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<p>The two new banners on the eve of the roof were supposed to be on
larger one. They didn't do as we asked. Also took a picture of
that area during the fair and sent it to Candice to show her how
we disappear in tent city. No response to date.</p>
<p>Gary<br>
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<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.
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<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>
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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.
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<div>Message From: Becky and John Kolberg <a
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style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Well,
the 2018 Alameda County Fair is in the can.
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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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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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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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