Best Placed to Sell Fundraiser Coupon Books.

I know sometimes where I live the kids will talk to the grocer store mgrs. and get permission to stand outside and try to sell them.

I hated those books. I just donated money for the quota and did not have my daughter sell them.

That said... your facebook page, outside the grocery store with management permission of course.

Bah. Humbug.
When my son's stem class was asked to sell them (they wanted a minimum of 2 sold per student), I asked the teacher how much they would get - it was %50 of $25 per book so selling 2 would get them the $25 they were looking for.
So I asked him if I could just write him a check directly for $50.
It would be the same amount of money to buy 2 books AND he'd get %100 of it without any bother to me or anyone else.
We had no close family to sell to, I was working from home and had no office to sell to, my husbands work had banned fund raising selling in the office (go raise funds on your personal time, not on company time is the thought behind that).
The teacher loved it and it was a done deal.

Cut out the middle man and get %100 of the funds going to where they are needed as much as possible.
I get really tired of the fund raising racket - it's a pet peeve of mine - and while it's a necessary evil, I refuse to pimp my kid by selling over priced stuff that no one would buy if it wasn't being sold on the cuteness of my kid.

Maybe your local supermarket will allow you to set up a table in front of their store so you can sell them there.

in front of the restaurants or places that you have the coupons for.

i have several neighbors that would purchase one just to support the school. you can also post it to your facebook and see if someone you might not think of wants to buy

You can go to neighbors (have kids go if they are the ones raising the money) but I don't find those are the easiest to sell door to door (not like chocolate bars). We always ended up having to pay for them ourselves and then we gave the coupons to friends/family we knew would use them.

Added: I too disliked those, thankfully they stopped using them. One thing we found (this was with buy so many tickets for $5 for a draw) was if there was a coupon on the bottom (often for sporting goods stores for example), the organization might be able to approach the specific store and see if kids (group) could stand outside the store to sell them. The discount was worth it (if you saved $10 but the tickets were only $5).

The other thing I remembered is that if you get a group to stand outside the place selling them (so for example, if this is sports related, they could stand by the arena, gym, etc.) and fundraise together - but tie it in to something else (like bake sale or something). Then could use the proceeds of bake sale (which would be donated from families) to pay for the coupons ..

I'm with B on this - it makes me crazy when schools/groups get so little of the purchase price.

But, if you're committed, I think it's better to make the kids work for it rather than have the parents hit up their work colleagues. Between what other colleagues buy from you and what it then obligates you to buy from their kids, it just costs everyone a huge fortune. Around here, groups set up a table at places in the book - so in front of the movie theater if there's a movie theater coupon, grocery store, restaurants (get permission of course). The other place our town kids sell is wherever there's a line - like Saturday morning at the town dump/recycling center, as drivers wait for an opening slot. A big sign saying what the proceeds go for makes a big difference - "support our schools" and so on. I know people who give those books as holiday gifts too so you might look into area bazaars and craft fairs to see if they will let you hold a table.

I hate the coupon books. My husband buys one and his sister buys one. The rest go back to school. If it was up to me, we wouldn’t even buy one for ourselves. I usually end up finding it under the car seat three months after they have all expired. We never get our money worth from them. With every youth sport team and 11 different schools selling them in our community no one wants to buy them.

In my opinion - none. The reality is that pretty much all the coupons in those books are also available online for free, so it's kind-of a waste of $ to buy them. When my kid had to sell them for a fundraiser, I bought one because he's my kid, but I did not inflict them on anyone else.

Are they still doing those? Most people don't want them because they are not worth the money. Can you suggest a different fundraiser, like having a local restaurant donating a percent of their proceeds on certain nights? That's worked well here.

Where I live the coupon books are really great. They are my favourite fundraiser. The ones I buy pay for themselves after using only a couple of coupons (free dry cleaning, free bounce house, free haircuts etc...) Plus, our organization gets 65% of the profit! My kids sell door-to-door, sometimes they ask a local business (grocery store, drive-thru) if they can sell at the door, and I will often post it on my facebook page.