Back-to-School College Edition

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Back to school

• College edition

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• Back to School is the second biggest consumer
  spending event and hit an all-time high in 2012.
• 30.3 Billion
• 688 was the average spending for back-to-school
  clothing and supplies
• Back-to-school combined with back-to-college
  spending will reach 72.5 Billion This Year

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Online retail sales 2012
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• Back to school shoppers are undecided
• Consumers are shopping for them selves
• Consumers are taking a multi-device platform for
  purchase.
• 61 start on smartphone
• Then continue on PC/Laptop

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One thing to remeber

• Back to school shoppers are undecided
• More than 1 in 4 compared prices online/mobile
  before
• 72 prefer to research what back-to-school
  supplies, electronics and apparels child needs

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List of basic supplies

• Laptop
• Colleges and universities around the country are
  making it a must have for college students.
• It is the most expensive supply college students
  need to get for school

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planner

• It is of UTMOST importance that your adolescent
  maintain his/her academic planner academic
  planners teach students time management skills.

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Binders

• Binders are a must for college students
• Each binder should be reserved for a specific
  class t should be reserved for a specific class
• Encourage diligent note taking
• Students who take good notes do a better job at
  listening during class
• Good notes give students a better starting point
  for studying
• Students should read over the notes he/she took
  everyday before class

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Color Ball pens highlighters

• Color-coding, hi-lighting, and underlining are
  important habits for your high schooler to
  acquire when reading important school-related
  material
• Benefits of color-coding
• Improves study morale
• Studies show that students who study color coded
  material score higher than students who study
  conventional black and white formats
• Color coded material means fewer eye fixations,
  which means that studying becomes a much more
  fluid and enjoyable process

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Pocket folders

• To transport all homework, creative writing
  brilliance, and everything in between!
• Its useful to color code pocket folders
  according to subject
• For instance
• Green Earth Science Yellow Trigonometry Etc.

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Ti 83 calculator

• A graphing calculator is a necessity for students
  who will engage in more serious math subjects
  like algebra and trigonometry.
• Dont let your high schooler convince you that
  the graphing calculator apps on his/her smart
  phone are acceptable. Most teachers find the
  usage of cell phones absolutely unacceptable and
  insist upon graphing calculators instead.

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Flash drive

• Flash drives are a crucial item for students to
  own. Flash drives enable students to work on the
  same project both at home or various locations
  across campus.
• While online software systems, like Dropbox,
  provide services that are similar to that of a
  flash drive, flash drives provide extra assurance
  to students, since it guarantees that all of
  his/her assignments will be in on time.

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pencils

• Testing usually requires the use of a 2 pencils.
  Do NOT have your student be without one!

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Hand sanitizer

• Nearly 22 million days of school are missed
  annually due to the common cold
• A case control study of 6,080 schools reported
  that those who enforced classroom-dispensed
  instant hand sanitizer at specific times
  throughout the day experienced 20 fewer absences
  due to illness

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• Shoplet is the leading purely online office
  supply retailer. Founded in 1994, Shoplet is one
  of the original e-marketplaces.
• We specialize in everything and everything
  back-to-school as well as office supplies, break
  room supplies, and cleaning and maintenance
  equipment.