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[CQ-Contest] Re: CQ-Contest digest, Vol 1 #295 - 1 msg

Subject: [CQ-Contest] Re: CQ-Contest digest, Vol 1 #295 - 1 msg
From: k4oj@tampabay.rr.com (Jim White)
Date: Sun Jul 28 17:10:07 2002
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K4OJ



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>    1. Re: WHAT'S THE BIG RUSH? (Kelly Taylor)
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> Message: 1
> From: "Kelly Taylor" <ve4xt@mb.sympatico.ca>
> To: "Dale L Martin" <kg5u@hal-pc.org>
> Cc: <cq-contest@contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] WHAT'S THE BIG RUSH?
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> Heck of an idea!
> 
> Perhaps the robot engineers could add a subroutine that compiles a mailing
> list from incoming e-mail submissions that could then be used (in late Oct.
> for SS, for example) to shotgun mail the previous year's participants.
> 
> Nothing gets me thinking CQP more than the individual mailings from AD6E,
> and we all know how successful CQP is.
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> Oh, and Jim, how long till FQP?
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> In all seriousness, though, this represents the kind of marketing savvy that
> contesting needs.
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> Well done, Dale.
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> Kelly
> ve4xt
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dale L Martin" <kg5u@hal-pc.org>
> To: <cq-contest@contesting.com>
> Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2002 9:27 AM
> Subject: RE: [CQ-Contest] WHAT'S THE BIG RUSH?
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> >
> > I think the reminder article is fine as a reminder and as an enticement to
> > non-contesters to try their hand.
> >
> > Personal contact might be more effective.
> >
> > What's the percentage these days of electronic log submissions these days?
> > Pretty high, I would imagine. 70%? 80%? 90%?
> >
> > Is there a way these days to get the e-mail addresses from the contest's
> > previous year's electronic log submissions and send an e-mail to them
> about
> > a week or two ahead of time to
> > (1) thank them for their participation in last year's contest (maybe even
> > remind them of their score and placing) and
> > (2) to invite them to participate in this year's contest (provide dates,
> > times, exchanges, links, etc.)?
> >
> > For the casual or newbie contester who happened to show up in a contest,
> it
> > might make the difference between being there or being a no-show.  Isn't a
> > habit formed after doing something as few as two or three times?
> >
> > 73,
> > dale, kg5u
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