Blog - July 2010

While you are organizing all your wreaths and evergreens orders to prepare your Final Order for your Christmas wreath fundraiser, be sure to keep track of your customer information.  This makes it easy to contact any of your customers should you have a question about their order.  If you are having cases delivered to your nonprofit organization, it will also ease the distribution proc

The time has come to finish your wreath fundraiser!  You may want to perform your holiday fundraiser wrap up in a few small steps.  In advance of your nonprofit organization's deadline, send out a reminder to your sellers that they have a couple days left to sell.  You could do this by email for a school fundraiser, sports team fundraiser or a service group fundraiser.  You

This seems so basic, but it really is one of the keys to making your wreath fundraiser a little more streamlined.  We'll briefly discuss why you should collect payments for the fresh wreaths and evergreens when you are making the sale below.  It's basic and it's an easy thing to do as well.

Checking in with your sellers midway through your Christmas wreath fundraiser can be a good idea.  This step is a big help if you can manage it.  Some nonprofit organizations have a meeting to do this; some nonprofit groups send an email or a newsletter to their sellers.  Just like the pre-sale pep talk and informational meeting, the type of nonprofit organization you are with wi

This topic is related to our previous post of "Meet With Sellers to Prep for Sale".  When discussing a sales goal with your nonprofit organization, or amongst the leaders, it can sometimes be very beneficial to have a system of incentives set up for your sellers beyond the benefits of raising funds.  While raising funds for your group allows your nonprofit organization to fu