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Spirited Car Wash
A well publicised 'Sponsored Car Wash' can be very successful. By pre arrangement
with a local community or sports centre your squad ropes of a section of
the car park, then sets up a 12 person 'production line' wash detail, with
another six or so refilling buckets etc. First group with sponges and suds,
the next to rinse down, the third group to leather.
Who can resist smiling bubbly cheerleaders, especially the Press. It
usually generates a neat photo feature in the local paper to promote the
sports centre. Visitors to the centre can spend more time there without having
to allow part of a weekend day to wash the car.
With good technique and teamwork it is surprising how many cars per hour
can be washed.
Tip: Keep the price per car cheap - go for quality and volume
of throughput!
1. Make a cookbook using the
cheerleaders favorites dishes & desserts, don't bring this to a printer,
use a copy machine and either staple or use cheap ring binders, if you use
ring binders you can have additional cookbooks every year & they will
be able to add to their collection instead of you buying as many ring
binders.......Charge around $5.00/cookbook. We're about to do this this year!
Wish us luck...The people I got this idea from said they made nearly $1200!
2. Make a calender of the
teams (have a football calender & a cheerleader calender). If you order
in bulk you can get this done cheaper, make sure that you figure out the
price/unit & charge more so that you will make a profit & not lose
money...
3. Our College squad did a
Skate party. We rented out a local skating rink one night, and charged for
admission. The first year we did it we made almost $2000 with college kids.
It was interesting, as most of us had not been on skates in 10+ years. Besides
the blisters, everyone had fun. The second time we did it, we had to turn
people away because we had filled the building to capacity. (This was during
Spring Break in Daytona Beach, FL)
Thanks to Cthat@aol.com
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you have found to work well.
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