Fundraising Car Magnets

Using Car Magnets for Fundraising

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Fundraising Car Magnets

Fundraising Car Magnets

NEWS FLASH!!! Fundraising is NOT FUN!

Fundraising is a thankless task. Asking people for money to support your cause (but not necessarily their cause) can be humbling at times and most people dislike it enough to never do it. Selling items as a fundraiser seems a little easier since you’re at least giving the donor a token gift for their money.

Most people find fundraising so distasteful that they won’t even attempt it. How many people in your group opt out when asked to solicit donations?

ARC Marketing offers a solution to your fundraising dilemma; customized car magnets. We can design and print beautiful, weather-proof fundraising car magnets for your school, your kid’s sports teams, your church and just about any other group. Our car magnets use the best magnetic material and the best UV resistant inks, so your new magnet will look great for years.

Since you will be “selling” these magnets to parents at your school or Little League Baseball Team, the stigma of “asking for money” is removed. Sure, the parents are still donating money, and they will be given the car magnet as a “thank you” gift. But now it becomes more of a transaction and it feels a little more normal than just asking for money.

In most instances, you will be selling these magnets to people who already have a vested interest in your cause, so most people are already on-board and this makes the entire process a lot easier (and a lot less demeaning). In fact, if you are raising money for your school, most parents will gladly buy a car magnet from their children’s school. Having their school’s magnet on the back of their car is cool, and almost no one will say “no” when offered the magnet for $10 each.

We realize that there are many other ways to raise money (car washes, bake sales, etc.) and these labor-intensive fundraisers are still humbling and thankless. Also, we realize that there are other fundraising opportunities that involve selling merchandise (candy sales, Christmas ornaments, magazine subscriptions, etc.), but most other merchandise items are things that no one really want. But a car magnet with your school logo is something that everyone will be glad to put on their car.

Here’s an overlooked advantage to fundraising with car magnets… awareness. 250 cars driving around your town with your car magnet is not going to go unnoticed! In fact, your logo is going to become very familiar. Try doing that with Candy Bar Sales!

Getting started on your new magnets is simple. In fact, we’ll do all the heavy lifting. Just go to our website (www.arcmktg.com) and click on the “Free Magnet Design” button and our art department will get to work. Easy!

Want to go “Old School” and speak to a human being? Call us at 760-743-6340.

Fundraising Car Magnets

Christian School Fundraising Ideas

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Christian Academy car magnets

Christian School Car Magnets for Fundraising

Public Schools are not the only option for education in America. They are, however, the only option for an education paid for by your tax dollars.

Christian Schools and Christian Academies do not enjoy the funding advantage of public schools. The parents that opt for a Christian Education know full well that this is going to be a financial sacrifice from kindergarten through the 12th grade.

The tuition that the parents pay for a Christian education does not cover all expenses at Christian academies. Most Christian schools offer extra-curricular activities just like the public schools do (sports, bands, cheerleading, debate teams, etc.) and those activities need to be paid by the parents. It’s no surprise that fundraising plays a large role in paying for these.

As mentioned in many other posts on this blog, there are an almost endless number of fundraising ideas out there. Some are first class and generate a large amount of money for capital programs. Most are time-consuming, barely profitable and require that your student go door-to-door selling something that nobody wants.

Using a custom car magnet as a fundraising item is a bit different. The door-to-door aspect is unnecessary, the PTA or PTO handles the sale of the car magnets and word-of-mouth is the most common way that parents learn about the availability of the custom car magnets. Once theses magnets start appearing on cars around town, everyone is going to want one.

Here’s another strong benefit of a customized car magnet with your school name and logo… awareness! These car magnets will create a lot of brand awareness for the school. They create a sense of “community”. Imagine walking through the local mall parking lot and seeing dozens of cars with the same car magnet from your school. It’s a good feeling!

Let us show you how easy it is to get a custom magnet for your school. We’ll do all the work. We’ll design, print and ship your magnet, usually in 2 weeks or less. Our magnets are weather proof and fade resistant, so it will look awesome for years. To get started, just give us a call at 760-743-6340!

Fundraising Car Magnets

Car Magnets for Montessori Schools

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Montessori School Custom Car Magnets

Montessori School Fundraising

Hey, you learn something new every day. We have been making custom fundraising car magnets for Montessori Schools for about 10 years, and I just realized that I really had no idea what a Montessori School was. So, I Googled it. There are an endless number of sites that try to explain how a Montessori School works, and what makes it different from traditional public schools.

After reading through about a dozen sites, I have distilled this down to the following sentence: “Montessori education is an educational approach developed by Italian physician and educator Maria Montessori and characterized by an emphasis on independence, freedom within limits, and respect for a child’s natural psychological, physical, and social development.”

Obviously it’s much more in-depth than that, but it sure sounds like it would have been a lot more fun than the public schools I went to in the 60’s.

