Sunday, March 1, 2009

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Cookie dough church fundraising has an enormous potential for profit. You can usually keep 30% - 50% profit from your cookie dough fundraiser. Because your customers will be consuming the cookie dough you also can repeat the fundraiser year after year.

The way cookie dough church fundraising works is your church will gather together a group of volunteers to sell the cookie dough. You will next train your volunteers on how to sell the cookie dough and what props to use as they are selling. The cookie dough fundraising company will have brochures, order forms and all the other selling supplies you will need.

Next your volunteers will go out to the public and to your congregation and sell-sell-sell. Using all the learned proven techniques your volunteers will collect orders for cookie dough and accept money up front for frozen dough that will be delivered on a specified date. Then when all your orders are collected you will submit your total cookie dough church fundraiser order to the supplier and wait for your order to arrive.

As with all church fundraisers there are advantages and disadvantages. You will want to take careful stock of both before you decide on a cookie dough fundraiser.

The advantages are:

Cookie dough is a highly consumable product. This allows you to hold cookie dough church fundraisers year after year.

Usually you will have no up front cost. Your volunteers will collect the money from customers when they take the orders this then is sent in to the cookie dough maker.

People love cookie dough. With a wide variety of doughs available your customers can buy a custom dough for each member of the family.

Profits are kept when you send in the order. This allows for your church to begin utilizing the funds for your ministries immediately.

The disadvantages are:

The dough must remain frozen until delivered to the customer. You will have to ensure that you have adequate freezer space before you accept delivery of the dough.

You will need to have a scheduled delivery day and time. Your dough will need to be immediately frozen and delivered as soon as possible.

Other than this cookie dough fundraising is a great way to have a church fundraiser. You may even get your volunteers to buy some dough and soar your profits even higher.

Shauna Hanus of http://www.laetans.com builds and maintains fundraising websites for churches and small ministries. Shauna has years of experience building websites and internet marketing. For more information on how to get a free fundraising website for your church visit http://www.laetans.com

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