AnchorSlam

[DG515]

AHHH!! Why do I do this to myself?? So here I am, sitting in our office, talking to our VP Foundation and what do I do....That's right, I ask "hey, are we still doing AnchorSlam?" and she says "No, no one wants to help, and I'm not doing it all myself" so what do i Say "yeah! dude! I'll help!" Well, by help, it looks like i "meant" end up doing it all ::laughs:: Her entire crew is GONE (graduation, dropped out, etc) and she's super busy all the time.......::sighs:: I just know we need to do this, because we are pratically non-existant in the PR sense of the world.....no one knows we're here!! and that makes me fustrated. So if anyone out there has done a Slam or Splash and wants to help me out, it would be most appreciated!!!!
Some of my questions:
*How much did you guys charge per team/person?
*Did you make them pay extra for shirts?
*Did you sell shirts on the side for non participants?
*How much did you sell the shirts for?
*Where did you get good deals on the shirts?
*Where did you start looking for prize donatations?
*Do you have any hints or suggestions for getting donations?
*Any publicity ideas?
*Any ideas to save my sanity? :-)
HELP!!!
ITB
Mandie

ps> WHY DO I DO THESE KIND OF THINGS TO MYSELF?!?!?!!?
lol

[CutiePie2000]

Mandie,
I don't have any awesome answers for you, but I do know that this chapter used to do an Anchor Slam:
http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwss/greek/delgam/
http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwss/greek/delgam.htm

Maybe they can help??

[Lil' Hannah]

- Write a form letter and solicit local businesses for prize donations either as tangible items or gift certificates.

- ask the Chapter if they have any connections to make monetary dontations for the Foundation. Many large corportations will contribute money. Also, the Mimi Fishman Foundation (www.mimifishman.org) supports The Delta Gamma Center in MO and may be willing to make a monetary dontation to your chapter.

- You can get a good deal on shirts if you keep them simple. Make sure that your name is featured somewhere to spread PR, but don't make it the main focus of the shirt, so that other Greeks will want to wear them. Include the price in the registration fee rather than hoping participants will buy their own. Selling extras on the side is a risky endeavor, it could pay off big, or you could end up with a lot of shirts sitting around. Perhaps you should hold off on selling them on the side until your event becomes a larger, more well known event on campus.

- As far as publicity, advertise your event well in advance, and for extra PR open the event up to everyone on campus, not just the Greek community. Encourage other extracurriculars as well as regular students to form teams.

Hope some of this helps!

[DG515]

Thanks Honey!!! :-)
Actually, I was going to open it to our campus, and to another Sig Ep chapter at a local campus, we are with them 24/7 and help them out a LOT, be it with their blood drives or their smokers (recruitment events) or just whatever they need done. So, I've got anothe 50+ people that could come by way of them, and probably will come by way of them, so it's going to be for our campus and for them. As far as selling them on the side, I was thinking taking advance shirt orders (I know there are brothers from the other school that physically can't play b-ball (knee problems from problematic football games ;-) but would still support us and get a shirt) and maybe order like 5 extra, because well, to sell 5 at the game, probably wouldnt be a problem, and if all else fails...one for chapter archives, i'd buy an extra...etc....anyways, i was thinking front of the shirt on the "pocket area":
Delta Gamma Presents
Anchor Slam 2003
INSERT DATE
Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne

And then on the back center(tee hee):
Your court or mine?

and below it:
DG Anchorslam 2003

What do ya think? :-)
LOL
Mandie