In my last blog post I talked about the basics of a discount card fundraiser, what it is and how they work. Today we’re going to discuss the fundraising potential of this kind of program.

Now one of the most important things when choosing ANY fundraiser for your school, sports team or youth group is deciding on a goal, i.e. how much MONEY you need to raise. Once you have that goal take a long hard look at the fundraisers you are considering. Ask yourself and your committee if these programs are realistically going to be able to allow you to reach that goal. The number of participating volunteer fundraisers and just how motivated they are is important. But with some programs you may just not be able to get the volume of sales or manpower for the event for it to work.

With that said, let’s take a look at the discount card fundraiser. With this program your group makes $7.00-$9.00 profit per card depending on the number of cards ordered. The price per card depends on the number of cards that you order, as with most things they give you a better price the more you buy.

So how many cards can you really sell? Being very conservative, each member or family in your group can at the bare minimum buy one card for their own family. So let’s suppose you have 50 families. That’s 50 cards sold for a fundraising result of $350. That’s just with every person or family buying one card for themselves!

Many people in your group can sell at least 5 or 10 cards each. As with everything there will be a few people who sell only one or two, and a few that can sell 15 or more. Let’s take that example group of 50 again and say an average of 5 cards per person. When you order 250 cards the price drops to just $2 each… and your group takes home $2000. Not bad, eh?

As you can see the profit potential is very high, it just depends on your participation level. And as I mentioned before, these cards provide a good value for your supporters and they are easy to sell.

Check out this Profit Potential Chart to see the possibilities…

Now with Fast Track Fundraising there is also no minimum order. Unlike other companies that have a minimum of at least 500 cards, they do not have a minimum order. This enables smaller groups to participate in this fundraiser, who couldn’t otherwise.

This is a fundraiser that many different groups can do from small to large school wide campaigns and everything in between.

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Discount card fundraisers are a very popular way to raise funds. They are a great deal for the school or charity and a great deal for the person who buys the card. It’s really one of the best product sale type fundraisers out there.

Whoa, let me back up a minute. Maybe you haven’t heard of Discount Card Fundraisers. Just in case, let me describe what they are and how they work.

A discount card is a plastic card that is the size of a credit card. They are made from sturdy plastic that fits easily in your wallet. They are custom printed on the front and back of the card.

On the front is a custom design just for your group, the one that’s selling the card. The one seen here is one that Fast Track Fundraising produced for a cheerleading squad, the DC ICE. If you click the card you’ll see a larger image with better detail.

On the back of the card are the merchant offers. Each merchant in your area chooses what kind of deal they’d like to give card holders. When you choose popular merchants who give really good savings offers, your supporters will jump at the chance to buy the card. The DC ICE card here has eight offers.

You can fit even more deals on the back of these cards. Check this one here, it has 19 offers. One merchant is taking up two spots so really you could fit up to 20 merchants on the back of the card.

Cardholders can use these discounts anytime during a full one year period. So this could be a really good deal for them!

Since you are offering such good savings to people, this makes the discount card a good value to your supporters. Your group can decide what to charge for the cards but most groups sell the cards for just $10. At this price point and with the great discounts it is a no-brainer for people to buy the card from you.

The other really good thing about this $10 price point is that almost all of that is pure profit for your group! You don’t have to pay the merchants anything for participating. Actually they are getting free advertising and more customers by joining your program, so it’s a good deal for them. All they have to do is fill out a merchant agreement form and give to whomever in your group is managing the project. He or she then just faxes in that form to Fast Track Fundraising and they take care of the rest.

Oh, I think I got off on a tangent there. The $10 per card, nearly all of it goes to your group because of the very low cost of these cards. Depending on how many cards you order, they only cost your group $1-3 each. With volume orders you keep $9 out of the $10 each supporter gives you.

So that’s the basics of discount card fundraisers, how they work and a bit about why they are so great.

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