Friday, December 3, 2010

Easy Ideas For Elementary School Fundraisers

Easy Ideas For Elementary School Fundraisers

 

            Elementary school fundraisers should never be a reason for fatigue. Instead, these should be something fun for people to do. If you are looking for easy but highly lucrative fundraising ideas, read on because I will be presenting two good ideas that you can try out in this article.

 

            First among my stock of easy ideas for elementary school fundraisers is a mega yard sale. A large yard sale is really easy to do because this only requires a short period of time. Yard sales are usually done during Saturdays or during the weekend. If you want to have a yard sale, you need to choose a good location where you can easily sell out your items. The most ideal spots for yard sales would be high visibility or high traffic locations such as schools and the parking lots of churches. Another important thing for you to do is to advertise your planned yard sale way ahead of time. A good way to advertise your yard sale fundraiser is through the help of your local newspaper. You can do this by composing an interesting press release that will easily catch the attention of the readers. If you can do this, you can easily build a list of customers who’ll be interested to go to your yard sale. Aside from a press release, you can also put up banners, posters, and signs that will inform cagey veterans who usually stroll around during Saturdays in search for good bargains.

 

            Make sure that you group your products based on their respective categories. In this way, you can make it easier for your customers to find the things that they want to purchase. Organize your items into kids’ clothing, toys, musical instruments, books, pictures, paintings, tools, etc. Another good advice to do is to make use of general price signs around your items instead of placing prices on each one of them. For example, you can put up signs that say something like this “$6 to $12 Tools”. These types of signs will help you make your customers to haggle. Not only will these more attractive to the sight of people but this will also help you save a lot of time and effort on placing price stickers on hundreds of different items, which can take forever. Next to making your products organized, you need to gather up a good set of volunteers who will help you sell your items. Ideal people to pick out for yard sales would be those who are energetic and enthusiastic about making huge sales at the end of the day.

 

            Another easy fundraising idea that you can try out would be specialty item sale. This basically works by offering products that are a popular pick during a specific season. For example, having a Christmas tree sale during the holiday season will help you to quickly get customers. A specialty item sale is run in the same manner as a yard sale.



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