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Locked Re: Sidewalk Sale W8LM's report and observations to the group..
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So below please see my personal observations concerning our event. For the most part I think for our first attempt it went ok, however, we do have room for improvement. Let me first thank those who got involved and thus made this event what it was. Thanks to Phil R we had a sound system. Thanks to Larry M and Michael M we had breakfast. Thanks to Gaylen we had cooperation from the Post. Thank you Jennifer and Hazel for being delightful sales ladies. And we must not forget Mark and Carl, the ones who use to run this event every year. Thanks to Mark we had a clock to raffle off. And thanks to President Tracie the radio was purchased. Michael H helped get us the potty. I am sure I didn't get everybody, however, we do appreciate all who helped. We had sunshine and no rain. We didn't run out of supplies. We did receive some financial donations as well. These all are blessings for which we are quite thankful. Now on to lessons learned. I think I will address these by the problems encountered. 1. We did not clear a profit. Why didn't we clear a profit? Two reasons stand out. (a) We sold our Pennies And Eggs for only $1, not the 2 for $3 or 1 for $1.50 as decided by the members. If we had stuck with the selected price we would be closer to breaking even. (b) A potty costs quite a bit of money. That is the one thing that required us to make more money and we did not. 2. We had some communication issues. Part of this had to do with that old saying "too many chiefs and not enough indians." Also it happened because we ignored decisions made in our May club meeting. Not good. This is a club, not the army. Club members vote and we must honor their vote or voting doesn't really matter. 3. Perhaps better advertising could be considered in the future. This time Gaylen was featured on Tracie's TV program, however, not sure how many people saw it. I didn't see it, but I didn't know when it was being aired either. A few of us posted on the 520 facebook page. I announced it on the WARC and GSPARC nets. It got mentioned on Blind Hams the morning of the event. We need to consider how to better attract hams and community to our event. Perhaps we can discuss thoughts at the board meeting when we next get together. Thanks again ham family for coming together and enjoying our 1st time doing the sidewalk sale. 73 Pat On Jun 16, 2024, at 9:51?AM, Larry Macionski via groups.io <am_fm_radio@...> wrote: |
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