If you are looking to raise money for your school or organization you need to have a product that your participants are excited to sell again and again. What is more exciting than cookie dough? A cookie dough fundraiser is often very successful because the opportunity to sell something sweet, besides the usual candy bars is often very motivating the sellers and they might even buy a few tubs of cookie dough for themselves! This fundraiser is unlike a candy bar sale because you will usually not have to buy the cookie dough before you sell it. The fundraising company will often provide your sellers with catalogs and brochures that they can use to promote and sell the dough. Once they take the sales, the school or organization then submits a large order to the fundraising company. This is very useful because there is no wasted stock when something does not sell. Cookie dough sales just might replace candy bar sales in the near future because of the convenience of buying the product, after selling...
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Candy fundraisers appeal to everyone. There are so many different types of candy that there is certainly one for everyone. Most candy has a low cost and there is plenty of room for profit depending on the candy you choose. Candy Fundraisers are some of the most popular types of school fund raising items you can...
Would you believe Americans eat approximately 22 pounds of candy each a year! About half of that is chocolate. I got to wondering what the most popular candy bar is. So I started doing some searching online to try to find out.
According to USA Today Snickers has annual global sales of US $2 billion. The Snickers company website and the National Confectioners Association agree that it is the is the best selling candy bar of all time.
Snickers is made by Mars, Incorporated which reported US $18 billion in annual sales in 2005 (This includes non-candy product lines also.) Besides Snickers, Mars makes Milky Way, Mars Bar, M&M's, Twix, and Skittles.
On the other hand, The Hershey Company claims to be the largest North American manufacturer of chocolate and sugar confectionery products, with annual revenues of nearly $5 billion. Besides Hershey Chocolate Bars, they also make Reese's, Hershey Kisses and Kit-Kat among others.
So it looks like Snickers, M&Ms and Hershey are some of the most popular brands, at least in the US. If we also consider world-wide popular chocolate brands then we have to mention Cadbury's. In...
According to USA Today Snickers has annual global sales of US $2 billion. The Snickers company website and the National Confectioners Association agree that it is the is the best selling candy bar of all time.
Snickers is made by Mars, Incorporated which reported US $18 billion in annual sales in 2005 (This includes non-candy product lines also.) Besides Snickers, Mars makes Milky Way, Mars Bar, M&M's, Twix, and Skittles.
On the other hand, The Hershey Company claims to be the largest North American manufacturer of chocolate and sugar confectionery products, with annual revenues of nearly $5 billion. Besides Hershey Chocolate Bars, they also make Reese's, Hershey Kisses and Kit-Kat among others.
So it looks like Snickers, M&Ms and Hershey are some of the most popular brands, at least in the US. If we also consider world-wide popular chocolate brands then we have to mention Cadbury's. In...
Many people enjoy collecting and displaying their collection of treasures. A collectible
can be anything from high end antiques to something rather simple like Pez dispensers. Sometimes people even focus on a specific brand like Coca-Cola merchandise.
I know from personal experience that many of these collections begin rather by accident. Years ago a former supervisor at work gave me a Curious George tin as a birthday gift. I displayed it in my office and soon my collection began to grow. Several 'secret santas' and office mates contributed and finally friends and family too as by then everyone knew about my collection.
Here are two ways that your group can take advantage of the popularity of collectibles when you're fundraising:
First, if your school or other group would like to do a catalog sale fundraiser, choose one that features collectibles. The Home & Gift Collection by Reader's Digest is a 47 page gift and general merchandise catalog used for fundraising. It has quite a few items that are popular as collectibles including:
I know from personal experience that many of these collections begin rather by accident. Years ago a former supervisor at work gave me a Curious George tin as a birthday gift. I displayed it in my office and soon my collection began to grow. Several 'secret santas' and office mates contributed and finally friends and family too as by then everyone knew about my collection.
Here are two ways that your group can take advantage of the popularity of collectibles when you're fundraising:
First, if your school or other group would like to do a catalog sale fundraiser, choose one that features collectibles. The Home & Gift Collection by Reader's Digest is a 47 page gift and general merchandise catalog used for fundraising. It has quite a few items that are popular as collectibles including:
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Oct
8
2007
Chocolate Cheesecake – Yum!
I just love cheesecake! But it's even better when its chocolate. There are a variety of chocolate cheesecake and other cheesecake flavors available from the Wow Fundraising cheesecake brochure.
Plus these cheesecakes include ingredients from recognizable brand names like Nestle and Oreo. So when your school or other group shows these catalogs to your supporters they will instantly recognize these brands.
Cheesecake is definitely one of the most popular desserts. And when you have cheesecakes including great flavors and great brands that is even better.
Click here to find out more about cheesecake fundraisers... 
What will they think of next... now you can fundraise using not just any old round lollipops, but ones that are shaped like footballs. If your football team, booster club, or cheerleading squad needs an extra football game fundraiser you can sell these pops.
You can either sell them in the bleachers or in the concession stand. If your group has a booth somewhere in the stadium at the game you could add them to your lineup of other merchandise. They'd also be an easy sell at pep rallies if your school will allow candy sales at school.
These football shaped lollipops come in 16 flavors - Banana Split, Black Cherry, Blue Raspberry, Blueberry Cheesecake, Cherry Cheesecake, Cherry Snow, Cotton Candy, Grape Delight, Green Apple, Juicy Orange, Lemonade, Lime Slush, Strawberry Shake, Watermelon Slice, Wild Berry, and Wild Cherry.
There are actually quite a few other lollipop shapes available. (If you think footballs are weird check out the alien pops!) You can view all the available pops here ... or Call 1-866-249-2714 for more...
Oct
5
2007
Snickers Bar Fundraising Packs
Snickers chocolate bars are some of the most popular of all chocolate bars in the USA. Your school, sports team or other group can fundraise using the Snickers specialty fundraising packs
These cases are just for fundraisers and each box contains 36 Snickers bars. You sell them for $1 each. Your group makes 40% profit on every Snickers bar that you sell.
Click here to find out more about Snickers...
Oct
4
2007
Cookie Dough Fundraiser Prize Program
When your school signs up for a fundraising program from a particular company you should always ask if they have a prize program. Some companies don't offer prizes and others do. Sometimes it's an advantage and sometimes it's not but maybe I can post about that later. For now I just want to make sure you are aware of the free cookie dough prize program.
Everyone likes free stuff right, especially free food! When participants of this cookie dough fundraiser sell 12 items from the catalog they will get a free box or tub of cookie dough. They call this the Baker's Dozen Prize Program (how clever).
So which catalogs does this apply to? Actually this fall there are four different catalogs that qualify for this program:
These catalogs include pre portioned cookie dough, frozen cookie dough tubs and cheesecakes -- all in a variety of flavors. You can even do more than one... 
School groups, sports teams and many other groups can use the chocolate bars from World's Finest Chocolate as a chocolate sale fundraiser. These chocolate bars have been a staple for many school PTA groups, marching bands and other school groups.
I was suprised to find so many different kinds of chocolate bars available. The ones that I'd seen as a kid in high school were the $1 bars. They still have those, but there's also King Size bars and $5 boxed chocolates too. The flavors include chocolate with almonds, caramels, chocolate crisp and quite a few others.
One drawback to these or any chocolate sale fundraiser, is that since these are low priced items then you have to sell a much higher quantity in order to raise a lot of money. Groups that have quite a few sellers will benefit most from a chocolate sale. In our high school the marching band sold World's Finest Chocolate. That was a great fit because with over 200 members if each student just sold one or two cases... 