Elf Assignments to Begin This Week

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Part of the reason for the Elf Supervisor Meeting in Elf Chat today is to discuss assignments elves in each Sector will be receiving ahead of Santa’s launch. It is also to make this announcement:

Sector Activation for all sectors happens this week.

What does that mean?

It means your elf supervisor will begin sending assignments to their tracker elves starting this week.

This is the real deal. It is not a drill. It’s not training. You will begin sending information from YOUR area to North Pole Flight Command starting this week.

What kind of stuff will you be sending? Take a look at the Tracking Department Reports. <– click here!

You may or may not get a lot of requests. And it will be slightly different in each sector. And you may be asked for some information more than once (think weather reports). These are all important. The information you provide is compiled into a database that is accessible to Santa directly on the sleigh.

So…you might want to know who your supervisor is. And you WILL want to know the news page for your sector.

Tracking Santa for Santa is about to really begin, guys!

Stuff to Understand About the Website

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My Fellow Elves,

We are getting huge numbers of new elf sign-ups, which is great, but it is driving a lot of questions to us behind the scenes. I thought it would be helpful to just share a few things with you about the website and how it all works.

Report a User

This is a new feature that is intended to help with naughty elves who post things that are inappropriate or engage in behavior that is unbecoming an elf. We work hard to avoid such stuff but some just misbehave anyway. There is a little button that will appear when you mouse over the profile of any elf. It looks like this:

Report User Button

 

 

 

 

When you click on that button it alerts the elves running the website of the problem and they should jump to take care of it right away.

Be very careful how you use this button. Elf Moe is the one who gets the message and Moe isn’t an elf to be messed with. He makes the final decisions of who stays and who goes. This button is ONLY to report something inappropriate. Do not use it to report a user who hasn’t done anything wrong – Moe could ban you!

The Difference Between Elf Chat and the Elf Wall

Some new users are wandering into Elf Chat expecting elves of all types to be there all the time. The purpose of Elf Chat is more for scheduled events than it is for everyday conversation. You are welcome to use Elf Chat at any time but most of the time no one is there. Take a look at the Elf Calendar to see when events are scheduled for Elf Chat.

The rest of the time you will want to post on the Elf Wall. That’s where most elves go to share information and to meet each other.

Elf Jobs

Many new elves expect to apply and get some of the elf jobs posted. Not much hiring for these positions are open any more, however. All the elves that have been here year round have been assigned to them. We still are working to update the Elf Map to show all the new city captains, state representatives and country ambassadors. As we catch up with that you will see the dozens and dozens of elf jobs that have been filled.

Our advice to new elves joining now is to work as a tracker elf through Christmas and then stick around to apply for new elf jobs that come up in the New Year.

Groups

Likewise we are done forming new groups for the year. We have some groups that were formed over the summer that are not being managed or used. We will keep them up for now but after Christmas we may close them if they are not active. If you are interested in taking over an existing group that nobody is running any more you can contact me and we’ll discuss it.

North Pole Complaint Department

Be VERY careful how you use this group and what you might say. Elf Moe is a little grumpy and he has no patience for complainers, honestly. If you feel the need to complain, please do so carefully.

Chat with Elf Pinky Schedule

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A chat with Elf Pinky has been scheduled for Saturday, November 6th at 8pm EST.

Elf Pinky is the Elf Supervisor of Sector 5. Sector 5 is for North and Central America. There are more tracker elves in this sector than any other on earth.

Elf Pinky has scheduled this chat as a test. While she is directing comments and discussion to trackers in Sector 5 she wants it clear that elves in other sectors are welcome to participate and ask questions if they are available.

This is the first in a series of specific chats in November. This is a great time period for training and asking questions.

Elf Count Update for August

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Greetings, Elves! Good news! We have great recruiting action going on. Here is our updated count of elves for August:

Sector 1 – 8.5 million – +15.2%
Sector 2 – 3.3 million – +2.7%
Sector 3 – 18.2 million – +4.6%
Sector 4 – 11.6 million – +2.3%
Sector 5 – 22.3 million – +17.4%

Total Elves – 64.0 million +9.5%

These are outstanding results, especially from Sectors 1 and 5. I think we knew Sector 5 would be strong but that is an exceptionally great number.

