SaveAround's Community Conversation

As a fundraising expert, you are well aware that there are many products and services available to pitch to your groups. Everything from quick and easy to complicated and slower, you need to familiarize yourself with the products available to you and understand the value of them and why they make sense for you, your business, and your groups.

1. ROI - Return on investment
If the customer spends $25 for the coupon book they want to know what’s in it for them.
Flip through the market (or markets) that you have available to sell through the groups. GET FAMILIAR with them. Know the offers and the merchants. Know the location of merchants close by the school or on the way to the downtown area. Run a quick scenario of 4 or 5 merchants using a single coupon each and add up the savings. Once you hit the $25 mark you have recovered the investment by the customer, the group still makes their profit amount, and the customer has the remainder of the book PLUS the coupons on the app to use for the duration of the book until expiration.

2. Mobile App
This is an EXCELLENT tool for maximizing your coupons and offers. Most of the coupons in the book are also on the app. So you are basically doubling your coupons by using the offers on the App. Remember EVERYONE takes their phone with them … some will forget the book or leave it in their other car or at home.

3. Profit Margin
This is a strong value proposition for groups that are going to run the coupon book sale. Most will start out at the $10 profit per item and some will go up to $12.50 profit per item ($25 retail). When running 40% - 50% that is a great value for the coupon book and profit to the group. The majority of the time it is half the profit to the group and the other half covers book production costs, rep commission, shipping costs, warehousing/storage, printing, etc.

When 100 books are sold @ a $10.00 profit margin that group just earned $1,000.00.
When 100 books are sold @ a $12.50 profit margin that group just earned $1,250.00.

Not a bad day’s work when you only have 25 kids in a group selling a minimum of 4 books each.

4. Shipping options
SaveAround is proud to offer competitive pricing when it comes to shipping across the country. Keep in mind that the online sales are a 40% profit with FREE shipping to the customer’s home address. The extra 10% collected helps to cover the cost of shipping books individually to a home address. Bulk shipping on traditional sales (to the school or to the group) are covered in full by the company. SaveAround also provides return shipping labels for leftover books at the end of the sale to be sent back to the warehouse in New York. All value-added reasons for running a coupon book sale. Please note previous shipping articles and help us keep shipping costs down by limiting shipments to 2 per group (initial shipment and final shipment).

5. Other points of interest
The coupon books are an excellent option for an extended shelf life. Generally, they have an 18 month expiration date, do not “go bad on the shelf”, and can be used daily, weekly, or as often as the customer wants to use it. Coupon books are a great option to get into a school that doesn’t allow “food sales” or they want a “non-food” option due to allergies or taking extra precautions. Coupon books are easy to explain from the viewpoint of an elementary student and customers can quickly see the value for their money while supporting the group at the same time. Donation platforms tend to only work seasonally because the customer (eventually) wants something in return for their contribution.
If you have questions about the coupon books or need further information about your specific market, please contact the Sales Support team via email at sales@savearound.com.

APPAREL INCENTIVE PROGRAM 2023

* Minimum of 200 sellers

* T-shirt = 3 books sold

* Long sleeve = 10 books sold

* One color print maximum

* Minimum 30 items earned or 200 total books sold (either one).

Fine Print:

Apparel stock will vary in color depending upon availability (i.e. grey, white, etc.)

Apparel sourcing may cause delivery delays (prepare your groups accordingly)

Contact person / sponsor MUST enter the final order in the chairperson portal.

No extra shirts will be printed after the final order has been submitted and received.

If minimum items are not met, there will be a charge. ($6 per shirt) Hoodies are not

available in this program. Enter logo info at www.savearound.com/logo.

Any questions regarding the Apparel 2023 Incentive? Contact sales@savearound.com

Social Media

Hopefully you’ve seen an increased presence in SaveAround on social media recently. We are posting more things on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to help get the word out about fundraising and opportunities to raise money for various groups all across the country.

If you need these posts, feel free to share, like, tag, re-tweet, re-post and help increase visibility. Likewise, if you post things about your fundraising business feel free to tag or share with SaveAround and we’ll be happy to re-post, like, follow, and share as well.

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