Sunday, February 27, 2011

Team Fundraiser: Learn How To Boost Your Results

Team Fundraiser: Learn How To Boost Your Results

             Have you been doing team fundraiser campaigns over and over again but you still can’t get the amount of funds that you desire? Then, you should read the tips that I’m going to show you in this article. These tips are specifically designed to help your boost your profits.      

            When you do a fundraising campaign such as a team fundraiser, your main goal is to generate lots of profit so that you can get the money that you need for your group. However, the problem is, how you’re going to do that exactly? When people do fundraising campaigns, they are often faced with two great challenges namely the task of generating a strong sales response and the task of creating an avalanche of demand. You have to know that these two challenges belong to the two sides of one coin and if you want to effectively overcome these things, you have to know how to create motivation within your group. In order for you to generate a strong sales response, you first need to build up enthusiasm. You have to make your volunteers enthusiastic. Enthusiasm is necessary for people to achieve great things. So, how do you make your volunteers highly enthusiastic about your fundraising campaign? Well, you can do this by offering meaningful incentives to them. Offer prize awards as these are really strong and effective motivators. The prizes that you’re going to offer should be linked will with the individual sales goals that your volunteers have set before the start rolling out your fundraising campaign. Make each of your sales volunteers stand up and announce their goals and the prizes that they want to get. Through this, they will be eager enough to reach what they have set for themselves.

 

            The next thing you can do to make your volunteers eager about your fundraising activity is to foster competition between them. Creating intense but friendly rivalries between small groups within your team and offering daily rewards for large sales volumes will effectively get your members pumped up to work really hard. Recognize the best sellers that you have in your team but never fail to recognize the efforts of your other members as well. Make the whole experience really fun for your volunteers. By doing this, you can turn your fundraising program from a working task to a playing activity. Fun should always be present in any kind of fundraising campaign so that the volunteers who are sacrificing their time and effort for its success won’t feel exhausted or build up drudgery.            

            Let’s proceed to creating an avalanche of demand. To do this, you need to maximize value so that you can in turn maximize your profits. Maximizing value involves choosing a highly appealing product that’s of great interest to people. If you choose a fundraising product that’s of great value to people, then you won’t have to exert a lot of effort just so you can sell it.

           



Cookie Dough Fundraisers: A Shower Of Funds

Cookie Dough Fundraisers: A Shower Of Funds

            Fundraising is a challenging activity that schools, churches, sports teams, charities, and other groups need to face because of their need for financial assistance. When you raise funds, you have to deal with a set of challenges and one of the biggest ones would be choosing or coming up with a perfect fundraiser idea that will help you earn the money that you need fast and easy. If this is going to be your first time doing a fundraising campaign, then you should set your eyes on cookie dough fundraisers.

            Cookie dough fundraisers are one of the strongest MVPs of the fundraising industry because of the way they help people raise funds easily and quickly. If you want to reach sure success in the fundraising business, then this fundraiser idea should be in your list of options. These types of fundraising campaigns are order taker programs wherein you will be doing a sales campaign. However, you won’t be handing out your products upfront. Instead, you will be bringing sales brochures and order forms. When you talk to people, you will be handing them your sales brochure so that they can have a look at the different options that they can choose from. Your sales brochure should be clearly printed and easy to understand.

            One of the crucial aspects of setting these fundraising campaigns is choosing a good fundraising company. Your fundraising company is going to serve as your supplier. In other words, after you take in orders from your customers, you will be getting your product supplies from your fundraising company. The firm that you choose will have a huge impact on the amount of funds that you’ll be able to generate later on. The fundraising company that you choose should offer low priced products as well provide you with high quality sales brochures. By having low priced products, you will be able to gain more revenue since you’ll be able to offer your products for a much lower price. In this way, people will be more eager to order from you. Aside from low priced products and high quality sales brochures, you also have to make sure that your supplier offers a wide variety of cookie flavors so that you can offer your customers a lot of options. It has been said that people usually buy more from sellers if they are presented with more than one option to choose from as this builds up curiosity.

            Your fundraising company should offer you the professional assistance that you need so that you can be effective at generating sales within the shortest possible amount of time. In this way, you won’t end up burning out your sales volunteers from doing door to door sales. Next to choosing a good fundraising company is working on an effective sales script and demonstrating to your volunteers how selling should be properly done.



Scented Pencils Really Sell Out Well

Scented Pencils Really Sell Out Well

            Deciding on which fundraising products you’re going to sell during your fundraising program can really be quite a hassle because there’s a lot for you to choose from. You really need to be careful with your choice because the fundraising product that you’re going to offer to your customers will greatly affect the amount of funds that you’ll be able to generate at the end of your sales campaign. One of the best fundraising products that you can choose to use in your sales fundraiser would be scented pencils. These are popularly referred to as smencils or smens.

            Scented pencils are really ideal fundraising products because they offer great profit margins while being really appealing to people at the same time. This means that you won’t have to exert a lot of effort to sell these out to people. You might even be surprised that your supply of smencils is going to run out even before you get halfway your sales campaign. Smencils are highly popular to elementary school students but they also stir up a lot of interest from high school students and college students. If this is your first time hearing about smencils, then allow me to properly introduce these writing materials to you. Smencils are basically pencils that are crafted from recycled newspapers and other recycled materials. This is one of the best reasons why they’re really popular because they’re 100 percent environmentally friendly. In addition, they are also made with gorgeous smells that will surely tickle olfactory sense. Smencils are made with a wide variety of scents such as orange, apple, grape, root beer, peppermint, and many more. The scents that are applied on smens can last for 2 years even if they’re not stored in their freshness tubes, which are their containers.

