert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Atracting new Club members
Keywords: atari st
Message-ID: <473f18ee.14a1f@force.UUCP>
Date: 5 Dec 89 16:22:54 GMT
Organization: gte
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I want to thank the following people for responding to my request about
attracting new members to the Phoenix Atari Club:

Greg Lindahl                                                            
Robert Retelle from the Michigan Atari Computer Enthusiasts (MACE) club
Keith Hedger :  {...!}uunet!inmet!hedger   hedger@inmet.inmet.com
Tim Northrup

The main points that they all said was to distribute flyers at my local
Atari store. Some suggested a free Club disk with each ST purchase.
Bob Retelle suggested registering the club with Bob Brodie at Atari. But, with
the revolving door policy at Atari we would have to re-register the club
every few months ( :-) ).

Our local ST sdealer doesn't have the room for us to hold our meetings in his
store. So, we still need to find a better place to meet. The local community
college wants $500 a day for a room, with a $500,000 insurance policy. So,
we can't meet there. My company has a great auditorium, but we can't let
unescorted people into the building (don't want to let out our secrets :-)).
We want to meet on Saturday mornings as that is the most conveneint time for
our members.

I personally think that the we need a better, bigger, meeting place before we
will attract new members. It is a Chicken and the Egg thing. We can't seat many
more members in our current location, but without more members we can't afford
a bigger meeting place.




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