James Hutchins

Dear Suzuki family,

Due to circumstances beyond our control, we did not win the Every Child Can grant.

A mathematician who was also in our 50k category and was part of a coalition helped me estimate with certainty that we were getting between 3,500 and 7,000 votes every day in September, which under normal circumstances would have been more than enough votes to end the month in the top 10 and in the money.

There were 8 or 9 groups in our category that I am sure were not submitted in the spirit that Pepsi promoted for this…

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Dear Friends,

You have all done a great job voting and texting for our Every Child Can grant this month!

We need your votes and texts now more than ever for the next few days!

Here’s the scoop:

As of the sending of this email, 9 groups ahead of us are being investigated for cheating.

We have 2 possible ways we can still win this thing this month:

1. We climb back into the top 10 by getting more votes than our questionable competition.

   6,500 of you will receive this email. If we each arrange for at 5 votes over…

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As of Monday morning 9/27 we’re in 8th place and in line to win the grant. Vote now to keep us there!

However, we were surpassed by 4 of 6 groups working together. These groups have a daily reminder list of over 7,000 voters! The other 2 groups are in the top 15 and will most likely knock us out of the top 10 if we ALL do not vote.

6,500 of you receive this email. If we all vote and text every day and as many of you as possible get just a handful of others…

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As of Friday afternoon we’re in 5th place and in line to win the grant. Vote now to keep us there!

Please remember you can vote twice each day: Once by texting, once by voting on the website. Instructions below.

You can also vote yet again with the Pepsi Facebook app. Search for “Every Child Can”. Sometimes it isn’t working, but it’s worth checking too.

Here’s my new idea:

Please consider copying, pasting, and probably editing the note below to 10 folks you know that are not involved with our voting (relatives,…

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We are still in the running to win a Pepsi Refresh grant of $50,000 to be used for 1,000 partial Every Child Can scholarships.

As of Wednesday afternoon we’re in 4th place and in line to win the grant. If you live in the US, vote now to keep us there!

Please remember you can vote twice each day: Once by texting, once by voting on the website. Instructions below.

You can also vote again with the Pepsi Facebook app. Search for “Every Child Can”. Sometimes it isn’t working, but it’s worth…

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Hi folks,

Please remember you can vote twice each day: Once by texting, once by voting on the website. Instructions below.

You can also vote again with the Pepsi Facebook app. Search for “Every Child Can”. Sometimes it isn’t working, but it’s worth checking too.

We were as high as #6 this weekend, but every night we drop into the low teens. We still need a lot more voting to secure a top 10 spot, so please pass the word!

Anyone ranked between #1-#10 gets the $50,000 grant money at the end of this month. We need more votes…

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We’re at #13 as this is being written.

Help! We are sinking! We were as high as #7 and are now at #13.

Anyone ranked between #1-#10 gets the $50,000 grant money at the end of this month. We were there with some breathing room for a few days.

There is no question we could win this grant at this point with very little work.

I am confident that if you all voted and texted for the next 2 days, we’d be back in the top 10.

If all of you produced 20 votes (i.e., you online, you text, students,…

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We’re at #8 as this is being written.

Thank you for those daily votes and texts!

Today’s helpful trick:

Have everyone text at your next group class before you start or at the end (have a student remind you).

I will be doing that tomorrow night and passing around my laptop for online votes. (It’s insured" />

Anyone ranked between #1-#10 gets the $50,000 grant money at the end of this month.

To keep our spot, or if we have dropped by the time you get this, we need all of you to continue to [url=http://www.refresheverything.com/everychildcan]vote and text every…

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We’re at #9 as this is being written.

Thank you for those daily votes and texts! If each side of our Suzuki triangle votes we can move up even more and get some more breathing room.

Anyone ranked between #1-#10 gets the $50,000 grant money at the end of this month.

To keep our spot, or if we have dropped by the time you get this, we need all of you to continue to vote and text every day.

Over the past few days we have been as high as #9 and as low as #11.

Every vote counts!

We are…

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We are at #9 as of the writing of this email!

Anyone ranked between #1-#10 get the $50,000 grant money at the end of this month.

To keep our spot, or if we have dropped by the time you get this, we need all of you to continue to vote and text every day.

Here’s my latest idea to get more votes:

There is a great Cello Rap on YouTube. The link is at the bottom of this email. If you like it, please forward this email, including the voting instructions.

BEFORE you check it out, please follow the instructions…

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Hi folks,

Anyone ranked between #1-#10 get the $50,000 grant money at the end of this month.

We are at #10 as of the writing of this email!

To keep our spot or if we have dropped by the time you get this, we need all of you to continue to vote and text every day.

