Gourmet Caramel Corns Fundraiser - 50% Proft Fundraising

■ Review the Gourmet Caramel Corn Fundraiser Sales Agreement, complete it, and submit it to us by fax to 410-630-7080 or email deb@best-fundraising-ideas.com. You can also submit your sales agreement electronically on our website.

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■ We will review each step of your fundraiser from start to finish to help ensure that your organization's fundraiser runs smoothly throughout your sale.

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■ While your brochures are in transit to you, we can work together to create a customized participant letter. The letter will include your reason for fundraising, your goals, and closing date, whom to make checks payable to (if chosen), and whom to contact if any participant has questions. To increase your sales, we can include a link in your participant letter that will download a pdf of the Gourmet Caramel Corns brochure you selected. You can distribute the link on your participant letter, on a school website, or send it to your sellers by email. Your sellers can send out dozens of emails, texts, or posts on social media to invite friends and family to select popcorn they would like to buy.  They can reply to the participant with their order who can then write the order onto the order form.  Payment options could include payment by cash, mailing a check, payment by Venmo or another cash app, etc.

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■  Offer incentives!  Before starting your fundraiser, we suggest putting together an incentive/reward for your sellers for participating in your fundraiser for a job well done! Raising money for your organization is a worthy cause and should be recognized. Think outside the box and award for participation and not just your top-sellers. You want to motivate everyone to participate. We suggest promoting a "celebration party" for each seller who sells a minimum number of items to help you achieve higher sales. It could be something as simple as an ice cream sundae celebration so something such as a "Chance to Win" opportunity. Choose the minimum number of items you would like your sellers to achieve. Then, offer a drawing for prizes which can be events at school, prizes, discount certificates, gifts, etc. that can be donated by businesses and services within your community. For example, a seller receives a ticket for a chance to win when they sell 10 items (15 items if you choose). For each added 5 items sold, they earn another ticket. Incentives can be highly successful!

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■  We'll ship 1 brochure (with the order form on the back) for each of your participants. Distribute your brochures and family participants will show the brochure to their friends, other family members, neighbors, co-workers, acquaintances, etc., and invite them to buy their favorite caramel corn flavors.  Your participants will discover that many of their supporters will order more than one item! Your participants will fill in the order form with the supporter's name, contact info, address, etc., what they ordered, and collect the payment upfront. Customer checks, if taken, are made payable to your organization.

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■  Continue your sales for 2-3 weeks. Then, collect all order forms and payments from your participants at the end of your selling period. Allow a few days for late orders to be turned in.  There are no minimums to submit an order. Tally the number of items sold and email the totals to deb@best-fundraising-ideas.com or fax to 410-630-7080, or simply call us at 860-384-3691 and we can take your order by phone. Once received, we will email an invoice to you.

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■  You'll keep your profit upfront and pay your amount due. Once payment has been received by an organization check, cashier check, or money order, your order will be packed and shipped in 1-2 weeks. Smaller orders are usually shipped by UPS. Larger orders are shipped by a carrier and delivered on a pallet. You will then distribute your orders to your participants along with the popcorn brochure/order form.

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■  We will provide coaching to help your campaign succeed, we offer extended office hours Mon-Sat 9 am-9 pm and Sun 11 am-6 pm, and we will process your order and any needed replacements with no delay.  When you require help, we will be available to assist you!

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■  As a reminder, please have your participants sell to people they know such as family, friends, and neighbors. Never have your participants sell door-to-door or enter someone's home. If you are selling at an event, remember to keep cash well stored. Remind your participants to always smile, be polite, and say "Thank you" whether someone makes a purchase or not.