I recently started working part time at my local school to earn some extra money. One day, while sitting at the lunch table with a group of teachers, I noticed they were all talking about the upcoming school fundraising project to raise money for a new AV system. While they all agreed that it was needed, none of them were very excited about it.
Free | Easy Fundraising?
Apparently there are lots of issues involved that I, as a parent, never thought of. 1) Distributing the catalogs requires getting the entire school together in one place and making the sales pitch. 2) When the products come in someone has to organize all the merchandise so it can be distributed to the students. 3) Students have to handle the money, make sure they get the right amount and get it back to school on time. 4) Any time an item is damaged/incorrect the teacher has to get involved to help keep the customer satisfied. 5) Teachers are taken away from their main job and forced to become salesmen, motivational speakers and inventory control personnel.
Simple Online Fundraiser
One idea that provides a simple solution for all of these problems is an online fundraising website. It is so easy that anyone can do it and it doesn’t require a large amount of people to get it started. All you have to do is send a flyer to your e-mail contacts and your fundraiser is up and going. You can encourage these people to forward the e-mail to all of their contacts anywhere in the U.S.A enabling you to reach far more people than with traditional catalog campaigns. When anyone clicks on the link provided in the e-mail it will send them to the website where they can enjoy safe, secure online shopping at their own convenience. All orders can be paid for either through a paypal account or by major credit cards and will be shipped directly to them so your organization never has to handle any money or merchandise.
