Originally posted by mamarazzi:
Wow! Some of these ideas are great! For those of you who have tried them, how much did you earn on the Penny war & the Comedy Show? They both sound like fun!!
Thanks!
Jan
Jan,
I don't know where they came up with the idea but it worked wonderful on the comedy show.
They created a custom discount card for our group...which we got $5 per card on...the kids got excited because they (Bingo's Clean Comedy) sent a challenge out to the kids via a custom DVD that promised the kid who sold the most cards would get a prize package worth a few hundred dollars as well as get to choose 3 people from the group to put on stage when they came in for the celebration show after the fundraiser..
The kids got into it big time! Our group of 139 had 118 kids participate in the sale of cards...we raised almost $4000 with the sale of the cards...and when a certain level is reached they reward the group with a "FREE" comedy show...we used our comedy show as a second fundraiser and invited the community...Tickets were $10 each.
Each of the kids got in free to the show..which they were excited about...each kid ended up selling around 5 tickets each. When you add the candy, hot dog, pop, popcorn, pizza and snack sales...with all of that included we added another $6000 to the bottom line.
In all honesty I thought it would be a huge headache but it turned out to be one of the smoothest running and profitable fundraisers we've done.
The kids were SUPER MOTIVATED by the challenge and uniqueness of this effort...from start to finish it took 2 weeks of work....and a few phone calls and emails back and forth with the company to iron out the details.
End of story we have a repeat customer fundraiser with the cards and comedy show. Kids are already getting geared up to sell the cards. The community loved the comedy show and many plan on coming back bringing friends with them.
If all goes as planed we expect to add right ad at least another $2500 to our efforts this year.
