Boxes of books are being piled at my home right now, I hope they can disappear as fast as possible!
26 books were sold the last few days mainly thanks to the effort of my mom. I didn`t really start selling books at my school yet except for a few eager friends who already given me money.
I was urged on by my classmates to show my book to my English teacher today(I didn`t plan to do that until next week). She made the whole class clap for me. Kind of awkward but awesome at the same time!
Guys, just pay attention to the sidebar on the progress of things. I don`t expect many books to be sold this week, if my mom can help me bring the total up to 100 by this Sunday, I am well overachieving. I will have a update on things every few days or so about the progress in detail and some interesting encounters.
That`s all for now!
Monday, September 28, 2009
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Official Plan for Phase 1
Technically, I already started the business portion of this project a month ago. However, as I finally see that ever so welcoming "imagine a world" as well as the name of yours truly on a actual binded book today, it certainly feels like a big milestone. Let the selling begin!
As emphasized many times, the goal is 500 books sold for the phase one of the project. However, what I am revealing now is the true details on the exact what, where and when.
Alright lets go!
Agincourt CI
I am sure all of you knew the "problem" that happened my own school. Appropriate steps had been taken. There will be around 15-20 people that will be distributing this book around ACI. Due to the eminent leadership retreat(which I STILL don't know if I am going or not! frigging school admins), It will be better for me to delay the sales a bit and do a little more mouth to mouth advertising.
Monday Sept 28th to Friday Oct 1st - Presale
We will be starting to accept money for the books starting this moment. You can either give the money to me, Jessica, Yiwang or Anna at this point. You will not receive your book directly, but you will get it a week before most people(Next Monday Oct 4th).
Monday Oct 13th - Teacher Sale
I will probably bring 50-70 copies to school this day and most of them will go to the teachers.
Tuesday Oct 14th - Official Sale begins
I wont be able to bring 200 books directly at once, so I will bring them in in a three day period. I will first give distributors(those who are selling for us) the copies they are selling, but starting this point, you can buy it from the people on this list:
Terry Zhou
Jessica Yang
Yiwang Yuan
Matt Davooti
As emphasized many times, the goal is 500 books sold for the phase one of the project. However, what I am revealing now is the true details on the exact what, where and when.
Alright lets go!
Agincourt CI
I am sure all of you knew the "problem" that happened my own school. Appropriate steps had been taken. There will be around 15-20 people that will be distributing this book around ACI. Due to the eminent leadership retreat(which I STILL don't know if I am going or not! frigging school admins), It will be better for me to delay the sales a bit and do a little more mouth to mouth advertising.
Monday Sept 28th to Friday Oct 1st - Presale
We will be starting to accept money for the books starting this moment. You can either give the money to me, Jessica, Yiwang or Anna at this point. You will not receive your book directly, but you will get it a week before most people(Next Monday Oct 4th).
Monday Oct 13th - Teacher Sale
I will probably bring 50-70 copies to school this day and most of them will go to the teachers.
Tuesday Oct 14th - Official Sale begins
I wont be able to bring 200 books directly at once, so I will bring them in in a three day period. I will first give distributors(those who are selling for us) the copies they are selling, but starting this point, you can buy it from the people on this list:
Terry Zhou
Jessica Yang
Yiwang Yuan
Matt Davooti
Anna Ma
Xuan Yao
George Wang
Michael Wang
Andy Luc
Ricky Shek
Ming Jiang
Sonia Zhang
Shuying Chen
Edward Zhang
Kumiko Motomura
James Chen
Brian Chu
Michael Poon
This list is the one I am looking at so far, it may still be on the increase as I am going to ask more people.
University of Toronto
Dave Liang at Scarborough Campus will be the main director in the university. He is planning to join the student union and come up with a official sales event with their approval. I will update on that later on. I will also have a number of other friends who will help me selling the books personally in the university.
Victoria Park CI
Leon Ni will be the director at this school. As far as I know, he will be selling this book through the book club(don't know the exact name). Ben Hu will also be helping out.
Dr.Norman Bethune CI
Shiping Shen will be the director here. I do not have the exact details on the plans yet. However, if you are also willing to help him out, just contact me or him.
