Being able to review and analyze your school fundraising sales results is very important for several reasons. Sure you will know how much your total sales are once your fundraiser is over but you will also want to understand how you achieved that number. Which items sold better than others? How many students reached the fundraising goal? What were the age groups of your top sellers? How did sales look by classroom?
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Hopefully the school fundraising company that you’ll be working with is also offering an online store. The online store is an additional money-maker for your school fundraiser because it allows for your students and parents to approach people who may not have access to your sales brochure. While your sellers can approach people who live near them with the brochure, the online store allows for them to also market your fundraiser to out of town family and friends.
There are rare times when schools don't do a prepay brochure sale. For example, a fundraising group may decide to do a discount card fundraiser and order a certain number of cards up front and then sell them. There may be times when these groups then have to deal with leftover cards. This can cause real problems unless there is a plan already in place to deal with it if it arises.
Whenever we sign a school to do a fundraiser we encourage them to explore our variety of fundraising sales tools that we feel will help make their fundraiser run even more efficiently while at the same time helping to further increase sales. Many of our schools take full advantage of what we have to offer and they are able to reap the benefits; however many fundraiser groups don’t. Why is that?
If you select the 'Fantastic Friends' magic show as your theme for your students as a part of the Big Event Magic Show Prize Program for your school fundraiser what follows is some useful information that you can use at your school as follow-up to help prevent bullying:
Helpful “Bully Prevention” Information for Teachers to pass on to their students:
Let’s face it, your high school fundraising group needs the money but you don’t think you can get them to sell very much in order to make a fundraiser worth your time and effort. After all, high school students aren’t necessarily going to be easily motivated by a prize program like students who sell for elementary school fundraisers.
It may be surprising that there are a lot schools out there that simply do a school fundraiser just because it’s that time of the year and that’s just when they always do it. If you ask them why they are doing a fundraiser their answer is almost always the same. They are raising money for the ‘general fund’. They then go on to explain that their students, staff and parents are used to it that way and it almost runs on autopilot.
A primary goal for your school fundraiser should be to reach your money goal in as short a period of time as feasible. The idea that the longer you give your students to sell the more money you will make is not necessarily true. In fact, this philosophy can also work against you. The longer your fundraiser lasts, the lower the sense of urgency that your sellers will have and the more they will tend to procrastinate.
It is approaching that time of the year when people are beginning to schedule their end of the school year celebrations and parties. A lot of schools like to bring in inflatables for their students to enjoy as a special treat. Most schools have a limited budget so they are interested in getting as many inflatables as possible for their money. They may already have an idea of what inflatable games they are interested in and if the price is right then the next step is to schedule the date. Is it really that simple? Well it shouldn’t be.
There are times when fundraising coordinators just don’t follow our recommendations. Either they think that their way is better or they just don’t see the need until it’s too late. We recently worked with a small group on a discount card fundraiser that was raising money to pay for equipment and travel expenses.