Setting the stage
It's can be scary realizing you have to find a fundraiser for your school or group but there's some good news. Although I am not going to make the claim that you will succeed at every fundraiser, if you follow the ideas here, you have the very best possible chances.
When I was 10 I had a school fundraiser. It was horrible. I had to sell raffle tickets. They were the worst photocopies ever and I was quite sure that everyone I approached thought I made them myself. I gathered my confidence best I could and headed off to sell. As the doorbell rang, I could barely get out my sales pitch. The only reason that I was able to sell my "quota" of tickets was because my school had a secret weapon.
They told me how much I needed to personally sell and I sold it. They told me what the money was for and I told everyone I pitched. It was in these sentiments that the importance of the fundraiser transferred from them, through me and on to my customers - even with a fake looking product.
So, as I was selling these in my neighborhood alone after dark I realized that it's not in what you sell, but in how you sell it. Although I was scarred by the situation, I did become a successful sales professional many years later.
Your elementary school deserves to spend time doing effective stuff - things that work! An elementary school fundraiser is only effective if it's important and that the reason it's important is communicated. Secondarily, there has to be an achievable goal that can be broken down to a per-seller goal. That is how true success is achieved.
If we're in agreement on that, we can move on to part 2. The Goods
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