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Get Kids Into Survey — should we become a sponsor?
dleidigh replied 2 years, 4 months ago 12 Members · 23 Replies
- Posted by: @jitterboogiePosted by: @wendell
But I wonder how much benefit we’d get in return? Would our membership numbers increase enough to justify the cost? Would the increase in traffic lead to more advertisers?
They should be able to show you that information on how much the average traffic increase is from their sponsors.
That’s a fair question to ask.
It’s a great place to get parents of kids Interested in getting their kids into survey, but not this forum is appropriate for most school aged kids, and I digress.
How much time do you have to make a decision?
The problem is that there’s no real way to track traffic from a poster or printed materials.
Your friendly, virtual neighborhood Webmaster I’m all about donating to good causes without expectation of getting anything back.
That said, SurveyorConnect isn’t exactly rolling in dough, so when I look at sponsorships and the like, I do actually expect to get something out of it at this point. In the future, maybe not so much, if this becomes more profitable.
I really appreciate all of the discussion here! I love this place! I know that I can ask these questions and you’ll give me hearty, honest and thoughtful responses. I have mostly decided to walk away from this sponsorship. There’s a tiny piece of me that is still interested, but I’m not sure it would have the return on investment I would hope for. I believe in the cause, I just don’t think the timing is right for us.
Thanks again for all of the helpful input! 🙂
Your friendly, virtual neighborhood Webmaster@spmpls Agree that it’s tough to measure the impact of the programs in the long term.
Get Kids Into Surveying is good for glossy, colored examples of some of the more interesting aspects of surveying seen through a very shallow lens, perfect for grade school or younger.
I think the area that’s missing that you could see a dramatic impact in is the high school age population. Everything mentioned about surveying at that age is about calculations, describing the math required, etc., but the fun and interesting parts of surveying are about history, discovery, searching for monuments, being outdoors, using clues, reading maps, working with your hands. Rarely is there good content created which shows the surveying profession in this light. This age loses interest or never even gain insight about the industry because it’s portrayed as 60-year-olds doing hand calcs with paper and pencil while engineering is portrayed as people doing 3D renderings on 60-inch computer screens. Neither is true, but that’s what the marketing looks like when you look at colleges and industry information.
Also I’m gonna put this out there and people may not agree but I’d argue that Trig Star pushes the least interesting aspect of surveying. It’s a good idea, in theory, for finding people with some skills for doing mathematical calculations, but is that really the KEY skill set you need to be a good surveyor or is it simply the one that you can create an easy contest out of?
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