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Imagine if you will, the ultimate bang-for-your-buck fundraiser.

What does it look like, how does it feel and what does it deliver?

Before we enter into our dreamland of the perfect fundraiser, let's reminisce to what a typical fundraising event might look like, feel like and deliver.

(Que dramatic fade in effect...)

The Car Wash 

The first thing to do here is plan the event date (around everyone's busy schedules). Then organize a meeting to create signs and then run around town posting those signs. Next up is the task of recruiting "volunteers."

After that you purchase the supplies. Even if you already have the buckets, hoses, sponges and towels; you still have to get the soap.

Fast forward to car wash day:

You wake up at 6:00, buy donuts for the group, head over to your location and discover that you're short three bodies! You call your sleeping spouse and beg him or her to rush over with the kids to lend a hand.

After that is handled you begin setting up in the parking lot but suddenly notice that there is no spigot within a hundred yards.

After relocating to the back of the building and sending one of the volunteers to dance like a lunatic on the side of the road while holding a giant sign, you finally start receiving cars.

Let's rap up this nightmare and say that at the end of the day you count the money and your tired, dehydrated and sunburned volunteers have managed to make $150. Well, that's close to $20 an hour, give or take. Subtract the cost of soap, Gatorade and pizza and you're group raised $90. Bah humbug.

 Now take a deep breath, close your eyes

(well, not really, because you still need to read this)

and lets imagine the perfect fundraiser.

 

You visit a Yellow Llama retail store (or visit us online while you're at work - tsk tsk...we won't tell) and design a shirt. Anything you're group can imagine, we can design, or we can use your current logo!

One of our friendly IT Llamatists types a bunch of numbers and letters to create a link that we then put on your already existing website.

You email your friends, family, co-workers and contacts (clickity-click) and tell them to visit your website and support the cause by purchasing a shirt (or set of coasters, or golf towel, or tote bag...)

They purchase the items they like; we process the payment, print the order, ship the order and send you a check.

Ahhh.

We'd like to invite you to sit down and dream with us. We have a lot of fun doing what we do and we like to share the joy. The best part is, you can keep your fundraising link up all year long and collect the profits from your sales.

Give us a call at 770-493-8030 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . We'll hook you up.