Impressive Elementary School Fundraising Ideas

 

Elementary School Fundraising: Selling Book Scents Bookmarks

            In choosing a great product for your elementary school fundraising you have to decide if you want a consumable or non-consumable one. Consumable fundraising products include candies, chocolates, beef jerky, cookie dough and fresh fruits. While non-consumable ones consist of scented pencils, discount cards and book scents.

            Your elementary school fundraising events rely on the effectiveness of your products in order to consider them a success. Your whole fundraising plan depends on how profitable your products are. Together with a competent volunteer team, you can easily sell your products to your customers. The advantage of non-consumable products from consumable ones is its ability for easy storage. You don’t need to refrigerate these products since they can last for months without compromising their quality. You also don’t need to distribute them immediately to your customers since they can last for a long time. One of the best non-consumable fundraising products out there is book scents bookmarks. These one of a kind bookmarks are very saleable especially to students since they can easily use them in school. Not only are they effective in keeping important pages in their books, they also have good scents that makes them very appealing to your customers. Their scents can last for about 6 to 9 months apiece and you only need to rub them lightly in order to renew their strong aromas again. Most fundraising companies nowadays offer these unique and interesting products so you don’t need to look further when purchasing your supplies. You can also lessen your shipping expenses since they are already available locally. Companies offer them in cases which contain 50 pieces of 8 different scents, with a grand total of 400 book scents each package. The scents include watermelon, jelly bean, root beer, cinnamon, peppermint, orange, bubblegum and strawberry fragrances. These packages are normally priced at about $160 per case and you can sell each book mark for about $1.00 each. You can easily make $240 profit for each case or about 60% total profit margin. This is very good since you can make more out of your funds. If you’re lucky, you can even get them in discounted prices especially if you order in bulk. The packages are usually offered with free shipping and handling fees making it more ideal for fundraisers since you are minimizing the cost of expenses in your project.

            Another good aspect of ordering them in fundraising companies is that most of them offer online services. This makes the ordering process more easy and simple, with just a few clicks your products will be sent to you directly in your doorstep. You don’t need to go directly to their company in order to purchase your supplies; they will deliver them directly to you together with some sales brochures to help you start your fundraising events. They can even assist you in organizing your events since most of the people behind these companies are expert fundraising organizers. Not only will you get awesome products, but professional assistance as well.