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Post by Coach Bruce on Apr 17, 2008 14:41:26 GMT -6
Anyone ever by passed the middle man...went to businesses asked permission and made your own card..laminated or something?
I need to raise 5-6 thousand before the season in a community struggling due to our military men and women at Ft. Bragg being deployed. Any suggestions?
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Post by coachplaa on Apr 17, 2008 14:47:15 GMT -6
We thought about it. You can go to Sportdecals.com or ProTuffdecals.com and if you negotiate the deals on your own, they'll print cards for 20 or 30 cents per card. Pretty good profit.
We used to do Varsity Gold but found another company that did a better job personalizing the card, and gave us more of a percentage in return. PM me if you want more info about it. We've been very happy with them.
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Post by CoachBorrelli on Apr 17, 2008 14:51:48 GMT -6
We did it.
Had each business submit their offer (about 10).
Had a local print shop make the cards.
Cost $0.50 per card, Sold the cards for $10 each.
Some offers were Buy 1 get 1 free, 20% off, $5 off Large Pizza. You get the hint.
We hit up local businesses where people like to go.
It worked out OK. Each kid had to sell 10 cards.
Selling stuff is a drag however. Everyone in our town is selling stuff. Times are tough now and people just can't shell out $10 like they used to.
To answer your question. It's all profit! Just need to sell the cards.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2008 14:55:35 GMT -6
We do our own. I design it. I sell the ads, I laminate. Cost is 29 cents and we sell for $10.
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Post by coachbw on Apr 19, 2008 13:13:41 GMT -6
We had been with varsity gold. Made 50% on a $15 dollar card. We went out and talked to the businesses in the community (most of which we had already developed a relationship with). I think we ended up with better deals than what varsity gold did. We had 2 for 1 green fees at the golf course, a lot of 10-20% off stuff, some buy one get one free pizza and burgers. Our sales numbers stayed consistent with the year before, and not surprisingly our profit doubled. it probably took 40 hours of work the first year we did it . . . this year we put it together in maybe 5 hours.
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Post by fugulookinat on Apr 20, 2008 15:38:59 GMT -6
We use Varsity Gold. Just raised $60,000 in one week and didn't have to do anything but sell cards. What's not to like about that???
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Post by coachdawhip on Apr 20, 2008 18:16:29 GMT -6
pro tuff decals will do the same thing
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Post by dhooper on Apr 21, 2008 13:15:41 GMT -6
I didn't go with gold card this year. I felt they were taken to much of the money. I use a different company this year. I just got 1500 made for just over $1 a card. They call the businesses.
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Post by psbrowning on Apr 21, 2008 14:37:20 GMT -6
What company did you use coach?
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Post by Coach Bruce on Apr 22, 2008 9:19:40 GMT -6
I can get staples to do our cards for .29 a card. We sale for 10 bucks and make 9.71 a card..varsity gold gives me 5 bucks a card. Thats whats not to like. That plus the businesses they choose are not as useful as the ones we choose and they give us better deals than varsity gold. Just do yourself. if you made 60G's using varsity gold ya coulda made 120G's without them.
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Post by Coach Bruce on Apr 22, 2008 9:20:19 GMT -6
Thanks for all the help guys. I wanna look into those "Mudslinger" shades I see advertised here also.
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Post by dhooper on Apr 22, 2008 9:30:07 GMT -6
It sounds like I'm going to use staples next year.
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Post by senatorblutarsky on Apr 22, 2008 9:49:15 GMT -6
We did varsity gold for a few years... then like coachdawhip said... we used pro tuff and did our own. it worked well for a few years... but we are a small town and after a while, there was just too much fund-raising going on here, so we discontinued card sales.
Varsity gold was good... but I hated giving up so much of a percentage. When we did our own, we made a higher percentage, but couldn't secure as many "deals"... in the end , we made about the same amount doing our own as we did with V-gold.
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Post by tiger46 on Apr 22, 2008 18:18:42 GMT -6
Coaches,
Would it make sense to, first, try to make the deals yourself? If you can't secure enough deals; then go through Varsity Gold? Is that feasible?
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Post by fugulookinat on Apr 23, 2008 6:30:39 GMT -6
1) You can negotiate your deal with varsity gold the same way you would negotiate a deal on a new car. We don't pay $5 a card in our deal, it's less.
2) Our cards sell for $20 each, not $10. We PROFIT over $15 per card and all of the vendors on our card want to be on the card so the deals they offer are good ones.
3) Varsity Gold takes care of everything so we can focus on coaching football and not have to hassle with finding vendors or printing cards.
It's just a better deal (for us) to go with Varsity Gold. It may not be for some though.
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Post by Coach Bruce on Apr 23, 2008 7:59:15 GMT -6
Good points Coach. To each his own I suppose. I wish we were like you and could get 20 bucks a pop but in our community that is just not possible.
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