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| The One Thing That Makes Your School Fundraiser Double in Sales |
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| Written by Juan Franco |
| Thursday, 24 July 2008 16:23 |
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Going to school used to be all about learning and studies. Today, however, it includes many other activities and "fun" events as well. But these special events and activities cost money. With cuts is school budgets for many schools and school districts the only option they have to pay for these events is for the school to raise the money in some sort of fundraising event. Many consider fundraising to be sort of like the 3rd rail on a subway system. It can be looked at as something to keep away from at all cost, or it can be seen as the source of power that makes things go. A fundraiser that is well run on the other hand is something that can be a positive experience for everyone involved. From the school staff and teachers to the parents of the students and the community as a whole. If the product is a good one and the incentives are worthwhile, the school fundraiser can be a positive event that is enjoyed by everyone. The fundraising programs that are generally viewed negatively are more often than not the ones that the organizers don't take into account what the participants will be getting out of the fundraiser for themselves. This is especially true if their child is not one of those on the bus for the 5th grade field trip. Consider that even the First grade teachers have been raising money for that trip and they never get to go. After a few years that begins to wear down even the most soft hearted staff. Have you ever noticed that there always seems to be one or two schools in your district that have better success in fundraising than others. You can even have two schools in very similar neighborhoods that have vastly different results even when doing very similar fundraising programs. What makes the difference? It's not the products being sold or the neighborhood that makes that difference between those schools. It's "How" those schools run their sale that makes more difference than any other factor in the outcome. A case in point is Fern Bluff Elementary in Round Rock, Texas. For years they had been having $25-$29,000 sales with their 700 students. One year, they made a few changes in only one thing...it wasn't in what they picked for their fundraiser, that remained the same. All they did was make a change in how they ran their sale and the year after they had a $29,000 sale they had a $68,000 sale. They actually made as much that year as they had sold the year before! One added benefit of the change was that because they had more people "into" the fundraiser, they cured their problem of not having enough volunteers. They even had teachers pitching in and helping on delivery day! That had never happened before. All that came because they chose to run their sale differently than they had been doing it all those years previous. Napoleon Hill once said, "You can get everything you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want." That is the basis for changing the fundraising environment at your school. About the Author: You can keep searching for the perfect product for your school fundrasing program and you may have already found it! It's not always that product that is holding your school fundrasing program back. The most effective place to make a change is in how you run your fundraising campaign. Kindly provided by LJ-Marketing.dk You are welcome to use this article on your own website, if you include the link just before this text. |
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