Other Schools/Places
Contact me directly if you want to get this book in October! Unless you can meet with me or any of the people that is selling the book, I guess you have to wait until this fundraiser expands into the community late November.
Xuan Yao
George Wang
Michael Wang
Andy Luc
Ricky Shek
Ming Jiang
Sonia Zhang
Shuying Chen
Edward Zhang
Kumiko Motomura
James Chen
Brian Chu
Michael Poon
This list is the one I am looking at so far, it may still be on the increase as I am going to ask more people.
University of Toronto
Dave Liang at Scarborough Campus will be the main director in the university. He is planning to join the student union and come up with a official sales event with their approval. I will update on that later on. I will also have a number of other friends who will help me selling the books personally in the university.
Victoria Park CI
Leon Ni will be the director at this school. As far as I know, he will be selling this book through the book club(don't know the exact name). Ben Hu will also be helping out.
Dr.Norman Bethune CI
Shiping Shen will be the director here. I do not have the exact details on the plans yet. However, if you are also willing to help him out, just contact me or him.
Other Schools/Places
Contact me directly if you want to get this book in October! Unless you can meet with me or any of the people that is selling the book, I guess you have to wait until this fundraiser expands into the community late November.
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Things starts to look brighter!
Guess what, I want to write again! I thought I would take so much longer to recover from the mental stress of writing the first book. However, it seems my mind is hyper again with fresh writing urges already! I will still wait a few more month to really start to get my imagination going. However, this is definitely good news for my upcoming book I want to finish in 2 years!
As you may notice, it seemed like I've already sold 12 books before the campaign started. How did that happen? Well, two of my friends already had given me the money before any plans made for the pre-sale. So I already put them up for buying the first two books. I myself will buy 10 copies of my own book (sounds weird, but that's actually what I'm doing). So far we have a grand total of 12 books sold with 25 dollars fundraised(hey it's only fair I give myself the four dollar price as well for working so hard!).
Things started to finalize on how exactly I'm I going to carry on the first phase of my fundraiser, details should be made tomorrow and posted Monday or Tuesday.
Everything is looking super special awesome. When life throws a huge boulder at you, you just have to go around it, that's all. Now that I almost went around, I could almost see that endless path again. Let's get going!
As you may notice, it seemed like I've already sold 12 books before the campaign started. How did that happen? Well, two of my friends already had given me the money before any plans made for the pre-sale. So I already put them up for buying the first two books. I myself will buy 10 copies of my own book (sounds weird, but that's actually what I'm doing). So far we have a grand total of 12 books sold with 25 dollars fundraised(hey it's only fair I give myself the four dollar price as well for working so hard!).
Things started to finalize on how exactly I'm I going to carry on the first phase of my fundraiser, details should be made tomorrow and posted Monday or Tuesday.
Everything is looking super special awesome. When life throws a huge boulder at you, you just have to go around it, that's all. Now that I almost went around, I could almost see that endless path again. Let's get going!
Thursday, September 17, 2009
The payback
After the determination of countless trips to the main office and countless encounters with the staffs. All I got was that I can't do a charity fundraiser in the school because I am adding "competition". This is definitely not over.
Because of what happened on Monday(read below), I shall show my wrath! I will paint school walls with graffiti and initiate food fights in cafeteria.... nah!
This "revenge" I am going to embark on will be very subtle, I will simply "obey" her order and not sell the book officially at school. However, along with a large number of classmates, I will indeed sell the book in ACI through people.(yes, I am still allowed to do THAT).It is utterly ridiculous I have to take this step, but at the same time, this is really not quite far off in effectiveness.
Most of my classmates were outraged as well by the ridiculous rejection, many of them were willing to lend their hand in helping me with the distribution of the fundraiser. So far I am estimating 15-20 people who will also sell the books for me. A target of 300 books should definitely be achievable no matter
No Protest here from this charity organization, no more fancy announcements and good looking posters. If the school wants to add obstacles in the way of a charity fundraiser, I will just suck it up and bend another way(what else can you do in a dictatorship government). It will be rather ironic if we were to fundraise much more money than anything the school had "officially" done.
