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Locked Sidewalk Sale W8LM's report and observations to the group..

 

As per usual, everything planned did not come into being..

Grand prize was NOT a Tesla....
Police were not called because of the parking problem?
Not a single potential ham passed? the written exam..
No one was shot.. I did notice red or green laser dots on my chest from time to time.

However we did have good weather, and some interesting conversations.
Everyone left before the 1pm strip show started...

Next time we need to have Russel bring his guitar Patricia and Hazel sing more Christian songs.. That we did need.
The 50/50 brought $74 and payout was $37... i believe based on that we had about? 14-16 people buy tickets. i suspect from a car count of 25 cars in the lot, there were about 50 total people.. I had hoped for 100...

But the last State convention I attended in Salina they had 40 people.. 2 years ago..

I did not buy any tickets..

I supplied the Penny's and eggs. And the hot dog buns...

I bought more than we sold. my actual costs to the club is as follows.
3 Dozen eggs????????????????????? $1.72 * 3 = $5.16
4 packages hot dog buns... $1.46 * 4.= $5.843 eight packs of hot dogs..? $1.29 * 3.= $3.87?????????????????????????????????????????? TOTAL? =? $14.78
I bought the canopy, made signs, brought 2 rolls of paper towels, mustard, catsup, personal hand held radios.. table and folding chair..and a sales lady to hawk raffle tickets.

I believed others spent more money that I did, I did spend more but the extra's I'm keeping for my own personal use and
Therefore I am donating all my real expense... $14.78 to the club..?
Mark at Radio shack donated that Clock... it had a $20 price tag on it..?
Our big loss-expense was that porta-potty...?
You know for $125 we could buy 2-3 tarps, some PVC tubing for a frame and a couple of 5 gallon buckets...? put it at the base of the tower... doesn't even need a roof, just let it exhaust up into the tower.. and get it to disappear at 1pm.

Lesson learned... Hopefully next year, I think we'll do better...

I am suggesting we post on Facebook:520 CrewKansas Ham RadioKansas Preppers
Some sort of? "official" thank you to all that attended, good food, beautiful day, lots of treasures for sale, Thanks to Mark and Shawn at B&H sales -the old Derby Radio Shack... Let it be known to those that didn't attend that it was a "success" and we'll be seeing more people next year...?

?Larry W8LM
 

Good Morning

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:

?As per usual, everything planned did not come into being..

Grand prize was NOT a Tesla....
Police were not called because of the parking problem
Not a single potential ham passed the written exam..
No one was shot.. I did notice red or green laser dots on my chest from time to time.

However we did have good weather, and some interesting conversations.
Everyone left before the 1pm strip show started...

Next time we need to have Russel bring his guitar Patricia and Hazel sing more Christian songs.. That we did need.
The 50/50 brought $74 and payout was $37... i believe based on that we had about 14-16 people buy tickets. i suspect from a car count of 25 cars in the lot, there were about 50 total people.. I had hoped for 100...

But the last State convention I attended in Salina they had 40 people.. 2 years ago..

I did not buy any tickets..

I supplied the Penny's and eggs. And the hot dog buns...

I bought more than we sold. my actual costs to the club is as follows.
3 Dozen eggs $1.72 * 3 = $5.16
4 packages hot dog buns... $1.46 * 4.= $5.843 eight packs of hot dogs.. $1.29 * 3.= $3.87 TOTAL = $14.78
I bought the canopy, made signs, brought 2 rolls of paper towels, mustard, catsup, personal hand held radios.. table and folding chair..and a sales lady to hawk raffle tickets.

I believed others spent more money that I did, I did spend more but the extra's I'm keeping for my own personal use and
Therefore I am donating all my real expense... $14.78 to the club..
Mark at Radio shack donated that Clock... it had a $20 price tag on it..
Our big loss-expense was that porta-potty...
You know for $125 we could buy 2-3 tarps, some PVC tubing for a frame and a couple of 5 gallon buckets... put it at the base of the tower... doesn't even need a roof, just let it exhaust up into the tower.. and get it to disappear at 1pm.

Lesson learned... Hopefully next year, I think we'll do better...

I am suggesting we post on Facebook:520 CrewKansas Ham RadioKansas Preppers
Some sort of "official" thank you to all that attended, good food, beautiful day, lots of treasures for sale, Thanks to Mark and Shawn at B&H sales -the old Derby Radio Shack... Let it be known to those that didn't attend that it was a "success" and we'll be seeing more people next year...

Larry W8LM

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