Smaller Paper
by Don Singleton
Tulsa Computer Society
From the October 1999 issue of the I/O Port Newsletter
We regret having to shrink the September paper to 16 pages, and having to
take this issue all the way down to 12 pages. When I was booking I/O Port
Advertising most advertisers just continued their same ads each time I called
them to tell them to send a new check, so when I turned advertising over to
someone else and did not hear from him I did not think anything was wrong,
and just kept running the ads. However it turns out that he was not calling
the advertisers as I thought he was, and when I learned the treasury was
shrinking rapidly and got a committee together to call all of the advertisers
several refused to pay for their ads, even though when I last spoke to a
couple of them they told me to continue until they specifically told me to
stop (and they never did), and they were receiving regular copies of the
paper so they knew their ad was still in it.
We definitely messed up; we should have been calling them regularly, but it
just makes me appreciate even that much more the advertisers who did stick
with us, who did pay for their ads, and who are continuing their ads.
Please check out each of the ads in this issue, and if you have any need
for the products or services that any of them offer, please give them a chance to be
the provider of that product or service, and when you do, please tell them
you saw their ad in the I/O Port, and you appreciate them advertising with
us.
And if any of you know of any potential advertisers, please take them a copy
of the newsletter (our rate card is on page 2), and encourage them to begin
advertising with us. We would really like to increase the size of the paper
back to where it once was, but advertising revenue MUST cover the cost of
production for each issue.
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Tulsa Computer Society 8/28/99
Don Singleton, President
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