re: Promotions

[delagrange.2@osu.edu (Susan Delagrange)]

>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.
>
ditto on exon, james.

Lack of permanent space is deadly.  There's an old saying, "A move is as
bad as a fire."  I used to think that it referred to the effect of the move
on the family moving.  Then I heard someone apply it to a move in business
location by a fellow antique dealer.  Yes!  How long does it take for a
business to regain old/establish new customers after a move?  Just this
side of bankruptcy.  Which puts you on the _other_ side.
But seriously.....You mentioned in an earlier post that you had a classroom
for part of the time, but classrooms, as you point out, are unfriendly
places.  Could you claim a semi-permanent place in the corner of the
cafeteria?  Student lounge?  MIght be something to ask Student Activities
about.
And give out free candy.
Susan