Okay, so why would a Montessori School need a car magnet? In America, the majority of Montessori Schools are privately owned and do not receive financial support from the government. A growing number of them are joining the Public School System, but almost all of their money comes from tuition. This leaves a funding gap that needs to be filled by fundraising.

Most private schools put on elaborate Black Tie events to do the bulk of their fundraising, usually under the classification of Capital Funding Campaign. This is where like-minded patrons with deep pockets write the big checks that pay for the new gymnasium or new science lab.

But for the smaller projects which are funded by the PTA or PTO, a car magnet fundraiser could be a very important piece of the fundraising puzzle. An average size school could make several thousands of dollars by selling custom car magnets designed by ARC Marketing.

We’ll do all of the hard work; we’ll design your magnet, we’ll print and ship your magnet, we’ll create the collateral material you’ll need to sell your magnet (flyers, website images, emails, etc.) and we will rush your re-order when you sell out! Couldn’t’ be easier. Call us at 760-743-6340 and we’ll get started today!

Fundraising Car Magnets

Catholic School Fundraising

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Catholic School Fundraising

Fundraising Car Magnets for Catholic Schools

Why do Catholic Schools love our custom car magnets? Is it for the money that can be made as a fundraiser, or is it so that they can show off? The obvious answer is “Both”.

Catholic schools are private schools, and do not receive any public funding. Most of the funding comes from tuition, but tuition alone does not pay all of the bills. The really creative Catholic School Parent/Teacher groups will find ways to help close this budget gap with various fundraisers.

Some of our Catholic School customers buy 500 or 1,000 customized magnets before the beginning of each school year, and then just give one to each parent for free. Their goal is to increase the awareness of their school in their community. You can imagine the impact of have a thousand cars driving all over town with your Catholic School logo on each car. This is the type of exposure that cannot be achieved with any other method of advertising.

Some of our other Catholic School customers are actually the PTA’s, PTO’s and other Parent/Teacher groups. They have us design an awesome car magnet, then they sell them to parents and faculty for $10 each. The same number of cars now have their magnet on them, broadcasting their school logo and mission statement day in, and day out. The big difference is this… the PTA now has $8,625 to donate to the school to help with scholarships, computers, and anything else the school needs.

Taking advantage of a car magnet fundraiser is easy… we’ll do all of the work! We’ll design your magnet, print your magnet, provide you with flyers, create the email images you need to inform your parents, create the website images you need to post on your school website… we do it all!

To get started, just give us a call at 760-743-6340 or visit our website at www.arcmktg.com.

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Die Cut Letter Car Magnets for Schools

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Die Cut Letter car magnets for schools

Die Cut Letter car magnets

School Car Magnets…

Your new custom car magnet does not have to be round or oval shaped (although those are the most durable shapes). Your new car magnet can be almost any shape, and we do not charge extra for uniquely shaped magnets.

Die Cut Letter Magnets, like those shown above, are very popular with schools. Combining your school colors with your letter or initials, and adding the school name creates a very impactful car magnet.

One downside to the die cut letter magnets is that there is not much room for words. Adding more than just the school name can mean hiding the die cut letters behind all of the text. Since the most effective car magnets have just one or two words (don’t forget that most people will be trying to read your car magnet from several car lengths away and sometimes at freeway speeds), our die cut letter magnets get your message out there. The key is to be bold with your school initials and school colors, but keep the text to a minimum for greatest impact.

Let our expert designers help you with your design (at no charge!). Give us a call at 760-743-6340 and let’s get your new magnet designed.

Fundraising Car Magnets

Car Magnets for School Fundraising

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School Car Magnets

Car Magnets for School Fundraising

There’s still time to get custom fundraising car magnets for your school. We can usually get your custom car magnets to you in about 2 weeks, so let’s get started designing your new magnets!

There are hundreds of different ways you can make money for your PTA, PTO or School. Car magnets just might be the easiest and most profitable. If you did an internet search for “School Fundraising Ideas”, you get a bunch of very questionable suggestions: cake walk, haunted house, etc. Do you really think you’ll make much money doing things like that? And what about the time commitment? Can you imagine the man-hours needed to put a Haunted House fundraiser together? You’ll probably lose money on most of the suggested fundraisers you find on-line. Is the huge amount of time and effort to create and staff these events worth the meager amount of money you’ll make? Answer = NO!

Car magnets on the other hand, practically sell themselves.  Plus, after the event (while you’re counting your money), the car magnet is broadcasting your school name all over town.

Getting started couldn’t be easier, because our art department is going to do all of the heavy lifting. Just fill out our Virtual Magnet request form, give us a few ideas of what you want on your magnet design (school name, mascot, colors, etc.) and one of our amazing artists will create a preliminary design for you in a day or less. From there we fine-tune the design until you have just the look you want. Then we print them, ship them and you sell them to parents and faculty. Easy!

