Here are our 2010 GGA Calendars

2010 GGA Calendar Inside Georgia



2010 GGA Calendar Outside of Georgia

The New Year is right around the corner don't forget to pick up one of the great 2010 GGA Calendars!!

Got Mine today!! Sweeeeeeeeeeeet!!

Will Ride For Cache!!

Flipped my calendar a couple days ago and BAM what a beautiful picture!

get taking those pictures folks. we want to do the calendar earlier this year, so everyone can give them as gifts for Christmas.

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Originally posted by biker64:
Flipped my calendar a couple days ago and BAM what a beautiful picture!

get taking those pictures folks. we want to do the calendar earlier this year, so everyone can give them as gifts for Christmas.

I'm not sure what "earlier" means, but the online GGA Events calendar indicates "Calendar Entrys Start" on next Friday October 15th lasting only 7 days.

This doesn't give GGA MEMBERS much time to search and compile their pictures to submit.

Is this still on or has this been eliminated as well?

It is still on, it was being discussed in SC forums last week and again yesterday. we will have a announcement this week (I hope). you know "The best laid plans......"

Are the 10th anniversary coins on the calendar?

Since these are both annual occurrences, it is hard to fathom why it is so difficult to put together a calendar and geocoin in a timely fashion. Seems the kinks would be worked out by now.

Jim

Kinks are worked out.

There is some question about the calender and if the work is worth the reward. We sell very few calendars and work to prepare them is very time consuming.

I am sure that the person that is headed up the calendars will be along soon to post the thread for submissions and information.

Coins are on the calendar, the anniversary is in June. Coin planning is not late, so don't worry.

Even with starting on the coin in February there is plenty of time for a June delivery.

Half of the current SC is leaving or up for re-election at the end of this year, so the SC will be a new crew in 2011, so since 3 of us SC are lame ducks some jobs will need to fall to the new crew coming in, I imagine the geocoin will be one of those things.

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watch for some news about a new GGA coin this week in the Member's Discussion Forum.

As much as I want to...

I'm not jumping in.

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Originally posted by johnnie:
watch for some news about a new GGA coin this week in the Member's Discussion Forum.

this project is being kick around as we speak in the Steering Committee, stand by.
I believe the 2011 coin, will a great coin and available early in the year. This will be our ten year coin. Watch for the infor in the members form

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Originally posted by Joebids:

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Originally posted by biker64:
Flipped my calendar a couple days ago and BAM what a beautiful picture!

get taking those pictures folks. we want to do the calendar earlier this year, so everyone can give them as gifts for Christmas.

I'm not sure what "earlier" means, but the online GGA Events calendar indicates "Calendar Entrys Start" on next Friday October 15th lasting only 7 days.

This doesn't give GGA MEMBERS much time to search and compile their pictures to submit.

Is this still on or has this been eliminated as well?

Check that calendar again, it runs two weeks as usual. I will be posting the submissions topic shortly. It has always been two weeks, so this is no different than the many years we have been doing this. biker64 bumped this topic so people would get the calendar in mind again (thanks biker!).

Something we are looking at is other options for production and whether we can get the cost down. Here is a test calendar I printed that is hanging up in my office right now. It looks as good as the CafePress calendar, but costs more if you buy it individually. Buying in bulk saves money though. No bulk purchases are allowed via CafePress.

One big change is that we are considering printing 25 of the "In State" calendars and bringing them to meetings to sell, which is different than we have done in the past. We typically sell about 40 - 50 calendars a year, which seems like a lot to me at least, but in the last couple of years the sales have dropped to 31 and then only 23 last year. My guess is because of the stinky economy last year for one (I didn't buy any for myself for the first time). We hope that having some at a meeting for people to see will get them to buy since they can put their hands on it rather than buying on faith.

For grins, here is an accounting of the past calendar sales and the money generated for the GGA each year that I compiled for the SC as we were discussing this. Many thanks to all of you that have contributed to and/or have bought the calendars. It is a special treat for me to put this together each year. Even though it takes a lot of time to resize, add correct text and check all of the images, the results are oh so worth it.

Year -- Checks -- Calendars sold
2004 -- $71.91 -- 21 calendars, only one version made
2005 -- $130.08 -- 32 inside, 13 outside
2006 -- $118.03 -- 28 inside, 21 outside
2007 -- $138.15 -- 27 inside, 14 outside
2008 -- $69.71 -- 20 inside, 11 outside
2009 -- $103.83 -- 19 inside, 4 outside

Let's get the submissions opened up, we have 2 weeks to decide what and how many.

I'll eleborate on my marketing thoughts before the end of the weekend. I may be full of hot air though