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Register for a complimentary webinar; participate in our survey; new support tip videos available online; WebStore of the month and new WebStores; plus more!
Not Subscribed to The Board? Subscribe today!
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Upcoming Webinar: Increase Revenue with Partnership Marketing |
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Register for Your Free Webinar on How to Drive New Revenue for Your Schools & Districts
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As our valued customer, we'd like to offer you priority seats to the first in a series of webinars that will explore the various avenues available to school and district administrators to develop new revenue streams. This is a popular topic so we want to make sure our customers have the first chance to register before registration is full. Save your seats now!
Through the implementation of partnership marketing strategies and technology solutions, cities, communities, schools and universities are effectively managing their budget issues. In this webinar, you'll learn how the City of Long Beach, CA, leveraged its access to the private sector to raise critically needed funds through a partnership with Coca-Cola, and you'll learn how schools and districts like yours can do the same. Register now!
In addition, we'll discuss how to:
- Identify unique and different ways to raise revenues for schools
- Understand green marketing partnerships
- Use school system assets in an appropriate manner
- Leverage fallow assets
- Go beyond simply advertising – it's about access and distribution
- Create partnerships with long-term benefits
Don't miss this webinar – it's sure to be informative and insightful! Register now for this complimentary webinar! Space is limited.
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In today's tough economy, we understand many schools and districts face new challenges. At ActiveEducate, we strive to continually update our knowledge and understanding of our customers' goals in order to better meet your needs.
To that end, we invite you to take a few minutes to complete a short survey that will help us understand what is important to your school or district right now. If there is one thing we've learned from our experience in improving and developing our partnerships and providing leading school management technology and service, it's that the best feedback comes from you directly.
We appreciate your time in helping us improve our understanding of your current needs. You can fill out the short survey by following this link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=viAR5rP37E5sfd_2bbYLZU3A_3d_3d
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Taylorsville High School
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Featured WebStore Administrator |
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Taylorsville High School
Jana Varney – Bookkeeper
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Taylorsville High School had over 900 transactions on their WebStore during Fall registration. That's incredible! I talked with Jana to find out the secret to her success:
Orientation
They did online or mail-in registration only. This was a decision that all of the high school bookkeepers made for various reasons:
- Many of their students and parents are out of town in the month of August so providing them with the ability to pay their student fees online turned out to be a big stress reliever for parents.
- This option saved Taylorsville High School weeks of time:
- 4-5 days of setup for orientation – including setup and training for volunteers.
- 2 weeks to count all the cash that would have been exchanged during orientation.
- 3 weeks to clean up campus after orientation!
Incentivizing Students
They restricted the purchase of the yearbook to students until they paid off their basic fee:
- The ability to pay online and with a credit card increased the number of people paying their fees than in past years.
- Allowed them to reclaim outstanding fines/fees from students who carried them from previous year.
Messaging
Many of the schools in the Granite school district used the 2 messaging strategies below during orientation this year and saw huge numbers in WebStore transactions in August.
- They included the WebStore option in all paperwork and announcements that were sent home to parents.
- They used the email tool in the WebStore Manager to email all of their past WebStore customers to remind them about paying online.
Jana's advice for other schools that may not be utilizing their WebStore to its fullest – “Just do it! It's a piece of cake!”
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More how-to help for SchoolBooks and Tracks users
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What's new on The Blue Bear Blog?
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Tips from Julie the WebStore Wizard |
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Mark Norlund, Analyst, Support Services
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Expertise: Mark is dedicated to helping you, our valued customer, maximize your technology investments. From support calls and troubleshooting, to analyst training and support, to new product release development and testing, Mark is a go-to team member for customer and product support. Check out his how-to videos in the BlueBear library that are created to help you learn more about the functionality of your software.
Just for fun: When he's not chatting with customers on the phone or creating laughter at the office, Mark can be found with his daughter and family. He enjoys going to the beach and relaxing, both playing and watching sports, tinkering with the computer and the Internet, and playing video games.
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ActiveEducate, a part of Active Network, delivers industry-leading online fee payment, registration and data management tools for schools and districts, administrators, finance personnel and students. Active's simple, web-based technologies help improve efficiency and reduce the costs associated with managing school fees, activities, events, merchandise, fundraising, after-school care, and more. Learn more at www.ActiveEducate.com.
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