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Now is the time to be effective and maximize not only your time but your efforts. As previously discussed, there are approximately 80 days to actually sell in the Fall between August and December when you take into account the holidays, in-service days, fall break, and not to mention inclement weather. So, now you have the opportunity to get in front of the students or the class or the team - NOW WHAT?!?!?!? Here are a few suggestions on making the most of your kickoff and being memorable instead of forgettable:

1. Know your audience
Elementary age and younger students need to repeat what you’ve said later on. Keep it simple and easy to understand. Engage with prizes or incentives. Make it fun and be funny. Try to involve the principal or key staff members who can participate or be a built-in incentive (shave the principal’s head, sleep on the roof, etc). These are fun incentives that are free, but memorable at the same time.

2. Time limitations
Now that we’ve endured a pandemic, time limitations are more prevalent than ever. You may be lucky enough to get a face-to-face opportunity with the students and you have to maximize that chance. Another scenario might be a zoom or virtual presentation - much harder to engage when you are not there or better yet - do your presentation by a pre-taped video. Snoozer, right? Well - you can add some interesting graphics or funny things to break it up. Keep it short, simple, and to the point. Repeat the important stuff and try to be funny (silly - make ‘em laugh).

3. What’s it in for me?
As you work up the age ladder the older students (high school specifically) will want to know why they have to do it in the first place and what’s in it for them? Gas money! Cash is king when it comes to student drivers and you know planning for a full tank of gas is the last thing they have thought about. Other “free” incentives work - like a free homework pass, extra student hall, preferential parking spot for a month, etc. Think outside the box.

4. Other groups
When you present to teams, clubs, bands, or departments the pitch to fundraise is much easier. This is a “semi-mandatory” sale and these participants know if they want to participate they have to do well in the fundraiser. The budget is counting on it - literally. Usually this involves sports teams, marching bands, clubs and the students who go to competitions, tournaments, travel to events, etc. They have expenses and it isn’t lost on them that the fundraisers help pay for those things that they get to do throughout the year. This should be a TARGET AUDIENCE and the groups that you go after since the pitch is much easier and results are generally better.

Apparel - SAink
The SaveAround Apparel Division (SAink) provides a great opportunity for you to find a different solution for groups looking to raise funds as well as local establishments looking for custom apparel. Summer sports teams are always looking for apparel on and off the field. With a lot of options available in the apparel industry SAink prides itself on providing a premium product at an extremely competitive cost. We have also been seeing a lot of success by reaching out to local restaurants and businesses who have been placing orders for their employees! For more information on SAink and all the great apparel solutions we offer, please contact sales@savearound.com today!

Re-signs For 2022

As you are continuing to re-sign groups for Fall 2021 or Spring 2022, it is important that you mark if it is a RETURNING (re-signed group) or a NEW group. This helps us keep the records clean and eliminates setting up duplicate accounts in the system. Additionally if you have a returning group that uses Saint vs. St. be sure to list it just as it ran last year so we can search in that manner. (Saint Ella School vs. St. Ella School). If you have any questions about re-signs or need assistance, please email the team: grouprelations@savearound.com.

SaveAround has always tried to be a good steward of its financial responsibility and resources not only to the company, but its employees, its sales team, and the customers we ALL serve. Over the years, shipping costs have dramatically increased across the board.

Here are a few things you can assist with to be sure we are maximizing shipping efforts and keeping costs down:

1. Residential vs. Commercial
It can sometimes cost as much as 40% more to deliver to a home address vs. a commercial address after you add in surcharges, extra fees, out of range expenses and so forth. If at all possible, the preferred destination would be the group’s commercial address (i.e. school, academy, main office, etc.)

2. We don’t have a commercial address
In that case, there are alternate locations that could serve as “pick up” locations and are considered “commercial” because of their location. On the main drag, on a main commercial street with a lot of other businesses nearby, or they are a shipping/delivery facility as well.

3. Options
Here are some suggestions if you need an alternative “commercial pick up” location”

FedEx Store
The UPS Store
CVS
Storage Unit Facility
Another fulfillment center
PTO sponsor’s work address

Think through some alternative locations if your group doesn’t have a staffed commercial location or the ability to receive their shipment during regular business hours. Stop in and check to see if that could work for you in these specific circumstances and help keep shipping charges down. If you have any questions about the shipping information, please contact the Sales Support team via email sales@savearound.com and someone will be happy to help you.

In the fall, leaves of some trees such as birches, tulip poplars, redbud, and hickory, are always yellow, never red.

The fall leaves of a few trees, including sugar maple, dogwood, sweetgum, black gum, and sourwood, are usually red but may also be yellow.

The bright colors of fall foliage are a byproduct of chemical changes as the trees start to go dormant.

The most intense of fall colors occur in areas such as New England, with almost pure stands of a few types of trees, such as maples and birches, that all turn color at the same time during the short fall season.

The most varied fall color, as well as the longest lasting, occurs in areas such as the southern Appalachians, where a dozen or more kinds of trees may change color at slightly different times over the longer fall seasons.

The change in day length (photoperiod) that causes the chemical changes in the trees leading to the bright colors starts June 21st, the longest day of the year, as the sun starts to move south and the days become shorter.

Leaves have just as much yellow pigment (xanthophyll) in July when they are green as they do in October when they are yellow. In July the darker green pigment (chlorophyll) masks the yellow color.

Evergreen trees may shed their older leaves, which often turn bright yellow, in spring rather than fall, but they never drop all their leaves at one time and stay green all year.

Bright sunlight is essential for the production of the red (anthocyanin) pigment in the fall leaves: if a black mask is placed on part of a leaf before it turns red, the part of the leaf under the mask will turn yellow while the exposed part will turn red.