We are waiting for two things:
1. To have written approval of the statement and ad concept from USA Today.
2. To have a clearly defined pathway and acounting system for the Supporter Forms and Checks.
The latter is mostly taken care of, but we don't physically have an Account set up yet, nor am I 100% sure that "Firearms Owners Unification Project" will be who the checks need to be made out to.
In the past, I have seen what happens to projects which build momentum before they can handle it. It would be ironicly tragic If I recieved 1000 supporter forms and checks with no real place to put them and then USA Today says "no" to the ad.... Or... if 1000 people started Emailing and Faxing their interest and I had to tell all of them we were not yet ready.. then when we were, they had become skeptical after the initial response.
Real World Example:
I worked with a company a few years back that kept claiming they would be selling $1 million of product every month within a year. Well, after a few months the orders started rolling in. In the companies 10th month the orders surpassed the total of the previous 9 months combined. That month the company recieved over $1 million in orders, but only had about $200,000 worth of inventory. I should mention here that the company had every intention of fulfilling every order, but the mountian was pretty steep. Some poor planning that was beginning to show itself at the "Peak" turned good fortune into a horrible catastrophy. That company chased its tail for 8 more months before it finally had to be sold in order to avoid bankruptcy. I learned a hard lesson (300,000 shares of stock going from $4 to 15 cents.. and that's only the beginning). I'm not going to burned by being "too successful too soon" again if I can help it.
I expect that we will have all the suppoters we need and more very quickly after we "laucnh," so I feel it is worth an extra week or two of planning to make this project a success
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-Essayons
[This message has been edited by Rob (edited March 08, 1999).]