Saturday, December 18, 2010

Maximizing The Profits Of Your Salsa Fundraiser

Maximizing The Profits Of Your Salsa Fundraiser

            A salsa fundraiser is a unique campaign that will surely click for a school, charity group, sports team, or organization. If you want to run this type of fundraising campaign in the near future, you need to be aware of two important fundraising success secrets so that you can be sure that you’re going to reach your fundraising goals in the end. These two fundraising secrets are setting proper product price points and maximizing profits.

            You need to have the right product price point for your salsa fundraiser so that you can assure that you’re going to get some good revenue from each product that your sales volunteers sell out.  Ideally, a product should be at least $7 in terms of cost. Products that have this kind of price will allow you to have maximum revenue from each sale. When you get your products for a really low price, you can choose to deviate from the standard retail price that your supplier suggests if you think that adding some more value would be okay. However, you should never overdo this. Don’t set a price for your products that will cause people to have hesitations about making a purchase. Having a high product price point may mean a huge amount of revenue from every single sale but this has a drawback. If your product is very expensive, it won’t matter how much revenue or profit that you’ll be able to gain from it if nobody’s going to give you sales anyway. We are in a current economic crisis so people will be hesitant to spend too much money even if they want to lend a helping hand to people who are in need of funds. Even if your price point is just enough for you to get some revenue, keep in mind that if your products are reasonably priced, people will be most likely to purchase them because of their affordable prices.

            The other secret you need to know that will help you reach sure fundraising success would be maximizing profits. Most of fundraising products today offer profit margins that average at 50 percent and more. Since you’re going to sell salsa bottles to your customers, the best way for you to maximize your profits would be through cutting down on costs by choosing a fundraising company that’s offering low priced supplies. If your supplies have really low prices, you can add a good amount of value to them so that you can increase their profitability. This will result to an increase in your net profits later on. Aside from getting cheap supplies, minimizing your expenses as much as possible will also help you in increasing the funds that you get to raise at the end of your campaign. You can cut down on your expenses by getting donations from local establishments in your community. If you get the capital of your fundraiser for free, you will surely have high profits during your closing date.



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