Quantcast

From the category archives:

Product Sales Suck

The Number One Reason Why Product Sales Make Terrible Fundraisers

by Jim Berigan February 5, 2012

Selling products like cookie dough, wrapping paper, or candles does nothing for developing relationships in your school or non-profit organization. You offer to sell them over-priced crap they really don’t need, they write you a check, they regret the purchase, and there’s absolutely no good-will built up for building your community going forward. Basically, you just conducted [...]

Read the full article →

“Product Fundraiser Hall of Shame” Inductee #1

by Jim Berigan January 23, 2012

If you’ve checked out my website before, you know I HATE product sale fundraising.  (Click here and here if you don’t know why.) I have actually worked for a couple of these companies before, and I’ve seen all the crap that they pull. Many of the people who run these companies will say anything to [...]

Read the full article →

Can We Really Trust What Fundraising Companies are Telling Us?

by Jim Berigan December 22, 2011

I recently came across an article online entitled “Product Fundraisers: The Smart Choice” When I first read the article, I wasn’t sure who wrote it or where it was actually coming from. But, I dug into it a little deeper and found that it was written by a fundraising company that sells products to schools [...]

Read the full article →

Beware Fundraising Companies that Want to Pick Your Pocket!

by Jim Berigan December 15, 2011

One of the things that really bugs me about fundraising are product sales that take too high a percentage from the school. Case in point: I just came across an ad for a company that looked pretty cool. They are running a typical brochure fundraising scheme, but the product they are selling is licensed sports [...]

Read the full article →
Google Analytics Alternative