C4E Week 2 In Class

The Warrior Calendar $200 project had a momentous week.  We spent the first couple days planning out how we wanted to actually sell the calendars.  We discussed going door to door, but less than 20% of houses actually have school age children in Brookline (and we assumed people with no kids in the school system wouldn't be as inclined to buy a calendar), and its wildly inefficient and tedious.  We also figured that among the 5 of us, we could sell all of them to the BHS community/our families.  They are a perfect last minute and cheap gift idea for students, teachers, and parents.  We planned to have 5-10 on hand every day for the next month or so and to post them on Snapchat (each is seen by 50-80 people) everyday.  We also planned to bring them to games of the week and sell to parents.  We also designed 3 different flyers and posted 100 of them around the school.  We lined every senior hall locker with a flyer to ensure the majority of students saw them once before they got taken down.  For the Storefront project, I created a blueprint for the Foam Home.  I felt that the best way to show what was so special about our cafe was to create a visual outlined with everything that one would see while walking through.  I also created the P+L statement for our first year of business.  Since it required that I use parts 4 and 5 to account for startup costs and COGS, and they had been done without seeing what the other had done, it was interesting to see that our projections had us operating at a loss for much of the time, so we worked to see what costs we could cut back on and what we could do to increase our sales.