Raising funds for TotJO

Jestor wrote:

Brenna wrote:

Jestor wrote: Thats why I am waiting for a 'fundraising team', that can handle this, :lol:...[/color]

:whistle:

Life being what it is, I wouldnt even ask...

If you have the time, and if you want to, your help would be appreciated...

But, it will happen one day, so, dont worry...

Me, trying to run such an ordeal, would be like you teaching martial arts...

You have a understanding of it in that you know what the words mean, but, you wouldnt try breaking boards on your first day...

I would have a lot of research to do, and I dont have the time... Or need..... Quite yet...

Im pretty sure Ive stuck my hand up a couple of times to volunteer
Let me know if and how I can help.

Brenna wrote:

Jestor wrote:

Brenna wrote:

Jestor wrote: Thats why I am waiting for a 'fundraising team', that can handle this, :lol:...[/color]

:whistle:

Life being what it is, I wouldnt even ask...

If you have the time, and if you want to, your help would be appreciated...

But, it will happen one day, so, dont worry...

Me, trying to run such an ordeal, would be like you teaching martial arts...

You have a understanding of it in that you know what the words mean, but, you wouldnt try breaking boards on your first day...

I would have a lot of research to do, and I dont have the time... Or need..... Quite yet...

Im pretty sure Ive stuck my hand up a couple of times to volunteer
Let me know if and how I can help.

PM coming later....

Kamizu wrote: I love making things for people and I'd love to help out TotJO however I can. If it would be acceptable and wanted, I could put together a thread for hand-made items from where people could see things and contact me for information. I could charge for material and time (which would be almost half of what I would charge for similar items on Etsy), then add a little more for the Temple. I by no means want to try and make money off of the Temple and I hope I don't come across as such. I want to serve and this is one capacity that I feel I can contribute too. I just have these really cool ideas for some items I'd love to make but have no where to put them all if I did! HAhahaha And I love making things for people

Go for it and see how it works.

Brenna wrote: Im pretty sure Ive stuck my hand up a couple of times to volunteer

You gotta be careful doing that. One day they might call on you in class, and then you're in trouble.

Akkarin wrote: TotJO is very passive, we always have been. We don't go on recruitment drives, we don't send PMs to people asking for donations, we don't try and sell people merchandise.

We let ourselves be open to the public and people join us.
We have a donate button and people give us money.
We have a merchandise store and people buy things.

We don't 'push', we just sit here and things take care of themselves.

On this note, all I'm going to say is that, from what I've seen, Dudeism is more active than TOTJO.

Dudeism.

Let that sink in for a minute. A religion, based on a single cult film about a white-russian-drinking bathrobe-wearing nobody, whose sole tenet is "take it easy, man", is more active than a religion based on arguably the most successful sci-fi franchise of all recorded history, wherein the greatest sage seen in the films is quoted as saying "do or do not. there is no try."

steamboat28 wrote: On this note, all I'm going to say is that, from what I've seen, Dudeism is more active than TOTJO.

Dudeism.

Let that sink in for a minute. A religion, based on a single cult film about a white-russian-drinking bathrobe-wearing nobody, whose sole tenet is "take it easy, man", is more active than a religion based on arguably the most successful sci-fi franchise of all recorded history, wherein the greatest sage seen in the films is quoted as saying "do or do not. there is no try."

I don't understand the significance of this point. The only thing I can think of is... so what? :huh:

I'm happy being me, I'm not in competition with anyone and neither is TotJO.

Akkarin wrote:

steamboat28 wrote: On this note, all I'm going to say is that, from what I've seen, Dudeism is more active than TOTJO.

Dudeism.

Let that sink in for a minute. A religion, based on a single cult film about a white-russian-drinking bathrobe-wearing nobody, whose sole tenet is "take it easy, man", is more active than a religion based on arguably the most successful sci-fi franchise of all recorded history, wherein the greatest sage seen in the films is quoted as saying "do or do not. there is no try."

I don't understand the significance of this point. The only thing I can think of is... so what? :huh:

I'm happy being me, I'm not in competition with anyone and neither is TotJO.

I think that it may have been a joke based on the fact that Dudism has a creed of "chill out and relax maaaan". The attempted humor being that we are even more passive and non active on this front than a movement dedicated to being passive.

I could be wrong.

Akkarin wrote:
TotJO is very passive, we always have been. We don't go on recruitment drives, we don't send PMs to people asking for donations, we don't try and sell people merchandise.

We let ourselves be open to the public and people join us.
We have a donate button and people give us money.
We have a merchandise store and people buy things.

We don't 'push', we just sit here and things take care of themselves.

If the store never sells anything then that doesn't matter, it isn't there to make money, it is there to provide TotJO branded merchandise to people that want it. Having the store costs us nothing, if it did we probably wouldn't have it, it just sits there and people buy now and then. It is not a question of 'mining out' because we aren't mining...

So why do we have a marketing and PR department then? I'm assuming we have one as we have a head of marketing and PR.

Brenna wrote: So why do we have a marketing and PR department then? I'm assuming we have one as we have a head of marketing and PR.

Member: "I would like to buy some TotJO branded merchandise"
Councillor: "Ok cool, I'll get someone to organise that."

Journalist: "I would like to talk to someone about Jediism and TotJO."
Councillor: "Ok cool, I'll get someone to organise that."

Offices and departments arise out of need. There have been seven journalistic inquiries about TotjO since the beginning of January.

Akkarin wrote:

Brenna wrote: So why do we have a marketing and PR department then? I'm assuming we have one as we have a head of marketing and PR.

Member: "I would like to buy some TotJO branded merchandise"
Councillor: "Ok cool, I'll get someone to organise that."

Journalist: "I would like to talk to someone about Jediism and TotJO."
Councillor: "Ok cool, I'll get someone to organise that."

Offices and departments arise out of need. There have been seven journalistic inquiries about TotjO since the beginning of January.

Fair enough. An official contact person for media inquiries is important. But a media liaison and a marketing person are two totally different things

Our merchandise is not marketed either. Though I can appreciate people needing to be pointed towards the sales site.

As you have said yourself, we do not market TOTJO in any way.