Back to School

It's time to start thinking about marketing for "Back to School" time.
I want to rollout marketing starting August 1. Contact me to coordinate.

Stay out of the heat!

School Districts Savings

In preparation for the upcoming 2009-10 school year, education service centers will be under increased scrutiny to not only save money for school districts but also to quantify those savings to each school district customer.

An example of this would be...school district A purchases classroom supplies via an AEPA catalog contract. The contract provides a 28% discount to school district customers in Kansas. The normal retail rate for this purchase would be $100.00 but, by using the AEPA contract, the school district price is $72.00, a savings of $28.00.

Leading up to the beginning of the 2009-10 school year, my challenge to each Greenbush business partner is to begin quantifying the dollars you saved for school districts in Kansas in 2008-09 and to communicate that to me. We can then work, as partners, to communicate that to our school district customers.

Two Year Greenbush Priorities

The following priorities were established by the Greenbush Administrative Team to guide Greenbush for the next two years:

1. Concentrating our efforts on the Stimulus/Recovery Dollars imposed by President Obama, targeting those programs that ‘make money, i.e. SPECTRA, Procurement/Cooperative Purchasing/AEPA.
2. Recruiting AND retaining the best staff possible.
3. Measurable goals for each and every program, ie..how are we accountable and how are we measuring up.

On the Direction Greenbush is Heading...

Following are some bullet points from Greenbush's incoming new executive director in regard to the direction in which Greenbush is heading for 2009-10:

• We will continue to realign personnel to our contracts, programs, and services that have the potential for revenue growth.
• Efficiencies and savings. We will aggressively pursue the top five money savings that our Leadership Team prioritized at our last meeting. Energy management, are certainly and a centralized purchasing system that are in the works. Time is of the essence.
• Every Greenbush program, regardless of history, is going to receive increased scrutiny by our customers. Our increased focus on tracking data and communicating our performance to customers will be intensified.
  
• We are going to place an added emphasis on those programs that have the potential to generate additional revenue.
• As in Good to Great, focus on your hedgehog services. Doing more for less will be the mantra for next year.