©opyright?

I've recently had more than one vendor be concerned whether or not our paper is copyrighted. What do you guys do?

Badge Materials

I know many street papers use Lamination Station to get their badge materials. The badges they have are really sturdy and hold up well in the elements. They are having a 20% off sale with no minimum purchase. The flier is below.

Vendor Territory

How do you guys handle vendor territory?

Until now, we've implemented a first-come-first-vend policy with a 1-block buffer between vendors.

Now, our best (and currently most difficult) vendor has taken to often and loudly complaining about other vendors being too close to him.

We have spoken to the other vendors. Usually he runs them off himself.

He's demanding that we either implement designated territories and/or a 2-block buffer rule between vendors.

We do not have many vendors. Only a handful. He is selling the majority of the papers right now.

We believe that designating territories would be restrictive, unfair and discouraging to new vendors.

He's the only one complaining and I don't want to be pushed around.

Advice?


Also, I know we're all super busy, but I wish this blog was more active.
:(

~tasha
exec. direct.


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Potential Legal Problem.

Jerry, one of our vendors, came in today and was hot that apparently 5 police approached him at separate times today and told him he couldn't sell on the sidewalks because of the sidewalk encroachment act.

What are the exact legal rights we, as a street paper, stand on?

Here is a link to the law:

http://www.nashville.gov/mc/resolutions/term_2003_2007/rs2007_1895.html


Any help is greatly appreciated.


~tasha
exec. direct.


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The Contributor

Sharing diverse perspectives on homelessness.
Providing genuine opportunities for advancement.

thecontributorstaff@gmail.com

www.nashvillecontributor.org

P.O. Box 332023
Nashville, Tennessee 37203

615-598-0061

NASNA searches for Executive Director

Are you interested in leading street newspapers across the United States and Canada?

The North American Street Newspaper Association is seeking its first Executive Director who will lead efforts to strengthen and develop street papers. This new position will be located in Washington DC and pays $36,000 annually plus benefits.

For more information visit www.nasna.org or email streetnewspapers@gmail.com

Website

I have updated the members section to the NASNA website. If there are any mistakes, please let me know. Also if you have any pictures of vendors or events that you would like to put up please lt me know.

Andy
andytfreeze@yahoo.com

Gung-ho burnouts.

Thoughts about a comment from Brandon (Street Speech, Columbus) on his vendor problem" post recently.

He said:
"Any big seller we get they generally stop selling after a couple weeks for some reason."

We, in Nashville, have the EXACT same experience. So much so, that I'm secretly disheartened whenever a new vendor seems extremely motivated. We've usually lost most of those-types within a month. I've had vendors who could sell 50+ papers a day and then not last 2 weeks.

Experiences? Thoughts?

~tasha
The Contributor, Nashville

(p.s. Our vendor situation has greatly improved in general, lately, though. We're moving more than 1,000 papers a month and are on a regular monthly print schedule now.)