Because of what happened on Monday(read below), I shall show my wrath! I will paint school walls with graffiti and initiate food fights in cafeteria.... nah!
This "revenge" I am going to embark on will be very subtle, I will simply "obey" her order and not sell the book officially at school. However, along with a large number of classmates, I will indeed sell the book in ACI through people.(yes, I am still allowed to do THAT).It is utterly ridiculous I have to take this step, but at the same time, this is really not quite far off in effectiveness.
Most of my classmates were outraged as well by the ridiculous rejection, many of them were willing to lend their hand in helping me with the distribution of the fundraiser. So far I am estimating 15-20 people who will also sell the books for me. A target of 300 books should definitely be achievable no matter
No Protest here from this charity organization, no more fancy announcements and good looking posters. If the school wants to add obstacles in the way of a charity fundraiser, I will just suck it up and bend another way(what else can you do in a dictatorship government). It will be rather ironic if we were to fundraise much more money than anything the school had "officially" done.
Monday, September 14, 2009
a little change of plans(at ACI)
It’s crazy, it’s ridiculous and it’s frustrating. Yes, there is a little change of plans here at ACI.
You see, Mr.P seemed like a nice guy. However, I didn’t even get a chance to talk to him before being stopped at the administration office.
A whole bundle of things happened today. First of all, we were supposed to do an announcement today(Approved by Mr.Carauna) to kick start our campaign. However, Mohit came in late, making us unable to do it this morning. That is when the hall monitor(forgot her name) stopped me. Saying that I cannot do an announcement because it is not through an official club. After explain what I was doing and handing her our mission statement, she “praised” me(its great, its fantastic blah blah), but I knew something a “but” is coming next.
She also pointed out that I cannot do an official book sale in ACI because writer’s block also sells books… Basically, she is saying that I am in competition with the Writer’s block.
Competition???? SERIOUSLY?
Um, first of all, I believe this is a free market economy. Only competition is able to make our society better with more motivation to do better things. However, in our school, it seemed like everything going on is just controlled by one staff member (not even the principal).
That is that even my point. But think about it. She is denying me of doing charitable work because there is competition? Competition for Charity? Are you kidding me???
No worries though, the book sale will still take place! I just won’t be doing any official sales inside ACI with at table set up with official promotions such as announcements, posters. But I still can sell them personally to you guys, the teacher etc. Sometime late September I will be going around in the school holding a bunch of books and an envelope along with the help my friends, doing the fundraiser. So, you can just pick up the book through us basically.
Since there won’t be an official sale, I need your help. Whether it is 5, 10 or 20 books that you are willing to help me fundraise, it will be awesome. You will also become part of our organization ;D. Contact us, and tell us about how are you gonna help, we will probably have a meeting at the cafe with all the people helping sometime early October, we will talk about that later.
Of course, this whole organization is more community oriented. Unable to hold an official sale at ACI is just a slight bother on my part and wont change the grand scheme of things. I think 300 books are still doable in our school with you guys’ help.
I will be discussing this whole thing with our principal eventually, but for now, here is the plan.
It’s really really ridiculous; After getting the support of Unicef, writing out the whole book and printed it out, I can’t even do a official sale of charity fundraiser at my OWN SCHOOL for a community orientated charity organization. But I guess I just have to cope with it.
Stay Tuned. And just contact me which ever way possible. I will appreciate any kind of support.
PS: to those who isn’t going to ACI, I’ll have more details about
You see, Mr.P seemed like a nice guy. However, I didn’t even get a chance to talk to him before being stopped at the administration office.
A whole bundle of things happened today. First of all, we were supposed to do an announcement today(Approved by Mr.Carauna) to kick start our campaign. However, Mohit came in late, making us unable to do it this morning. That is when the hall monitor(forgot her name) stopped me. Saying that I cannot do an announcement because it is not through an official club. After explain what I was doing and handing her our mission statement, she “praised” me(its great, its fantastic blah blah), but I knew something a “but” is coming next.
She also pointed out that I cannot do an official book sale in ACI because writer’s block also sells books… Basically, she is saying that I am in competition with the Writer’s block.
