Re: [GZG] Bears, scaring Jon and UK con dates

_______________________________________________
Gzg-l mailing list
Gzg-l@vermouth.csua.berkeley.edu
http://vermouth.csua.berkeley.edu:1337/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gzg-lAt
the risk of being Mr. Obvious, perhaps you could do what others do ...
Run a demo game using one of Jon's rules sets and minis at the con while
Jon
is there?   While it is a lot of work to run games, it's also a lot of
fun,
and I'm sure that Jon would appreciate the extra exposure (as he always
does
<duck>) so that those orders can keep flowing in...
:)

J

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Phillip Atcliffe
<atcliffe@ntlworld.com>wrote:

>  Oerjan Ariander wrote:
>
> Paul Foster wrote:
>
>
>  Do you ever promote GZG at shows by running a demo game or
participation game? I've always seen you at Colours and Warfare - but
never seen a GZG
> game being played. I normally come with one of my kids and we do enjoy
joining some of the 'drop in' participation games, and this in turn
often
> leads to purchases. Is it a missed marketing oportunity?
>
>
>  Only if Jon and/or his helpers can find any free time that they don't
already spend selling stuff to their existing customers as fast as they
can... :-/
>
>
>  And it must be remembered that said customers do their best to run
the
> guys off their feet, wanting *everything*...! I'm as "guilty" of this
as
> anyone, usually visiting the stand at least twice in the course of a
day at
> a con that Jon and co. are selling at... and so do my kids... and half
the
> time, GZG being there is one of, if not *the*, main reason we came...
>
> I'd love to take part in a demo/parti game, and have enjoyed games
like
> that at various cons, but I doubt Jon has time to do any. Even with
the aid
> of his wormhole, he can't be in 3 places at once. Maybe he needs to
think
> about commissioning games like that, getting people from places like
this
> list to run them -- if he decides that they're worth holding and there
> aren't already some being run independently. How many GZG games are
played
> at the average *Bifrost*...? More historically-oriented cons are
another
> matter.
>
> Phil
>
> _______________________________________________
> Gzg-l mailing list
> Gzg-l@vermouth.csua.berkeley.edu
> http://vermouth.csua.berkeley.edu:1337/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gzg-l
>