I started an important project today: setting up appointments with schools to evaluate their magazine drives. After seeing each and every school that has switched increase their profits, it is time for me to really begin a concerted effort to meet with schools so I can show them how I can improve their fundraiser.

If your principal, librarian, teacher, or technology committee runs a magazine sale of any kind (address booklet or large brochure), please forward this post to them.

"Why now?" you ask.

Simple. Meeting right after the fundraiser has concluded allows the person I meet with to give me the most accurate picture of how their sale has performed, what problems they had, what they liked about what they did, and what is fresh in their mind regarding new ideas for the future.

Here is a list of schools that have switched and their results (rounded):

School with QSP with GA/Mark Kosoglow

Chestnut Ridge MS $5000 $28,000
Everett Elem Music Dept $5000 $18,000
Claysburg Kimmel Elem $5000 $20,000
Greencastle Antrim MS $18,000 $22,500
Mechanicsburg MS $15,000 $37,000
Waynesboro MS $20,000 (*not QSP) $30,000

I have also included reference letters so you can read each school's story -- you don't have to just take my word for it.

So, take 2 minutes and send this post to the person that handles the magazine sale so I can set up an appointment to make sure they are getting everything they can out of their magazine sale.