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How many times in life do we make things more complicated than necessary. I’ve done it and I know you have too.  However, when it comes to money, you and I can’t afford to make things more complicated than they have to be. If money is all you need, why struggle if you don’t have too?  Why enter into complex fundraising deals where you ask people to pay a ridiculously high price for an item and then ask them to wait until it comes in.  If they don’t know you well, they may not want to hand over cash for something that’s in a catalog rather than in their hand.  Not many people have for cookie dough or candy.  Moreover, we’ve all heard of horror stories where people paid in advance and wait 3 months or more before they got it…or they never got it at all.

Allow me to enter a different idea into your head for a change.  Yes, a change. Something so simple, so inexpensive, yet, so very profitable.  That simple and easy idea is stickers.  Stickers, you say?  Yes, stickers. 

Why And How Cool Stickers Should Be Used To Raise Huge Amounts Of Money!

If you were to google the word ”stickers” you would get over 7 million results.  Even though stickers are popular, they are rarely ever considered as a fundraising idea.  Many instead choose candy, cookie dough or cookies.  Now that people’s budgets are tight, it is clearly time to look at using stickers for fundraising purposes.  Stickers stick around for years.  Cookies and candy are only around for a few days and then they are gone forever.  Stickers are very inexpensive and at only they sell like hot cakes if they have an eye catching design. Many times people will buy 10 of them at a time. Moreover, cookies and candies do not allow for your organization’s name placement. With stickers your organization’s name can easily be embedded into an eyecatching art design.  With merchandise orders or cookie dough, the customer has to wait for their order to come in and are often ask to pay in advance.  However, stickers do not require such a thing. Because stickers are so inexpensive, your organization can order a thousand of them and disperse a 100 each to 10 members or set up in a busy sector of town and sell all of them over the weekend earning over 0 in profit.  If you need more money, simply order 5000 cool stickers instead. Then you will raise over 00.  Because your organization’s name is embedded into the cool art design, friends will always know where to go and get that sticker.  This is called viral marketing.  Once cookies are eaten, nothing is left. But a cool sticker with your organization’s name on it will continue to promote you for years to come because the person whom you sold it to will proudly display it for other people to see.  Do you now see how powerful this is for your organization?

Great!  Do your research and find the right sticker company for your needs.  Make sure their stickers are of superior quality.  In other words, your stickers should be UV laminated so that they are waterproof and fade resistant. They should be glossy.  They must be crack and peel stickers so that you can simply hand them out and the recipent can easy apply the sticker to any smooth surface. The design should be so cool that when people see them, they say…WoW!  If there is not much of a WoW factor you will not get many sales.  It must be such a radically cool looking sticker that people will WANT to pay a dollar for one.  The sticker should be big enough to be seen yet small enough to fit in any work space area such as a laptop, mirror, file cabinet, skateboard deck, helmet, fridge, microwave, back of shoe, forehead, etc. A very good size for consideration would be 3.5×2 inches. It’s big enough to be seen and small enough to go most anywhere.

Fundraising should never be stressful or treacherous…only fun and prosperous.