Positivity Helps Produce Greater Results

Dictionary.com defines positivity as the state or character of being positive.

In psychology and cognitive science, the positivity effect is the tendency of people, when evaluating the causes of the behaviors of a person they like or prefer, to attribute the person's inherent disposition as the cause of their positive behaviors and the situations surrounding them as the cause of their negative behaviors. The positivity effect is the inverse of the negativity effect, which is found when people evaluate the causes of the behaviors of a person they dislike. Both effects are attributional biases.

Both older and younger adults process emotional data over neural data. However, age-related valence reversal in processing emotional data is often observed.

Positive thinking motivation techniques help show sales people how to see the possibilities in every situation and gain the rewards that others miss.

Without motivation and a positive outlook you will never be able to use your sales or management skills to their full potential. Motivation is the key to success in any sales or management role. It is the driving force and the power behind your actions.

People respond to motivated people whether they are prospects or colleagues. With positive thinking you will get positive responses from others.

In sales and sales management there are decisions made that are outside of our control. In our own fundraising groups our superiors, colleagues, and subordinates can all do things that we see as working against us. Buyers and donors make decisions that don’t appear logical and buy from or donate to other causes. Donation appointments get cancelled, and buyers hesitates when we know that it is a simple small decision.

Always stay positive when asking for donations and when selling your fundraising products and you will have more positive results.

If you are looking for a high value fundraiser call Sunset Coupons at 800-627-6340 and see how we can help your group reach its goal. 

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How Does Your Mindset Affect Your Fundraising?

Your mindset is directly related to whether your fundraising efforts are successful.  That may seem like an overly simplified statement.  But, you will find it is spot on.  You mindset will show both in your voice and your posture.  That will affect how you relate to potential donors and how they relate to you.

This goes well beyond just having a positive attitude.  While a smile on your face will help you in gree1ting people and making that important first impression.  A smile in your heart will make your presentation a better experience both you and your donor.

Have you ever noticed a trend in the thinking patterns of successful people? Have you ever wondered why it seems like success comes so easily to some people and so difficult for others?

It all has to do with your beliefs and self-talk.

People that achieve success on a consistent basis have one thing in common. Whether they are successful athletes, executives, business owners, or artists, they all know that they will succeed. They know this before they even attempt to achieve the goal they set out for themselves. They envision themselves living the way they want to live and feeling the excitement, gratitude, and the sense of accomplishment that comes from reaching what they set out to do.

Positive self-talk is the dialogue that goes on in your mind. It is where you believe in yourself and your mission and are confident in your capabilities to the point that you are certain that you will succeed.
When you believe in your fundraising mission and believe in your ability to get that donation or make that sale then you will have more success when you ask for the donation or present the item your group is selling.  Your belief in yourself leads to more donations and more sales.

When you realize the enormous power that thoughts have over your actions and view of life, you should make a decision to stop living your life with self-imposed limitations. Once you opt for a life filled with opportunities, potential, and fulfillment, you take the most important step to creating the reality you desire.

Choose to look for good things to focus your thinking on. Focus your attention on positive, uplifting, and encouraging words to say to yourself. For example: “Dealing with this client will make me a more patient person.” Choose to look for the silver lining.

If you are looking for a much faster and easy way to build up local cash flow please take a look at the help you can get from Sunset Coupon Books.  They offer 100% match of dollars to your organizations efforts.  Give us a call and find out more. 800-627-6340

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Sunset Coupon Books Your Next Fundraiser

Sunset Coupons can show you how to easily raise money for your Non-profit, Church, School, Sports Team or Youth Group.

Your Customers will find that Sunset Coupon Books have hundreds of dollars in savings from merchants in your area. The savings enjoyed from using just a single coupon can pay for the book. Clients will save every time they use a coupon and who doesn’t need to save money these days?

Sunset Coupon Books are small enough to fit in a pocket or purse yet contain over 40 family-friendly coupons such as 2 for 1 Meals, and Attractions like Bowling, Mini-Golf, Skating, etc; a combined value of over $400 in savings.  Invest $10 dollars and save $400, sounds like a real deal to me.

Local coupon book editions are available in Phoenix, The East Valley, Tucson and Salt Lake City.

NO UP FRONT COST
Sunset Coupons will consign books to bonafide established organizations. Call 1-800-627-6340 to see how your group can begin raising money with no out of pocket expense.

PERSONALIZED BOOKS
We can imprint your group or school name and/or logo on the cover.
Sunset Coupons is a proven moneymaker with over $4 million raised.

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Top Philanthropic Donors: George Soros

George Soros was born August 12, 1930, as Schwartz György) and is a Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, philosopher and philanthropist. He is the chairman of Soros Fund Management. Soros supports progressive-liberal causes. He is known as "The Man Who Broke the Bank of England" because of his US$1 billion in investment profits during the 1992 Black Wednesday UK currency crisis.

