Hello fundraising family, I'm Eric. Hello, I'm Kristy. It's Kristy.
That's Eric. That's me. That's this guy. And today we're talking about the importance of bagging your shoes as you go.
After you've had your planning call with your coach,
you receive your starter kit and your starter kit comes with all the fun stuff. All the fun stuff. Like. Like.
Materials.
Stuff. So you get I'm just gonna go. I'll just go over it with you.
She got it. A welcome kit. A bag count sheet so that you can keep track of each bag that comes in
so
you know when you reach your goal.
A why shoes document so you can tell your donors where the shoes end up. Tell it's very important where the shoes go.
It's a whole pamphlet. It's a story and there's pictures. That's the only kind of book he can read.
Next, you get three documents on creating a quality collection
and why quality is so important in your shoe drive fundraiser.
Helpful do/don'ts, a packing party sheet so you can let everyone know when your packing party is. Party time. And new
this year a
poster.
It's beautiful huh? It's beautiful you can put that right on the wall next to all your stuff. You'll also get
Drumroll please five rolls of this and a bag of these.
Bags to pack your shoes and rubber bands to band them together. They can see that. Well you know, you have to be descriptive.
This is to put your shoes together because remember as you get your materials
you have to rubber band the shoes together either with a rubber band
or you can tie them together with the shoelaces obviously that the shoes come with. In the bags are where you put the shoes.
You gonna show them how to rubber band a pair of shoes? Yeah I'm gonna do it.
You got that? It's very much easier than that I promise she's doing it the most awkward way of all time.
Rubber banded together.
Did it. Good job. Now we put them in a bag.
They're in the bag.
Just trust us.
It's very important to make sure you tell everybody that's donating to you that the shoe quality is extremely important.
Remember these shoes will be cleaned and sanitized but then they are getting sent off
to human beings that are actually going to reuse the shoes. So, don't collect shoes that would not be used
It's almost like I try to tell people it's like used tires. You would never use or buy a balled used tire
so the shoes have to be usable. No holes, no visible rips or tears.
The soles have to be intact and actually still have a grip on them.
Make sure it's something that you would hand down to a family member and not just something you would throw away.
These how-to guides and the do/don't will be super helpful so that you can know what types of shoes are good
and what types of shoes are bad. Visual
aids. The other important tip is that you should bag as you go
because
shoes come in big waves. Giant tsunami sized waves.
You do not want to wait till the end of your shoe drive fundraiser to go through and bag
3,000 pairs of shoes. So be sure to bag as you go. It's 25 pairs in each bag. Bags are huge.
Remember, it has to be 25 pairs per bag no more or less.
That's the perfect amount 25 per bag and make sure, as she said you do it as you go along
cause it's almost like if you remember writing a big paper when you were in college or high school you wait to the last day
it's horrible and it's a nightmare and there's a lot to do and you rush around but if you do it little pieces as you go
along, paper becomes manageable. Just like that bag your shoes as you go.
It won't be overwhelming either. It's true. Next, since you're bagging as you go
It's really important that you connect with your fundraising coach weekly that way they can give you tips and advice for
Helping you get more bags.
So, if you tried something this week and it didn't work out they can actually give you advice from past experiences with other partners
so that you can try something new this week and get more bags.
Yeah, always go from somebody who has experience whenever you're trying to improve what you're doing.
This also helps so that the coach knows how many bags you have in case we're around so we can pick up your shoes.
And this
is a good paper for that. This is your bag count sheet.
Make sure you keep track of how many bags you have as you go as well
that way you're not in your garage, or storage area, or in the back room where you're keeping them all going in there trying to
dig through bunches of the bags of shoes to find out how many you have. Keep track of it as you go.
We'll link to all the materials down below so that way you can get them or you can connect with your coach and they can
send them to you as well. Make sure you use our resources
they are very important for you to be successful in your shoe drive fundraiser.
And if you need more tips on how to bag your shoes,
we also put together a nice how-to sheet that you can get from your coach
to simplify the bagging process and as always reach out to your coach that's what they're there for, to coach you.
Well, hopefully this video helped you out to remind you the importance of bagging shoes as you go, and keeping track as you go,
and using the resources available to you, and all of those will be down below
little links. If you don't know what a link is, it's a thing that links you to another website
a thing. There for a reason. Until next time, my name is Eric. And I'm Kristy and we'll be here every
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Thanks for huge bags, yes, that's right Kristy. It's very important to bag your shoes as you go tell me boy
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