NZFF

Over the years, there has been numerous mention of representing NZFF in some way or form at various real world aviation events around the country, yet nothing has ever materialized. However, with the 2008 airshow season (Tauranga, Whitianga, Hamilton, Ohakea, Wanaka) about to kick off, and plenty of NZFF'ers announcing they will be attending, it's perfect time to put some sort of plan into action.

Thinking about this to myself, I can see three possible ways in which we could do this-

1. Rent a patch at the airshow, put up a stall and sell REAL NZ cd products to the public as well as advertise NZFF through a big banner and handouts. I can see this being very costly, us having to pay more for the stand and organization than receive prophet from the sales, and miss out watching all the good performances at the airshow while attempting to make sales.

2. Print off a ton of flyers advertising NZFF and hand them out/drop them on the floor "accidentally' for members of the public to pick up. Cheap and easy, although the airshow organizers may not approve.

3. We could get some NZFF T-shirts printed off, featuring the www.NZFF.org website address, as well some simple graphic and wear them to the airshows.. The more people wearing them, the more noticeable our walking promotion will be.

What do other people think? Is anyone else still keen to go through with promoting our community at real world events or am I on my own here?

Trolly,

Number 1 could be very costly. Did this exersise with VATPAC at the 2007 Flight Sim Expo. We did do very well memberwise etc etc, but very expensive.

Myself, I think Number 3 would be the best. Something, cheap and easy to do. You might even get some people hammering you questions about it!

Just my 10 cents..

benwynn wrote:

QUOTE (benwynn @ Feb 8 2008, 08:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Myself, I think Number 3 would be the best. Something, cheap and easy to do. You might even get some people hammering you questions about it!

Yep!

Ive got a family signwriting business and could arrange ie T-shirts /banners etc.. this would cost materials and a courier fee ..
i could always get stickers done that could be put on t-shirts and all we would have to do is post them out ..
time just isnt on our side and id have to know pretty soon ..

SHIRTS! Otherwise the only "themed" shirts I have for shows are the Catalina or Currawong. Would be good to push NZFF whilst enjoying the show. Perhaps if members were willing to part with their money - unemployed guy here - the stall option would be good.

Profit? I thought the idea was to push NZFF and RealNZ!

I have mentioned before that I'd really like to set up a stall at Wanaka in particular, to promote my scenery. A stall costs about $800, which would be a good investment normally, except that I've maxed out my credit card paying the taxman this year.
I still intend to give this a go one day, and it would make sense to have a few hundred NZFF pamphlets and a poster printed. I don't think I'll make it to Wanaka this year (to set up a stall -- I will probably be there to watch...)
However if I suddenly sold 20 scenery CDs, I may book a site! Or just 10 FS2004 Collections...