Look out for the Aquarium Expo

Aquarium Expo will be featured in all of The Home Expo advertising this year...

It's a bit early still. I think the first big thing going out will be 10000 flyers at the Kids and Baby Expo coming up in 2 weeks.

These magazines will have a combo of front page ads, diary listings, editorials and website advertising:
- SA Garden and Home
- Essentials
- Rooi Rose
- Your Family
- Woman & Home
- Living & Loving
- People

And these sites:
Garden and Home
Joburg.co.za - The Number 1 Internet site for Johannesburg
The Home Expo

There will also be LCD's showing ads at CNA stores:
OR Tambo, CPT International, Alberton City, Kollonade, Woodlands, Bedford Centre, Westgate, Maponya Mall, Waterfall Mall, La Lucia, Somerset Mall

Full colour ads in these newspapers in may:
Fourways Review, Krugersdorp News, Midrand Reporter, Northcliff / Melville Times, North Easten Tribune, Northside Chronicle, Randburg Sun, Roodepoort Record, Rosebank / Killarney Gazette, Sandton Chronicle, Alberton Record, Bedfordview Edenvale News, Benoni City Times, Boksburg Advertiser, Germiston City News, Kempton Express, Southern Courier, Springs & Brakpan Advertiser

 

The Citizen newspaper will have 6 big ads in April and May.

Highveld Stereo will be advertising heavily closer to the event.

Those fixed AdReach "posters" at all the major intersections in JHB.

Another 8000 posters on street light poles.

80 000 various flyers going out.

Aquarium Expo will also be in The Home Expo newsletter and advertised by Emperors Palace on their website, "News of the Empire" and "Livia" mail to club members.

 

Sounds like its gonna be really big.

 

They might do something in thier own radio comercials they normally mention the expos there, I will let you guys know if I do something that should only be around May I think...

 

Thanks for the info @Rory, will keep an eye on some of those you've mentioned, luckily only living 800m away from Waterfall Mall:driver:

 

@Rory why not do a cycle in the beeld and rapport/sunday times? National exposure will bring along more people.

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Seems like FW side is a bit neglected?

 

It most certainly looks like it.

What is going to be done about that? anybody?

55 days to go and we don't have any speakers lined up? or do we?

I honestly don't think it is a case of neglect but one of lack of effort and application. Hopefully i am wrong and some action is imminent very soon.

 

who would you target ? Marine side where guys blow 50k on a tank or fresh where an eheim canister is considered expensive ? At the end of the day money talks.

 

True but why include TASA in the whole thing then if you are only going to target marine guys?

 

@Vis to get fresh water guys interested in marine so that you can drop 50k for a 500l tank.

 

The FW guys is already interested in marines, we are all just poor

 

i agree with butcherman about the masa members, but masa has always seem more "grown up" than tasa, masa doesnt get caught up in technical details as much as tasa, much less se

 

No People talk bud. It looks like an opportunity is at hand that is about to be squandered. But we don't know because we are not informed and announcement's are few.

Just wondering what is being done by us to make this attractive for us to attend. Surely a speaker is prepared to talk on the hobby without monetary interests for the aquariust. Or is their an agenda i am missing.

 

MASA has an older audience then TASA. Only the old ballies that has high paying jobs go marine

Us normal folks stick to FW.

There is only a hand full of people around that I think can give a specialized talk about some issues like the technical issues behind a proper planted tank, aquascaping, breeding, feeding, discus etc.

O and all of them live in Cape Town

I know just about enough to help myself and some noobs.

I did however build a LED unit for planted tank so maybe I should go and have a one tank show