In 1956 Soros moved to New York City working as an arbitrage trader for F. M. Mayer (1956–59) and as an analyst for Wertheim & Co. (1959–63). During this period, Soros developed the theory of reflexivity based on the ideas of Karl Popper. Reflexivity posited that the valuation of any market produces a procyclical "virtuous or vicious" circle that further affects the market.

Soros' experience from 1963 to 1973 as a vice-president at Arnhold and S. Bleichroderl resulted in little enthusiasm for the job and a desire to assert himself as an investor to make reflexivity profitable. In 1967, First Eagle Funds created an opportunity for Soros to run an offshore investment fund as well as the Double Eagle hedge fund in 1969. In 1973, due to regulatory restrictions limiting his ability to run the funds, Soros resigned from his First Eagle funds.

Between 1979 and 2011, Soros gave away over $8 billion to human rights, public health, and education causes. He played a significant role in the peaceful transition from communism to capitalism in Hungary (1984–89), and provided Europe's largest higher education endowment to Central European University in Budapest. Soros is also the chairman of the Open Society Institute.

Soros' philanthropic funding includes efforts to promote non-violent democratization in the post-Soviet states. These efforts, mostly in Central and Eastern Europe, occur primarily through the Open Society Institute (OSI) and national Soros Foundations, which sometimes go under other names (such as the Stefan Batory Foundation in Poland). As of 2003, PBS estimated that he had given away a total of $4 billion. The OSI says it has spent about $500 million annually in recent years.

In 2003, former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker wrote in the foreword of Soros' book The Alchemy of Finance: George Soros has made his mark as an enormously successful speculator, wise enough to largely withdraw when still way ahead of the game. The bulk of his enormous winnings is now devoted to encouraging transitional and emerging nations to become "open societies", open not only in the sense of freedom of commerce but – more important – tolerant of new ideas and different modes of thinking and behavior.

Time magazine in 2007 cited two specific projects – $100 million toward Internet infrastructure for regional Russian universities, and $50 million for the Millennium Promise to eradicate extreme poverty in Africa – while noting that Soros had given $742 million to projects in the U.S., and given away a total of more than $7 billion.

Let Sunset Coupons help you with your fundraising somewhat smaller fundraising projects for your school group, church, charity, team or non-profit.  To finds out more about Sunset Coupons please call 800-627-6340.

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Testing, A Necessary Part of Fundraising

When it comes to marketing any good marketer knows that rather than rely on a “gut instinct” they need to test their marketing ideas.  They take several different ideas and run a small test for each and see what the results are.

After the testing they chose the method with the best results and that is the final idea or marketing style that they run with.

Are you testing to see which fundraiser brings in the most money or has the best results? If not, why not?

What should you test?  Well we can start with the price and value.  When you sell a candy bar for a dollar you make 0.50 cents per bar.  What would happen if you raise the price to $2.00 each.  You would make $1.50 per bar.  But at the end of the day how many would you sell? If you sell only half as many you would still make more money.  Would that idea work?  The answer is very simple, do a test and find out how well it would work.

Price and perceived value are the very important aspect of fundraising when your method is selling a product to raise those needed funds.

At Sunset Coupons the idea is fully tested with many years of results.  We offer a four hundred dollar value for your donor or buyer for just $10 dollars and your organization or group keeps $5.00 for each and every sale.

In addition because the value is a local value it is very easy for your potential customer to see how they can use and benefit from helping your group, school, church, charity or non-profit organization.

Sunset Coupon Books become a very easy to sell and a Win-Win-Win proposition.  Your group benefits, your customer benefits from more than $400.00 in savings and the local merchants get to introduce their products, services and entertainment to new customers.

Looking for a great and fully tested “New Idea” to help your fundraising efforts?  Give Sunset Coupons a call at: 800-627-6340 and see how we can help your group raise needed funds.

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Sunset Coupons Participating Merchants Phoenix Arizona

Sunset Coupons wants to thank all of the Merchants who participate in the program to help you raise funds for your school and youth groups in the Phoenix Metro Area.

Sunset Coupons Participating Merchants

A&W All-American Food - Coupon: Free papa burger with the purchase of a combo meal
Anzio's Italian Restaurant - Coupon: 2 for 1 lunch or dinner entrée
Arcadia Ice Arena - Coupon: 2 for 1 Admission
Bagels ‘n Bialys - Coupon: 2 for 1 entrée
Brother’s Family Restaurant - Coupon: Free Dessert with the Purchase of any Entree
Casey Jones Grill - Coupon: Free Entrée with the Purchase of a Second Entree and 2 Beverages
Castles-n-Coasters - Coupon: 2 for 1 Round of Golf
Charley’s Steakery - Coupon: Free Small Sub with Purchase of Small Sub Combo Meal
Coach & Willie’s - Coupon: 2 for 1 Pizza or Pasta
Country Boys Restaurants - Coupon: $5 off 2 Entrees and 2 Beverages
Cousins Subs - Coupon: Free 7 1/2″ Sub with the Purchase of Second Sub, Chips and Beverage
CrackerJax - Coupon: 2 for 1 Attraction