To give us the needed cushion, it would be super helpful if each of you could come up with 10 additional votes besides yourself for just few days.

Here are some easy ways:

1. Ask your spouse/kids to vote and text—it’s quality time…

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Hi folks,

It takes very little time and labor to vote and text for us every day this weekend.

Remember, everyone’s ranking the first week of the month on the Pepsi site can be way off. It settles in after the first week.

Most of us are back teaching now, so…

If we send an email to our studios with a note asking them to vote and text along with this link:

http://suzukiassociation.org/news/4684/

we can finally climb into the top 10!

Thanks again for your dedication to our ECC grant goal.

-James

You Can Vote Twice Every Day

Text 100547 to 73774

Text rates…

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We are STILL in the running to win a Pepsi Refresh grant of $50,000 to be used for 1,000 partial Every Child Can scholarships.

We only have a few spots to climb this month to be in the top 10.

We need you all to vote online and text once a day. Instructions below.

Think about this:

I believe if every US SAA member voted ONLY 5 time between now and 9/30 AND they had 10 others (i.e. students, studio parents, family members, combo of texting and voting) vote only 5 times between now and the end of the month we…

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Hi folks,

If all of you who are voting and texting daily continue to do so, we should be in the teens with only a few spots to move up by 9/7!

Remember, everyone’s ranking the first week of the month on the Pepsi site can be way off. It settles in after the first week.

End Date

The idea of introducing 1,000 new people to our Suzuki world is very important to many of us and simply clicking “vote” once a day for this grant is a way for us to do this without reaching into…

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Time to vote again!

We started in the 300s in the beginning of July.

We ended July in the 40s.

We are ending August in the 20s.

We can end September in the top 10 and receive the $50,000 grant.

If fact, we should start the month with only a handful of spots to move up. The top 10 vote getters in August will be gone on September 1st since they will have received their grant. That should move us up 10 spots from #24ish to #14ish. That’s only a few spots to move up throughout the month to…

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Hi again fellow Suzuki friends,

Time to vote again!

Daily practice makes us better musicians. Daily voting and texting will win this grant. Please vote and text now and every day.

The next, and hopefully last, game plan to win this grant will be sent out in the next email.

Thank you!
-James

You Can Vote Twice Every Day

Text 100547 to 73774

Text rates apply if you don’t have unlimited texting. If you can’t text because of a fee, vote online with the instructions below instead.

How to Vote Online

1. Go to refresheverything.com/everychildcan

2. Click the “Vote for this idea” button.

3.…

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Time to vote again!

Smokey the Bear debuted in this month back in 1944. According to the Ad Council, 95% of adults and 77% of children in the USA recognize Smokey and his message.

If that same percentage of you getting this email would vote and text for the rest of this month, we’d win this grant easily!

So —

“Only you can prevent us from winning this grant (and wildfires)”

James Hutchins

You Can Vote Twice Every Day

Text 100547 to 73774

Text rates apply if you don’t have unlimited texting. If you can’t text because of a fee, vote…

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Time to vote again!

Only 13 more spots to go!

I would be happy to send anyone interested a detailed email that you can forward to your Suzuki families and friends. Email me at [javascript protected email address] . Or here’s a link you can use this as a flyer for your studio.

Thank you for all those texts and votes.

James Hutchins

You Can Vote Twice Every Day

Text 100547 to 73774

Text rates apply if you don’t have unlimited texting. If you can’t text because of a fee, vote online with the instructions below instead.

How to Vote Online

1. Go to…

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Time to vote again!

16 more spots to go!

Here’s a link you can use as a flyer for your studio:

http://suzukiassociation.org/news/4276/

Thank you for all those texts and votes.

James Hutchins

You Can Vote Twice Every Day

Text 100547 to 73774

Text rates apply if you don’t have unlimited texting. If you can’t text because of a fee, vote online with the instructions below instead.

How to Vote Online

1. Go to refresheverything.com/everychildcan

2. Click the “Vote for this idea” button.

3. If you aren’t already signed up with Pepsi Refresh, choose the “No, I’m new here!” option on the sign in form.…

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Time to vote again!

We moved up 3 spots since the last reminder thanks to all of your votes.

Our history has been to move up the most on the weekends.

All you Facebook folks—I’ve been told you can vote a 3rd time each day thru Facebook. Please give it a try! Search for “Every Child Can” and then vote for us.

Thanks so much!

James Hutchins

You Can Vote Twice Every Day

Text 100547 to 73774

Text rates apply if you don’t have unlimited texting. If you can’t text because of a fee, vote online with the instructions…

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