Competition???? SERIOUSLY?
Um, first of all, I believe this is a free market economy. Only competition is able to make our society better with more motivation to do better things. However, in our school, it seemed like everything going on is just controlled by one staff member (not even the principal).
That is that even my point. But think about it. She is denying me of doing charitable work because there is competition? Competition for Charity? Are you kidding me???
No worries though, the book sale will still take place! I just won’t be doing any official sales inside ACI with at table set up with official promotions such as announcements, posters. But I still can sell them personally to you guys, the teacher etc. Sometime late September I will be going around in the school holding a bunch of books and an envelope along with the help my friends, doing the fundraiser. So, you can just pick up the book through us basically.
Since there won’t be an official sale, I need your help. Whether it is 5, 10 or 20 books that you are willing to help me fundraise, it will be awesome. You will also become part of our organization ;D. Contact us, and tell us about how are you gonna help, we will probably have a meeting at the cafe with all the people helping sometime early October, we will talk about that later.
Of course, this whole organization is more community oriented. Unable to hold an official sale at ACI is just a slight bother on my part and wont change the grand scheme of things. I think 300 books are still doable in our school with you guys’ help.
I will be discussing this whole thing with our principal eventually, but for now, here is the plan.
It’s really really ridiculous; After getting the support of Unicef, writing out the whole book and printed it out, I can’t even do a official sale of charity fundraiser at my OWN SCHOOL for a community orientated charity organization. But I guess I just have to cope with it.
Stay Tuned. And just contact me which ever way possible. I will appreciate any kind of support.
PS: to those who isn’t going to ACI, I’ll have more details about
Friday, September 11, 2009
Just around the corners!
I still remember how I got that tune "just around the corners", which came from a health video we watched in grade 7. That was awfully pedo, and something you probably don't want to know.
However, what you do want to know is that the first phrase of the fundraiser is indeed just around the corners!
The book is finally in print! After tedious amounts of checking, re-checking, designing and more designing, I am glad to say this part of the job is done! Yes, I've talked to the vice principal a few days ago, he proved the general idea. However, I still need a complete discussion about the specifics with the principal.
Currently, I am working on an official mission statement and sales plan which can be used not only for myself but for many people that I need to work with such as the principal, mall staff and the media.
I will be discussing some specific plans with the principal on Monday, as well as giving him the mission statement and sales plan. If all goes well, he would provide me even more help on this. Not so well? Things will still go according to plan!(Mostly).
However, what you do want to know is that the first phrase of the fundraiser is indeed just around the corners!
The book is finally in print! After tedious amounts of checking, re-checking, designing and more designing, I am glad to say this part of the job is done! Yes, I've talked to the vice principal a few days ago, he proved the general idea. However, I still need a complete discussion about the specifics with the principal.
Currently, I am working on an official mission statement and sales plan which can be used not only for myself but for many people that I need to work with such as the principal, mall staff and the media.
I will be discussing some specific plans with the principal on Monday, as well as giving him the mission statement and sales plan. If all goes well, he would provide me even more help on this. Not so well? Things will still go according to plan!(Mostly).
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Talking to the school principal tommorow
I will be talking with the principal tomorrow about my Unicef Write for charity. I can feel the nerves already.
My fundraiser will officially began after this. Wish me luck!
I'll keep you guys updated
My fundraiser will officially began after this. Wish me luck!
I'll keep you guys updated
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Some thoughts about school
The end of summer is ironically the time where teenagers actually think about school the most. The usual division of feelings are there. Seeing from the msn and facebook messages, about half of my friends are looking forward to school after a boring summer, and about another wishes the summer would last forever.
The anticipation of this upcoming school year is probably my most pumped up and nervous of all. For one, this is the year that I promised literally everybody that I will put 100% effort and excel. With university applications right around the corner, these two years are definitely the turning point of my life.
Oh yeah, almost forgot. I got 2000+ books to sell! :S
The anticipation of this upcoming school year is probably my most pumped up and nervous of all. For one, this is the year that I promised literally everybody that I will put 100% effort and excel. With university applications right around the corner, these two years are definitely the turning point of my life.
