Umm excuse me, last time I checked it was SPRING!!!
Ew.
Monday Madness, indeed! :(
Hopefully it will melt as fast as it came!!
Now onto bigger and better things…another contest!
Chocolate and more chocolate.
What could be better?
Did anyone guess that 5 delicious Jocolat bars were part of the contest giveaway?
Sneaky, aren’t I? :)
Because I have been so strangely lucky winning contests lately, I decided I would share the wealth!
Also…I am giving away 2 of my delicious Chocolate Banana Glo Bars:
YUM!!!
How to Enter:
Note. Both items need to be completed in order for you to participate. If you don’t have a blog you can skip #2.
1) Leave a comment below with an idea of how I can fundraise for my first running race this summer. The idea should likely involve Oh She Glows and/or Glo Bakery in some way for advertising and spreading the word. Think about the idea’s effectiveness in terms of how creative/original it is, what would motivate people to participate or what their incentive would be, and how the word would be spread, online and offline. Please note that I am fundraising for the Canadian Cancer Society.
2) Link back to this contest in a post on your blog (if applicable).
Contest ends: April 12, 2009 at 8pm EST.
Winner: All entries will be verified to ensure that the two steps above have been completed. Once this is verified, I will narrow down the ideas to 5 and then all of you will VOTE on the winner who has the best idea for a fundraising campaign.
The winner will receive 5 delicious Jocolat bars as well as 2 Chocolate Banana Glo Bars!!
Get your thinking caps on! :) And good luck.
Day 11 (April 6th): Is there something in your diet of late that has been dragging you down? Too much caffeine, not enough veggies, too much sodium, or too many processed/artificial foods? Do you best today to reduce or cut out the diet downer. Tomorrow morning, see how it makes you feel. Did you notice a difference in just one day?
Also, do 3 sets of tricep dips for as many reps as you can do!
See you this afternoon! Have a great Monday everyone. :)
PS- Our power is going out from the snow storm!!! yikes!
isn’t the weather crazy?
I’ll put my thinking cap on :)
Put together a gift basket of as many OSG Products as you can, along with some pre-packaged goodies….then offer a Silent Auction. To enter, people must donate via the online donation center and then email you to let you know who they are so you can track who donated what. Whoever donates the most wins!
LOVE that you are supporting the CCS!
I think you could come up with some kind of bakery promotion – here are a few ideas:
1) Everyone who donates receives a coupon or a code for a discount/free item from your bakery. For example – buy 12 glo bars, get the 13th free.
2) Everyone who donates gets entered into a regular drawing (weekly? monthly?) for bakery items.
3)Create a special bakery product just for the fundraising (similar to the pink ribbon cookies – but something more creative). Price them so that a portion of the profit will go towards your fundraising.
4) Along the same lines, create a special T or tank in your online store just for the race. Price so a portion of the profit will go towards your fundraising.
It snowed here too!! SO NOT OK WITH ME!
Fundraiser idea: I would offer Glo products for a higher cost, with the proceeds going to your race!
I’ll link back to this post later!
Hey Angela! I love your site by the way :-)
My idea for your fundraiser:
I would either:
-create little scratch and win cards for people who donate i.e. have them scratch a card which allows them to win one of your products or get a discount or
-Offer custom discounts for certain dollar donations i.e. for a certain amount donated, you get this and the discount goes higher as the person donates higher.
Good luck! I’m excited to hear how it goes!
Stupid weather :-(
DO A BAKE SALE!! :-)
Since the Canadian Cancer Society’s symbol is a daffodil, I think it would be cool idea to incorporate a bake sale item in the shape of the symbol to sell, or have a virtual daffodil where the each petal can be worth a certain amount of money and your goal is to have X amount of flowers in your virtual garden.You can sell daffodil shaped anything!!! How does your garden “Glow”? That’s my little idea, good luck with all of it!
Ok, I will be linking in my post tonight. I’ve never tried Jocolat, so I am super excited.
