Fundraiser Campaign News 2019-10-19

I've been mentioning the idea of Ambigram Fundraisers to some of the schools that are in my area, and I received an enthusiastic response from the director of the Music Boosters program at Plainfield High School (Connecticut, USA). While I was at the vendor/crafter event that he hosted at the school a week ago, he saw my designs and the flyer that I had printed up to promote the suggested fundraiser, and was really excited about the idea of supporting a local artist who wanted, in turn, to support the schools. He said he would much rather support a local artist than a big corporation. We discussed what products and designs he would like me to include in the catalog, what time frame to cover, and some of the other logistics, such as how to give customers the option to pay by credit card via my Square-Up e-store and being able to track sales per student. In between my day job and the other weekly activities that fill my schedule, I've been working for the past week on setting up the e-store fundraiser items and designing some lettering that was requested, the catalog, and the layout of the order sheet. I am nearly done setting up the artwork, and I hope to run some test prints tomorrow. When I'm satisfied with those, I'll be in a better position to complete the catalog pages.  I used a spreadsheet program to build the order form, and I've built an order summary worksheet to auto-calculate the sales totals as I fill them in after collecting all the order forms from the students. There are 160 students in the Band and Chorus programs. I'm going to have to print at least that many catalogs and order sheets. Hmm... I'll have to research whether it would be feasible to outsource the printing of the catalogs, or if I should just buy a few extra ink cartridges and print them myself.

Look for images to be added to this post. I'm a little too enthused right now to step away from the computer and retrieve the thumb-drive that has my working images on it, and I'm also late for bedtime, so if I do get up from my chair, I'll have to forego the images in favor of catching some shut-eye.

Have a great day,
Rebecca May
d.b.a. Ambigram Greetings