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Post by ree123 on Jun 8, 2012 14:57:50 GMT -6
I ask this in another thread and want to ask it again here.
Please throw out ideas of ways to reach these folks !!!
These are the people we need to be finding, IMHO.
Wonder why folks who sell their aq's, supplies, and fish on Craislist, Amazon, E-bay, and the like, folks in our area, who lose interest,..................... don't seem to be able to either find us and spur their hobby forward - or - find us and join in ?
I wish there was a way to reach all these folks we keep finding, right here in our communities, that run ads to get out of the hobby.
Any suggestions ?
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Post by bnoel210 on Jun 8, 2012 15:25:55 GMT -6
Well since as far as I know we are still running CL adds for the club so they already see us there. Besides responding to everyones post who are selling im not sure what else we could do. We already do CL adds (if not maybe we should start again), we put fliers up in lfs and I know we do a great job of word of mouth.
My biggest concern right now is since the swap this forum has been dying out. I know its summer and people going on vacation and what not, but we went from a strong group of people posting and replying dying down to a handful. Im just saying maybe we should focus more on being a stronger club right now and let our group numbers work themselfs out for the time being. Its always great to have a bunch of members, but if you have a bunch of members who dont do anything its pointless.
Thats just my 2 cent deposit. Take it how you will or dont take it at all it wont bother me either way, just thought I would speak my mind and some of you know thats the only thing im good at.
Brian (the grumpy young hobbiest)
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Post by ree123 on Jun 8, 2012 16:22:30 GMT -6
Appreciate your input Brian.
Others ?
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Post by kyangelsncorys on Jun 8, 2012 16:33:16 GMT -6
Rick as you know i buy alot of these people out and from what im hearing they either don`t have time any more or they are moving. i hear those 2 things alot more then i do about them losing interest
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Post by jtrotter77 on Jun 8, 2012 17:42:07 GMT -6
I agree with Brian
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Post by tlyons01 on Jun 8, 2012 18:08:29 GMT -6
I also agree with Brian. The more involved you get your forum and club members to be, the more that they are going to recruit folks even when they don't realize that they are doing it. I am mildly involved in my planted forum and I find myself talking about the forum all the time, even to strangers who will listen to me babble on and on and on.. I feel great about the forum, being a supporter of it, and would happily recruit anyone there.. Focus on your members and everything else will fall into place, I think
Sorry for babbling!!
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Post by bnoel210 on Jun 8, 2012 18:26:54 GMT -6
Everyone who hasnt ment Theresa yet trust me when I say she can hold a good conversation lol. She came over last weekend and I looked at the time when she left and 2.5hrs went by and it only felt like maybe an hour.
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Post by tlyons01 on Jun 8, 2012 19:03:13 GMT -6
Awe, thanks Brian. Time always flies by when it is great conversation
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Post by bnoel210 on Jun 8, 2012 19:58:15 GMT -6
I enjoyed it very much
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Post by ree123 on Jun 9, 2012 0:47:02 GMT -6
Thanks for the input and babbling.  Others ? |
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Post by paddysdaddy on Jun 9, 2012 9:49:48 GMT -6
Rick, I definitely feel a local fish club offers a support network. Someone to share the triumphs, folks to share frustration and grief with, a circle of like-minded friends to suggest solutions or post-mortem scenarios when we have a fish tragedy. I have and you probably have also, seen a person lose their treasured wet pet (or a whole tank of them) and here comes the guy they shared fish with last year-fish in hand, offering to re-start the dismayed hobbyist. Gotta soapbox about this happening to me years ago, submitted fry to a BAP, a year later lost the adults I had, and the winning bidder from the BAP donation came forth and said "How many would you like? I'm bored with my fry-now-breeders I bought for $7, care to buy them back?"
We cant control the life changes that shrink our fellow hobbyists collections, but we can offer alternatives such as baby-sitting their fish while they move, adapt to a new baby, work 90 hours a week or split their household. For me, just having like-minded fish keepers available to talk with is a support network, the huge information base, hardware resources and friends-of-friends contacts are huge perks.
IMO, I'd rather have 5 enthusiastic, generous members than 100 apathetic members looking for their next bargain.
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Post by tlyons01 on Jun 12, 2012 6:33:49 GMT -6
Rick, in reference to trying to get more members but not specifically ones that are selling their equipment. I have noticed that there are many forum members that sign up and never log in again. There are 3 birthdays today and each one belongs to someone that signed up but never logged in again. Think about what can be done for the newest people that sign up and preview the forum, maybe there is something that can be done to keep them coming back?
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Post by mruble on Jun 12, 2012 8:34:35 GMT -6
I believe that some of the people who never log in again were looking for a specific species of fish and was checking to see if it was available on our forum. I had a guy on the ACA forum that had Sumbu comps (only person in the U.S. that I could find) for delivery to the ACA three years ago. I joined the ACA just to be able to contact the individual.
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Post by aaron on Jun 12, 2012 21:02:57 GMT -6
I haven't picked up my fish program full throttle in Chattanooga area since I moved here. Still trying to settle in and pay off some stuff (my car mostly). I ran a non profit that would give full setups to families with kids, usually all low income.
I work with several people at work to keep there tanks going and stocked. Matter of fact I started selling my Endler Species # 2 as I'm approaching 150+ in my 55g. Found some locals who are amazed they could get pure strains and the energy they had was great.
I think a lot of people I buy tanks from on CL ... usually it's due to them needing money more than anything, because of the economy. The other half said it was too much upkeep, which those I would sit down with and inform them how to care for the tanks. If they decided to sell at that point I'd buy, otherwise I'd work with them to get it back up and going. One individual had a back injury and couldn't do the upkeep, so he was the only special case out of them all.
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Post by jtrotter77 on Jun 16, 2012 8:15:21 GMT -6
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