kimball . Hope it’s gonna work out. We’ll see
A prediction??? Humm, I dunno. 5-7 trucks???
I don’t know what to tell you about this Saturday, kimball. With the IH stuff I’ve helped organize over the years, it’s always a crap shoot. My attitude for Saturday is any person who shows up automatically makes this gig a success; even if it’s 2 or 3 trucks. That’s 2 or 3 more trucks than we started with, ya know?
By the time there’s another north bay gathering, awareness of what’s going on will hopefully spread. As for “getting the word out there” we have a few tools to work with:
• naturally word of mouth leads the pack.
• IH Parts America. We have Jeff’s full support in many ways.
• the forum. If you do, see, or find something that would be of interest to the north bay guys, start a new thread. In time, more guys will begin to post up. It’s posts like Joe m’s that will begin to generate support and he’s from livermore. Don’t get frustrated when nobody responds to your post. They never do.
• craigslist this should run for the week.
International Harvester club "wrench" day - Saturday nov 5
• business cards, stickers, and dash plaques to pass out. I’ll bring extras for you to store.
• we’ll talk about ordering anniversary t-shirts.
• there’s “power” in numbers. That’s why the “pod” theory.
• start collecting local email addresses for local chatter. Send them to me and I will add them to my babs address book. I probably have 125 addresses I send to. I would consider 35 of those to be mildly active to active.
At lunch we’ll have a raffle – I have the tickets. I’ll have Jeff send a few gift certificates to get raffled off. I’ll have some babs swag for the raffle: coffee mugs, “koozies” and key rings. A raffle ticket will be given out for every dollar contributed to the lunch fund. Once expenses have been deducted from the dollars collected, a 50/50 raffle will split the remaining funds: half to the ticket holder, half to the “bank account”. Or the pot will be split between 2 ticket holders. Hopefully there will be something to split. Are you cool with hanging onto the cash taken in? You guys raised it.
It’s cool having a private planning room. Here’s a suggestion for you. Start your own personal thread so you can post notes and keep the “bank account” info stored. I’m assuming you checked out the south bay bank thread. You see what we bought as a group, nothing special. On the overall, I probably kicked in $100 of personal money to cover everything, which is a cheap investment. If you decide to hold onto the dollars, I’ll make the raffle announcement.
