Tuesday, March 29, 2011

New Fundraising|Unique Fundraising

 

 

Unique Fundraising: Make Your Fundraiser Noticeable

Are you looking for a good way to earn funds and resources for your own school, organization, church group or charity? Then being aware of how to properly choose and organize your fundraiser project is a must. Most of first time organizers just jump in not knowing what to expect in managing complicated projects such as fundraisers. Choosing the right unique fundraising idea and turning it into a success should be one of your objectives. Be sure that your fundraiser ideas are unique so that your fundraising campaign would stand out from others.

            A unique fundraising idea is analogous to success in the fundraising industry especially if it is organized well. But why do you need to make sure that your fundraising event is different and distinct from everybody else? Why not go with the flow and base your project on what they are doing. Looking for inspirations from other fundraising project is good since it would give you a rough idea on how it works. But if you are going to copy them from down up, it is not a good thing to do so. Not only will your fundraiser become less interesting to the customers, the competition will also increase. For example, if every fundraiser project in your community is selling candies, chocolates and other sweet treats; it would be unwise to sell the same thing too. Instead, sell something more unique like scented pencils. In this way, you could attract curious customers and would help your fundraiser project generate sales quickly in little time.

            As all of us know, fundraising projects has been around for a long time already. It is not a new thing for people to participate on these events since they are already exposed to lots of them already. Most of them participate because of their desire to help out the goals and objectives of the fundraising projects. But like most people, your constituents will also get tired of doing the same thing over and over again. Some people might even have bucket loads of candies and chocolates in their storages that selling to them the same products won’t work anymore. Try to think about it, if you are also offered with the same products and with the same approach, most likely you will not buy it anymore. With this knowledge, you can clearly see the importance of being unique and distinct in terms of organizing fundraisers.

            You don’t necessarily need to come up with fresh new ideas every time you try to manage a fundraising campaign. You can always use old but proven and tested fundraising ideas and just add some twist of uniqueness into it. It is very difficult to always come up with something new right there and there since not all fresh ideas are effective or compatible with your fundraising project. Always take into consideration your target market and your area in which you will run the whole fundraiser project. Be sensitive on what can make people curious and excited about your fundraiser project. It has been shown that when people are curious and interested on your activities, there is a high possibility that they will support it. And that’s when you can generate sales.


 



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