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Post by huskerdoc on Jun 25, 2014 21:05:19 GMT -6
Looking into these, can't find many reviews online. Success? Good, bad, ugly? I have a small team, will probably have between 25-30 players. If you dislike the cards, please tell me another good one. thanks for your time.
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Post by hsrose on Jun 25, 2014 21:40:43 GMT -6
bullfrogfootball.com/Bullfrog_Football/Discount_Cards.htmlWe're doing the cards here, first time in a long time apparently, if ever. We did the cards ourselves, cost $785 for 1,100 cards. Used 100 to provide freebies to the vendors (5 each) and school admins and such. Trying to sell the 1,000, we're at about 300 right now, the coaching staff hasn't quite caught on to how to manage the sales. I built a list of 45 possible vendors, contacted 30 or so, got 14 to sign up. Lots of leg work but I did it all myself, divide it with other coaches/parents and it gets much easier. We are a school of 730, team is 70-90. I usually have the players sell 10 cards each. 20 kids would bring you $2,000 at a likely cost of $300(?). Production time is 10 business days. plasticprinters.com out of Minnesota. If you go to this link thekesterfamily.com/Football/Links.html you can look for 420 Fundraisers.docx which is a collection of 25+ pages of fundraisers I got from this board and other sources. Good luck.
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Post by macdiiddy on Jun 25, 2014 21:56:43 GMT -6
We don't do fundraisers.
Instead, we sell ads in our Football Media Guide. That way you can go to your programs big donors once a year and be done with it.
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Post by codeblue on Jun 25, 2014 22:40:19 GMT -6
We have done this for 5 years at my current school and my last school we also did it. The last 3 years we have done all the work ourselves so we get all the profit. We average around $5,000. Each kid has to sell 10 cards at $10 each. Don't contract it out. Just takes a little work. The hardest thing is tracking down the business owners for their authorization. Costs us about $400 to print the cards.
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Post by bluboy on Jun 26, 2014 9:28:39 GMT -6
We do the cards, have been for years. For us it is the easiest and most efficient way to raise $$$. We do it through a company. The guy comes in during the first week of preseason, gives his talk to the kids and hands out cards. Kids have a week to sell. On the last day of the sale, we run a BLITZ. Practice ends early and kids can make one last effort to sell cards. The kids come back to school that night and return all $$ or unsold cards. Also at that time, kids who sold a specific number of cards get a chance to pick prizes and eat pizza (complements of card guy). All we coaches have to do is keep reminding our kids to sell cards. This is the easiest fund-raiser I've ever been involved with. By the way, we make a ton of $$$ from this.
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Post by bluboy on Jun 26, 2014 9:28:49 GMT -6
Sorry....Double post.
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Post by larrymoe on Jun 26, 2014 10:29:42 GMT -6
We do it through Adrenaline. We sell the Casey's pizza card and last year was the first year we had done it. Made around $7k profit. They took 25-30% of the total we raised, but I didn't have to do anything other than remind kids to sell cards. Definitely planning on doing it again.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2014 13:01:07 GMT -6
My previous did this and it worked well. Each kid was given a box and told to sell at least 20 of them at $10 each, with the top 3 sellers getting some swag. Made a few grand off it every year.
It's very low overhead (we didn't contract it out) and it beats the crap out of selling candy or other junk. It's probably even more bang for the buck than t-shirts. We'd take the remaining cards and money up after a month and take account of any missing stuff. This was done when we started summer practice, so we had the kids there to hold them accountable. I can't imagine relying on only coaches to sell them, though.
It was funny when one of our freshmen got called onstage during an assembly and hit the guest speaker up to buy one in front of the whole school.
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Post by coachklee on Jun 27, 2014 20:35:42 GMT -6
School of about 280. About 45 guys out for football selling cards at $20 each. I think the HC said we made $1800 PROFIT when all was said and done for a week and a half if efforts by the kids.
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Post by WTR on Jun 28, 2014 19:26:17 GMT -6
We've had great success doing them. We put our schedule on the front.
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Post by fcpantherdc on Jun 28, 2014 19:56:19 GMT -6
We have had great success with them. We put a picture of our seniors and the schedule on the front. We average around 50 players and average making $5000-6000.
