“I didn't know it was a fundraiser.” “I would have just rather donated directly to the company if I knew it was going to be this long.” So I think we could have done you know, but we had a small team, but I think we could have done a better job explaining the issue, like what the whole process was more and more frequent. You know, maybe tweaks on the website with the shipping area and just things you don't think about. Cause you didn't think it was gonna be this big or take this long. Um, cause I mean we're still printing shirts. We have about 2000 shirts left to print. Um, and I think the communication would have been massive to help with that. So I'd say keep simple communication and try to outsource may be, or have more help externally. We've been outsourcing some stuff, but not, not this campaign because the margins were so low on it. It was hard for us to outsource anything. Marshall Atkinson Yeah, it's kind of like throwing a party, you invite a hundred people and you know that only 30 are going to show up, but what happens when a hundred people show? Jarrod Hennis You're never prepared for enough appetizers or drinks, for sure. Marshall Atkinson How did the money part work? So you sold the shirts. Let's say there's a company that they sold a hundred shirts, right? So you owe them a thousand dollars. Just use the easy back of napkin math. Did you stroke them a check? Did they have to send a W9 or something in? How did you work that out? Jarrod Hennis So every week we sent out money. So I had a shared Google doc, a spreadsheet that had each week’s sales. It showed how many sales that company had, how much their donation was going to be, and if they got paid or not. So that was more just for internal checks and balances. They had the option, which was another issue, that we figured out later was not to offer options. Cause I think we piggyback off a Tiny Little Monster and they offered Venmo, PayPal, and check. I was like, “Oh, that's a good idea.” But then I was like, with Venmo you can only send out so much a week, like $10,000 or something like that. Um, which that was a pain in the butt. PayPal was nice. You could do batching with that, but we were still doing everything manually because we didn't have a system, everything was manual.
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