Toby Hancock from stickersandmore.com was kind enough to highlight ideas around price points and items expected to be good sellers for the upcoming season. If you’re looking for some ideas from a company that serves camps nationwide, then checkout this video.
Wednesday was the CCCA sectional at Wonderland in Wisconsin. When asking attending camps what sort of issues folks were encountering in retail operations, they mentioned having to constantly count merchandise and count the cash register money after a group, lost money, human error, returning money back to campers, lack of streamlining and overall cumbersome process. Relate to any of these items? One item I’ve heard pretty regularly is that most camp’s internet is usually good, but sometimes at the critical moment, is not. So, in addition to continued testing and refinement of the inventory system mentioned last time, we’ve been adding in offline access functionality. Offline access should address this issue of no internet or irregular internet.
At the sectional in Wonderland, another supplier that caught my attention at the conference was Uth Stuph. It was obvious that they were very camp focused, as well as had a high affinity to the CCCA audience.
With summer approaching, deadlines are starting to appear. For FunFangle, March 30th represents the cutoff for getting the best pricing for the summer season as the wristbands will be ordered in bulk for the best pricing.