SaveAround's Community Conversation

Many groups have completed their sale from August, September and October. Closeouts are underway and groups are receiving profit checks and reaping the benefits of their hard work and efforts through the fundraiser.

As you go through the process of closing out these groups, please review these questions with your chairperson. This will help you and us evaluate how they did. This will also help us improve going forward into Spring sales and again for next Fall.

Total Sales: _________ (Look at year over year for repeat groups)

Were sales up or down? Why?

Lost books? ________

Up or down? Why?

How did they run their sale? Were books sent home?

What did the communication plan look like?

Daily or weekly emails / reminders?

Any social media pushes?

How could this be improved?

Did you run a prize incentive?

If yes, how did that go?

If not, is that something to consider adding in next time?

Did you ask for a referral? Did you get it? Did you sign them?

These are all key components in understanding how well the sale did (or not). This helps do a couple of things:

What things need to be repeated that are attributed to the success of this sale?

What things do not need to be repeated or anything that we need to do differently?

Other thoughts, ideas, or suggestions?

Help us help you and your groups be successful through a thorough evaluation of current sales.

PAPER PAPER PAPER

For those of you who have embraced digital group communication - great job! you are ahead of the curve! For those of you who are still adamant about printing PAPER parent letters.... ut oh... this will continue to be more challenging. Paper is running low from several distributors and we are being told two things will happen ~ prices are skyrocketing and limited supply is a definite. We anticipated this fact and have tried our best to maintain inventory and options for advanced digital communication. Please continue working with your group leaders on all aspects of digital communication. Text messages, emails, social media, etc. SAVE THE TREES!

Checks and Returned Books

PLEASE make sure that payments (checks) are mailed to the P.O. Box address. Some groups are including the payments with their box of returned books that goes to the warehouse. In some cases, these check payments are lost, misassigned, or missed altogether because they are in a box of books in the warehouse and not picked up via the P.O. Box by the accounting team. When this happens the group will be delayed in closing out and that will also delay your commission being processed and paid in a timely manner.

ALL payments need to be mailed to P.O. Box 2399, Binghamton, NY 13902

ALL returned books need to go to the Warehouse address using the provided shipping label.

If you have any questions about how to remit payment or return books, please contact the Group Relations team (grouprelations@savearound.com).

Veterans Day Facts

1. Veterans Day was originally called Armistice Day.

2. In 1938 it became a legal holiday.

3. In 1954, it was updated to Veterans Day to allow veterans of ALL wars to be honored.

4. Canada and Australia celebrate similarly on Remembrance Day.

5. 2 million veterans served in the Korean War.

6. 7 million veterans served in the Vietnam War.

7. The military draft ended in 1973.

8. In 2017 the states with the highest percentage of veterans were Alaska, Maine, and Montana. The highest percentage of female veterans were District of Columbia, Alaska, and Virginia.

9. Over 325,000 of the 16 million veterans who served in WWII were alive in 2020.

10. November 11th was chosen because the armistice between the Allied forces and Germany went into effect at the 11th hour, on the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918.

Thank you to all of our Veterans who served our great country!! We honor you!