[Rockhounds] Auralite-23 Bather... + Clement Museum

[Alan Goldstein]

Axel, I was being facetious.

And to have more rock related to the note, the Clement Mineral Museum picked up another 25 flats of Garza specimens for their gift shop. Apparently, there isn’t a mineral species that isn’t selling! Some days they may have a few visitors at $5 a head, but sell several hundred dollars worth of specimens. Collectors are coming to see the latest additions to the inventory. Steve and Dee are glad to see the collection helping a mineral museum financially.

I’ve tried to empty my garage of Garza material to reorganize it. It’s an unmitigated disaster area that needs to to mitigate.

Alan

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From: axel.emmermann at telenet.be<mailto:axel.emmermann at telenet.be>
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2022 6:39 AM
To: Rockhounds at drizzle.com<mailto:rockhounds at rockhounds.drizzle.com>
Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] Auralite-23 Bather, Blather, Blather

Alan wrote: "I don’t want people passing my table – I want them to stop and take a look!"

Alan, it's a game of numbers... Of all the people that pass your table, a certain percentage will stop and take a look at it. I'm clueless as to why you want them to, unless you let them pay for the privilege of just looking... (no touchy feely?).
Again, some percentage of the lookers will actually buy something off your table. In my view, that is what you SHOULD want, but hey... I don't know what you charge for a quick peek at your rocks... pun fully intended.
So, the numbers tell us that a fraction of a fraction is bigger when the whole is big.

Cheers
Axel

Axel Emmermann
Mineralogische Kring Antwerpen
Mineralogical Society of Antwerp
Werkgroep Fluorescerende mineralen
Workgroup Fluorescent Minerals
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Van: "Alan Goldstein" <deepskyspy at outlook.com>
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Verzonden: Maandag 18 juli 2022 21:45:19
Onderwerp: Re: [Rockhounds] Auralite-23 Bather, Blather, Blather

I set up at a writer’s conference to sell my children’s novel and Steve Garza’s minerals a couple of weeks ago. There, it was 95% healie-feelie. A friend who is knowledgeable “in the ways of the Force” assisted. Although he is grounded in science, he knows what must be done to make sales.

Axel wrote, “but also your invited dealers will see MUCH more visitors passing their tables. Other dealers will hear of that and your show will grow...” --- I don’t want people passing my table – I want them to stop and take a look!

Alan G.


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