I was thinking of suggestions for the next swap....kinda brainstorming...
1) Ask attending vendors if they'd like to donate any frags, to be raffled off or maybe auctioned earlier in the day. This may be a good way to give them a bit of spotlight time during the swap...perhaps let them come up and tell what they have to auction or raffle, talk about their company and such, then proceed. Especially, at towards the end of the swap, I would have donated several things to be auctioned or raffled.
2) Do the raffle earlier, so that its end doesn't signify the end of the swap, in effect. I noticed that after the raffle, the buyers took that as time to leave, and there was still about 30 minutes or so left. ...or maybe that's best because of time that we had to be out. I don't know.
3) I liked when Eddie announced that a couple venders were discounting corals. Perhaps we could expand on that...announce 30min specials or whatever vendors need during the swap....kinda like bluelight specials. For example, announce that Spike's doing BOGO zoas for the next 20 mins...or whatever. This also gives venders a little bit more spotlight and attention.
And please....don't take any of this as criticism, because I had a great time and I think everybody else did. This is not an attack on anybody, their ideas, or anything like that... just thinking of rough ideas that maybe others can discuss and refine into something better...or maybe even tell why the idea simply won't work.
