<div dir="auto">Another alternative is to put a camera on the back door such that the front door hotseat person can watch both. Mounting a TV above the door would mean one person having a field of vision of both doors at once.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I agree the vendors have decreased visibility. The booths are so tightly packed around the door you just cannot see it. There's a long cable running from the top of our door out to pavilion canopy structure. Placing a large long banner on this cable with an arrow pointing back to the door should allow for much better visibility should the fair allow it.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jul 10, 2018, 9:14 PM Alameda County Central Railroad Society <<a href="mailto:accrs@mail.accrs.org">accrs@mail.accrs.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Message From: Paula Bursley <a href="mailto:pbursley@comcast.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">pbursley@comcast.net</a><br>
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Thanks for the great summary John. I think we should make some assumptions about how many people are coming in through the back door and add those to our numbers. If donations were 25% of the total, it would seem logical that 25% of the visitors came in through the back unless those entering the back door are more generous than those entering from the front. So, I think we probably attracted more than 11% of fair attendance. If we report numbers to the fair, I think we should take this into account and make an estimate of the visitors entering the back and add that on to the number we counted in front. Next year we could put someone at the back door for an hour on random days and keep track of how many people enter while, at the same time, have another person keep track of those entering in the front for the same hour. Then we can compare the two and come up with a percentage entering through the back door. We can estimate total visitors that way. Just a suggestion.<div><br></div><div>Paula<br><div><br></div><div><br><div><br></div><div><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jul 10, 2018, at 7:31 PM, Alameda County Central Railroad Society <<a href="mailto:accrs@mail.accrs.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">accrs@mail.accrs.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_214921406351879886Apple-interchange-newline"><div>Message From: Becky and John Kolberg <a href="mailto:bjkolberg@aol.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">bjkolberg@aol.com</a><br><br><br><br><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Well, the 2018 Alameda County Fair is in the can. </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">A review of the statistics for donations reveals this year’s
performance was second only to that of the year 2000, both in dollars and
dollars per visitor. I’ll give a
quantitative report at the next business meeting. Since the 2000 record, donations began a long
period of decline that only began to improve in dollars four years ago and in
$/visitor two years ago. This year’s $/visitor
was nineteen percent better than last year—a very significant improvement. Such a change begs the question—Why? </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">At the welcome desk I have heard speculation regarding this phenomenon
of donation improvement, so I will add my opinions here. This year the donations collected in the box
at the back door were almost a quarter of all donations. In contrast, the amount collected there in
past years, when it was counted separately, was less than ten percent. That in its self would account for about half
of the donation improvement. I believe
there are two reasons for that increase: 1. the scavenger hunt, and 2. the big sign there drawing attention to the
donation box. In addition to the above,
I believe the strong national economy has added discretionary spending money to
the visitors.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Visitor attendance, on the other hand, was lack luster. In the last ten years, it was the second
lowest at 47,031. It was only 144 more
than last year. Our busiest day this
year had 3,970 visitors. A few years
ago, that many visitors in a single day was not unusual. I believe the record was 6,258 set in
2015. I called the Fair office today to
get their attendance number. Their preliminary
number is 426,000+. That puts our
attendance at 11.0% of the Fair attendance—not a significant improvement. I noticed that our percentage dropped two percentage
points coincident with the placement of retail booths around our front door in
2016. The opinion of the Fair personnel
a couple years ago that the booths would improve our visibility has proved
false.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">John Kolberg</div>
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