Oh yeah, almost forgot. I got 2000+ books to sell! :S
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Book in print tommorow
There was a strange sense of surrealism today. I am still in awe of what I am about to see. An actual printed book with my name on it!
I've contacted and confirmed on the printing of my book. I will be taking another trip down to Markham and Steeles, this time to actual print the book out. I finished the further designing of the front and back cover the last two days. Everything is basically done. Maybe another final check for some mistakes tomorrow morning would do.
Yes, I would be printing out 2000 books this first batch. That is two times more than the first batch of Harry Potter!(Though I doubt the final sales figure will be anywhere close though! XD)
Yesterday, I had a meeting with my friends for the discussion of the fundraiser. I already have a more depth idea of the exact plan. So far, I've basically have two phases of selling planed out.
Phase 1
Selling in the school and through friends/ classmates.
The goal for the first phase is around 500 copies by the end of October. Mainly in my school and schools of my friends. The main focus will obviously be in my school, Agincourt CI. The exact date and ever detail of what I am going to do is still a question mark pending the discussion with the principal. Though what I have in mind right now is to start the promoting the first two weeks adn start the presale on the third. The official sales should began early October. I will also encourage my classmates to sell for me. Although I don't know how well could that go.
Phase 2
Selling in the community.
This is the part I am planning to go big on. I just learned today that setting up the book sale in shopping malls will be free! I will probably be selling this book in several major shopping centres around Toronto. Mainwhile, I will be contacting the media for publicity and promoting. I will probably contact all of the major media outlet for their support and voice. Once this is done, I think selling the rest 1500 copies should be no problem at all!
Now that I finished the actual writing of the book, the stress is gone. The selling and promotion wont be too easy, but it will sure be very exciting! From all the excitment and ice capp I just drank, I feel so hyper! My hand is trembling on the keyboard, I guess it's going to be tough for me to sleep tonight.
Thank you so much for all the support. Stay tunned to the good news over the next little while. I will mainly do the updates on the blog with the occasional messeges sent from facebook( Someone already complained about me spamming their inbox with useless info :( ).
See you all and I hope you have a GREAT last few days of summer!
I've contacted and confirmed on the printing of my book. I will be taking another trip down to Markham and Steeles, this time to actual print the book out. I finished the further designing of the front and back cover the last two days. Everything is basically done. Maybe another final check for some mistakes tomorrow morning would do.
Yes, I would be printing out 2000 books this first batch. That is two times more than the first batch of Harry Potter!(Though I doubt the final sales figure will be anywhere close though! XD)
Yesterday, I had a meeting with my friends for the discussion of the fundraiser. I already have a more depth idea of the exact plan. So far, I've basically have two phases of selling planed out.
Phase 1
Selling in the school and through friends/ classmates.
The goal for the first phase is around 500 copies by the end of October. Mainly in my school and schools of my friends. The main focus will obviously be in my school, Agincourt CI. The exact date and ever detail of what I am going to do is still a question mark pending the discussion with the principal. Though what I have in mind right now is to start the promoting the first two weeks adn start the presale on the third. The official sales should began early October. I will also encourage my classmates to sell for me. Although I don't know how well could that go.
Phase 2
Selling in the community.
This is the part I am planning to go big on. I just learned today that setting up the book sale in shopping malls will be free! I will probably be selling this book in several major shopping centres around Toronto. Mainwhile, I will be contacting the media for publicity and promoting. I will probably contact all of the major media outlet for their support and voice. Once this is done, I think selling the rest 1500 copies should be no problem at all!
Now that I finished the actual writing of the book, the stress is gone. The selling and promotion wont be too easy, but it will sure be very exciting! From all the excitment and ice capp I just drank, I feel so hyper! My hand is trembling on the keyboard, I guess it's going to be tough for me to sleep tonight.
Thank you so much for all the support. Stay tunned to the good news over the next little while. I will mainly do the updates on the blog with the occasional messeges sent from facebook( Someone already complained about me spamming their inbox with useless info :( ).
See you all and I hope you have a GREAT last few days of summer!
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