This message is from: "Skeels, Mark A (MED)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
And just because it's Sunday,,,, a little wisdom. No harvest will come unless the seeds are planted. Planting seeds takes time, money and effort. But in it's season, the harvest will come, and return even up to 100 fold. Mark Skeels -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Skeels, Mark A (MED) Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 4:21 PM To: fjordhorse@angus.mystery.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fjord Advertising response This message is from: "Skeels, Mark A (MED)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cheryl, In response to your question about advertising in major horse publications. Yes, I think we need to advertise in more publications, such as Young Rider, Horse Illustrated, maybe a driving magazine also. Yes, I think it should be quarterly, and full page, with many handpicked pictures of quality, that show fjords in different disciplines, and a note indicating loud and clear that the Fjord is very versital and easy to train, not stuborn, and a friend for life. Yes, I would be willing to put up extra money maybe $10-20 per quarter to support this. This may not seem like a lot, but put 100-200 people doing the same thing and you have a good amount of money. I think advertisements for local or regional horse shows should be picked up by Fjord people in that locallity, even if they arn't in the show, they are probably not that expensive for the few members in that region. Not every little po-dunk show though, say for instance if there is a big show in Wisconsin, we could probably find at least 20 peoplel in the Wisconsin/Illinois/Minnesota area that could pitch in 10 bucks apeice to put a nice add in their local show. Need to communicate on a regional basis better. We should have local ads in the state equine shows. I know Madison, Wisconsin has one every year, also there is a big equine show in Minnesota every year. The locals could contribute to those. As a side note, it would be nice if the NFHR could make a truely nice/ professional flier that I could buy to take to a local po-dunk show and have a little table set up for my kids or myself to sit at to have to distrubute. Not real expensive. Like maybe 100 fliers for 20 bucks or some such thing. Color of course. I know we already have one made, but maybe get them distributed better. Maybe give out 5 free every year to every member as an automatic with membership renewal, then have them buy more if they would like. Also, how much do the big full page ads actually cost in the big magazines? My 2 cents: Mark Skeels
