Our fund-raiser tells us that it can take three, four or five meetings before you get companies to commit (to a project like this), which could take four to eight months. But he was really encouraged by their response. He had people calling him the day after the show. |
The board is pleased to have found such a well-qualified design firm in the immediate area, saving the museum both time and money in this project. |
The response to the project was overwhelmingly positive with companies wanting to know how they could be a part of the museum and organizations eager to be partners. |
This trip allowed us to do in four days what it probably would have taken us four to six months to do. This was such a big event for them as manufacturers that they had all their top people there. ... Every single one of them that we talked to was excited and interested - and saw there was a reason for them to be involved. |