re: Promotions

["Mrs. Susan C. Oldrieve" <soldriev@baldwinw.edu>]

We always have a container of M&Ms on the table.  This is used as much by 
faculty as by students.  It's just one more way to make people feel 
comfortable when they come to the Lab.  Afterall, M&Ms ARE one of the 
basic food groups aren't they?

On Sat, 3 Feb 1996, Jim Bell wrote:

> Give out free candy? Yes. It is imperative! We have gone through two huge 
> (gallon?) containers of Scotch Mints in January. (Although some of the 
> tutors claim to be living on them, most mints go to clients.)
> 
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> On Fri, 2 Feb 1996, Susan Delagrange 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.
> > >
> > 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
> > 
> > 
> > 
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