Obviously, all students have need of a drawstring backpack. They can be used to carry school books and supplies or athletic clothing. Teachers in your school will also make good use of a drawstring bag, as they are often carrying things to school with them from home. If a drawstring backpack isn't suitable for teachers, you might consider cotton drawstring bags. If you think about how the bags or backpacks will be used, choosing between a canvas drawstring bag or a cotton drawstring bag will be very easy - and your students and teachers will still want them. This is especially true if the canvas drawstring backpack is imprinted with your schools name and mascot emblem.
You may even be surprised to find that parents are interested in purchasing a canvas drawstring backpack as well, and most of your students will also have younger siblings who have need of a canvas drawstring bag. This means that every student in your school, as well as their family members, is potential customers. Using canvas drawstring bags, you can finally - easily - raise all of the funds that your school needs for those small items - or some bigger items - that the tax payers don't want to pay for, or that the school budget won't cover.
Make Sure you Pick the Right Type of Promotional Drawstring Backpack
Start by choosing the right canvas drawstring backpack for your school. There will be minimum order requirements. Because you are raising funds, you will need to get the orders from your students before you can place your order through a promotional items company, in most cases. Obviously, it is necessary to meet the minimum order requirement before you place the order. You can talk to a dedicated account manager to find out if you can offer different types or colors of canvas drawstring backpacks, and combine them to meet the minimum requirement. You will also need brochures and order forms, and your account manager may be able to help you with this. If not, these are easily obtained with the use of a computer and printer, or a printing company. The cost of this can be covered when you sell the canvas drawstring backpacks.
Selling Drawstring Backpacks as a Fundraiser
You can easily have your students sell the canvas drawstring backpack for you. They will willingly do this, and do it well, for one simple reason - they want to win a contest. You can easily offer prizes for the most sales, and the cost of the prizes can very easily be covered with the sale price of the canvas drawstring backpack. Some canvas drawstring backpacks will cost you as little as three dollars each - and you can easily sell them for fifteen or twenty dollars each - so the profit will definitely cover prizes for sales, and still fund your school project. You should have beginning and ending dates for sales, and students should collect the money for the sales that they make, and turn that money into the school by the ending date, so that the overall order can be placed and paid for easily.
Once the date for sales has passed, you should get back into contact with your dedicated account manager to place your order. This is one of the nice things about working with someone who is dedicated to your account - they are always up to speed regarding your order, and you aren't passed around from employee to employee, where you have to explain your unique situation each and every time. You work with a dedicated account manager from start to finish, and this makes the entire process very easy and fast. Your account manager will help you to get the overall order placed, and will insure that the order is correct, and that all minimums have been met.
When your order arrives, the students who sold the canvas drawstring backpack will deliver them to the people that they sold them to - or the customers can pick them up at the school. The students who made the most sales will be awarded their prizes - and your school or school organization can move forward with their funded project.
