The Ember X bake sale, a pretty significant creative revenue activity.+ Raised $221. As of earlier this week, we actually reached the 100% funded milestone. Had we known we would be at this point, we wouldn't have executed on this bake sale idea but it was already in flight. And it was a lot of fun to hang with our team anyway. We now have some margin with our finances for the X team.
+ Lots of donated baked goods. All kinds of cookies, brownies, a 4 layer chocolate cake, biscotti, etc.
+ Of course, the bake sale was not just about raising money. It was about teamwork, selling and connecting.
+ Teamwork - executing a project together as a team, including set up, clean up, manning the table.
+ Selling - what works and doesn't work when trying to 'sell' a product or service. In this case, a big takeaway had to deal with presentation. Some of this was contextual too - we weren't selling baked goods in front of a supermarket, it was at a local outdoor food market type of event, with lots of professional food vendors.
+ Connecting - our team had to verbalize for themselves what we are actually doing when people asked.
Now this is a way to package a cupcake, my wife's idea, of course.
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