UNİVERSİTY OF MARYLAND VİSİT

As you know, GreenSavings Coop. has a partnership with University of Maryland and works closer especially with the Department of Sustainability.  So, we went there to talk about what both sides can do and work on. There were also 2 people from Electric Advisors and Footprint Free to discuss about their sides and how they can encourage people in the University to use their services. For our sides, we had prepared some questions before going there.  Also, we had prepared some flyers to hang around the school to highlight the advantages, which are basically the discounts, to encourage them to use the green products.  But, people in Department of Sustainability told us that flyers were not a good idea.  They said that they tried it several times before, but it was not attracting people.  Anyways, we will be testing our flyers in UMD to see whether it works or not.  Second idea is to make an event or panel as we call, on December to make people more eager to buy green products.  People who used and benefited from green products and discounts will be giving a speech about the advantages of it.  İt is an alternative way to make people inform about this partnership and encourage them.  Besides the talk with Office of Sustainability, we also went to some potential supply members to talk about the benefits if they join GSC. We got some contact information to inform more about what GSC does, how the system works and the benefits for themselves to increase their businesses.  So, it was a good experience for all of us and had a good day.