These might/might not be worth adding.
HOSPITALITY
Now that we have the Vendor room down right, How to increase use of Hosp Room?
SHIRTS
Numbers of
sales?
27 shirts = $540 gross rev -- First time we sold that many without me going home with a handful of them. We a bunch away, they cost about $13 each iirc. We spent $896 gross expense on shirts so we had net cost of $356.
FIELD TRIP
Call me picky but I felt rather rushed at each of the stops. Fell behind several times (Will the parents of Scott please come to the information booth?) I would have skipped the otter lecture for more time looking at stuff.
We paid a whomping lot of money for coffee and pastries -- business meeting prices. When we set food budgets we should include some kind of specs about what to purchase -- catering service or not, etc.
IA
More pumps, buckets, etc. -- separate stuff for each contestant
definitely do the live big screen video
VENDOR ROOM
Should have it later Saturday night or early Sunday… 5 PM takedown was
difficult -- I don't think the time was a problem so much as no one had planned on what to do with the stuff or when.
Need to communicate times with vendors -- take down time *was* on the schedule/ID cards but the vendors didn't notice. Someone needs to care/hold hands of vendors.
Small room like this year for vendors is good; looks busier and lets the vendors chat with each other without walking far from their tables.
Also keep the reg and sales tables in the vendor room. The pulled in lots of folks.
AUCTION
Separate boxes for cash from pushes and cash from bidding would let us isolate that money from bid amounts, pushes, etc. without a lot of recordkeeping.
It would be nice if we could capture who donated which items buit not critical.
Need to be sure we move more of the more promising items before noon, before prices collapse. I think the bulbs would have brought more earlier. I'm not saying flood only the nice stuff up fornt, but definitely have more of them to the front than the back.