Re: [Aus-soaring] A NEW APPROACH TO GFA PROMOTION MEMBERSHIP??

2005-08-29 Thread Geoff Kidd
What is Terry's email address please. - Original Message - From: Mark Newton To: Robert Hart Cc: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 1:39 PM Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] A NEW APPROACH TO GFA PROMOTION

Re: [Aus-soaring] A NEW APPROACH TO GFA PROMOTION MEMBERSHIP??

2005-08-29 Thread Mark Newton
Geoff Kidd wrote: What is Terry's email address please. It's on GFA's web site under GFA Development Officer -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - mark I tried an internal modem,[EMAIL PROTECTED] but it hurt

[Aus-soaring] JoeyGlide 05

2005-08-29 Thread Nick Gilbert
Hi All, Just a quick update on where we are up to with the preparations for the 2005 Australian Junior Nationals. So far, we have a staggering 21 payed entries, with at least another 9 to come that we know of. This is double the attendance of last year, and a testament to the hard work of

[Aus-soaring] easter School holiday '06

2005-08-29 Thread VHGNJ
Gidday I've just been informed that the Easter School holidays (Qld) will be the week before easter. This may effect planning of comps etc. Other states might be planning the same thing. Its to do with the length of a term being extended to twelve weeks. Grant Harper

Re: [Aus-soaring] A NEW APPROACH TO GFA PROMOTION MEMBERSHIP??

2005-08-29 Thread Terry Neumann
Geoff Kidd wrote: Seehttp://www.glidingmagazine.com/FeatureArticle.asp?id=485 for the NZ article titled "Membership: Its not a pretty picture". It may however be totally accurate - for here - as well as for New Zealand. That's the scary thing about writing out a blank

Re: [Aus-soaring] A NEW APPROACH TO GFA PROMOTION MEMBERSHIP??

2005-08-29 Thread Geoff Kidd
Terry The points you have made are valid ... so come back herenear the fan, but I would counter with the following: We don't need to excite the "general population". All we need to do is excite 3000 people OZ-wide and we've just about doubled the size of the sport. For the

[Aus-soaring] Re: Aus-soaring Digest, Vol 23, Issue 38

2005-08-29 Thread Ddonald
How about if we segment the target market? We don't have to have a one-ize-fits-all approach. Break the market down into identifiable segments - and some of them have been identified - and structure the marketing approach to them. If the sport is to continue we have to change our approach to the

[Aus-soaring] New LOGO???

2005-08-29 Thread Mark Fisher
I have to say I was a bit surprised to see the new marketing logo that GFA exec has adopted . In the article on P22 of Soaring Australia, a rationale was given on why the GLIDING Australia logo was accepted. It also stated that Al Sim developed the new marketing logothat is fairly