From: Alan Lambert Pieter, I agree. NASG is now covering both sides of the rail. We need to get more people to join it like you said. I did, and I'm trying to get more members in my club to go there. Train shows are the best way to promote the scale. Our shows just don't have the floor space, but are full of product venders, Just not alot of "S". I'm Done. Thanks, Alan
________________________________ From: Pieter Roos <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 9:35 AM Subject: {S-Scale List} Down the "Promoting S" rabit hole was Re: Promotion of S scale...... Hi all; We've all been in this movie before. I specifically commented (in Admin mode) not very long ago about this type of thread on "growing S" ends up producing more heat and bruised egos than action. Consider this a "pre-admin" call to cut this one short... We have several excellent web sites to point people to. A simple hand-out listing these for a club to use at shows is not difficult to make and print on a computer - maybe someone can bring a laptop and a small printer to the show and "print on demand" to save paper and ink cost. We have a couple of magazines. Joining NASG and subscribing to Bob Nalbone's E-zine will help in keeping S going. If "we" want to mail a free copy of a magazine to some list of potential converts, "we" need to figure out how to pay for it. "They" are not going to spend the cash just because "we" think it's a great idea. If you really think that it's a winning idea, find out who is behind the example, where they got their mailing list, and who paid for the effort. Then bring that info to NASG, or find a sugar daddy, or start a fund-raising campaign to make it happen. There is even a web site, www.Kickstart.org, that could be used to accumulate funds for such an effort, once an actual budget has been developed. If the project doesn't make the goal, the money goes back to those who donated (which might make people more willing to give). The rest of the debate is pretty much a time-wasting opinion fest without specific people doing real work. FWIW, my hat is off to those who did the work/spent the money on the S Sig and the new NASG site. Quietly doing stuff works, talking about what "someone" should do not so much. Pieter E. Roos
