AANR West Fall Festival starts today Oct 8th

Every October http://aanrwest.org has a fun fall festival for members and people who would like to try nude sunbathing for the first time.

This year it is at http://shangrilaranch.com in New river, Arizona which is north of Phoenix.

I am in Phoenix right now for a few days of vacation before the festival, and the weather is great, almost as nice as Palm Springs' weather. It'll be a high around
90F and sunny.

Iam on the AANR West board of directors, so Mary Clare and I are at the festival.

Hope to see everyone at the Fall Festival.
Tom Mulhall
Terra Cotta Inn clothing optional resort and spa, Palm Springs, CA
http://sunnyfun.com

Do you have ideas for fun, big events to promote nude recreation?

AANR has a new President, Susan Weaver. She's a great person and I look forward to nude recreation growing under her guidance.

I am on the AANR West and National PR committees. We are looking for fun PR events that can be staged hopefully nationwide, but it's OK if it's not nation wide as long as it has good and positive PR potential.

The Guinness World record Skinny dip and this Guinness nude roller coaster ride are 2 good fun examples of positive PR events.

I'm asking people, if you have ideas, let me know. You can leave comments here. You can personally e-mail me at tom@sunnyfun.com or you can call me at 800-786-6938. Just ask for Tom. I'll be happy to talk.

Here's the story on the Guinness record setting naked roller coaster ride:

"Hair-raising ... naked thrill-seekers on ride

The big stripper

MORE than 100 thrill-seekers rode a roller coaster naked, smashing the world record.

The 102 butt-naked adrenaline junkies let it all hang out as they took on the swerves and loops of the fairground ride to raise £22,000 for breast cancer research...

Senior Fundraising Manager at Bosom Pals, Barbara Warner said: "It takes a lot of nerve to take off all your clothes in front of 102 complete strangers, plus the world's media - so we would like to say a massive thank you to everyone who was brave enough to bare all and raise such a huge amount of cash more than £22,000 - for our vitally important cause."

For the full story and video Click Here

I look forward to hearing your ideas. Tom


Tom Mulhall
Terra Cotta Inn clothing optional resort and spa
Sunny Palm Springs, CA
Resort site http://sunnyfun.com
Visit our Resort Facebook page http://bit.ly/TerraCottaInnFBPage
For more information or reservations, call 1-800-786-6938 (toll free US and Canada). Rest of the world call 760-322-6059.

Nudism and Social Media Marketing

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Nudism is starting to embrace social media

I just got back from the AANR West Board of directors meeting. I am the pr chair. AANR West started a twitter account in August. We are now going to start a Facebook account. The boards aim it to embrace social media as much as possible so that members and potential guests of nudist resorts can contact us as easily as possible.

The NY Times just had an article on businesses using Facebook. Here it is:

"Business owner, you might want to friend Facebook.

Identify a short list of goals before you begin.

Show some personality in your page.

Don't shill. Use your page to engage-and trust that sales will follow.

Use Facebook data to analyze your customer demographics.

A growing number of businesses are making Facebook an indispensable part of hanging out their shingles. Small businesses are using it to find new customers, build online communities of fans and dig into gold mines of demographic information.

“You need to be where your customers are and your prospective customers are,” said Clara Shih, author of “The Facebook Era” (Pearson Education, 2009). “And with 300 million people on Facebook, and still growing, that’s increasingly where your audience is for a lot of products and services.”

...Facebook offers an array of tools and networks, and it’s easy to wander down too many paths. Ms. Shih recommends that newcomers start by asking themselves a simple question: What is your basic objective? Is it getting more customers in the door? Building brand awareness? Creating a venue for customer support? Once you have set your goal, you can strategize accordingly.


...You can enliven your page with photos, comments and useful information. As you grow more comfortable, you can add videos or business applications. Flaunt your personality. The page of an ice cream parlor should feel different than that of a funeral parlor. “The pages that are most successful,” said Tim Kendall, the director of monetization at Facebook, “are the ones that really replicate the personality of the business.”

Aim at Potential Customers Only

...“I’d be out of business if I didn’t have Facebook,” Mr. Meyer said. “Especially with this economy, I need to stretch each marketing dollar as much as I possibly can.”

Facebook enables small businesses to engage in targeted marketing that they only could have dreamed about a few years ago. Facebook users fill out profiles with information like hometown, employer, religious beliefs, interests, education and favorite books, movies and TV shows — all of which can help advertisers deliver messages to specific demographic slices.

...“Be patient with it,” Mr. Nelson advised. “People are not going to flock to your social media site overnight. Technology is about the network effect. It takes time for those connections to build.”

For the full article Click here

And if you have suggestions on how AANR West can better reach out to people, feel free calling me at 800-786-6938 or e-mailing me at tom@sunnyfun.com

Tom Mulhall
Terra Cotta Inn clothing optional resort,
Palm Springs, CA
http://sunnyfun.com

Follow Terra Cotta Inn on twitter at http://twitter.com/nudist_resorts

Follow AANR WEST on twitter at http://twitter.com/aanrwest

Off to Mira Vista nudist resort & the AANR West board meeting this weekend

We will be leaving in an hour for the AANR West board meeting this weekend at Mira Vista nudist resort down by Tucson, Arizona. I am on the board and am the publicity chair.

If you want me to bring up anything, leave a comment here or tweet me at

http://twitter.com/nudist_resorts or you can tweet AANR West at
http://twitter.com/aanrwest

And if you are looking for a fun vacation, give us a calla t 800-786-6938.

We hope to see you in sunny Palm Springs!

I was elected to the AANR West Board of Directors

I am writing this from the beautiful Laguna Del Sol nudist resort up by Sacramento, CA. They are located in Wilton. I brought my camera here but forgot the USB to download photos, so you will have to wait until I get back and can post photos.

AANR, the American Association for Nude Recreation is the best nudist organization in the US. We have proudly been members for well over 20 years.

They have regional boards. Obviously since Terra Cotta Inn is located in California, we are in the western region. It is called AANR- West Their website is http://aanrwest.com

They had an election by the membership for board members and I got elected to the board. Woo Hoo look out textile world.

Obviously, my area of expertise is marketing and PR, so I will be on that committee.

If people have questions about AANR, feel free calling me at 800-786-6938.

If you want me to bring something up to the board, let me know.

The board meets 4 times a year.

I am very happy to be elected to this position of trust for nudists. I won't let you down.

Tom Mulhall
The Terra Cotta Inn clothing optional resort and spa
http://sunnyfun.com
1-800-786-6938