Fundraising Hit ? Oh These Candles Announces Their Soy Candles as the Perfect Fundraising Idea for Organizations, Schools, and Individuals
LANHAM, MD (ContentDesk) July 19, 2004 -? Scented candles are one of the most popular gift items people buy for themselves and for others on special occasions.
Almost everyone enjoys the glow of candlelight and the smell of the fragrance burning in their home.
Candles are a consumable product and a fundraiser that you can do often as your financial need arises.
Oh These Candles are made with soy wax, which burns for a longer period of time, and is environmentally friendly.
That is why selling soy candles from Oh These Candles, is the perfect fundraising solution.
There are no upfront costs and no need to stock the candles, because the candles are made based on the orders.Selling soy candles from Oh These Candles will allow organizations, schools, and individuals to make money upfront, earning 30-50% in total sales.
The fundraiser can be done traditionally, online, or both with flexible timeframes.Traditional FundraiserA traditional fundraiser is a fundraiser conducted through the use of brochures.
The members/participants will take orders and collect the money. The leader will tally the orders, count the money and take the profit off the top.
Using this method, Oh These Candles will provide brochures/order forms, a sample sales presentation, money collection envelopes, and receipts for customers.
Online FundraiserAn online fundraiser is a fundraiser conducted on the website of Oh These Candles. Oh These Candles will devote a section of its website to the organization and customers can come and order candles.
Candles will be shipped upon receipt of order and the organization's profits will be computed and mailed according to an agreed upon timetable.
This method eliminates the time and effort organizations need to devote to: tallying orders, counting of money, settling accounts, the potential for bounced checks, the potential for missed delivery to customers, and the need for parents and/or others to be involved in the pickup and delivery of the products.Flexible TimeframesFlexible timeframes allows organizations to sell candles without a preset timeframe (i.e., 1 month, 3 weeks) and keep turning over profit.
Organizations agree on a time interval and candles will be made, sorted, and shipped while the organization continues its sales.Oh These Candles currently offers soy candles in 3 sizes: 7 ounce travel tin, 9 ounce jelly jar, and 16 ounce dodecagon jar.
The candles are priced between $7.00 and $16.00. Anytime is a good time to do a fundraiser. Call 1-877-294-2698 or visit the website at http://www.ohthesecandles.com/fundraisers.htm to book your fundraiser or get additional information..
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Ira Royster owner of the Villa South Inn and Restaurant (villasouth.com) has put his Sandersville, Georgia landmark up for sale in an unconventional way ? on the online auction sites, eBay and Bidup (bidup.org)Royster is selling the landmark motel and restaurant and stated he is ready to retire to his small farm and to help promote his family's candle business, Wicks and Wonders Candles (georgiacandle.com).Royster's eBay effort even landed him coverage in the Atlanta Constitution and the Chicago Tribune about the site's increasing number of real estate listing.It appears to be generating considerable interest in the in the motel complex. Royster said the listing has generated numerous questions and some bids at the auction site. Royster further stated that he believes the site will sell on eBay and that the high bid so far has been $2,200,000. which was rather close to his minimum asking price and that people have contacted him from California to India.Kim Royster the owner of Wicks...
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A Brief History of Candles
For centuries man's progress has been lighted by candles. However, people know only very few things about the origin of candles. It has been written that the first candles were made by the Ancient Egyptians. They used rushlights, or torches, made by soaking the pithy core of reeds in molten tallow. Unlike the candles, the rushlights had no wick.
The Romans were the ones who it is said to have developed the wick candle. They used it to help travellers at dark, and to light homes and places of worship during the night.America's first contribution to candle-making was made by colonial women who discovered that if they boiled the grayish green berries of bayberry bushes they got a sweet-smelling wax that burned clean. But it was extremely tedious to extract the wax from the bayberries so their popularity soon diminished. The first important change in candle making since the Middle Ages was bought by the growth of the whaling industry in the late 18th century. Spermaceti, a wax obtained...
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