Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Make Your Smens Fundraiser Work

Make Your Smens Fundraiser Work

 

            Starting a smens fundraiser is a really good idea. The mere fact that you’re going to offer your customers scented pencils or Smencils, you already have a really huge chance of making a lot of profits in the end. However, you should never be too complacent just because the product that you choose to feature in your campaign is one that can be easily sold to people. Instead of being too optimistic, you should try to spend time to make sure that all of the details of your Smencils fundraising campaign will go out as planned. If you are really serious about making your fundraising campaign a huge success, read on because I’m going to provide basic but really powerful tips that have made numerous fundraising campaigns a huge hit.

 

            Before you go out to sell products to people in your community, you first need to organize the staff or members of your smens fundraiser. Your fundraising staff basically consists of participants, sales volunteers, parents, and others who will be lending you a helping hand during the process. Before the launching date of your Smencils fundraising campaign, you need to ascertain that your participants are pretty much aware of the details of your up and coming activity. A good way to inform your participants would be through sending them mails ahead of time. Send out your fundraising letters at least a month before your starting date. Include your contact information as well as all of the important details of your fundraising campaign in your letters so that you can give your participants a good idea as to what they can do to help you. When it comes to your volunteers, you need to spend some time knowing each one of them by asking them their different talents and skills. By knowing the latter information, you’ll be able to know the most appropriate types of tasks that you can assign to them. If you have artists under your wing, you can form them into one group and give them the task of making advertisements for your Smencils fundraising campaign. Divide the tasks of your volunteers based on their capabilities so that you no longer have to teach them how to go about their obligations.

 

            Another important piece of advice that you need to take note of would be planning your budget. A lot of fundraising groups today miss this one. Setting your budget will enable you to control your expenses well. This in turn will allow you to maximize your net profit in the end. Aside from planning your budget, it would also be a good move to lower down your expenses as much as possible. A good way to do this is through asking for donations. By gathering donations, you can lower down the amount of money you need to spend to get your campaign started. Lastly, be sure to plan your budget based on your fundraising goals.

           

            Do all of the tips that I have said in this article and you will surely boost the potentials of your campaign.



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