rehunn Wrote:
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> Greg, to answer your question, it's come full
> circle ie before the first
> printing press, you show up at shows and have a
> booth. I'm amazed at the
> number of vendors at shows who don't use print
> advertising because of
> both cost and the lag time of product
> announcements. There are any number
> of resin car manufacturers who sell out a run in
> less time than the period
> between the ad placement and the actual
> publication. I'm not saying there
> is not place for print rail and model rail topics
> but as far as news we're
> in a more "timely" era.
I have always done a printed catalog now since day one. Some do not do them at all. We include one FREE in all our orders, and will send a person a catalog if they send us $2 cash in the mail. We tend to do one each year and mail it to active customers in November, thus its ready for the holiday season.
As for shows I did them years ago, but the last one was 1992. I used to go and compete with myself, as other vendors had our shows for sale.
We have picked up some new customers off RFD-TV which has been airing some of our shows, but they(RFD-TV) pay nada!!! Last week they ran "First Train to Toltec", so maybe some advertising for the C&TS as well as picking up a few sales.
I have heard nothing directly from Carstens!
Greg