Regional Versions of the Magazine

brue
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edited March 2017 in Club Products & Services #1

I see the club will be sending out regional versions of the magazine. Will this be of interest to you and what does this mean?

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  • Navigateur
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    edited March 2017 #2

    How will this work?  If you live in Scotland will you not get to learn about things in Cornwall. and vice versa?  

    Will we get Regional logos to go with it? That could be why there are no site plaques at the moment.

    Another grand idea that is doomed to be worthless.

  • JVB66
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    edited March 2017 #3

    I noted that,and if you want a magazine from another area you can buy from the shop?,why ? it must be more expensive to have area magazines,,but then the Marketing Dept at EGH seem to be so out of touch with the membership now, as can be seen since the new company fiascoundecided

    ps the NT and EH send an area suppliment with their magazines,  but then they are not touring organisations,  where their members would want to know whats on everywhere that might influence their tourwink

  • brue
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    edited March 2017 #4

    Seems a bit strange to advertise this without a few more details.

  • SteveL
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    edited March 2017 #5

    As I understood it the advertisements would also be area targeted. So perhaps there will be even more of them. ☹️ That of course would cover the extra expense of regional additions.

  • brue
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    edited March 2017 #6

    I did wonder if it was for April 1st...but maybe not. Unless it's centre news I think I know more about my own area than the club magazine team.

  • EasyT
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    edited March 2017 #7

    I have not seen anything from the club. Was there an e-mail or something? 

  • brue
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    edited March 2017 #8

    It's been appearing on the site map when I sign in but you can see it under membership.

  • JVB66
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    edited March 2017 #9

    Tere is a small article in the latest mag

  • EasyT
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    edited March 2017 #10

    Tere is tere? That explains why I was not aware

  • EasyT
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    edited March 2017 #11

     Should be particularly useful then, Let me see I am visiting 22 sites. None in my region. Seems an excellent idea. 

  • brue
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    edited March 2017 #12

    It must be a joke, surely?!

  • peedee
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    edited March 2017 #13

    Should suit the weekenders who probably don't travel out of their region very much? Perhaps there will be more Centre content?

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  • Wherenext
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    edited March 2017 #14

    It can't be an April Fools Joke as surely, since December,  they've used up their allotment for the next few years at least.

    I've not longed finished the magazine and did have the same thoughts as everyone else. Totally useless unless it relates to adverts. Any other content needs to be nationwide, because guess what EG, we're a Touring organisation.

  • PATMAU
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    edited March 2017 #15

    Perhaps it is a ploy to get us to reduce our carbon footprint.

     

  • KjellNN
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    edited March 2017 #16

    What  a daft idea!  I live in Scotland, I know about Scotland, it is the rest of UK that I want to find out about!

     

  • JVB66
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    edited March 2017 #17

    April fools day  as the marketing dept at EGH  are concerned commenced on 21st Feb,and is a rolling programme it seemssurprised

  • Wildwood
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    edited March 2017 #18

    I can see no point, we are all tourers and most spend a lot of time outside our area. If you live near a regional boundary then half of what you want will have gone to the guy down the road and you will have a lot of what he wants.

    The only point is that if they take regional adverts dealer in say Cornwall will only pay for reaching the locals and not someone in Inverness who would not be a target.c

  • ABM
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    edited March 2017 #19

    ??  Will  there  be  a  "Regional  Crossword"  too  ??undecided

  • EasyT
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    edited March 2017 #20

     One would imagine that only the adverts would vary. After all they can't manage to find enough decent caravan/motorhome related articles to fill one mag.

  • Navigateur
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    edited March 2017 #21

    Just had the worrying thought of what will hosting multiple editions of the magazine do to the already failed IT resources!

  • scoutman
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    edited March 2017 #22

    I look forward to the Wales/Cymru edition, double thickness printed in two languages back to back as per RSPB, National Trust et al.

  • KeefySher
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    edited March 2017 #23

    Perhaps it is visionary on the part of CC / camc / wotever, realising that with the demise of diesel powered tow cars, followed by petrol once the next round of meedja bashing is through, the unilateral conversion to PHEV limited range tow cars, you will only be able to travel in your region tongue-out

  • Papa Clyde
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    edited March 2017 #24

    Just read the mag. On the letters page the editor replied to a correspondent re articles on Scottish sites. In this he eluded to the fact that Scottish readers can this month read about Balbirnie Park which means other folks in UK can't. In the said article one of the clients using the site is from Dorset. I really think this sums up the lack of joined up thinking. We are in a UK wide club and are all interested in each other areas.So please club ....Get a grip.

  • JayEss
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    edited March 2017 #25

    The only time that this would be useful would be to list local rallies. But rallies aren't listed anyway. 

    I can't see how regional versions will benefit me when looking for inspiration for sites undecided

    I'd like a uk only version though  tongue-out

  • KjellNN
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    edited March 2017 #27

    Might be a bit on the slim side!

  • KjellNN
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    edited March 2017 #28

    I wonder......can we do a survey of who got Balbirnie and who did not?

  • EasyT
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    edited March 2017 #29

    If my 'region' does not get info on Balbirnie it will show stupidity if the give details instead of the area where I have lived and worked for nearly 30 years.

  • brue
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    edited March 2017 #30

    I suspect we will all get Balbirnie. But if not we will be confined to our own backyards!?

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited March 2017 #31

    I haven't been through it with a fine tooth comb but I can't see anything about Balbirnie in mine. Perhaps we from the far south aren't considered likely to venture that far from home.

    Hello, C&MC, we've travelled to Scotland almost every year since the late 1980s!

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