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  • From: Michael Nave <jmichaelnave@yahoo.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Getting the word out WAS Re: NNGA membership declines
  • Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 22:02:00 -0700 (PDT)

If they don't know that such groups exist, they must
be monumentally naive at best. Groups exist today for
EVERYTHING.

And once you suspect a group exists it takes 30
seconds to google it. People found NNGA 80 years ago
with no internet at all. If people can't find it
today, we are not missing much by their absence.


--- Spidra Webster <spidra@speakeasy.net> wrote:

> On Jul 2, 2007, at 9:41 PM, Michael Nave wrote:
>
> > With regard to number 1, amateur fruit and
> vegetable
> > growing is not about marketing. It's about love.
> If
> > the internet generation doesn't want to join a
> fruit
> > and vegetable group because they don't like the
> > website, it would be pointless for them to join
> NAFEX
> > or NNGA. Trying to make a fancier website to
> attract
> > these people would be like making a trail of
> bananas
> > to get a gorilla to enter an opera house. The
> gorilla
> > would not appreciate it when it got there.
>
> Marketing is not tantamount to flashy gew gaw
> websites. Marketing is
> getting the word out to your target audience. I've
> loved growing
> fruit for years but I had never heard of NAFEX until
> I happened upon
> CRFG. And I only happened upon CRFG because someone
> on Tribe.net told
> me I should Google "exotic fruit group" if I wanted
> to find a group
> to help me with grafting. Fruit lovers can't find
> you if they don't
> know you're there. If they don't even know such
> groups exist.
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