Our Freelance Elf count increased by 6.2% but our North Pole Elf Count increased by a whopping 20.2%

We only need 136 million more elves! That’s a fantastic report!

Your Elf Supervisor may update your sector with even more detailed information. Keep up the good work, elves!

Sector 5 Rocks the July Recruiting Numbers

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Sector 5 totally rocked the recruiting numbers in July. We went from 16,925,973 elves in June to 19,037,530 elves in July.

That’s an increase of better than 2.1 million elves in July – or better than 12%. I’m so totally stoked.

Why did we do so well?

Well, it’s simple. You guys are THE BEST.

Now, based on how I reported this last month some of you are hung up on how many freelance elves versus how many North Pole elves. Well, guess what – I’m not going to tell. Elves is elves. I’ve been told not to worry about it, so you shouldn’t worry about it.

We just need to keep this thing going.

Are you ready to hear this? Our goal for just our humble, tiny, little sector…is 90 million elves this year.

Yeah, that’s a lot.

But that number also shows how important Sector 5 is, gang. We account for almost HALF of the tracker elves world wide.

It sure seems we’re pretty special, eh?

Time to Shine, Sector 5

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Ok, so I’ve had a few freak out messages today from a few who heard Santa’s news conference. Seems some of you think that 200 million tracker elf goal is impossible.

I’d like to break it down for you in simple terms. It’s really not so bad.

First of all, there are 8 BILLION people in the world. Santa is only asking for 200 million. Piece of cake. 200 million is NOTHING compared to how many people there actually are.

Now, as I’ve told you before, we are the biggest sector. Who has the most expectations put on them by being the biggest? US!!!

And I’m telling ya right now, that’s a good thing. According to the most recent numbers from Elf Flip there are just short of 17 million tracker elves in Sector 5 – right now. Think about it. Right now in the heat of July we nearly have a fifth of the total number of elves that Santa is going to need — right now! That’s better than 30 percent of all elves in the world – right NOW – are in our sector.

I figure it’s going to take us to grow to 90 million elves in Sector 5 by December 23rd if we’re to do our part. 90 million minus 17 million = 73 million. With 23 weeks left roughly until Christmas that means we only need to come up with a little more than 3 million a week.

Well, how hard can that be?

I’ve done the math. If every elf just finds FIVE friends between now and December 23rd and helps them to become tracker elves — guess what? — WE WILL BEAT THE 90 MILLION MARK EASILY.

You can’t find five people from all your family, friends, teachers, leaders, and neighbors who want to help Santa Claus?

Puh-leeeeeeeeaaaaaasssssseeeee.

This goal is going to be easy.

Don’t get discouraged. We’ve been through this before. The last ten days or so before Christmas are AMAZING and this is when the big numbers will come in. And they WILL come in.

Mark it down. Circle this day on the calendar when I told you this is going to happen and that it’s no big deal. Sector 5 will lead the way. It’s our time to shine.

We can do this!

Sector 5 Rocks the Elf Count

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Sector 5 is rockin’ the elf count. That weird little Elf Flip just sent me our June numbers and I have to tell you – I’m excited.

This is where we stand, officially:

Freelance Elves – 15,338,477
North Pole Elves – 1, 587,496

Total Elves – 16,925,973

That’s more than any other sector. Sector 5 is #1!

And it will remain that way for the whole year. We will be the biggest sector, guaranteed.

I won’t have the July numbers for a while but I want you to know that I intend to have the biggest increase in our elf count. Santa’s off to a fast start this year and we will be off to a fast start.

I know Santa releases the big goal next week and while I have no clue what it should be I’ll tell you right now our goal will be bigger than ever. So that means we do NOT take our foot off the gas. We start pushing now. Talk to your friends, talk to every adult you know, talk to your Grandma – talk to everyone! We need elves!

 

Santa’s Sleigh is Coming to Sector 5

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Did y’all see the news at North Pole Flight Command? Santa’s sleigh is coming for Independence Day, kids.

We finally get our first tracking test of 2021. You can follow along and I can follow along.

