School Fundraising using buy.at

[Mae1]

Has anyone any experience of using these? We have just (well a month ago!) set it up at school, sent info out to Parents, put up adverts on the school windows. How else can we convince people to use this webshop?
Any suggestions?

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Our school uses it and have made a reasonable amount. Ask Head to include info in Newsletter (list companies as they increase all the time). If you know someone is about to buy big items like white goods suggest it to them. Will improve as Christmas approaches.

many thanks for that yoyo - trying to get the Head to include it on weekly newsletter - sometimes he forgets!!!!
It is my hope that it will improve nearer Xmas - but it's just trying to get peoples attention in the 1st place! Do you do naything else for fundraising yoyo???

not heard of this one - can you give us more details?

have a look at:

www.buy.at/RothwellStMarys

useful webshop which give your school comission based on sales - no extra cost to anyone.
I going to be cheeky now - if you decide to set up for your school - do so by going into our weshop (as above) and choose the buy.at link (a-z section) - we then receive £1 commission! Cheeky I know - but if you dont ask .........!
Thanks

Mae - that looks good. Will follow it up with PTA committee at our next meeting (possibly before so we can get it up & running for christmas) Will try & get it done through your links - thanks. BTW how much commission do you get through amazon - I reckon at least 1/4 of our parents (probably more) use that one.

Amazon give back 5% - fantastic!!!!!!!!!

It is very difficult to get people to use it I agree but you just have to plug it and perhaps in your PTA update show a rolling total (or maybe the school would let you put it on a noticeboard?). You could have a specific target in mind to buy a particular thing and do a "Blue Peter" type of target that the children could move the arrow along.
Our school does Spring bulbs, usual sales, craft workshops at Christmas, Christmas and Summer fairs, etc. Basically the usual things.

Thanks again yoyo - we're also going to try the spring bulbs through bulbman! We'll keep plugging the idea of the webshop!

anyone else have suggestions for successful fundraising - struggling a bit to get this one off the ground!

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does the school have a website?

SenoraPostrophe - no it doesn't have a website (unfortunately!) - I'm finding it difficult to get the messgae of the webshop through to the parents. I've tried the weekly newsletter, flyers - don't know where to go from here. The annoying thing is it seems like a good way to earn money - no extra cost to anyone!!!!

I ask as I have some experince of the merchant-end of buy.at - the most successful sites seem to be the ones with good websites (i.e. parents go to website for something else, click on link).

You could try approaching merhcants that you think are particularly good and asking for a discount (a bit cheeky possibly since they'll already be paying the commission). Or you could try contacting the local paper. Or pick out some particular bargains and include a christmas shopping leaflet with the newsletter?

Just thought I'd update you on the progress of our webshop. We've just received a cheque for commission of £90 for the period Oct 05 - Jan 06. This covered just 15 purchases! Not bad - just have to try and keep pushing the message that the webshop is available, and it works and earns us valuable money!

Yep! Nag, nag, nag. It adds up very quickly.