What's the most efficient way to get donations in return for advertising?
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Make a list of companies that may be interested to reach your audience and advertises to similar websites.\n\nGet their contact person (you can try sending an email first, without sounding spammy). Submit your proposal -- e.g. instead of spending X amount of dollars advertising, you can reach X number of users by simply donating prizes.\n\nIn our case for example given that we are an online publisher for home business entrepreneurs, we get donations from book publishers who give us their newly published books for free that we give away to our subscribers. One of the big publishers send us regularly 10 copies of each title -- and it's because we are reaching an audience that they want. \n\nSo we had to create a Book Store page that features the new titles that come out and review their books. It's a perfect tit-and-tat arrangement that has worked for several years now, and more publishers are coming on board and giving us books.
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Try a few of these methods and watch your sales soar! \n1.   Launch a Web site. Web sites provide your company with worldwide exposure and give your customers convenient access to your services and products.  \n  \n2.   Host a grand opening or open house. Invite local business owners and residents from surrounding neighborhoods. Provide refreshments, drawings for door prizes, free merchandise samples, and have plenty of business cards and company brochures on hand.  \n  \n3.   Monitor the quality of your services and products constantly. Satisfied customers who spread the word about your business are the best source of new customers. Pay attention to pricing, customer service, product availability and prompt delivery.  \n  \n4.   Explore various types of traditional advertising methods such as classified ads, yellow page ads, television and radio spots, and display ads in magazines and on other Web sites. Go with what meets your budget and best reaches your target group.  \n  \n5.   Support a local charity by sponsoring a fundraising event such as a food drive, toy drive or walkathon. Arrange for a formal presentation of your donation with cameras at the ready and try to get a local newspaper to publish the photograph.  \n  \n6.   Distribute fliers and business cards door to door, place them under car windshield wipers and tack them to local apartment, college and community center bulletin boards.  \n  \n7.   Maintain a visible presence within your industry. Participate in trade shows, attend community events and offer to speak on your area of expertise at seminars.
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http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/thankyougift/landing.html
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You would need to give address ect to get donations.
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Try this\nhttp://www.fundraiserhelp.com/fundraising-letter.htm
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Nothing but help advertisers make money!
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If you go to church, you could ask you pastor, if you could set up some kind of box where people could donate items. You could also, let your neighbors know your trying to raise money for someone and have a big garage sale. \n\nI don't know what else to say other than, government assistance, for them, and it help out allot to get people back on there feet.\n\nI hope this helps,
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Apply for federal and local grants. Ask for donations from local businesses. Ask computer stores if they'd be willing to donate equipment. Good luck! :)
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Easy - try one or all of these things:\n\n1. Sell something or a lot of somethings you own that are of value.\n\n2. Take on a second or third job.\n\n3. Set up a carwash at the neighborhood gas station to raise money for your "good cause."  Yes, you can be the cause.  If you pitch it cleverly people will admire your inititive and creativity and reward you for it even if you're not the classic charity.   Having hot, swimsuit clad people washing also helps.  :P\n\n4. Other than that, if you have good credit you can borrow it or tap a family member, but that isn't going to work if you're a flake.\n\nUsually people that have it together can find money when they need it, or better yet, they plan ahead so urgent needs are pretty rare.
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Just try RSS powered ads by Google Adsense and Yahoo Publisher.\nPut Google Sponsered Get Firefox buttons on your site, you'll get a dollar for every one you convert (available in Adsense).\nTry adding links for sites linking back to you or money.
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1) Ask your local church for help.\n2) Sell cookies to raise the money.\n3) Ask parents for a donation.\n\nThere are many more ideas you can think of.
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Enter a trailer in a home show or Commonground Fair. Donate one to a good cause and get media exposure.  E-bay, Criags list,  Web-site links.\n\nGood luck
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Yes, i think many people would donate - one thing i have\ndiscovered is that no one will donate if they don't know\nthat you are out there, so ADVERTISE!  Maybe in stores,\nchurches, daycare centers, etc. - with a flyer (min.cost)\nand you will probably get loads of responses!\n\nGood luck - great idea - many families to appreciate your\nefforts!
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Bake sales, car washes, spaghetti feeds, host teen dances...\n\n\n\nhttp://www.fundraisingweb.org/
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Try a fundraiser. most communities enjoy helping out for good causes
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Make a lot of promises to wealthy donors. Use the money to give yourself maximum exposure. Win, and then repay your campaign donors with lucrative contracts.