Just so you know, I was contacted by Flight Command with this announcement. They are expecting to test all of our systems here at the new regional HQ.

So I’ll be working all weekend.

I’ll be glad to get this out of the way earlier this year. That leaves us free to focus on other things down the road, like RECRUITING.

Of course, we don’t know the goal yet.

But my money says it will be huge.

So let’s have some fun in tracking Santa’s sleigh over the next few days, or for however long it will be over North America.

Time to shine!

Sector 5 On Alert

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Sector 5 is called to alert status effective immediately. I have just received word that the test flights of Santa’s sleigh will shift over to our sector within the next week. It is anticipated that Santa’s sleighs will be over this skies of the USA over the 4th of July weekend.

This is a very exciting prospect because so many people will be outside on those days and many will be looking to the skies.

Not only does this provide you elves of Sector 5 to be seeing the map in use in our sector but it also gives you great weather to be visually trying to see Santa’s sleigh. The test flights continue around the clock so the possibility exists that you might see it during the day or the night.

As I receive more information I will pass it on.

Official Elf Count Update

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Hello Trackers! My name is Elf Flip. I am an accountant at North Pole Flight Command and I am charged with keeping count of tracker elves in each sector. I am here to give you an update on the total number of elves we have tracking Santa for Santa.

After seasonal adjustments, the total number of registered freelance and North Pole contracted elves working as Santa Trackers tracking Santa for Santa is 54.8 million, down from a peak recorded last Christmas Eve of 56.7 million.

Seeing that Santa has not yet announced the recruiting goal for Christmas 2021, we cannot effectively communicate what our anticipated needs will be. We expect Santa will make that announcement soon.

Here is the breakdown by sector, rough estimates at this time:

Sector 1 – 7.1 million
Sector 2 – 3.0 million
Sector 3 – 16.5 million
Sector 4 – 11.3 million
Sector 5 – 16.9 million

I will be providing periodic updates, as directed by Flight Command. Your elf supervisor may update you as well about the elf count by sector.

 

Preparing for Leon Day

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Hello Elves!

As you may have read at SantaUpdate.com we are soon to celebrate Leon Day, the half-way point to Christmas. It is just a week away.

While we celebrate the day with silly things here at the North Pole it is not necessary that you do the same. At the North Pole elves wear their clothes backwards and talk backwards. It is not necessary for you to do that where you are. You can, if you want. But it is not required.

Despite the goofiness of the day it still remains a work day at the North Pole. The workshop does not stop working for Leon Day. The test flights of Santa’s sleigh continue. Everything operates normally…well, as normal as can be with backwards elves.

What Leon Day means for the serious tracker elf is that the news gets much busier. Being more than half way just means we get busier.

So it’s a signal for you. Things are happening and happening quickly. Be sharp.

Tracker Map Opens for Elf Training

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North Pole Flight Command announced yesterday that the Santa Tracker Map will be opened exclusively here on SantaTrackers.net. We are pleased to announce that as of this morning the map is live and available at this link.

Please note that while the map is now open there is not year much flight activity to show you. The North Pole Navy has repositioned to the North Atlantic and a limited number of flights are going out over the water.

We have it on good authority they will be test flying the sleigh first in Sector 3 and that those flights are scheduled to begin just after Leon Day. So, for the next week or so, you should only expect to see the test flights over the waters of the Atlantic and it may not in fact move very much.

What’s going on?

Well, the reindeer have all been selected. All of them are working a schedule getting exercise, food and even a few shots to fight against tropical diseases. They are being conditioned for a very heavy flight schedule in the months ahead.

The sleighs themselves are nearly flight-ready. There are 12 of them. They are being washed and waxed. Some are being loaded with weights. Others are being installed with special tracking equipment. No two sleighs are alike in how they are outfitted.

The test pilots are in flight school. They are receiving simulator training. Some are already reviewing their flight mission notes with assigned locations and test procedures they must follow.

Some sleighs are being flight tested over the water for the next week or so. I’m not sure the nature of those flights but they are very limited. Some of those flights are just to get the reindeer used to being used with this model of the sleigh.

And no – Santa will not be involved in the test flights. He rarely is at this point in the season.

We will keep you posted. And you can now keep your eye on  the map.