How
do we go about starting with no upfront costs?
*Note, as of April 1st, if you are not selecting
from one of our templates, we do require a $50 artwork deposit in
advance. This deposit will be credited in full to your final order.
Most
of our groups choose to pre-sell the shirts. Once you have approved
the artwork, we can send you order forms which have a drawing of
the shirts with the artwork on the back. Each order form can hold
up to 20 orders.
Since you will be collecting the money when each customer places
an order, you can start "banking" the profit immediately.
At the end of your fundraiser (most groups will run their fundraiser
for 2-3 weeks), you will have collected both the wholesale cost
of the shirt, and the profit. You would then pay the entire cost
of the order, we can accept a check by mail or we can send you a
PayPal invoice that you could pay online, or you can call us and
pay with Visa, Mastercard, Discover or American express over the
phone. We will ship the finished product to you about a week from
the time we receive your payment.
By you preselling the shirts, you will know exactly how many you
need to order and don't run any risk of having any extra unsold
shirts. Your customers are quite accustomed to pre-ordering and
paying up front for fundraiser products as that is how many school
fundraisers are done.
Most people participating as a salesperson in your fundraiser will
sell anywhere from 5-6 shirts. Some will only sell one (they will
all want at least one for themselves), and a few superstars may
sell 50 or more. With the minimum order of 60 shirts for a two color
design, you probably need 10 or more people actively helping you
as salespeople. A larger group of say, 100 people, could likely
sell well over 500 shirts and have a profit of thousands of dollars.
Depending on the size of your group, you can realistically expect
a net profit of between $500 and $5,000.
Another option is to purchase the shirts in advance. Our groups
usually do this when they want to have the shirts available at an
event. They will order the shirts just a couple of weeks (to be
safe) before the event, paying for the shirts using a credit card.
The receive the shirts in plenty of time for the event, sell them
at the event, and then use the proceeds to pay the credit card bill
(although they have prepaid, they are reimbursed before the credit
card bill is due - and thus have essentially no upfront cost).
One of our groups which has an annual conference, builds the cost
of the shirts into the conference cost (which they collect about
a month in advance of the conference), once again having received
payment for the items before they actually place the order with
us.
And you could also offer to sell sponsorships for the shirts. Each
sponsor would pay a reasonable fee (based on the total quantity
that you expect to sell), and have an advertisement on the shirts,
or just a list of sponsor names. Most organizations will charge
from $25 for just a spot on the sponsor list, up to several hundred
dollars for sponsors who "fill up" an entire side of the
shirt.
We
are alway interested in your fundraising ideas. Please
email us and let us know about your fundraiser ideas.
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