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drcdb15

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Re: 2016/17 Calendars...?
« Reply #15 on: November 29, 2016, 07:36:16 PM »
Chris, before you go ahead may I suggest a broader publicity push? I cannot believe that with a membership of well over 2500 people only a mere ten are interested - I suspect most either never knew about last year's calendar or have simply forgotten.
You are ideally placed as Webmaster to highlight the availability of calendars across ALL forum sections and threads, so how about placing a banner notice on the home page and some sort of corner flash or pop-up alert on every thread so that everyone, even casual browsers of the site, get a prominent reminder that calendars are available? They should also be listed in the merchandise section, for loved ones of 126 fans looking for Christmas gifts, and further afield, how about an eBay listing?

Certainly you can count me in for a firm order, and if you generate significant business and hence the physical work required to get them packaged, sent out etc, I'll be happy to help out. Is it possible to set up some easy-pay mechanism using Paypal etc so that impulse buyers can be captured?

Perhaps members in other countries or with strong links there can act as local distributors.

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Re: 2016/17 Calendars...?
« Reply #16 on: November 29, 2016, 08:53:18 PM »
I cannot believe that with a membership of well over 2500 people only a mere ten are interested

Only a fraction of those people visit here, and only a fraction of those visit regularly.

I wouldn't recommend a banner, people ignore it and they probably wouldn't notice it being changed anyway (the current banner has been there for just over a year now!) I do agree on advertising elsewhere though, get it posted on the Facebook groups, send a PM/email to those who were involved last year.

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Re: 2016/17 Calendars...?
« Reply #17 on: November 29, 2016, 10:11:09 PM »
Ive emailed my pic and order  :thumbup
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Re: 2016/17 Calendars...?
« Reply #18 on: November 30, 2016, 03:11:38 PM »
Hi,

I agree there should be more interest as there are a lot of owners of the cars but we're only a small forum. I'm not the webmaster so I can't do any of the above unfortunately.

Also at the same time I don't really have the time to be advertising this all over facebook and ebay etc as ive got to work and do my work for my degree :(

If someone else wants to advertise the calendar thats fine. I will be putting it together this week if I get enough interest but so far I've only had 6 people email/PM me with orders.

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Re: 2016/17 Calendars...?
« Reply #19 on: November 30, 2016, 03:21:32 PM »
If someone else wants to advertise the calendar thats fine.

Done

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Re: 2016/17 Calendars...?
« Reply #20 on: November 30, 2016, 04:20:10 PM »
I'm not the webmaster so I can't do any of the above unfortunately.

My apologies, getting mixed up with all the Chrises on here  :$

My remarks were intended for Chris Lewis.

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Re: 2016/17 Calendars...?
« Reply #21 on: December 01, 2016, 09:47:42 PM »
Thanks Xylaquin.

No probs dcrd :)

at 7 so far.

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Re: 2016/17 Calendars...?
« Reply #22 on: December 01, 2016, 10:37:45 PM »
Come on people, there must be more than just 7 of us interested  :cry:
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Re: 2016/17 Calendars...?
« Reply #23 on: December 01, 2016, 10:46:34 PM »
Thats with someone ordering 2 as well.

I hope this isn't taken the wrong way but I dont want spend the time creating the full front cover out of custom images like last year if the interest isn't there. I very much enjoy creating the calendars and I like to use them, the local bodyshop even has one of our calendars! (thanks to Bar Vitelli) Chris has spoken to me about last years photos and I am going to post them up for some inspiration from last year so I hope that will drum up some interest! :)

Any other ideas I'm open to suggestions.

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Re: 2016/17 Calendars...?
« Reply #24 on: December 03, 2016, 04:40:50 AM »
also... one calendar for me please

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Re: 2016/17 Calendars...?
« Reply #25 on: December 03, 2016, 10:09:31 PM »
Thank you that's great, getting there now :)
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Re: 2016/17 Calendars...?
« Reply #26 on: December 05, 2016, 08:44:09 PM »
Hi can I have 1 calender please , might get me to finish my 126 as not done anything for a few years so hope 2017 is the year to get motivated again cheers Pete

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Re: 2016/17 Calendars...?
« Reply #27 on: December 06, 2016, 01:17:12 PM »
No problem, I'll do some photos this week / weekend and then get them all ordered.

Chris :)
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Re: 2016/17 Calendars...?
« Reply #28 on: December 07, 2016, 01:41:53 PM »
Hi all,

Ive started the calendar and I'm making the front cover similar to last year right now but I was wondering if people could get their photos to me by the end of tomorrow.

I have 8 photos right now and I've asked 126Fan to send me a few photos too.

Also please could you all tell me the Reg of your car and your name e.g HNC324V DeVilleChris

Only because I am struggling to put the names on like last time because the email addresses are different to forum names :D

Thanks a lot

Chris
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Re: 2016/17 Calendars...?
« Reply #29 on: December 07, 2016, 06:40:52 PM »
Mines F817 SOU ........ And I'll just have one :)
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