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Post by freezeoption on Jun 28, 2014 20:30:51 GMT -6
what companies do you go with, I have thought about doing this, I have been at places where they did them, did the gold book and varsity card
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Post by biggus3 on Jun 28, 2014 21:05:52 GMT -6
Don't waste your kids hard earned cash by hiring some pirate company to put together a card for you. They charge the business to be on the card and charge you to sell them. If that is not a racket I don't know what is.
Do it yourself. Pay attention to what deals local businesses run in the paper on Sunday. Walk in there and ask them if you can put it in a card. Most of the time the gm can approve those deals, no need to get the owner involved. Take it to a print shop and get then made. I think we paid 25 cents a card and charge 20 bucks for them. We make a good chunk of change from this.
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Post by larrymoe on Jun 29, 2014 9:37:24 GMT -6
Don't waste your kids hard earned cash by hiring some pirate company to put together a card for you. They charge the business to be on the card and charge you to sell them. If that is not a racket I don't know what is. Do it yourself. Pay attention to what deals local businesses run in the paper on Sunday. Walk in there and ask them if you can put it in a card. Most of the time the gm can approve those deals, no need to get the owner involved. Take it to a print shop and get then made. I think we paid 25 cents a card and charge 20 bucks for them. We make a good chunk of change from this. For me, it's worth it to hire the company. They set up the deal with Casey's, they make the cards, he gets all the incentives out of the money he takes at the end of the blitz night, he hands the materials out and talks about the card, etc. I do very little work. Very easy. It's worth the 25% or whatever for me to have them do it. |
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Post by SetHut on Jul 7, 2014 10:29:55 GMT -6
I know where you're coming from b/c we thought it would be an easy couple of grand to let a salesman come in and "run" this fundraiser for a week. But it was disheartening when the guy walks out with 50% of the money the kids worked hard for. So now we do it ourselves and keep all of the money for our program. If I knew how, I would attach the letter I use when I approach a business. I have 18-20 local businesses (some are franchises) on the back of the card. Offers are valid from August 1 until July 31 of the next year. We sell them during the first week of practice. We have a photo related to our team on the front with our schedule. My1Stop.com (I deal w/Rita) prints 1000 for us for about $350. Excellent fundraiser!
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Post by hsrose on Jul 7, 2014 16:28:38 GMT -6
One thing that you might consider trying as another sales outlet is the vendors themselves. I had a jewelry store take 10 cards on 'consignment'. They were doing a 10% of sales over $1k so it's a bit high end, but they got a LOT of good press from their customers. When they got someone buying at that level they would offer them the card with the 'spend $10 and save $120' right now on this sale. Their customers like that a lot. The idea of a discount right now appeals to people. The pizza folks did a 15% discount. The HC used the card the first night for pizza for another fundraiser, for the folks working it, and saved $25 the first night. Next year I'll approach some of the vendors as a potential outlet as well. Might not do a lot but it might get some goodwill going for the vendors.
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Post by coachwoodall on Jul 9, 2014 6:07:54 GMT -6
Make sure you work up the front of the card to look real nice, that is what sells the cards.
Your kids are NOT selling a discount card, they are selling the program.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2014 12:01:15 GMT -6
We do the cards, have been for years. For us it is the easiest and most efficient way to raise $$$. We do it through a company. The guy comes in during the first week of preseason, gives his talk to the kids and hands out cards. Kids have a week to sell. On the last day of the sale, we run a BLITZ. Practice ends early and kids can make one last effort to sell cards. The kids come back to school that night and return all $$ or unsold cards. Also at that time, kids who sold a specific number of cards get a chance to pick prizes and eat pizza (complements of card guy). All we coaches have to do is keep reminding our kids to sell cards. This is the easiest fund-raiser I've ever been involved with. By the way, we make a ton of $$$ from this. I have done this too, and bluboy is dead on. I raised some good chunks of cash w/this thing, and it was pretty easy. We divided up into teams, each coach got a team. Made it competitive and fun, kids really enjoyed it. Duece |
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Post by coachwilcox on Jul 9, 2014 20:35:50 GMT -6
Doing our cards tomorrow. We use Adrenaline.
Sold over 45,000 at the program I was at last year.
