By Shauna Hanus

Cookie dough and candy are both great ways to fundraise.  The six tips in this article will help you to begin your next highly successful candy or cookie fundraiser.  

Candy is an amazing way to fundraise.  When you think about fundraisers candy always is popular.  Do you know why?  People love to eat candy, it’s sweet, tasty and it allows tired adults to look back fondly on the days of there youth. 

Candy is an easy to sell item that lends itself perfectly to sports, churches, civic groups and schools.  Organizations can easily sell candy with a high success rate allowing them to free up valuable time to plan there next fundraiser.

When your fundraising group chooses candy as there fundraiser of choice keeping the following six tips in mind will help in your planning process.

1. Your group can choose a special candy just for this particular fundraiser.  You can specialize with chocolates or hard candies.  You must simply look at who you will be selling these candies to and what they are likely to enjoy. 
2. When selling candy as a fundraiser you can have a large number of volunteers help.  You can outfit each volunteer with one bag of fundraising candy.  Then when they sell that bag they can come back and get more.
3. Use incentives to your advantage.  To have a successful candy fundraiser you must sell lots of candy.  If your volunteers know that they will be rewarded in some way at the end of the fundraiser they will be motivated to sell more candy.
4. If a candy fundraiser is the way you are going for your next fundraiser ask the experts for help.  Join a candy-selling program.  They will be able to help you with tips and preparation guidelines.
5. Use more than one strategy for letting people know you are holding a candy fundraiser.  You can print flyers and brochures as well as encouraging people to tell all there friends and neighbors about your candy fundraiser.
6. Personalized wrappers is a great way to entice people to buy your candy.  It makes the candy all the more appealing when the wrapper says something that is close to there heart.
    
   Candy is a great way to fundraise.  Simple planning will make any candy fundraising campaign a great success and lots of fun.
   

Shauna Hanus of www.laetans.com builds and maintains fundraising websites for churches and small ministries.  Shauna has years of experience building websites and internet marketing.  For more information on how to get a free fundraising website for your church visit www.laetans.com.