OGR HAS A NEW ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER!

Hi Alan,

 

Congrats I wish you the best in your new position.

 

TrackAhead

 

Here is a portion of the email I sent Alan a couple of days ago:

 

"Alan, I  cannot think of a person who would be better qualified to be the OGR National Sales and Advertising manager than you, and I would say that even if you were not my friend, but based solely on your knowledge of the trains with which OGR is involved, your track record and managerial skills, and your ability (grace) to deal with people.

 

I am not saying that you would try (successfully) to sell a freezer to an Eskimo, but I do believe that you can make the subject matter, whatever it may be, interesting to your audience. And once you have their ear, they can’t help but to like what you have to say. Maybe I should buy some stock in OGR."

 

I am sure that you will do a superb job at OGR; and as has been said, you, OGR, and all of us are winners with this turn of events!

 

Alex

CONGRATULATIONS ALAN and THE OGR ORGANIZATION!! I just by accident read this line and WOW What a Surprise!! This is a real Team. I wish All of You Success in the Future. Alan, I am so Proud For You and Your Family. You will fit Right In!! CHEERS!!

Congrats Rich!  You could not have found a better man.  Alan obviously has a love for the subject and is a consumate professionaL All the best Alan.  Pat B.

Best of luck in this new opportunity. Glad to see it going to one of the forumites!!!

See you at York?

Steve

Alan,

 

Hope you enjoyed both Jay's and the hardware store. When I was very young my dad took me to a train shop in that area, night well have been the True Value in question, lots of memories there. As my memory serves it is a raised building next to an actual RR track? You wil have to bear with me last I was there i would have been 6 or 7.

 

Best,

jason

 

WOW!! Hurray!! 

 

Congratulations, Alan!

I am overwhelmed by the incredibly kind comments you all have made.  As in my first post above, thanks so much for taking the time to post your well wishes....they mean the world to me.  I really look forward to meeting as many of you as possible over time.  At least for now, Arkansas will be my home base....a "OGR World Headquarters Annex"!  I will be attending the Lionel Event August 17th and will be at the TCA York Fall meet.  Can't wait!!!

 

Alan

 

 

 

 

Alan Arnold is our man.

He is going to sell so many ads, we'll get 20 more pages of copy and three more issues a year !

 

Scrappy

Congratulations Alan! May you always see green signals ahead.

 

Alan, best wishes in your new role!

 

David

Alan congrats and like scrappy said

 

Alan Arnold is our man.

He is going to sell so many ads, we'll get 20 more pages of copy and three more issues a year !

 

Yes sir I am for that for sure

Congratulations Alan.  I'm glad you will continue Leaving Tracks while you are following this new track.  Keep on trackin'.

.....

Dennis

Congratulations Alan!!!

Congrats on a new and well deserved adventure 

 

Alan, What a wonderful surprise! I wish you well and OGR as well. Hope this new assignment won't completly take you away from Mid America 3 Railers!

Way to go Alan! All this time I thought you where just another guy who knows alot about toy trains.

I'm so happy to see one of our posters reach the top of the O-Gauge family structure.

I always said that as a steadfast reader of the mag I love the adds almost as much as the articles. That in mind I will be looking foward to some good stuff down the road.

 

Good luck in your new endeaver buddy. Or should I say"OGR Add MAN"?

 

I love it when good things happen to good people.

I dunno about Miller...  I hope he keeps MELVIN in line.  

I'm sure he will try! LOL!

 

One thing I already know...Alan is going to make me work harder! But that's a good thing.

Congratulations Alan and to OGR on your new position as Ad Sales Manager!

 

This is definitely a win-win for everyone. With your passion for the hobby you'll be able to develop long lasting relationship with current and future OGR Sponsors.

 

As they used to say on the "A Team", "I love it when a plan comes together!".

 

Steve Tapper 

Nice to hear the good news.  Congratulations Alan.  One of my favorites of forum posters.  If you ever get to Oregon on a marketing venture, please drop me a line.

Best wishes in your new job.

 

TEX

Steve

Once again Everyone.....your well wishes and very generous comments are so much appreciated you will never know.  I have some ideas that I feel will help the magazine as well as online and plan on getting some of you in on the action!!  More to come later!!

 

Warmest Regards to all...

Alan

Alan,

  Welcome aboard to the OGR team.

 

  You will be with a great team. I look forward to meeting you and joining the team at the York meet.

 

  All the best on your new challenge.

 

    Regards

 

     George

      OGR Retired

Congratulations Alan!!

One of us finally made it on the inside!! Lol!!
Now you can get us the scoop on what's coming out from all the manufacturers.

Good luck with the new position.

