An update on Prytanean happenings...
Last Wednesday (10/14) was the Activities Faire at Freeborn. Thanks to all who helped out!! There were a decent number of girls who came up to our table wondering who we are, what we do, etc. What's even more exciting is that many of them had received emails from us--meaning that their GPAs were high enough to qualify / alert them to the fact that we exist. So that's a good sign, and there's a high probability that many of our applicants will be from that particular pool...
Right around lunchtime, I snuck away from the student org festivities to make a quick trip to Richard of Catering's office and came away with a $211 check for last quarter's Mondavi event. YAYYY!!! I LOVE MONEY!!! And a girl serving at the Nourish lunch recognized my Prytanean shirt (the new one) and told me that she had been emailed. I ended up talking to all the servers there about applying. So these shirts really work!! Wash them and wear them repeatedly, please! Applications are due October 29--we still have time to get the word out!
Last Friday (10/16) Lauren M, Ava, Jamie R, and I worked a really fun 4-hour shift at--get this--a Sodexho catering event for a women's community in Davis (forgot the official name)! It was quite the coincidence, and I saw Sharon Rose and Marya Welch with a whole ARC ballroom full of important-looking ladies. Very inspiring, very neat. The catering itself is really cool too--prepping and perfecting the luncheon tables with silverware, centerpieces, plates full of delicious-looking food. I don't know about anyone else, but whole entire thing was a perfectionist's dream... making sure the dessert fork was laid out just right...
Definitely check your emails sporadically from now on since I'll hopefully be offering more and more of these catering events and whatnot in the future. They usually come at short notice, but it's worth it!
What else... Apparently we need more volunteers for tabling this week. Officers are going nuts over membership (nah, we're okay) and we'll be having an extra meeting to go over deets on a few very, very practical changes to the Constitution. Dun dun dun! It should go over well. :D
Always,
e
Monday, October 19, 2009
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Downtown Davis Shopping Spree Thingy
CALLING ALL PRYTANEANS! And friends with good connections / ideas.
If you're a secret marketing genius, or are good with money, or are good at graphic design, or clever with words, or can easily tap into the shopper psyche, or are good at ANYTHING you're good at, listen up!!...
So in our meeting tonight, I briefly mentioned a project I hope would come to fruition in the near future. This creature does not yet have an official name--for now, I will call it the Downtown Davis Shopping Spree Thingy, or the Shopping Event. There are a bunch of ideas I'm wrestling with and, armed with optimism, I can only hope to tie everything together in some neat little package, ready for pitching...
The idea is more or less a shopping event with a non-intrusive focus on charities, and the goal of it all is to promote Prytanean, boost downtown Davis business sales, and make money for charity--all in a single night. Much of this depends on impeccable timing, incredible marketing, and a very cooperative Davis Downtown Business Association. It should not just be any ordinary sale--it should feel electrifying, people should genuinely look forward to this.
Businesses (and art galleries) will be asked to open late, beyond the usual 6, 7PM closing times, but with a twist. Not only should they be able to sell what they normally sell, they should select one item or a series of items to push especially, with a mind-blowing discount, or just some really good deal that Davis students (or anyone in Davis that night) cannot resist. There are a million ways to do this--Pinkadot can offer a really special sale of jeans, Starbucks / Peet's can create a drink available for just this night, etc. And for every purchase in every participating store during these extended hours, Prytanean gets a cut of the $$.
What's more, DJs (I'm currently working with the Electronic Music for Change group on campus--they threw a rave on campus last year that sold out and made the Children's Hospital $5,000) will be scattered throughout downtown so that there is some cohesive party, shopping-happy feeling.
For the charity part... if Prytanean does not choose the charities to benefit, I'm hoping that DJs willing to spin that night for free will be able to choose charities with causes near and dear to their hearts. The businesses will then choose from the DJs' list of charities so that whatever they make that night will go to them. What might be fun to do is to display large posters in the windows of the businesses announcing which charity sales are helping that night, just so shoppers know up-front that they are contributing to something good.
The possibilities are ENDLESS, anyway. But this is a night that can be PRYTANEAN'S--if it goes well, it might just become a recurring event.
LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK!! Because I need help!
Thanks,
e
If you're a secret marketing genius, or are good with money, or are good at graphic design, or clever with words, or can easily tap into the shopper psyche, or are good at ANYTHING you're good at, listen up!!...
So in our meeting tonight, I briefly mentioned a project I hope would come to fruition in the near future. This creature does not yet have an official name--for now, I will call it the Downtown Davis Shopping Spree Thingy, or the Shopping Event. There are a bunch of ideas I'm wrestling with and, armed with optimism, I can only hope to tie everything together in some neat little package, ready for pitching...
The idea is more or less a shopping event with a non-intrusive focus on charities, and the goal of it all is to promote Prytanean, boost downtown Davis business sales, and make money for charity--all in a single night. Much of this depends on impeccable timing, incredible marketing, and a very cooperative Davis Downtown Business Association. It should not just be any ordinary sale--it should feel electrifying, people should genuinely look forward to this.
Businesses (and art galleries) will be asked to open late, beyond the usual 6, 7PM closing times, but with a twist. Not only should they be able to sell what they normally sell, they should select one item or a series of items to push especially, with a mind-blowing discount, or just some really good deal that Davis students (or anyone in Davis that night) cannot resist. There are a million ways to do this--Pinkadot can offer a really special sale of jeans, Starbucks / Peet's can create a drink available for just this night, etc. And for every purchase in every participating store during these extended hours, Prytanean gets a cut of the $$.
What's more, DJs (I'm currently working with the Electronic Music for Change group on campus--they threw a rave on campus last year that sold out and made the Children's Hospital $5,000) will be scattered throughout downtown so that there is some cohesive party, shopping-happy feeling.
For the charity part... if Prytanean does not choose the charities to benefit, I'm hoping that DJs willing to spin that night for free will be able to choose charities with causes near and dear to their hearts. The businesses will then choose from the DJs' list of charities so that whatever they make that night will go to them. What might be fun to do is to display large posters in the windows of the businesses announcing which charity sales are helping that night, just so shoppers know up-front that they are contributing to something good.
The possibilities are ENDLESS, anyway. But this is a night that can be PRYTANEAN'S--if it goes well, it might just become a recurring event.
LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK!! Because I need help!
Thanks,
e
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