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We would like to offer you something VERY unique
for your fundraiser program this year: A very unique, high quality line
of organic and untreated garden seeds not available in discounting chain
stores. Over 500 varieties. No order forms. No catalogs. Prices NOT inflated
for fundraisers. Steady stream of income from all year sales.
Our program is simple; your "customers"
buy seed from our website and you receive a check for 40% of the sales.
This is how it works: we provide you with a website url to advertise to
your potential "customers". This url can be included in an email,
a paper newsletter sent home with kids, automated phone messages, or placed
on a website.
The success of the program (how much you
make) depends on how well and frequently you "get the
word out" to your potential customers. Being an all
year program, frequent reminders at appropriate times of year (winter,
spring, and fall) will encourage repeat visits from customers - and a
steady income flow during the year. Encouraging potential customers to
forward your emails or newsletter to friends, relatives, or neighbors
makes "door to door" selling unnecessary and opens up the whole
country as possible customers!
If you feel having a paper order form might
assist you, no problem! We can email you an easy to print form to remind
your potential customers to order OR to fill out and give to you to order
(see "The Low Tech Method" information below).
To get started...
Fill out the following form. I will then email
you a url which is to be used in correspondence or placed on your website.
(If placing on a website, request a graphic to be used on the site).
Please contact us for additional information
at 800-486-2647.
There is no school like the old school (mostly)
Or "The Low Tech Method"
The advantage of our fundraising program is its
lack of order forms, lack of handling product, and ability to draw sales
from anywhere an email can be sent. Its simplicity may also be a disadvantage
... shoving an order form under a parent's nose and creating the "guilt"
factor works awfully well! Additionally, a few schools in underprivileged
areas have smaller than average internet access/usage. A combination of
low-tech and high-tech can be most effective! Let me explain how the paper order works.
For those of you more inclined towards
the conventional fundraiser (or those of you with low % of internet use
among potential customers), order forms can be sent home AS A TRUE ORDER
FORM. Customers can choose varieties, add up the total $ on the form,
and give the school a check for that total + $3.95 shipping. The school
then enters that individual order on our website, remembering, of course,
to use the link we provide you so that our software knows where your order
came from and we can credit you for the sale. The order will be shipped
to the customer direct ...no handling the product from your end. To enter
the order, you will have to use a school or personal credit card but since
the customer is sending you the order with payment, you will have the
money to pay off the card. We then send you a check for your percent of
the sales - the "profit" for the fundraiser. The first time
you sign into our shopping cart, you will have to enter your email address,
a password of your choice (write it down!), credit card address, etc.
- but you do have the option of a different shipping address which allows
the product to be shipped directly to your "customer". If you
want, you can consolidate all the orders, enter them at once, and have
them shipped to your school (thus avoiding the $3.95 shipping fee for
your customers) but that requires you having to separate out the orders
for each customer when you receive the order.
We understand some of this may be confusing, but
if you have any questions, don't hesitate to call at 800-486-2647 anytime!
Curtis Jones, President
Botanical Interests, Inc.
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