<div>Jurgen,</div> <div>I hope you can take Patrick's suggestion and make it work for you, because I think the word will get around at the convention and you will have a good showing. Or. . . is it too late for the home office to some way extend the exhibit hall to some other area?</div> <div> </div> <div>Jurgen will be at the MARC.<BR><BR></div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><BR>From: "Jurgen Goering" <pianoforte@pianofortesupply.com><BR>To: pianotech@ptg.org<BR>Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 02:06:11 -0500<BR>Subject: Kansas City<BR><BR>Piano Forte Supply will not be exhibiting at the National Convention in <BR>Kansas City this year. The exhibit hall was sold out in 19 hrs, about 4 <BR>months before the event, and anyone who came later came too late. I among <BR>others. I am sorry for the many of you on this list who were counting on <BR>visiting my booth. Needless to say, I am also
disappointed at not being able <BR>to show all my new items.<BR><BR>Responding to exhibitor complaints that not enough technicians were making <BR>their way over to the exhibit hall in 2005, the decision was made to move the <BR>exhibit closer to the main convention activities. However, the only room <BR>available is 40% smaller than the hall previously used. I haven't yet fully <BR>understood how this can contribute to the biggest and best ever 50th annual <BR>convention.<BR><BR>Home office told me that 120 booths could have been sold, but the exhibit <BR>hall only has room for about 70 booths. (The size of every booth had to be <BR>reduced by 20% to accommodate even this small number.) So, at over $600 per <BR>booth, that amounts to a lost potential revenue of around $30,000 (!) for the <BR>convention. I could imagine that with $30,000 a lot of enticements could <BR>have been afforded to draw technicians across the way into the the exhibit <BR>hall. Let me see: free
food? how about caviar canapes, or perhaps a $1,000 <BR>door prize every hour of the exhibit?.... Maybe a grand piano as a prize? <BR><BR>I can't help but wonder if enough thought was given to the drawing <BR>technicians to the large exhibit hall, instead of opting for the poor <BR>compromise of the smallest exhibit hall in years. (The breaks between <BR>sessions in '05 were far to short, for example) I don't know why there always <BR>seems to be such a huge problem surrounding the exhibit hall in the last few <BR>years. I don't want to bring up past mistakes, but they were surely made, <BR>and one important lesson doesn't seem to sink in: a good exhibit hall is <BR>vital for the success of a convention - it draws technicians to attend. I <BR>cannot count the number of technicians who were full of disappointment at the <BR>Rochester convention, saying to me that they would not have attended if they <BR>had known there would be only one tool and parts supplier from whom to
<BR>purchase. I know many will be disappointed with the exhibit hall again this <BR>year. It is a real pity.<BR><BR>Oh, well, here's hoping for Burbank in 2008. See you there!<BR>Jurgen Goering<BR>Piano Forte Supply<BR>www.pianofortesupply.com<BR><BR>From: "J Patrick Draine" <jpdraine@gmail.com><BR>To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech@ptg.org><BR>Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:43:28 -0400<BR>Subject: Re: Kansas City<BR><BR>Jurgen etal,<BR>While I certainly "feel your pain" I hope you will consider attending<BR>and finding some alternative way to promote your excellent business.<BR>While renting a suite and exhibiting your wares that way is probably<BR>too expensive, perhaps you could rent adjoining rooms with some other<BR>entrepenuer (Joe Goss? Fujan? et al) and use one of them for<BR>exhibiting your stuff (or hosting a little BYOB party on a slow<BR>night!) to make your presence known.<BR>Meanwhile, make sure your RVP as well as the Home Office know about<BR>your
disappointment.<BR>Best wishes,<BR>Patrick Draine (a happy customer)<BR><BR>From: Erwinspiano@aol.com<BR>To: pianotech@ptg.org<BR>Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:44:05 EDT<BR>Subject: Re: Kansas City<BR><BR> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16414" name=GENERATOR><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV><STRONG><EM> Jurgen</EM></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><EM> Should have come to the MARC this week in Philadelphia. In fact you can probably still rent space. 400 ish registrants. Hmm </EM></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><EM> Yes they feed you 3 times & all the exhibitors you could want. I have given up trying to understand the K.C politics & policies. The thinking & explanations are not far enough outside the box for me.</EM></STRONG> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000
size=2>Piano Forte Supply will not be exhibiting at the National Convention in <BR>Kansas City this year. The exhibit hall was sold out in 19 hrs, about 4 <BR>months before the event, and anyone who came later came too late. </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR><DIV id=RTEContent> <DIV id=RTEContent> <DIV> <DIV>Vince Mrykalo RPT MPT</DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#ff0000>University of Utah</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#ff0000></FONT> </DIV> <DIV>"Minél több a változás, annál nagyobb az állandoság"</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>2007 Pacific Northwest Convention</DIV> <DIV>Salt Lake City Utah</DIV> <DIV>April 11-14</DIV> <DIV><BR><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"></FONT> </DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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