Ways to Motivate Your Group

Motivate your group with prizes, prizes and more prizes. Here are a few ideas to help you motivate your members and maximize your sales.

1. Intangible Prizes:
These have no cash value but are proven motivators and provide great entertainment. A few examples include:

A) Allow the participants to throw cream pies at the faces of the organizer, principal, teacher, coach, etc., if the goal is reached

B) Get the organizer, principal, teacher, coach, etc. to wear their pajamas or a funny wig for a day if the goal is reached.

C) Let the group have an activity of their choice instead of the normal schedule (for example: a free afternoon of sports activities in the schoolyard instead of class)

2. Raffle:
For each achieved mini goal (ex. for every 10 items sold or $100 in sales reached) the participant gets their name put in the raffle for various merchandise. The more they sell, the more times they can have their name put in the raffle and the more chances they have to win.

3. Top Seller Grand Prize:
Give a Grand Prize to your top seller. It may be a computer, a bike, movie tickets, cash or anything else that inspires your group members.

4. Top Class or Team Prizes:
This is a great way to motivate the kids and get them working as a team. If you're a small group, you can create teams by putting your members in groups of twos, threes or fours. If you're a school you can do it by class and if you're a league simply do it by team. To make it fair for the smaller class or team, you may want to use a per person average. You can offer the best selling group a free pizza party, a field trip outing to the place of their choice…ask them what they'd like.

5. Individual Completion Prizes:
Individual completion prizes are very good because they are risk-free for your organization. Once your member raises a certain amount then they receive their incentive gift. For example: Receive $10 cash for every $100 of product sold. Other completion prizes may be a gift certificate to a music, video, book, or sports store.

6. Early Bird Prizes:
You can offer early bird prizes to the first, second and third person who reaches a specific objective by a certain deadline. For example: if you launch the fundraiser on Monday, you can say the first three people that generate $100 in sales or more by Friday will receive a $15 gift certificate.

Also Remember to Solicit Sponsors for Prizes:
You can get many prizes for free by simply soliciting the local restaurants, sports, book and music stores, as well as other local retailers. Tell them what it's for and offer to mention their name in the parent letter and at the campaign launch.

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