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Wow! What a great show this week.    

It is getting to that time of the year when directors get that nervous feeling in their stomach - will we be full or won’t we?    There is still plenty of time to get more kids in camp this summer.   Our co-hosts this week have all been really smart about filling their camp spaces and they were happy to share their ideas.

Dan told us something amazingly useful - Frost Valley targets their style of communication and marketing to reach 5 different audiences.  Each audience gets unique ads, unique calls or unique postcards.   For them these audiences are:

1. unknown to us - those who know of camp or have looked at the website but we don’t know who they are

2. families who have made inquiries - these people are “trackable” and we can keep a record of how we have reached out to them

3. new families - ones whom have registered but haven’t been to camp before

4. returning families who are registered

5. returning families who are not yet registered

What are you going to do to fill your camp this year?

Tool of the Week – Make Yourself a Better Camp Director

Travis - Scat Cards 
Dan -  The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor
Joel - Wordle
James - fizzle.co

Your Hosts:

• Travis Allison, Summer Camp Consultant - CampHacker.TV

• Dan Weir, Director of Camping Services - Frost Valley YMCA

• Joel Egbert, Director at Kennebec Camps

• James Davis, Executive Director at Vanderkamp

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Thanks for the evening, friends.