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This weeks highlights
* Fundraising Idea Spotlight - Floral Arrangement Fundraiser
* Product Focus - Aroma Light Candles
* Free Tip - Challenge Gifts To Increase Campaign Gifts
* Software Highlight -Online Website and Hosting
* Book Review -- Fundraising on the Internet
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Fundraising Idea Spotlight - Floral Arrangement Fundraiser
This is the perfect time to start a floral arrangement
fundraiser. Your group can get in on the Valentines Day rush
by providing flowers to sweetheart's of all ages.
Don't forget other holidays in your planning. They will be here
before you know it - Secretary's Day, Grandparent's Day and
Mother's Day.
You can work with your local florist or make the arrangements
yourself if you have the right help. Start by picking only
6 basic arrangements this year for your buyers to choose from.
Go from a basic 3 flower vase arrangement to a more full
arrangement with many flowers.
Create your brochure now. Add pictures on a basic sales sheet
that you can create on any popular word processing program.
It is important to make it look as professional as possible.
Working through a florist will save your group time and will
also give them extra business. You simply ask them for a
"commission" from every sale as the profit from your sales
efforts.
It's great fun and can bring in hundreds to thousands of dollars
quickly, depending on how aggressive your members are at
signing up customers. See more at Profit Quests article on
Floral Arrangements.
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Product Focus -- Aroma Light Candles
Make a 50% profit by selling Aroma Light Candles. Nothing beats
the smell of a great smelling candle in the winter and early
spring. By the way, they are a great sales compliment when
selling with floral arrangement.
Choose from a variety of scents to offer. Aroma Light will
provide you with sale sheets and information to get started.
Sell them through your monthly announcements or in a special
mailing to your nonprofit supporters. You may want to set up a
table at a civic event or school function. If your group
involves children, be sure to encourage parents to take a sales
sheet with them to work.
See more about Aroma Light Candles here.
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Free Tip -- Challenge Gifts To Increase Campaign Gifts
Challenge gifts are an effective means to help your group
boost the effectiveness of a campaign that may be lagging
behind a set goal.
A challenge gift is a special potential donation made by
an individual or foundation to increase the number of gifts
by others to help you reach your goal.
Example: Mr. Warbucks offers to donate $10,000 if his gift is
matched by other contributors that give a combined total of
$10,000 within a certain time frame established by Mr.
Warbucks and your organization.
If the challenge is met, your group takes home a total of
$20,000. The trick is to search among your most faithful and
generous contributors, find a few prospects and ask them to
consider issuing a challenge gift in the amount they choose.
You'll be surprised by how much others will join in to help you
reach that goal before the time frame is up and the challenge
gift is lost. See more about Challenge Gifts here.
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Software Highlight -- Online Website and Hosting
Did you know that you can get a professional and reliable
website that you control for less than a dollar a day?
You can also get a free domain name registration for a year.
Right now it starts at $19.95 per month.
Homestead.com, the webhost that ProfitQuests.com uses, has
an easy learning curve with point and click functionality.
You have access to a graphics and picture library, buttons,
shapes, HTML capturing, image importation, and sound
library that you can use instantly.
Here's the great deal for your nonprofit. Because
ProfitQuests has been selected as a Homestead Builder, we
can set up a site for your organization for less than what
you could hope to do with a web creation company.
The best part is that Profit Quests can do it for a fraction
of what you can get elsewhere.
And after you have a built site, it's yours to adjust as you see
fit. You don't have to pay for site management, upkeep or for
additional changes since you can easily make minor changes
yourself. We'll even help train you.
If you are planning on getting a website for your nonprofit or
open your own online business, then you need this service.
Your option to use Profit Quests as your Homestead Builder
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Book Review -- Fundraising on the Internet:
ePhilanthropyFoundation.org Guide to Success Online, 2nd Edition
Working on the internet is getting more and more complicated.
For new people visiting the internet, learning to use it
effectively can seem like a daunting task.
That's where this book comes in handy. You'll find this 300
page book a comprehensive source of techniques and examples
that really work in the real world. Readers at Amazon.com gave
it a 5 star rating.
It will help you find resources and help you build an online
fundraising presence. The end product will allow you to be set
up to receive donations online.
About 90% of nonprofits aren't even out of the starting gate of
the online fundraising race. Get this "must have" book today
and get closer toward the finish line of accepting gifts on
your site.
Fundraising on the Internet:
The ePhilanthropyFoundation.org Guide to Success Online
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