re: Promotions

[Sara Kimball <skimball@uts.cc.utexas.edu>]

James, baby WCs need time to grow.  Our first semester struck me as 
agonizingly slow. We had lots of times when the room was full of 
consultants just hanging around waiting for someone to come in, and I 
was afraid some admin-type would walk in and decide we just weren't 
cutting it.  I can remember going over the first semester's set of 
records weeding out blanks and duplicates and thinking "Please, please, 
just let it be at least 500."  Last semester, we were just under 2,000, 
and I suspect we may have more this semester in large part as the result 
of Elisabeth P-M's mailing blitzes.  I think you'll find that all those 
promotional things help, but news of the writing center also spreads
by word of mouth from satisifed students. In the meantime, hang in there.
Sara Kimball


On Fri, 2 Feb 1996, User JWERCHAN wrote:

> 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.