            If you choose to set up a smens fundraising campaign, you have to look for a good fundraising company that will offer you high quality products for really affordable prices. In addition, the fundraising company that you’re going to hire should also be well-experienced so that you can easily get some important pieces of advice whenever you need them. If you can spot a fundraising company that offers prize programs, then that would be a really strong choice to consider. Prize programs are mainly intended to motivate sales volunteers to work really hard at selling your items. Through this, you will be able to generate more sales during your campaign while making the entire fundraising experience really fun for your volunteers. Motivation is a very important ingredient in any type of fundraiser program. Without this, volunteers won’t have the necessary drive to work their best so that the fundraising goals and objectives that have been set before the start of the campaign can be reached or achieved.

            Keep in mind to properly organize all of the aspects of your fundraiser campaign so that you can prevent errors, mishaps, and duplications later on.



Saturday, February 26, 2011

Schools Fundraisers: Offer Great Discount Cards

Schools Fundraisers: Offer Great Discount Cards

            Schools fundraisers can be done in a wide array of ways. You can try out different fundraising ideas based on your taste and preferences; the amount of funds that you need; and the style of campaign that you’d like to do.

            The most common type of schools fundraisers that people have been doing for a really long time already would be products sales campaigns. The premise of these fundraising campaigns is really simple, you sell products and gain profits from the sales that you generate. Discount cards are considered as one of the most ideal fundraising products to sell out today because they’re really popular to people because of the huge advantages that they can offer. These fundraising products bring in a good amount of revenue because they offer an average profit of $10 for each sale that’s made. What’s even better about these types of fundraising products is that they will allow each of your sales volunteers to produce an average of 10 sales. Take this into consideration along with their profit margins that typically range from 80 to 90 percent and you’ll discover that these things offer a lot more profit when compared to other types of fundraising products.

            Fundraising discount cards offer three major benefits specifically, they are really easy to sell out to people; they offer some pretty good value to customers; and they have a large potential to produce excellent results. There are three major types of discount cards namely shopping cards, pizza cards, and fast food cards. Each of these fundraising products offer a good set of benefits, which you can easily explain to your supporters. These fundraising products have a widespread appeal and you can offer them through the use of a sales brochure or through immediate sales.

            Discount shopping cards are wallet-sized cards that are designed to offer a selection of prearranged discounts in different national and local merchants within your community. Most of these products typically offer a dozen of different special offers that will allow people to save a certain percentage discount or a fixed amount. Each of these cards usually retails for an average of $10 and offers unlimited usage of special offers contained within it. However, some cards are custom-made to feature a special discount, which can only be used once from a sponsoring merchant.

            Next in line are pizza discount cards. These are different from the first one I’ve discussed because they are tied to only one merchant, which is usually a national pizza chain. This type of card typically offers 2-for-1 offers for every order and usually costs $10. The card can be used for a year.

            Lastly, fast food discount cards are those that are designed to be used for a specific fast food chain. In addition, they are usually limited to one or two locations or branches of a particular chain. These fundraising products have a retail price of $10 and often cost $2 less, which means that they are a better moneymaker.



The Importance Of A Unique Fundraiser

The Importance Of A Unique Fundraiser

            When you set out to raise funds for your school, church, charity organization, sports team, or group, the most important thing you need to do is to come up with a unique fundraiser. If you have a really good in mind, you can be rest assured that you’ve already covered a huge part of doing a fundraising campaign.

            If you need to raise some serious funds, you need to take advantage of a unique fundraiser especially if fundraising activities are things that occur on a regular basis within your community. Try imagining a box full of red apples and a green one at the middle. When you look at the contents of the box, which is the most catching thing that you see? The answer is pretty simple, of course the green one at the middle because it’s the only one that’s different from the rest of the apples. This is what you want people in your community to perceive when they look at you and the other groups who are doing fundraising campaigns as well. You have to set yourself apart from the rest of the people who are offering the same kind of fundraising products and services in your area. To do this, you first need to determine the most commonly used fundraising ideas within your place. For instance, if people are really fond of selling candies and chocolate bars in your area, then you should try to offer something that’s way different from what they’re selling out such as cookie dough, scented pencils, and flower bulbs. By offering these unique products, you can save yourself from the hassles of having to deal with tough competition.

            Now, you may be thinking that you always need to come up with something absolutely new every single time you have plans on doing a fundraising campaign. If you can come up with something that’s fresh all the time, then you can do so. However, this is not a must because if you’re someone who’s doing fundraising campaign on a regular basis you will surely dry out your creative juices. In such situations, you don’t have to bring up something unique all the time. Instead, you can try using old fundraising ideas and adding in some twists and new components to them. Through this, you can make them entirely unique again and a lot more interesting than they were before.

            Even if you’re really confident about the profit potentials of your fresh fundraising ideas, you still need to work really hard on organizing them properly. The idea that you’re going to use is just the seed of your campaign. You still need to exert efforts to water it and cultivate it so that it’ll grow into something really nice. This involves setting fundraising goals and objectives; contacting a good fundraising company that will offer you the assistance and products that you need; working compelling advertisements; and teaching your sales volunteers the proper way of making sales.