These days, schools, sports teams, groups and organizations are finding it more difficult than ever to raise funds from supporters. Traditional fundraising efforts have lost their flair and are no longer as popular and lucrative as they once used to be.
Plastic Fundraising Cards are a new, easy, proven and unique way of raising money for your group with very little investment and minimal handling requirements. Plastic Fundraising Cards are a great tool for consumers as well to use as often as they want and save money all year round on goods and services that they probably already buy and use from familiar retailers in their local community.
On the front side, a typical Plastic Fundraising card will have the school’s or group’s full-colour photo, name & logo prominently displayed, along with a denomination value of the card usually priced at $10 or $20 along with an expiry date – usually one year.
The true value of these cards for the consumer is what they will find on the back-side of the card. Usually there are 6-9 different Local Merchants listed, with each of them offering the holder of the Fundraising Card some type of Special Offer by simply showing the card when making a purchase. The special offers could range from a “buy one get one free”, “get free dessert with any entree purchased,” or “Get 10{d27260f2ffead692c1d374047cbb3efb1e42c88aec1393630c9ef04272820c88} OFF when presenting this card.” Now imagine for a moment if the supporter only uses the card once a month for one year; this would easily translate into far greater savings than the $10 or $20 they originally paid for the card. Some users will likely save hundreds of dollars over the year.
The benefit to your group or organization is that these cards are an easy sale, provide consumers with good value and require minimal handling and minimal investment to purchase. Fundraising cards can provide you with a huge return on your investment of up to 90{d27260f2ffead692c1d374047cbb3efb1e42c88aec1393630c9ef04272820c88} or even greater, considering a card will cost you less than $1 and sell for $10 or $20 each. Often, print costs can even be covered by participating advertisers on the back of the card, so there is also a possibility of no direct out-of-pocket costs to your group. Plastic Fundraising Cards are usually only valid for one year, which is great news for your group in regard to repeat sales of the Plastic Fundraising Cards again next year.
So, ask yourself “how many members does my group have? Can each of them sell even 5 or 10 cards?” Now do the number crunching yourself to see what kind of profit projections you come up with!
