Marketing

Hey y'all,

So in case you're both deaf and blind and haven't heard about or seen them, I've gotten all 14,000 of those postcards printed in a nice bright orange so people will see them.  I've also figured out exactly how to print the labels and have begun grouping them by building so I can hand them out at meetings and people can sit and label while listening to presentations and the different buildings won't get all messed up.  I'm aiming to do 2,000-3,000 at the next meeting, but need into the filing cabinets first to get out more labels haha.  I'm guessing we got about 700 or 800 done at the last meeting with only a few people working on labeling.  I'd like to thank those of you who did it because not a soul complained about it!

Also, have one small poster for the conservatory that Matt Kolp went and got printed.  I'm working on making a PDF to print of an even bigger one to hang up because I think that would be nice.  I was originally going to print a white poster with some color in the pictures, but I went into the headhouse and noticed that all the walls are beige, so I'm thinking a nice obnoxious bright orange poster in there might be just the thing we need to catch everyone's attention. :)  So sometime between now and Monday I'll work on making it all black and going to Kinko's or handing it off to Matt again to go to Kinko's to get printed.  Then I'll start working on smaller signs to post around the greenhouses and notices to put up in PSS.

I'm working on getting the tshirt design put together, hoping to have it done to take to the printers next Friday!  That way we'll have plenty of time to get in the shirts and hand them out before the Lansing Home and Garden Show in March.

Finally, I've just started writing the promotional article talking about the show and alumni's thoughts about it.  Officer's, if you would like to say anything about the show and how it's been the best/worst/stressful/great/real-world-preparing thing you've done, email me!  Your name will be famous :)

Well, that was long (sorry!)  but I think that's everything.  Happy weekend!

Sarah