The past few years they have been about a day and a half. But it takes us much longer to get ready, setup and tear down.
From: George Skorup Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 2:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] To be or not to be It is nice being close to a distributor/reseller, so we can just go pick up what we need. But if they don't have what we want in stock, then proximity goes out the window and we have to wait for it anyway. One example of direct sales is PacketFlux. They seem to be able to handle it just fine. If I have any issues, they respond almost immediately and fix it. Well, besides maybe some firmware bugs that Forrest has to work on. :) They forgot a SyncPipe on the last order. It was out the door the next morning. I didn't need it ASAP anyway. Excellent customer service if you ask me. I think being small and handling everything in-house is the best approach. When you're at Cambium and UBNT scale, you definitely need distributors. As far as AF. I've missed the last one or two. It's either sick or just too busy. My final comment is.. a week is too long to be away. Maybe if I had minions. A two day event, fly in the night before, stay a second night and leave after the second day is ideal in my opinion. On 9/23/2015 12:57 PM, Chuck McCown wrote: Debating on whether or not to do AnimalFarm again. My moral dilemma is that I have this nice ecommerce website now but none of the ecommerce stuff is turned on. Easy to do. But then that starts to erode dealer sales. And also erode the relationship with the dealers. But it may capture sales that would otherwise be lost. In any event, if I am planning to do some direct sales, it is not fair to ask our dealers to sponsor AnimalFarm - if I am serious about doing this that is. I am half serious. Perhaps 60% serious. As time passes, that percentage may grow. And the majority of the sponsorship comes from manufacturers, not dealers... And AF is a bunch of work. It breaks even. Not what we would call a significant profit center in any way. But as time has gone on, all of you have been great at crowdsourcing the setup....
