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3. What tools will you use to measure your event's impact on tourism? Please be specific <br />and provide examples. Include the following information: <br />I. Is your project/event year-round or is it seasonal or date -specific? <br />II. What strategies will you employ to assure you are attracting tourists from <br />at least 50 miles away? <br />III. What strategies will you use to assist in marketing all of Kittitas County as <br />a tourist destination with your event/project funding request? <br />Being set for a specific date; we will make the effort to partner with local businesses and have a way to see the <br />impact to their individual stores. We have started the process of using coupons, or event just a information sheet <br />for more information at the cash registers (which hopefully they are spending money). We will track the attendees <br />through our People's Choice forms, also mention in question #2. Through our advertising we will use a specific <br />tracking URL to see how many view our page for information about the show. We will use advertising in social <br />media, print, and radio to draw interest from the surrounding areas such as Kennewick, Pasco, Richland, Seattle, <br />Tacoma, Wenatchee, Moses Lake, North Bend, Issaquah and Spokane area. We will also use the option of a <br />give -a -way to create buzz and most importantly received their information for a post -survey. By cross promoting <br />through the tourism sites and calendars via the internet throughout the county we will assist in marketing Kittitas <br />County as a whole. We will have a table at the event that will be managed by a person that will provide <br />information from the visitor center about our county and the things that we offer such as: barn quilt maps, historic <br />museum brochure, Cle Elum's historic brochure, Central WA Visitor's guide and many others. We will continue <br />our efforts by working with other festivals and having our information in the antique stores, craft stores, and any <br />other stores that will allow our posters or information. Additionally, we will place 40% of our online ads on the <br />CentralWashingtonColor.com facebook page to bring more of a county -wide destination message in our <br />advertising. <br />4. Does your organization have, or have you applied for, grant funding from other sources? <br />If not, why not? If yes, please list the available funding you have for the project, <br />including any volunteer and in-kind sources, and/or the sources and amounts for which <br />you have applied. Please note which funding sources are secured and in hand so a true <br />matching fund determination may be determined. What changes would occur if the <br />project couldn't be funded? <br />This is our initial year, we will be mindful of the need to find other sources of funding. We <br />will be asking for payment from vendors at the show. We will continue working with our <br />partners for sponsorships or in-kind support. No, we haven't applied for any other funding <br />as an application but we do have in-kind sources that will be helping the cause of the <br />event; such as: location of the quilt show $500, volunteer hours estimated based on past <br />shows 1492 hours at value of 28.99 per hour (source: independentsector.org). We are in <br />the beginning stages and will continue to work offsetting the cost of the event. <br />If we are unsuccessful with this grant we will have to rethink the event by seeing if we have <br />the volunteer power to put it on with private investments, donations, etc. If that is deemed <br />unavailable we will probably hold off another year and see what we can put together for the <br />next year. <br />County -wide Lodging Tax Application Page 111 <br />