[Ohio-talk] venders

[COLLEEN ROTH]

Hi Richard,
I think you did.
We want to give people an opportunity to examine Blindness Products who do not have any other opportunity.
Unfortunately, they don't always get these opportunities at home.
If you were a Vedor would you come to show your equipment if noone came in to see it?
If you couldn't get anyone to come into the room would you show up to bring your equipment? Think of all the work and time required to set up with such an activity.
The Person from GW Micro closed an hour early because he wasn't getting enough traffic.
The only other exhibits were not really blindness Related.
I really didn't hear anything about the Dog Kennels or whatever they were.
We did have opportunity to meet others at the exhibits. The Iphostipocstipad workshop in a separate area was probably a good thing.
We have to decide as an organization if we want exhibits or not. If we want them we need to support them and actually go check them out.
Colleen Roth



----- Original Message -----
From: Payne, Richard L (GE Capital) <richard.payne at ge.com>
To: "NFB of Ohio Announcement and Discussion List" <ohio-talk at nfbnet.org>
Date: Wednesday, Nov 7, 2012 06:38:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Ohio-talk] venders

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>
> I hope I did not hit a nerve here? Richard
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ohio-talk [mailto:ohio-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Eric
> Duffy
> Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 6:03 AM
> To: 'Ationfb of Ohio Announcement and Discussion List'
> Subject: Re: [Ohio-talk] venders
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> It is not about blame, but it is about being practical. We are a small
> group with a relatively  Short time for exhibits. We then divide the
> group at least seven ways Shopping, parents, students,  seniors, dog
> users, exhibitors, and those who choose none of the above. I have been
> in the exhibit room when it has been absolutely dead for long periods of
> time. More than one time I have had vendors tell me we don't give them
> enough traffic.
> 
> Relationships change over time. Companies change over time.
> Until some time in the 90's we did not have exhibits at our convention.
> For several years the only exhibitor we had was Universal Low Vision
> Aids. There are no easy answers here. No matter what we do here, some
> people are going to be unhappy.
> 
> Eric
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ohio-talk [mailto:ohio-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
> richard payne
> Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 5:22 AM
> To: 'Ationfb of Ohio Announcement and Discussion List'
> Subject: [Ohio-talk] venders
>  
> Guys people need choices. I wish that we would stop now blaming people
> for going shopping  because there are many other things going on at that
> time.
> Yes we need to make sure the venders have people to attend. I think they
> had visitors and am aware that it is not the members fault that the
> venders do not get the type of traffic some may think. We have broke
> strong relations with Ohio venders that must be looked at. .
> 
> Ps. Thanks to those who wanted to go shopping and those of you who went
> to the room if that is what you decided to do. The members who went to
> do other things to take advantage of the very break that the state board
> decided they would have enjoy. Richard
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