Cookie Dough Fundraiser::Frozen Cookie Dough Fundraiser

How long has it been since you have had a cookie? Is it minutes, hours, days, weeks? If you are like most people it has not been so long you cannot remember. Why do I ask this question in a hub about cookie dough fundraisers? I wanted to make a point. You see, if you can remember having a cookie recently, it means you are a potential customer for a frozen cookie dough fundraiser. See how easy that is? I justified the reason for this article in the opening paragraph. Nearly everyone loves cookies and will be a potential customer for your cookie dough fundraiser.

That is probably one of the failings of many attempts at raising money. You see if you cannot generate the proper amount of interest you are doomed to failure no matter how well you construct your plan to market your fundraising product. There is a multitude of fundraising activities ideas out there that many have tried with mixed amounts of success.Everyone knows of cool fundraising ideas, easy fundraising ideas and even unusual fundraising ideas, but unless you have a willing consumer base your best laid plans are doomed to failure.

Once upon a time every cookie made was concocted according to a traditional recipe handed down from generation to generation. Mothers and grandmothers over the generations have made several hundred billion cookies to satisfy children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews all around the world. The magic turned out in these kitchens is etched in everyone’s memoires and each of us probably still can recall the wonderful smells from out mother’s or grandmother’s kitchen as we anxiously awaited this treasure.

For a large portion of us, those days have passed. In our modern culture very few things are done the way they were even a quarter century ago. In our fast-paced, get it now society we do not make time or take time to indulge in that kind of culinary exercise. It is much easier to secure a prefabricated example of whatever we choose to delight ourselves with. The refrigerated cooler shelves at your local grocery store, Wal mart, Target or other large retailer are chock full of containers with ready to bake cookie dough as well as frozen cookie dough to meet this demand.

So, if the demand is there you now the supply cannot be far behind to make non profit fundraising with frozen cookie dough fundraisers a win-win situation. As with any potentially profitable endeavor there are numerous sources of this ready to bake cookie dough. School fundraisers around the world have made many of these companies quite profitable as they choose cookie fundraisers as their best bet to collect money for their non profit organizations.

A frozen cookie dough fundraiser is usually conducted in the following way, but some companies may allow you to do so with additional liberties. Traditionally your supplier will forward pictorial brochures to you with photo representations of the product for you to use to promote your sale. The flavors offered are well known, so most of the burden of product familiarity is non-existent. Nearly everyone knows about chocolate chip cookies, sugar cookies and the like, so you will not have to explain very much about this.

You must determine how long you will allow your selling ranks to ply their products to your public before you begin showing the brochures around. This way you have a firm date to give to potential customers about when they can expect their product. Also, it puts a bit of urgency on your sales crew to get the job done. With an open ended approach you will have only those driven to always succeed going after the task with eager determination.

At the end of whatever time period you set for your sales campaign, you will need to gather your paperwork to tally the totals for all the various flavors and offerings the company provided to you. Be sure to count, double check and count as many times as necessary to make sure you know exactly how many items were ordered. There is nothing more frustrating or damaging to your efforts than to have less items when you get ready to deliver than what was ordered. Most people are reasonable about the mistake, but it only takes one rotten experience to harm your organization long term.

On the day the cookie dough arrives it is important that you have one of two things: either a place to store the frozen cookie dough until it can be distributed to your sales staff or a plan to get the cookie dough delivered immediately to the customers. Cookie dough is not as fragile as some other types of food, but for the best results you want to keep it as cold as possible until the customer takes possession.

My daughter is a cookie dough queen. She is twelve years old and diving head first into the world of baking. Cookie dough is definitely on her list of items to make the day complete. As a matter of fact she has been involved in selling the cookie dough as part of a band fundraiser. This opportunity to help raise money for school groups to bridge the gaps in funding is something she understands as vital to the organizations success, so she eagerly takes part in this endeavor.

I admit I love to smell the cookies baking in our oven. There are few smells to top this wonderful aroma wafting from the oven in our kitchen. My daughter takes great joy in baking these and serving each member of our family every evening we allow her to do so. The freshly baked cookies are so much superior to the ones baked and stuck into a package that sits on a supermarket or big box store shelf for who knows how many months.

To be sure there are few easy fundraising ideas. Most of the time hard work is required in any non profit fundraiser, and this is no exception. Trying to grab a piece of the ever narrowing disposable income pie of the average family gets more difficult every year. Thankfully the frozen cookie dough fundraiser products are reasonably priced, so it is not a hardship for those willing to support your cookie dough fundraising efforts.

The most difficult part is a timely delivery of the product to customers. This is why it is important to have a schedule for your delivery and distribution that is solid and executed as expected. When this occurs you build goodwill with customers who are more likely to support you again and tell others they know about their positive experience.

There is another potential fundraiser to be developed from this product, which is a bake sale fundraiser. Again, everyone loves cookies, so you could turn around and use this for that purpose. Before you do though, count the cost of the product and determine about how many cookies the container could yiled and weigh that against the cost you can reasonably charge for your finished product. There is no benefit to this approach if you go in the hole moneywise.