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Post by ryan31374 on Jan 19, 2011 8:28:13 GMT -6
I am looking at composing a book for our football team to be auctioned off in a couple of months. It will be through shutterfly.com. I will have pictures of each kid along with a questionaire from each. I was wondering what questions should I ask. I was planning on asking about favorite player or favorite NFL team, but I was hoping you could give me advice on others. These kids are 9 and 10 years old. They won their division and championship and I wanted it to be special for them. Thanks in advance.
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Post by bobgoodman on Jan 19, 2011 11:59:53 GMT -6
Could you please explain better the concept? Who would want to buy a single book where 9-10 YO players on a championship team answered questions? It reminds me of signature albums, but you want to make just one copy of it for people to bid on? It would seem that if they or their families wanted a memento they should each be able to buy a copy.
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Post by ryan31374 on Jan 19, 2011 12:28:27 GMT -6
The team I coach is in a school league. In April of each year, we have a bazar to raise funds for the school. A lot of boosters buy the items up for auction. This would be to raise money for athletics. The kids would be able to purchase their own copy. I hope this info helps.
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Post by ryan31374 on Jan 19, 2011 12:31:05 GMT -6
The book has other stuff as well. It includes stats, games, coaches bio and candids. A keepsake if you will.
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Post by bobgoodman on Jan 19, 2011 22:49:29 GMT -6
The players can each purchase a copy, but then there'll be just one copy to be sold to the highest bidding non-player? Why don't you just sell as many copies as you can? A big booster might buy a bunch of copies and give them out at his or her place of business to impress clients with his or her civic-mindedness.
You wanted to know what questions to ask. That's going to depend a lot on the nature of the intended audience. If it's the kids themselves, you can think back to what children that age would write in each other's autograph books or yearbooks from school, or you can spy on a juvenile social network and see what goofy things children poll each other about these days. Is the one highest-bidding booster the real audience? Since it'd be just one person, there's no telling what that person might be interested in! Or is it the sort of thing that their parents will want to see now, and that 5, 10, 20 years from now they'll be embarrassing then with about the silly things their children said when they were 9-10 YO?
Unfortunately the only time we hear about the questions unrelated adults ask of children in an informal setting, it's because they were up to no good! Either that, or they were doing market research for children's products (I solicited children's opinions of bath foams for that reason), or they just want to have a laugh at their naivety, like Art Linkletter and Candid Camera used to do for their respective TV programs.
Asking them as you suggest about their favorite adult players or teams is OK in that it wouldn't seem problematic, although I don't see it adding value either. What would be much more interesting to a fan of the team would be for each of them to tell their favorite story from their experience with the team that season. Unfortunately some children are much more expressive than others, many will take that assignment as a chore, and you'll wind up with some children contributing long essays and others contributing little or nothing, and that will look bad to some of their parents.
How about this: Solicit stories from the players, and print them anonymously? If the book doesn't say who the contributors are, then nobody feels left out. And they might open up more if they know their names won't be attached to their writing.
You could also take a completely different tack and do like a lot of organiz'ns that have an event "program" that's just an excuse to sell ad space for prominent persons and businesses to impress each other with their support for whatever it is -- a show of good will. The program is eventually given away rather than sold. The more expensive ads are on gilt-edged pages or whatever.
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Post by ryan31374 on Jan 20, 2011 6:43:48 GMT -6
Thanks for all the helpful advice. I will surely put what your saying into good use.
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