[SEL] A topic for discussion.......How to promote a show.

Paul Waugh pwaugh at embarqmail.com
Thu Jun 19 18:21:29 PDT 2008


I love it, and it tells the real story .. I just have not gotten around to 
making anything, but that has to change, Thanks Alan

Paul Waugh
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan" <rustaholic777 at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 9:03 PM
Subject: Re: [SEL] A topic for discussion.......How to promote a show.


The last few years I have tried to do my part by putting on an active 
display.
I have a Mountville Hero two hole corn sheller much like the A.B. Farquare 
sheller that Mike and Susan Tucker had at Lincoln Tucker's Show & Tell on 
May 2, 2003.

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x286/Rustaholic777/ABFarquharCornSheller.jpg

I belt my Mountville Hero sheller up to my 1 3/4HP Hercules S.
I provide 700 pounds of ear corn for folks to feed the sheller.

I stand there holding out an ear of corn to the gals.
The guys always come with the gals.
If I was asking the guys then the gals wouldn't come over.
Once I get a gal to look down the hole as she drops in an ear of corn then 
her reaction calls in more folks.
I give each group the speal about how old the sheller is and what a sweet 
job it does.
A couple hundred folks a day really thank me for putting on such a nice 
display.

YES, I just had been watching most of those folks walk right past much nicer 
engines that were just sitting there doing nothing.
After doing that display three years ago lots of folks came back in 2006 
looking for my display. Then last year I had a couple folks tell me they 
came to the show because of my fun display.
Last year there was actually another sheller of this type there.
It was that guy's first time at the Buckley show.
He had been displaying his sheller for 15 years and he had never let the 
public feed it.
He was completely shocked to see folks walk past his sheller to come feed 
mine.
I really think he learned something.

I will soon know how well my new laundry display goes over this year.
There is none of last year's ear corn to be had around here because the 
harvest was so bad last year. I will do my best to engage the public with my 
new display.
I am trying to get other folks to display this way too.
I have a good friend with one of those self starting old Delco light plants.
He let's folks flip a switch or plug in a cord then the light plant statrts 
up.
Because he grew up with one of these he really is great at telling lots of 
stories about them. He gets a lot of Thank You comments too.

Interesting displays bring the public back the next year.

Alan Bowen
Williamsburg, Michigan U.S. of A.

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