re: Promotions

[User JWERCHAN <jwerchan@osulima2.lima.ohio-state.edu>]

hi folks,

thanks, todd, for the skit ideas for selling colleagues on the wc idea.  
My brand new baby WC is but four weeks old, and is slow to get much 
traffic.  Lots of handicaps I know about-- lack of permanent space with 
visible, credibility-enhancing infrastructure, e.g. computers, file 
cabinets, posters on the walls; an ambivalent bunch of English colleagues 
-- but I wonder about the psychology of the  client population. 

 We're 100% commuter student, no dorms, little community cohesion among 
students.  Mass communication among the student body is hard as there is 
no campus newspaper or any either info medium that actually disseminates 
information, save for a web site and a couple of Mac labs with netscape.  
But the campus web site does not get used for real information 
dissemination either.   sure i can fantasize that a thriving WC can have 
a role in such info sharing, but it's not here yet.   and physically 
possible doesn't mean students will actually give a damn.   we're talking 
about a group cohesion/ community identity vacuum here.  (not absolutely 
true, but damned near.)

I've been making visits to classes in lots of disciplines, handing out 
flyers.  I've posted posters (most of them more tasteful than my Jerry 
Garcia thing).

What am I missing?  What paradigm is there that i'm unaware of?  All i 
can figure out is a description of my frustration: it's hard to sell a 
solution to a need that students don't/won't/can't think they have.

It's the fifth week of our ten week quarter, and presumably some folks 
will be feeling crunch time soon, and that might stimulate traffic.

What's the SECRET to motivating first time clients  to come to a first 
time WC?

what am I, dense?  am i just not GETTING it?

hoping y'all can give tips

james werchan
osu lima

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and senator exon is a big poopoo head, nya.