Profitable Candle Fundraisers

Yes! Selling scented and coloured candles can be a really profitable fundraising idea! It is also a fundraiser that will work so well during certain times of the year...

Like before and during Christmas (the Festive Season), Thanks Giving Day, Easter, and Halloween. These are all times of the year when candles are bought and burnt.

Now all you have to do is sell the candles to your supporters! Let’s begin...

Candle Fundraisers

For American's, Fast Track Fundraising offers an excellent candle fundraising program, which I would definitely recommend. The Candles are of excellent quality and you can earn up to 50% profits!

They also offer a good variety of candle types to provide for different people's tastes, making their candle fundraisers really good!

For non-Americans there are loads of candle manufacturers and suppliers that you could use. Have a look around at your different choices and find the best balance of quality and cost.

Use a Google search below to find Candle companies in your area...

(A Tip: Type the name of your local area or country with a plus sign before it, and then add your search query with a plus sign before it as well. Ex. +scotland +candles)

Maximizing Sales And Profits:

Obviously the more sales you make, the more funds that you will raise, and you can also increase your profit margins with more sales. So it is extremely important to maximize your sales!

The first thing that will help maximize your candle sales is by ensuring that you sell quality candles. If you have poor quality candles, you will struggle to sell them!

Here are a few other ways of increasing your sales...

Advertise Thoroughly:

Get the word out about your candle fundraisers as much as you can by letting people know how, and with whom, they can order candles from.

Advertise it on your fundraiser website, and through your newsletters. Send an email to all your supporters, friends and family about your candle fundraisers!

Use posters and have flyers to hand out.

Word of mouth is also always a great form of advertising. So spread the word as much as possible.

And lastly...

Through a Sales Team:

Get some volunteers together... Your friends and family, or the kids in your school, and equip them to be your sales team!

Provide them with a simple sales pitch using the words "help" and "because".

Make sure that they smile and make eye contact when making a sale! Also get them to recommend a favourite candle.

Provide them with the sales brochures provided by Fast Track Fundraising to take orders with, or with flyers that they can hand out to prospective customers.

Then motivate them and get them selling!!! You could also consider using the following tip as a motivational tool...

Offer a Sales Incentive:

This is such a great way of encouraging a sales team to get out there and really make a huge effort to sell as many candles (or other products) as possible!

Have some really cool prizes for the best sellers or for sellers who sell over a certain amount of candles!

Also consider having a small prize for everyone who helped sell as a token of your appreciation for their help. This will encourage them to help out again for your next fundraiser!

Provide Samples:

If you can provide samples of your candles you will have a great tool for boosting your sales. By providing samples you can quite easily double your sales!

There is nothing better than for a prospective customer to be able to see, touch and smell the candles you are trying to sell to them.

So, if you have a bit of a fundraising budget to start off with, order samples for each of your sales members.

Make sure you have samples for all the different fragrances in one type of candle.

You will not need samples of the different types of candles as the photos will do just fine for people...

It is the smell of them that is the most important!

Offer Other Products:

When selling your candles you should always offer another or a few other fundraising products.

If someone doesn't want to buy a candle, you may then be able to interest them in something else.

Some good additional products to offer would be Cookie Dough, Discount Fundraiser Cards, and Magazine Subscriptions.

Sell At Events:

You should advertise and sell your candles at all your own events and at other local events like fete's and markets.

Set up a stand with your samples and your brochures, and have a big sign that advertises what you are selling and what cause you are fundraising for.

Also get your sales team to go around during the event, pitching people and taking orders!

Finishing Off:

You should look to maximize your sales as much as possible. Advertise your candle fundraisers properly and make sure your sales team is fully prepared and motivated.

Then offer samples and broaden your bottom line of income by offering other fundraising products as well.

Good luck for your Candle Fundraisers!

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