Discount Cards, Because Everyone Enjoys Saving Money

[Mark South]

Discount cards is the perfect product for fundraising for many groups and non-profit organizations including school clubs, the PTA, church youth groups, sports teams, and more.  Regardless of their financial status, everyone enjoys the opportunity to save money, which makes these cards an "easy sell" to customers.  If the methods your group has been using to raise funds are getting old, boring, or simply require more planning and work than you would like, consider giving discount cards a try. 

There are lots of "perks" to using these cards to raise money, including:

Customers love them.  As we mentioned before, people love to save money - but it's even better when they can save on those products and services they spend money on regularly, such as a hair cut or color, fast food, local restaurants, bowling for the family, an oil change or tune-up for the car, etc.  With discount cards the cardholder spends $10 for the card (or whatever price you choose to set), and enjoys these savings for a whole year.  The backs of the cards feature specials at a dozen or more merchants in your own local community; customers enjoy discounts such as 10%, 15%, 20% or more off, and buy-one-get-one-free offers.

You enjoy amazing profit margins.  Think of other products you may have tried in the past, such as jerky, candy bars, candles, catalog sales, cookie dough, popcorn - how profitable are these items, and how long does it take you to reach your goal?  Most fundraising items allow profits of about 50% or 60%, and depending on how much the item sells for, it can take forever to reach the amount of money you need.  For instance, getting to $3,000 with candy bars offering $1 per bar profit will take far longer than with discount cards, which offer profits of $5 per card at the very minimum.  The larger the number of cards you order and sell, the higher the profit margins go - in fact, higher than 100% because of the fact you get 200 cards free with every 1,000 you order!  Now THAT is incredible profit in anybody's book!

Help support the entire community.  How many fundraising items do you know of that in a roundabout way help stimulate the local economy?  Not many.  With discount cards, the customer benefits because he or she enjoys great savings over the period of one year; the merchants benefit because of increased exposure of their business on the cards, and potential new customers who come in for the first time to enjoy the savings - and hopefully become regular customers.  Your group or organization benefits because you can raise the amount of money you need easily, in a shorter time period, and with far less planning and work.  No storage problems, spoilage issues, or hassles like you find with other products.

People love to save money, which is why discount cards just make sense for groups and organizations that rely on donations and fundraising to supply their monetary needs.  No headaches or intensive preparation/work involved, easy sales, a great product that benefits everybody in your local area.  Need we say more?  It's easy to see why so many charities have relied on this method of fundraising for decades, and still do today.  Try it for yourself and you will be convinced that when it comes to raising money, this is truly the only way to go!