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 One man's junk is another man's treasure! In the collecting community Scouting coffee mugs are kinda a curse. Many of us have boxes of them through purchasing collections or just years spent in the program. Last night I discovered that at a round table meeting featuring dozens of Scouting volunteers mugs are a pretty cool giveaway item! I was there to promote the Charlotte TOR and at the end of the meeting everyone was asked to take home a flier and a mug that included a business card for the event tucked inside.
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Vintage eBay Scout Auctions This Weekend
What does it take to get people to turn out to a Trade-O-Ree? If you look at the calendar included in today's issue you can see between now and the summer I list over 20 shows scattered across the country. Covering your bases with the die hard collectors is not that hard. What I'm trying to do with the Charlotte TOR (an idea that others might want to consider) is taking my marketing to the real Scouts and Scouters in the local council.
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Auctions Ending Friday & Saturday on eBay
Over the next two months I'll continue to give up the 2nd Thursday or the month (yes including February 14th) to attend the remaining round tables in the council and put fliers in the hands of Pack and Troop leaders. Our show also gives free tables to the council Scout shop and OA lodge for them to make a profit. That in turn makes it easier for us to promote at the council office and lodge events.
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eBay Store LMTC - Shop With My eBay Partner
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Boy Scout Memorabilia Auctions on eBay
The last piece of this marketing strategy is reaching out beyond the local folks that have an easy drive. Again this year I hope to find collectors in each of the surrounding dozen+ councils that will hand out fliers at a spring OA event. I've also got a separate email list built focused on eBay buyers in the southeastern USA that I send messages to when it's closer to time for the TOR. It's kinda the leave no stone unturned strategy. My philosophy is not everyone will come but at least everyone will know it's happening.
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Patchblanket Santeeswapper Store on eBay
I share all these points in order to suggest to everyone involved with a TOR that it's no longer the case that if you build it they will come. With eBay and Facebook it's way to easy for collectors to get their patch fix. So you have to make the TOR be a can't miss event. I also think you need to try as hard as possible to draw in the regular Joe Scouter that has a mild interest in all this but hasn't drank the Kool-Aid.
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Sunday's issue will feature the first episode of
Thread Heads in about 4 years! Yes the video show that Brad England and I record is back and Episode #12 is already in the can ready to go!
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Have a great weekend,
Jason Spangler
Santeeswapper LLC
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Click to pull up the fliers for Trade-O-Rees that I have fliers on. Please contact the sponsors in order to see more details. If you see a TOR that is not listed please email me and let me know. Likewise I'm always looking to add more shows so send me the fliers as you get them. You can always find the Trade-O-Ree calendar on
scoutpatchcollectors.com
- 29th Annual South Carolina (Winter) Trade-O-Ree, January 18-19, 2019, Easley, SC
- 41st Annual Dallas Trade-O-Ree January 25-26, 2019, Grapevine, TX
- 27th Annual Crossroads of America Trade-O-Ree, February 1-2, 2019, Indianapolis, IN
- 28th Annual Ventura Council Trade-O-Ree & Memorabilia Auction February 8-9, 2019, Oxnar, CA
- 31st Annual Sunshine Trade-O-Ree, February 15-16, 2019, Winter Park, FL
- 2019 Norfolk Trade-O-Ree, February 22-23, 2019, Norfolk, VI
- 17th Annual Twin Cities Trade-O-Ree, February 22-23, 2019, Burnsville, MN
- 10th Annual Buckeye Trade-O-Ree, February 22-23, 2019, Wooster, OH
- Wiatava Lodge Trade-O-Ree, February 22-23, 2019 Santa Ana, CA
- 17th Annual Friends of J.N. Webster Trade-O-Ree, March 1-2, 2019, Ashford, CT
- 2019 Tu-Cubin-Noonie Lodge Trade-O-Ree, March 1-2, 2019, Orem, UT
- 35th Annual Pittsburgh Trade-O-Ree, March 8-9, 2019, Bridgeville, PA
- 3rd Annual Tuku'ut Lodge 33 Trade-O-Ree, March 8-9, 2019, Los Angeles, CA
- Tulsa T-Town Trade-O-Ree, March 8-9, 2019, Tulsa, OK
- 10th Annual Great Lakes FSC Council Trade-O-Ree, March 15-16, 2019, Metamora, MI
- 40th Annual Northeast Trade-O-Ree March 16 Allendale, NJ
- 20th Annual Midwest Tradefest, March 22-23, 2019, Madison, WI
- The Southern Willamette Valley Trade-O-Ree, March 22-23, 2019, Eugene, OR
- Trapper Trails Council Trade-O-Ree, March 29-30, 2019, Ogden, UT
- Woapink Lodge Trade-O-Ree, March 30, 2019, Decatur, IL
- 20th Annual Allentown Trade-O-Ree, April 6, 2019, Orefield, PA
- Charlotte Trade-O-Ree, April 5-6, 2019, Charlotte, NC
- Seneca Waterways Council Trade-O-Ree, April 13, 2019, Rochester, NY
- 6th Annual Alabama Trade-O-Ree, May 10-11, 2019, Northport, AL
- Occoneechee Lodge 104 Trade-O-Ree, August 23-24, 2019, Carthage, NC
- Sequassen Alumni Trade-O-Ree September 6-7, 2019 New Hartford, CT
- 17th Annual Grand Teton Council Trade-O-Ree, September 13-14, 2019, Idaho Falls, ID
- EL-KU-TA Memorabilia Trade-O-Ree and Auction, October 25-26, 2019, South Salt Lake City, UT
- Pre-NOAC Trade-O-Ree, August 1-3, 2020, Lansing, MI
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