How to Share Your Fundraiser Online

Imagine with me the times you or your kids spent walking around familiar and unfamiliar neighborhoods seeking for donations towards your fundraiser that you’ve been peddling for a couple days now. You’re tired, you’re scared, and you’re seeing very little return. Not to mention you have to go out of your way to knock on peoples doors, disturbing their evening, and push for some coupon book that they probably don’t want. The whole thing is awkward, uncomfortable, disheartening and tiring.

It was truly a frustrating time. Long have those days passed, and we now find ourselves in a new and encouraging age–an age of sharing online, not being face to face, and raking in more cash than you ever before dreamed.

To knocking on our neighbors doors, we say, “adieu.”

What is “Online Sharing”?

Not all of us all well-versed in the ways of technology. There’s absolutely no shame to that, coach! Zero! However, at the end of the day, you’re going to want to familiarize yourself with the basics of “online sharing”. What exactly does this mean? Sharing something online simply means sharing a message with someone else via technology. You do this way more often than you think: every time you send a video to your sibling through text, send someone a link to a product via email, or post about something on your social media page is a form of online sharing. It can be as complicated or simple as you want, but for us at Flex Fundraising, we’re keeping it quite simple.

How to Share Online

So now that you’re feeling comfortable with the idea of sharing online, we’ll go over the ways in which Flex Fundraising makes it as easy as possible for you to spread the word about your fundraiser. Let’s go with some of the basics:

  • You know about those QR codes? They’re kinda like a new variation of bar codes where you can present the QR code and someone can pull up their smartphone, access their camera app, and then focus on the QR code. From there, they’ll be able to click on a link that the QR code is attached to. You can present this QR code in person, on a flyer, on a banner, or online! Simple post the QR code wherever you want to share your fundraiser, and when people take a picture of it, they’ll find a link that will take them to your fundraiser page.
  • You can share the actual page to your fundraiser the same way. Using QR codes are great for things like sharing in person or on a banner. Sharing the actual page is better when it comes to sharing online through things like text or email. In order to share your fundraiser page, you can copy the link from the search tab in the web browser or you can copy the link provided in your page. Flex Fundraising makes your life easy by giving providing the link for you at all times in your fundraiser page. Simply click on the teal tab besides the link and it’ll copy. From there, you can paste it into emails, text messages, social media posts, etc.
  • You can share your fundraiser page through social media, texting, emails, work chats, online forums, local news outlets, etc. The sky is the limit, and sharing is easier than ever.

What to do if players don’t have smartphones

When working with little league teams, kids probably won’t have a ton of smartphones. If most of your team is without smartphones, the parents will need to do most of the “work” when it comes to sharing online. I say “work” because it really does take about 5 total minutes to spread the good work about your fundraiser!

Send out a quick email or text to the parents and show them the steps of sharing the fundraiser. They’ll be able to share the fundraiser and their child’s page with family friends, coworkers, neighbors, etc. Pretty simple and it guarantees a high return!

Fundraising has never been easier. Sharing online is when it comes to fundraising is the epitome of the “work smarter, not harder” mentality. You’ll find yourself sporting the best uniforms you’ve ever seen your team wear thanks to Flex Fundraising and our guarantee for you to raise more and keep more with your next fundraiser!