For more information, just give us a call at 760-743-6340, or fill out the Virtual Magnet form by clicking here!

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Car Magnets for Boy Scout Fundraising

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Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and Cub Scouts; all can benefit from a custom fundraising car magnet. Scouting troops and packs from all over America use custom car magnets from ARC Marketing to raise money and increase awareness.

Most of the “Boy Scout” magnets that we make are for FOS (Friends of Scouting) thank you gifts. The Boy Scouts, like many large, philanthropic organizations, relies on private donations to fund a lot of their programs. These Scout Councils thank their donors with some token of their gratitude each year. The perfect Thank You gift would be one that would let the donor show the world that they support scouting. What could possibly be seen by more people than a magnet on the back of your car? Now what if that Thank You gift also created a ton of awareness for your Scout Council? Okay class, does anyone know where I’m going with this?

You are correct! The perfect FOS Thank You Gift is a car magnet, custom designed for your Scout Council.

It checks all the boxes:

  • Donor gets to show the world he supports scouting
  • Scout Council gets a ton of exposure
  • It’s cost-effective! Won’t bust your budget.

Our expert magnet designers will create an eye-catching magnet for you at no charge (all artwork is free at ARC Marketing), so you have nothing to lose.

Reach out to us at www.arcmktg.com or give us a call at 760-743-6340 and let’s partner-up to create a car magnet that will both make money and make your scouts proud!

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Custom Car Decals for School Fundraising

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Car Window Decals

Car Window Decals for Fundraising

The Lawrence School is located in Broadview Heights, Ohio. They recently purchase a large quantity of both car magnets and windshield decals. Both the magnets and the decals used the same design (most school do it this way), with the main difference being the size. Typically, our oval magnets are 6″ x 4″ , but we prefer to make our Rear Windshield Decals just a little smaller (5″ x 3″), so that your view through your rear-view mirror is not blocked.

Our car window decals offer a cost effective way to raise money and increase awareness for your school. At about half the price of our world’s-best car magnets, you can save a substantial amount of money, but you can still raise the same amount of money for your fundraiser.

For more information about our car magnets and our car window decals, visit our website at www.arcmktg.com, or give us a call at 760-743-6340.

Fundraising Car Magnets

Play Ball!

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Custom Car Magnets for Little League Baseball

Lake Norman Little League car magnet

It may still “officially” be winter, but spring is in the air. Major League Baseball pitchers and catchers report to Spring Training in just a few days. Youngsters everywhere are breaking out the mitts and bats getting ready to Play Ball. If this is an annual ritual in your home , then your children play organized youth baseball.

As the parent of a budding super star, you know the expense and preparation that goes into youth baseball. As parents, you need to pay for all of the individual expenses on your own (a new mitt, new cleats, uniform expenses, etc.). But the team and the league you play in has huge expenses also. There are league fees, facility fees, coaching expenses, travel expenses, etc. These add up in a hurry.

Fundraising plays a big part in paying for these shared expenses. In fact, the portion that is not covered by fundraising is usually passed along to the parents, simply adding to the already staggering amount paid for the individual expenses. This is why so many leagues now have a dedicated “Fundraising Coordinator”, whose job is to make sure that fundraising gets the support it deserves.

Most leagues run several fundraisers. Some are profitable, some are not. Some are eagerly anticipated by the parents and kids, and some are very unpopular. For example, if you Google “Baseball Fundraising Ideas”, you find things like “Cookie Dough Sales”, “Lollipops” and “Magic Melt Wax Bars” (what the heck is that?!). Most kids are embarrassed to be associated with fundraisers like this.

In contrast, selling items with your League Logo, or Team Logo on them are very popular and not at all embarrassing. Your kids take pride in their team and would proudly sell custom car magnets and custom windshield decals. Not only that, they are going to insist that you put one on every car in your family.

Let our expert designers create a custom car magnet for your team. The design is free, and you are under no obligation to buy the magnets even after we’ve spent hours designing your magnet. You have nothing to lose! for more information, and to get started on your free design, just click here!

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Custom Vehicle Magnets

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Customized Car Magets

Custom Vehicle Magnets

Add impact to all of your fundraising efforts with a custom vehicle magnet from ARC Marketing.

Perfect for schools, youth sports teams, churches, scouting… you name it! Any group can easily get an affordable, high quality, weather-proof car magnet for fundraising or just showing off!

Works on almost any vehicle, this is a great way to increase awareness for your group as you raise money for your worthwhile cause.

ARC Marketing designs and produces custom car magnets for hundreds of schools and sports teams every year. Our magnets are the best, our designers are the best and you will definitely be proud to put this magnet on your car.

For more information and a free vehicle magnet design, just give us a call at 760-743-6340!