Numerous people have asked for comparisons on brochure costs and ad sales for other districts. To hopefully help our fellow C&Mers, I would like to collect answers to a lot of these questions and put a report together that can be shared with everybody. Please email ksmith@bolingbrookparks.org by Tuesday, April 15 your answers to following questions:
1. How many pages is your district’s brochure?
2. Is your brochure designed in-house or by an outside designer? If an outside designer, what do you pay for design?
3. Is your brochure four-color?
4. What do you pay for printing your brochure?
5. What delivery method do you use?
6. What is your delivery cost?
7. Do you sell ads for your brochure? If yes, please specify to total amount of dollars made per brochure from ad sales?

I will compile a report and have it ready for our April 16th C&M meeting at Lisle. I hope to see everyone there. Please remember to bring your brown bag lunch or pick one up on the way.  If you are unable to make the meeting but would like the report, please email me at ksmith@bolingbrookparks.org.  Thank you!

The Lisle Park District is pleased to host the next C & M section roundtable meeting on April 16^th at noon. There will be a brown bag lunch discussing Referendums, followed by a Board Meeting at 1pm. We will be meeting in the Lisle Park District board room,

. See link for directions:  http://www.lisleparkdistrict.org/faq-101.htm.   For further information contact Lisa Leone at (630) 353-4304 or email lleone@lisleparkdistrict.org.  Hope you can make it!

We need to purchase a DLP projector & I’m wondering if anyone has one (brand & model) to recommend. We are looking for nice resolution, but equally important, ease of start-up when hooked up to a laptop. Our old projector was very tempermental & had difficulty receiving the signal from our laptop. The projector will be used for PowerPoint presentations & playing DVD to rooms/audiences of 10-200. Please contact me at 815-459-0737, ext. 235 or sholcombe@nisra.org.

Thank you,

Sarah Holcombe

NISRA (Northern Illinois Special Recreation Association)

As you know, this year’s Agency Showcase Competition required you to submit your best creative marketing pieces electronically. This new process made it quicker and easier for you to nominate your work - but it also made it easier for judges to access the entries. But most importantly…now everyone can access and reference the entries online!

Using SlideShare, we have combined the individual entries into mass PDFs by award category and shared them online. You can now easily flip through the entries without having to download large files or make a trip to the IPRA office to view them in person. We think this is going to be a great resource for marketing professionals in the association.

You can see the winners listed on the Soaring to New Heights Conference page but visit the new Design Gallery to view each of the entries!

Let us know, by commenting on this post, any suggestions or comments you have about the Agency Showcase Competition. Are there new categories that should be added? Suggestions about the judging process? Overall ways to improve the competition?

Thanks again to everyone who participated in the Agency Showcase Competition. Over the past couple years, the quality of creative work being done at agencies is amazing. Keep up the great work!

A note to all first, second and third place winning agencies: plaques will be mailed to you within the next couple weeks.

Hi Everyone, here’s a reminder: C&M meeting tomorrow is at Noon at the Itasca Park District (350 E. Irving Park Road, Itasca 60143 630/773-2257). Brown bag lunch with Brainstorming for ‘09 Conference followed by 1pm Board Meeting. Hope to see you here. 

C&M Meeting is Thursday, Jan. 24th at 4:45pm in the Buckingham Room (West Tower/Bronze Level), join C&Mers from all over the state! A great chance to see old friends and make some new ones!

C(&M) you there! Okay-that was hokey.

Beth

Do you ever wish that your local newspapers published more of your press releases? Ever wish they printed what you actually wanted them to print?

The 21st century has given the power of PR to people like you. More people are made journalists with the power of blogs. Watch this video to learn more:

You have an audience…you have something to say. It’s time to think about talking directly with that audience.

Has your agency thought about using blogs? What are your hesitations?

Calling all C&M’ers! Register now for the C&M Awards Luncheon hosted by Darla from the Deerfield Park District. Location: Deerfield Golf Club Date: Fri 11/16 Time: 11:30am-2pm. Cost: $20 for member/$25 for non-members.  You may register by faxing the attached flyer to IPRA. Please register by Tuesday 11/13. See you there!

C&M Awards Luncheon 11/16 flyer

Bobbi Nance, Teen & Adventure Supervisor for Park District of Oak Park will be doing a session called…Extreme Teen Marketing Makeover. In order to show that little things can make a difference in teen marketing, she needs material to work with.  Please send anything/everything teen-flyers, posters, brochures, banners, t-shirts etc, regardless of if it needs tweeking or not.  Please submit to bobbin@oakparkparks.com. If sending a large file, please ask Bobbi to confirm receipt.  Send CDs to 218 Madison, Oak Park IL 60302. No hard copies please…it’s going into a PowerPoint presentation.

Need it scanned? Send it to Stephanie FitzSimons at Bartlett and she will scan and forward it.  Flyers in PDF, MS Word or Publisher please. Questions? Call Bobbi at 708/725-2110. Thanks!

Hi Everyone, the C&M Awards Luncheon price will now be $20 per member/$25 per non-member.  The event remains on November 16th at Deerfield Golf Club.

See you there!

New registration form is attached.

C&M 11/16 Luncheon Reg Form