DGWN

[Jon Brakel]

See if you can find the three pictures in which I appear.  Two are easy because I'm also in the text next to the picture.  One is hard.

Several people have told me Kelsey is in there three times also but we can only find two.  Kira, Diana and Jon all got personal pics in also.

I found all three pictures of Bruce. Probably the only people who will be able to find me are people who are used to looking for me by finding the guy in the Plus-fours that I'm standing next to. Bruce is easy to spot when he's dressed like that. I just look like any other fat guy.

[airspuds]

got mine today

bummed to see the IOS not on the schedule

but i assume the dates were not finalized before the deadline for the magazine

any thoughts of advertising in the dgwn in the future

wi disc sports had a nice 1/2 page ad simply stating the website

[Bruce Brakel]

We looked into advertising.  DGWN rates are steep.  We debated whether DGWN is going to reach anyone we aren't going to reach with Discontinuum.org, pdga.com, brasscash.com and delivering flyers to courses, leagues and tournaments, and word of mouth.  

I think our current philosophical approach is, "We run good tournaments for amateurs who can figure it out.  Feel free to explain it to them."  

By the way, at the C-tiers the payout will be FATTER because there is no player's pack.  At the Am B-tiers every amateur will get something because there are players packs.  At the D-tier there will be a lot of CTPs but no payout for amateurs.  

[Dan Michler]

from what I have heard the advertising rates are pretty steep for DGWN.  However, I think maybe it could be worth it for the IOS which has so many events.  There are still alot of disc golfers who don't look around much on the internet and don't even have computers.  Alot of these players will rely completely on what they hear from others and looking at the magazine.  Granted the schedule is printed in the magazine, but a half page ad grabbing peoples attention and promoting the club website might help.

[Chainmeister]

There was a nice blurb in the Spring DGWN about the Edgebrook F18 course. Jon is listed as one of the course contacts. We are told that Edebrook will host leagues and tournaments.