Idea: “Sponsor” a running group or a team doing a 24 hour relay. The idea here is that you provide some of your bars for their nutrition during the run. In return the racers would include a link to GloBakery on their blog, talk about the bars during and post race… and you could work out a deal to get your name on their race shirts!! You know runners were those shirts REPEATEDLY!
i love the other fundraising ideas! i dont have any yet, but i will try to think of some..
oh and angela- im hosting a giveaway as well.. all you have to do is tell me about a food you tried and didnt like, no thinking needed.. lol plus its open to international peeps! Go Canada!!!
I would suggest selling glo bar to the specification (with in limits) for the buyer.
I am linking back to this contest now! I would feature each product from your bakery and your clothing merchandise and allow people to bid on it with the money going towards the fundraiser.
I think hosting a “Glo Bakery Fundraising Gala” would be a great idea. You could make a large assortment of all of your goodies, purchase wine, maybe have a band or DJ. Everyone could get dressed up and you could sell tickets for maybe $20. You could even have a silent auction at the Gala also, maybe with gift cards to restaurants or bars. Many times restaurants will donate gift certificates for a function such as this. I don’t know, it could be fun and a great way to promote/let others try out your bakery goods.
I was definitely not happy to see the snow this morning either! It’s crazy – it’s April and it was 10C yesterday! I hope the power doesn’t go out here… I go crazy and for some reason anything I want to do involves power. Suddenly I want tea, I want food that requires cooking, I really want to watch TV… it’s so weird!
I’ve done quite a bit of fundraising and benefit events… what seems to work well is a PARTY! You have such a beautiful home, it makes sense to have an event where people pay at the door. You can advertise that you’ll have food created by you to eat as well as for sale for people to take home. You’ll make it known that the proceeds from the door are going directly to support your cause while the proceeds from sales will go partly to support your business with a percentage also donated to your cause.
A silent auction of your products could be done here on your site or you could team up with other bloggers for a “bake sale”.
Have fun!
1.I know the BBC is going strong, however, since we are trying to fundraise now…I think you should have to donate what ever amount is comfortable to you to contiue reading the daily challenge. (You would have to set up a log-in for this so that people who donate will be the only ones who can access the info using there login and password they recieve after the donation has been made). As an incentive you can present the person who loses the highest percentage of body weight and the person who tones up the most (using measurement percentages since everyone is not trying to lose weight) with a special “Glo Bakery” Prize :)
2. Have a recipe contest to see who can make the next healthy bar/cookie/cake/etc. to be sold on “Glo Bakery.” Contestants have to pay to enter and the winner will recieve a very small portion of the profits from the sales of that item or they can just recieve recognition = ]
-Good Luck!
I did this during my undergrad as a project to raise awareness and money for the AIDS Community Care Center of Montreal:
I had friends and a number of people from my community donate a minimum of 10 dollars for the cause, and mapped out a 5 km running route around my community.
I made up t-shirts with AIDS statistics in bold black on the back, and in your case, your Glo-Bakery design on the front. Each participant was provided with a shirt that they wore during the run. I took pictures at various checkpoints of the runners “spreading the word.” The community outreach was amazing, lots of honking and support for the runners. Each runner kept their shirt and a bottle of H2O.
In your case, you could provide post-run goodies from your Glo-bakery for refreshments.
The pictures I took were made into a powerpoint presentation, given to my class at McGill. You could post your pics on here to further spread the word!
Good luck!
Don’t worry love, it looks the same here! Evil snow! Jenna seemed to have great success with her donation cookbooks, perhaps you could try something along those lines? Good luck!
1) You could do something like Meghann (graduatemeghann dot com) has done with the “Blogging Bake Sale”. In case you’re not familiar, Meghann is raising money for Team in Training. She requested that other fellow bloggers donate their baked goods, and then began taking bids by email this morning from people for the baked goods. I understand that on the last bake sale, some items fetched $100 each!
2) I will link you back on my next blog post!
I’ve seen this done before, and it was a hit:
Rent out a local bar/club to host an fun night of dancing, billiards, etc. If you do it on a weekday, most places are happy to donate space for a good cause. Just charge $15 or $20 at the door and most or all of the profits can go toward your race. Bring Glo Bakery items to sell at the event – I mean, what’s better than some drinks (…tipsy atendees, hehe) and sweets!
Good luck! I’ll be tracking back to your contest!
Bake Sale!!! haha
I’m so mad that it snowed!!! =0