Mike R

Allan I want to give you a big congratulation on your new position. As many have said before me it should be a perfect fit. A train nut selling trains. A real dream job. I am so glad for you it finally came along. But we better lay off saying what a dream job it is. Rich may decide he can cut your pay. LOL

 

Way to go!

Mike

Hi Allan. Just got back from vacation today and saw a letter in the mail box from OGR. To my surprise (as was to everyone else) it was Rich Melvin's introduction of yourself to the OGR staff. This has to be a dream from heaven coming true for you and I wish you the best in this new endeavor.

 

jim r from bridgeboss.

 

P.S. hope to see you at York in October

You guys are gonna have to learn to keep your Allan's straight!  The old fart who edits the magazine--your's truly--is Allan.

 

The new kid who is going to grow the magazine to 164 pages by selling lots of ads is Alan.  

 

When I see all these compliments, I get all puffed up thinking they refer to me, only to find that they are actually directed to the single-L Alan.  

Thanks again guys!

 

Jim...I will see you at York!

 

Allan....Mike Burnside has known me for over 30 years and still doesn't know how to spell my name!..LOL!!  Perhaps you and I need to just change our spelling to the more common "Allen" and get it over with! 

 

Alan

 

Congratulations Alan, I hope all works out for you.  I'm sure Rich made a good choice.  It seems like OGR will be a great place to work.  Best of luck to you.

Jim....no apology necessary my friend!!...but if you would like to bring another shed to York to formally apologize, I would accept it since I don't want to hurt your feelings

 

I'll see ya at York and a whole bunch more folks I can't wait to meet!!

 

Thanks again guys and gals for the congrats!!

 

Alan

Alan,

 

This is great news for you and for OGR!  Perfect symbiosis!  

 

Generating more advertising revenue for OGR benefits us all in terms of ever continuing improvements in the quantity and quality of the content we all so eagerly await every month or so at our mailboxes.  As your success grows the bottom line at the magazine, I'm sure Rich and Allan will soon announce that OGR will be published 12 times a year!  (Sorry guys, I just couldn't help myself from saying that!)

 

Just a note about real estate brokerage....I'm in my 16th year of the business and it's not something that can be practiced part time....at least not well.  So, I hope that your efforts on behalf of OGR produce the handsome income that will allow you to devote your entire focus to the magazine while keeping a roof over the heads of your family as well as support your healthy model train addiction too!

 

GoodLuckBear

Alan, glad you got the job and if you do the job as well as you barbeque, you will do a great job.

Sorry for the delay on the post, but the computer has been out of service for 3 weeks and a week in Nebraska.  JUST got back on line to day.  Looking for seeing you in Sep. at the OMR meet.

Al

Once again, thanks guys!

 

Bear....you are correct about the real estate practice.  Fortunately, I have been at it only about a month...just a week prior to the OGR offer!!  My real love is marketing and advertising and of course this hobby so it is a perfect fit.  I will continue to be involved in real estate since I made a certain commitment to my broker but I can fulfill that with weekends and perhaps a day or so during the week.  It will be mainly my retirement "job" once OGR doesn't need me anymore!!  Anyway, thank goodness I am not a broker right now.  One thing for sure, the real estate market here is going gang busters.  One of our top agents has been listing and selling an average of 3 homes per day...around this neck of the woods that is pretty good!!

 

Thanks,

Alan

Alan,

Have fun in the new job and congratulations.

 

Alan Graziano

Alan Arnold is in the building!  Well almost, he is here in Ohio anyway He has already cased the joint at the Lionel Service Center in Canfield where all of us will be on Saturday, including Allan Miller, OGR Editor-in-Chief, and yours truly.

 

Alan will be at OGR International World Headquarters tomorrow morning for the executive tour, as befits our new Advertising Sales Manager.

 

Looking forward to meeting Alan.  Even going to wear a clean shirt for the occasion!

 

 

Ed Boyle

Well Everyone.....I made it to the OGR Headquarters.  After casing out Lionel as Ed said above, I headed down the road to scout out where my new "digs" was.....

 

I will have a complete report for all of you....perhaps in a separate thread....as I think all of you will find our meetings interesting.  While I won't bore you with the details I will tell you that I believe you will be very happy with the approach we will be taking and some of the new things we are planning for this publication.  I had a great time and am so proud to be part of the OGR family....

 

P.S.   Ed really did put on a clean shirt as he promised above....only problem was he did it in front of all of us during the meeting!!!  LOL!!! 

Alan

You picked a good man OGR! Well done.

I can't say thank you enough guys....your encouragement and comments are greatly appreciated and mean so much to me!

 

Alan