Turn your recipes into a fundraising success. Yes, family style personalized cookbooks can be a tremendous fundraiser for your organization or charity. Whether it is for a school PTA, a church group, or for a charity, these popular cookbooks will help you reach your goals.
What Is So Special About Creating A Family Style Cookbook For A Fundraiser?
Cookbooks have been helping people raise money for decades. One company of which I am aware has been doing it since 1947, and is still going strong. That fact alone proves that cookbooks are a sure-fire fundraiser. People are generally anxious to purchase a professional looking cookbook that is filled with the best recipes from the best cooks in your club or community. They tend to be more than just another cookbook, though. Since the names of the contributors are with each recipe, it becomes a bit of history as well. Family heirlooms, if you will. Years from now our grandchildren will pick up the cookbook and thumb through it to look for something good for dinner. As they do, they'll see the recipe that "Grandma Tina" gave to the project and reminisce about their long gone relative.
Doesn't Everyone Have Enough Cookbooks Already?
To make it short...no. Like many other things, "too many cookbooks still aren't enough." As noted in the previous paragraph they are more than just a cookbook, but there are other factors that make them valuable. When an organization creates a cookbook, they have made a completely unique item. There isn't another one like it on the planet. It will provide recipes that no one else has. My wife, for example, seems to collect cookbooks. She literally has dozens of them, and most of them are cookbooks that were created and designed as fundraisers. Over the years she has made a collection of her favorite recipes from her numerous cookbooks. The best-of-the-best recipes, so to speak.
OK, You Have Convinced Me. What's Next?
The process is not difficult. The basic steps are as follows:
• Form Your Cookbook Committee
• Gather And Organize Your Recipes
• Design Your Cookbook
• Sell Advertising
• Place Your Order
• Market Your Cookbook
Each category has more details, of course. The list just provides the basics.
Which Company Should I Use To Publish And Print Our Cookbook?
Finding a cookbook publisher is not difficult either. There are many on-line businesses that specialize in fundraising cookbooks. The key is to find one that is reputable and reliable. The following list is a good way to narrow down your selection.
1. Find a company that has been in business a long time.
2. The publisher should have on-line tools and examples.
3. You should be able to design it yourself, or use a template they provide.
4. Options should be format, types of graphics, paper stock, organization, etc.
5. Last, you should choose a publisher that has a guarantee.
Guarantee?
Yes, a few companies offer a guarantee. If the outfit you are considering does not, then I recommend that you keep looking. You don't want to go to all the trouble of designing and selling a personalized cookbook, only to lose money, do you?
Get started today. Find that good publisher and begin the process.
Author Bio:
Andy Barber is a retired police/fire/EMS dispatcher. Currently he is working for Cookbook Publishers, a company that has been helping people and organizations raise money since 1947. When Andy isn't writing, he spends time on his eastern Kansas farm with his wife and the 2 younger of their 3 sons. He regularly criss-crosses the USA on his Harley Davidson motorcycle to meet with friends and see this beautiful country. Cookbook Publishers has been helping people with fundraisers for years, so check them out and see what they can do for you.
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