Safety First!
Verbally review the rules with all students, parents and teachers involved.
All Fundraising should be supervised by parents or adults.
Focus fundraising on family and friends.
Have parents sell at their workplace if permitted.
With parents permission have students telephone family, friends and neighbors.

Fundraising Key Ingredient!
The key ingredient to successful fundraising doesn't cost a dime. It's enthusiasm! And it needs to exist at the very beginning. Begin motivating your people at first meeting. Make it clear what you group goals are. Describe to them vividly what they need to accomplish and what it will take to reach the goal. The goal must be reasonable and real. Everyone must be able to visualize the goal and believe in it. As the leader you must be the optimist. Zig Zaglar defines an optimist as "Someone who goes after Moby Dick in a rowboat and takes tarter sauce with him." Create this type of optimism and your fundraiser's will go that extra mile.

Participation and Motivation
Promote! Promote! Promote! Kick off with the pep talk explaining the fundraiser. Here's where the enthusiasm begins.

Communicate. Maintain contact before, during and after the fundraiser. take advantage of your schools speaker system to promote your sale. Make announcements and recognize achievers. Keeping contact with your sellers keeps them focused on the goals and increases participation which increases sales!

Stay with a plan. Everyone must know how much money is needed and for what purpose. Work backwards by taking the profit margins from Mostly Memories products being sold and analyzing how many and what products need to be sold to achieve your goal. then take into account how many sellers you have. Then you can set goals for your sellers to achieve.

Keep records. Businesses all have reports to show how that business is doing at any point in time. You will want to know how your fundraiser is doing at appropriate times. You may need to adjust what you're doing to meet your goals.

Free exposure. When your fundraiser is over share your success with the media. This creates positive public relations and your school or organization will profit from the exposure.