Godwin,
What a great looking survey!
What's this: "How much did you pay for all non-capital repair
products?" (tools, parts?)
I think it's nonprofit, without the dash.
I think that the costs could be broken down even more, so that the
"other operating costs" is more distinct. For example, trash/
recycling, insurance (liability, directors, worker's comp,) rag
service, collateral merchandise, meetings, staff. It would make
easier to compare how co-ops spend money.
Personally, I don't feel proprietary about it all, but I bet there's
confidentiality fear in exposing maybe your co-op is NOT paying
insurance? ; )
totally NOT a waste of time
THANK YOU!!!!
Kelly
On Feb 7, 2011, at 11:31 PM, Godwin! wrote:
So, I have been tasked to perform a competitive analysis of similar
organizations by an economist in our group. I'm realizing now that a
genuine competitive analysis is probably not exactly what we need
but a general survey on many of our shops may be useful to all of
us. Since we are gearing up to lobby our university to support a DIY
bike shop on campus again, our goal is to see what other similar
organizations offer and what it takes to run them so that we can
bargain reasonably. This data might also be useful for a number of
other reasons to any bike collective.I have put up a draft of a survey, please take a look. (I put this
together pretty quickly, the ordering is probably not the best)I am by no means an economist, so some of the terminology could
probably be improved, same goes for US specific information. I would
eventually like to offer up the data in such a way that any
sensitive information could be untied from the organization
information to keep information confidential, but I'm not sure of
any other way than to simply query me after it is complete, I can
also provide a relevant breakdown afterwards. I'm not sure if people
would find giving information about income and expenditures too
confidential even in that scenario.If it interests you, I would like to hear back about a few things: If you think I'm wasting my time If you have any suggested amendments, improvements or additions of
any questions or extraction of irrelevant or far too confidential
questions Suggestions for a host other than google formsThanks everyone, .godwin of the Bike Root
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