One of the best ways to run a car wash fundraiser is to sell tickets in advance and canvass various neighborhoods going door-to-door.
Most car wash fundraiser tickets can be sold for four or five dollars and it really does not matter how much you sell them for because 80% of the people who buy the car wash fundraiser tickets will not come to the event anyway.
In other words you make the money without washing the car.
So the cheaper you sell the tickets the more tickets you have a chance to sell and that means you'll make more money.
The most important consideration when selling car wash fundraiser tickets is to use a divide and conquer strategy.
That is to say, grid out all the various neighborhoods in the city and assign them to individual people in your nonprofit group.
Now of course those areas, which have a higher income level will have the greatest number of ticket sales.
But you want to make sure that the youth in your organization do not hit the same houses three and four times each and cannibalize each other sales.
It is much better to treat the selling of car wash presale tickets much like canvassing to help people in political office.
It is also smart when selling pre-sale carwash tickets to send the youth in groups of two and put introverts with extroverts so that no one feels like they cannot do the sales.
Please consider all this in 2006.