September's Newsletter (click here)
Piette’s Post
The signup period for Telluride has gone very well. If you want to join the fun, now is the time. Our unused Delta Airline seats must be dropped by September 10th. Our United Airline seats will remain into the month of October. Don’t forget, when buying the Epic pass through Skigroup.net, you will get a $50 discount applied to each individual account at checkout. A credit of $50 will be issued for the Epic Full season pass ($1075), or 5 and 6 Epic Day All Resorts passes. Just enter TripRebate50 in the Discount Code space and click Apply and you will get an instant credit of $50.
As you may know, Gelandesprung lost control of our Facebook PAGE several years ago due to some difficulties. Brian Fowle tried to regain control of the page with Facebook but ran into significant problems with the Facebook team. The approach that we used for the last several years has been to set up and use a Facebook GROUP (I didn’t know the difference). One difference is that you must “like” the page in order to regularly see the posts. I encourage you to do this if you have not done it yet. This Facebook GROUP has served us well and it will continue to be available for our members to use to share photos and other information.
Although the GROUP has its benefits, it also has limitations. For this reason, we have decided to spend time, with the help of a Valo Media, to regain access to our PAGE. After weeks of effort, Gelandesprung now has access to our PAGE.
The purpose of the PAGE will be a marketing tool for our club. Posts to the PAGE will be made by the administrators. As an example, our trips and other activities will be advertised on the page. This is a part of our effort to reach out to people in the area that do not know about Gelandesprung. With this, we expect to find more people with a shared interest in skiing and boarding. This aspect will supplement our person to person sharing of the benefits of our club in order to increase our membership. We have been providing opportunities for skiing & boarding, and other social sports for 56 years. We want to be sure that Gelandesprung continues to be a resource for the younger generation. This is my top goal for my term as President of your club.
To find our new page, open Facebook and search for Gelandesprung Ski Club of Green Bay, Sports Club. You will notice that our logo is prominent on the page. You will also notice there are a lot of photos going back years. A cache of photos was supplied to Valo Media by a number of our members. Niina Baum (Valo Media) selected the photos and developed the advertisement.
As you perform the search on Facebook, you will also see “Gelandesprung Ski club, Your Group.” This is the site developed by Brian and it will remain for your use.
A third site, “Friends Who Like Gelandesprung Ski Club of Green Bay is a group that was developed by members for members.
My hope is that we begin to see growth of our club with people that have the desire and energy to help take our club into the future. And I hope to see all of you at our Fall Banquet on October 2nd. We will be having a more traditional banquet this fall. We will also have a guest speaker, Andrea Weyenberg, who will discuss the benefits of aquatic exercises.
Tom