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Post by coachwoodall on Jul 9, 2014 21:52:52 GMT -6
There are lots of incentives to use; teams win pizza, individuals win a $100 bill, etc...
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Post by shocktroop34 on Jul 10, 2014 8:30:07 GMT -6
We do the cards, have been for years. For us it is the easiest and most efficient way to raise $$$. We do it through a company. The guy comes in during the first week of preseason, gives his talk to the kids and hands out cards. Kids have a week to sell. On the last day of the sale, we run a BLITZ. Practice ends early and kids can make one last effort to sell cards. The kids come back to school that night and return all $$ or unsold cards. Also at that time, kids who sold a specific number of cards get a chance to pick prizes and eat pizza (complements of card guy). All we coaches have to do is keep reminding our kids to sell cards. This is the easiest fund-raiser I've ever been involved with. By the way, we make a ton of $$$ from this. I have done this too, and bluboy is dead on. I raised some good chunks of cash w/this thing, and it was pretty easy. We divided up into teams, each coach got a team. Made it competitive and fun, kids really enjoyed it. Duece Never thought to make it a competition...group the sells the most is the first to pick out a helmet, etc. There could be a lot of small incentives that don't cost anything. Good one Duece. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2014 9:04:11 GMT -6
Yeah, we did exactly that sort of thing. It worked great! The card co. worked w/us too and offered the winning team a prize as well.
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Post by hsrose on Jul 10, 2014 9:57:55 GMT -6
In the before times the HC would have the available coaches head up each group of 6-10 players. That coach would handle the cards and money and turn the info and $$ into the HC. They would compete so the highest selling team (usually based on average sales/player because some teams had 7, some had 10) would get the first call at the lockers and helmets/shoulder pads, jerseys, something along those lines. Might also get a pizza feed. Then the top 3 sellers from everyone got a money grab from the 'Big Bag' which had a couple of $100's in it. The top seller in each class got a pull from the 'Little Bag' which had some $50's. They would also get 1 card for every 10 they sold, they could then sell these and keep the cash, give them away to family and friends, whatever.
Making things competitive brings out the best in everyone. Competition is a good thing.
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Post by coachshs on Jul 10, 2014 14:12:38 GMT -6
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Post by coachgrob on Jul 10, 2014 23:04:20 GMT -6
Cards are awesome, as long as they get good discounts on there. We have had great success with it thus far and the community actually looks for and anticipate our new cards every year.
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Post by Coach Hoover on Nov 18, 2014 21:16:47 GMT -6
Small PA school where I assisted for 2 years has done this for 15+ years. Every kid from 7th-12th has to sell 15 cards are $10/each. Usually have about 80 kids. 80 x 10 = 800 cards x $15 = $12,000. Costs a few hundred to print locally. It's the biggest fundraiser the boosters does all year.
Now, it's gotten pretty stale since they would do a trifold laminated piece of paper that looked like crap and had poor offers on it, so the parents just complain that they can't sell them and usually write a check for $150. Still, other kids do go out and hawk them. You'll have that.
Next year, that boosters group is going to switch to the plastic credit card-style cards with the keytags. Will cost more upfront, but they're also going to work to get better offers.
As someone said, you're selling the program, not the card, although the offers are important. If you get 1-2 that everyone will use and make their money back, it's pretty easy to sell. If you can't sell them, it's just laziness.
However, I'd definitely recommend doing this regardless of how you do it, but you can definitely make a lot more money doing it on your own, rather than through a company.
Lastly, we did our own competitions to motivate kids to sell and had prizes for the top sellers. Works like a charm.
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Post by realdawg on Nov 19, 2014 4:16:34 GMT -6
We did it for the first time in a long time, made about $8000 in our first year doing it. That was profit after we took out our costs for kids rewards and stuff like that.
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Post by CanyonCoach on Nov 19, 2014 12:12:34 GMT -6
We sold coupon books in grades 3-12 and made 10K. We weren't well organized and still had pretty good success. We also have started a couple of other projects (media guides, 50/50 raffles, hot dog feeds at community events)
We are finally seeing some head way in terms of $$$.
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Post by coachd63 on Nov 20, 2014 9:25:01 GMT -6
How do you make your own cards? Is there a machine to be purchased?
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