Thnak you for the information. I wanted to get some idea of what other had experienced before I put too much time into rresearch. Everyone seems to have gad at least OK experiences so I'm going to look into it. Thank you for your time. You guys are great!

Our school will be trying the Kidstuff books this fall, and I'm curious to see how it will work out. Personally I like the Kidstuff books better. Entertainment has WAY too much stuff I NEVER use, and they tend to be over too big a geographic area--they need to be more centralized.

Welcome to the boards--I hope they help you as much as they've helped me!

[ 06-20-2004, 01:32 AM: Message edited by: kmamom ]

Call your entertainment book person and they will send you a copy(they did for us). It has admissions to movies, amusement parks coupons for toy stores, food stores clothing stores.

The books are $25.00 you get 50% commission.For every 5 a family sells they get 1 free book.I more than got my monies worth at the holidays and I'm using it this summer for more fsmily stuff. I did get to use the $50.00 coupon for Sears(I got a new dryer). I would think that they are available in most areas.

I'd like to know more about the Kid Stuff books. Is it available in all areas? We do Entertainment and another local book (very similar). Entertainment is $20, the other is $25. We sell about the same of each. Our first year, we made about $4,000, since then it's been about $2,000. I think the market is flooded with them. In our school, the sale is very easy and uses almost no manhours. We keep the books at school and they sell them through the office. We just have a log sheet in the office where the child's name and number of books sold it logged. The chairperson collects that sheet every week and puts into a spreadsheet.

we've done the entertainment books in the past. We've always done ok. This year we used their Kids Stuff books and we really cleaned up.

It's from the same company just a different kind of book. More geared to families.

We did so well that we're using them again this fall.

We have sold the books for several years. Two years ago we swithched to the their bigger book ($20) and we doubled our sales.

It is a lot of work. They provide everything seperate so you have to put it together (the envelope, flyers, books, etc). You also need to track everything by class and student. We also put labels on them so we did not have to rely on the parents filling out the student information correctly (previous years a lot of them did it wrong, or did not fill it out at all).

My wife did it for our school last year and I'd guess that all said and done it was about 30 hours or more total. Most of which is in the prep to get the packages ready.

We are selling them again this coming fall.