Do you have a fundraising event coming up? Are you stymied as to what you can sell – or maybe just tired of the same old products and activities? You need something that is easy to sell, something that people will buy readily, something that is easy to store and has a low or even no upfront cost. Other items, like candy bars or magazines, have some of those advantages, but none of them quite fulfill all of these characteristics like fundraiser cards.
Advantages of selling fundraiser cards vs. other products
Customizable
With fundraiser cards, you can customize what you’ll sell on the cards to your particular situation and location. For example, if you’re selling cards that will give a discount at local businesses for your Boy Scout troop, you could target the discount to something Boy Scout friendly, like 10% off at the local sporting goods store. Because you can customize the cards to your particular situation, you can both make what you offer on the cards a match to the organization you’re selling them for, and you can use them as a way to patronize local businesses at the same time.
Fosters a sense of community
Because the cards target and help advertise for local businesses, you foster a sense of community when you sell these cards. Local entrepreneurs are likely happy to have their businesses advertised on the cards, in exchange for offering a discount to their particular product or service. When people buy and then use the cards at their local businesses, this both gives back to the businesses in question and to the community as a whole. No “national” generic products or services, here; instead, the businesses involved and offering discounts are local and known by everyone.
No need for specialized or large amounts of storage
While most fundraising products take up a lot of space (magazines) and/or may require careful, temperate storage (candy bars and cookies), you have none of these worries with fundraiser cards. Their small size means they need minimal storage space, and there’s no special concern about spoilage, as can happen with some other products.
Expiration is one year from purchase
Candy bars and cookie dough don’t last forever, and fundraiser cards allow the purchaser to enjoy savings for a full year from the time of purchase. This means that for 365 days, the customer can save money on a frequent basis, whether they patronize the merchants a few times each week, every month, etc.
Very little effort involved in setting up or selling
Companies that offer fundraiser cards do most of the work for you in actually getting those cards. All you have to do is decide that you want to use fundraising cards for your next fundraising event and contact a company that specializes in producing these cards. The company will do everything from contacting business owners to ask if they would like to be included on the fundraiser cards with a discount offer to actually printing up the cards themselves. You just have to place your order and determine how many you want, then have them shipped to you and sell them.
Selling, too, is easy, because fundraising cards really sell themselves. Most likely, the people buying the cards are already frequenting the businesses that are offering a discount through the cards, so they benefit everyone. The people buying the cards recoup the money they spent on the cards by getting the discounts, and the business owners whose discounts appear on the cards get very inexpensive advertising and new business. Most importantly, of course, you raise money for your organization, with very little effort or expense.
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