Crown China Super Buffet - Coupon: Purchase 1 Meal Get a Second Meal at 1/2 Price
Dairy Queen - Coupon: 2 for 1 Blizzard, Waffle Bowl or Banana Split
Daisy Mountain Railroad - Coupon: 2 for 1 Train Ride
Del Taco - Coupon: 2 for 1 ½ lb Bean & Cheese Burrito
Dickey’s Barbecue Pit - Coupon: $5 off Purchase of $20 or More
Enchanted Island Amusement Park - Coupon: 2 for 1 All Day Child's Ride
Fair Trade Café - Coupon: 2 For 1 Menu Item
Fatburger - Coupon: Free Fatburger with the Purchase of a Fatburger Combo Meal
George's Famous Gyros - Coupon: Free Appetizer with the Purchase of an Entree
Golfland Entertainment Centers - Coupon: 2 for 1 Attraction
Great Skate/Skateland - Coupon: 2 for 1 Admission
Hall of Flame Museum of Firefighting - Coupon: 2 for 1 Admissions (Up to 3 Free Admissions)

Ice Den - Coupon: 2 for 1 Public Skating Session
Jiffy Lube - Coupon: $5 Off Signature Service Oil Change
La Parrilla Suiza - Coupon: Free Entrée with Purchase of a Second Entrée and 2 Beverages
La Perla Cafe - Coupon: Free Entrée with the Purchase of a Second Entrée and 2 Beverages
Las Glorias Grill Mexican Food - Coupon: 2 for 1 Entree
Mi Patio Mexican Food - Coupon: 2 for 1 Menu Item
Mi Pueblo Authentic Mexican Food - Coupon: Free Menu Item with Purchase of Second Menu Item and 2 Beverages
Octane Raceway - Coupon: $10 off 2 Indoor Kart Races
Pancho's Mexican Buffet - Coupon: 50% off Buffet with Purchase of Second Buffet and 2 Beverages
Papa Murphy’s Take n’ Bake Pizza - Coupon: Free Medium Cheese Pizza with Purchase of Family Size Pizza
Pizza Heaven Bistro - Coupon: 2 for 1 Menu Item
Rocketburger & Subs - Coupon: Free Burger or Sub with the Purchase of a Second Burger or Sub and 2 Beverages

Rosati’s Authentic Chicago Pizza - Coupon: Free Medium Pizza with Purchase of 14" Pizza
Sardella’s Pizza & Wings - Coupon: 2 for 1 Pizza
Shanghai Grill Asian Pacific Cuisine - Coupon: Free Entrée with Purchase of Second Entrée and 2 Beverages
Speed Street - Coupon: 2 for 1 Indoor Kart Race (Up to 4 Free Races)
Stratum Laser Tag & Family Entertainment Center - Coupon: Free Game of Laser Tag (No Purchase Necessary)
Swensen's - Coupon: Free Entrée with Purchase of Second Entrée and 2 Beverages
The Good Egg - Coupon: 20% Off the Entire Bill
The Great American Grill - Coupon: 2 for 1 Entrée
The Rustic Café - Coupon: 2 for 1 Rustic Breakfast Special and Beverage
Wienerschnitzel - Coupon: 2 for 1 Chili Cheese Fries
Wildlife World Zoo - Coupon: 2 for 1 Admission


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Fundraising Is Selling… Never Stop Closing

Never Stop Selling as you drive your Fundraiser and your people.  Yes, that is a little different from the title and there is a subtle difference between the two.

But, Never Stop Selling

That is the part where you explain the benefits of your product to someone.  In the case of this fundraiser it is Sunset Coupon Books as the product.  They are a better product.  Be ready to explain why.  The following are the key points.

They Cost Less than the national books, just $10 dollars
They are better because they offer many 50% off, Two for Ones – Not 10-20%
All the coupons feature local merchants only!

That is the selling part – We are Better Because !!!

Closing is the important part.

What makes closing a different part of selling?  This is the pay-off part of selling.  When you ask for the order.  When you ask the customer to actually buy the product.  Once you sell during your fundraiser you need to take the next step.  You need to ask for the order.

It can be something simple, “Did you want one or two of our Coupon Books?”  This close is a simple question that can not be answered by a simple no.  The closing question is “Do you want to buy one or two of our products.”  Not, do you want to buy?

Use Trial Closes First – Wait For The Answer!

Before getting to the end of selling you can do a trial close.  Ask the customer, “We are just $10 Dollars, that is much better that the forty dollar books?” Wait for the answer and when it is. “Yes” you have already got an agreement from your customer.  When you get to the close the customer has already agreed once or twice.

You can even make a suggested purchase.  Try… Most people have been buying at least three… They make great gifts!

Even when a potential customer does say no, you can thank them and follow-up with… Would you consider just a small donation?  It could be a dollar or maybe five.

You've read this article, now take the next step. Call 1-800-627-6340 for free advice and Sunset Coupons fundraising ideas.

The key to fundraising is taking action and always making an effort to move forward.

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