Week of December 28: $200 Project

We have received our bracelets and have begun to put them up in the hallways. We have the next two weeks to sell them and have reserved the table in front of the cafeteria to sell them. So far we don’t see as much interest in them as we want to. The design of the bracelet itself is not as visually pleasing as we would have liked. The bands are much too big for the lettering itself. I think that if they were 1/2in bands as opposed to 1in bands, people would be more interested in buying them. Although it is disappointing that the product is not what we initially thought it would be, we will have to work with what we have. I think selling is going to be our biggest obstacle. We have one method of selling, outside the cafeteria, and we have no way of knowing if it is going to be affective or not. For the most part we only notice food products being sold outside the cafeteria. It makes sense, people go there to get food, come out and see a bake sale and automatically go over to see what is being sold. Selling a product unrelated to food, I believe, is going to be a bigger challenge. I don’t think most people will stop by to look so we’re going to have to try to get their attention some other way. So far very little people have been responding to our flyers either by email or the Facebook group. This worries us in that early interest isn’t being showed and we don’t have a huge amount of time to sell. For now it’ll be touch and go and I’m not sure what I anticipate for the overall sale. I would love to say that I see profit, however, I myself would not buy this product so I’m not sure if other people will jump at the idea.