Fundraising Supplies

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When planning your sale frozen cookie dough for your next school fundraiser, there are 6 important things to keep in mind when planning and managing your sales.

1. Be sure to give your students enough time to make their sales. It seems today that the standard selling time is two weeks, but this has not always been the case. When I started in the business of fundraising in 1986 the school, often we would start a sale on Monday and ends on Friday. The theory being that most sales occur when students are most excited and that is the beginning of the sale. Making it really has not been as huge effect on sales than you might think. So ... Two weeks is almost time standard selling these days, but if you find that you do not complete two weeks of "do while", then that will work just as well.

2. Give your company fundraising at least one week before your sale starts to get your supplies school fundraising, brochures and promotional material for you. By doing this you will be enough time for everything organized and ready to go without haste and leaving no important details left out.

3. It is better to end your auction on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday. Doing this allows students who fail to return their order form and money in time for the next day to remember to bring it to school. If you close the sale on Monday, it appears that everyone has "forgotten" about it, so most orders are shot on Tuesday anyways.

4. Plan your goods coming into the third week after your order is turned in. Depending on where your school is located, must long for the manufacturer to make and shoot and get your order shipped to you in a refrigerated truck or pallet.

5. When planning your fundraising frozen food, you want to allow 5-6 weeks from the time you start your sale before the end of it, which is delivery day.

6. You do not really need to plan for the storage of orders that are forgotten, if you plan ahead for your day of delivery. There are several things you can do that will ensure that all this is taking this all important day.

A.) have stickers (provided by some companies) that teachers "slap" on the students as they leave school the day before delivery which says: "Tomorrow, Cookie Dough Delivery." The day of delivery another sticker comes home "on" the student said: "Today, pick your orders."

B.) Establish the brand signs on school or on poles in front of the school say the same thing as the stickers.

C) Send a note home the day before delivery that says something like this: "Delivery Cookie Dough, is tomorrow. Because we do not have a place to store left over and forgotten orders We will donate all remaining cookie dough at 6:00 PM for local women's shelter in your name. If you are unable to pick up your order, please arrange for someone one else to pick it up for you. I thank you, signed ... "

Point "C" seems to work really well!