Here are our Top Tips to get you started and to help you achieve fundraising success. Why not print out the PDF version and keep it handy to help maximise your fundraising.
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Personalise your fundraising page - filling in an online form is easy and only takes a few minutes. To personalise your story tell everyone why you take part and add your photo.
Set a fundraising goal - be ambitious. When you reach your goal you will realise how easy it can be, so don't stop there, set a new target... the sky is the limit. And if you raise $1,000 or more and $3,000 or more you also become a member of our new MDC Classic Fundraisers Club or Classic Pink Fundraisers Club.
Send to everyone you know - be bold and ask everyone you know to support you - email your contact list and don't forget Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn and any other social network you use! Make it viral! Ask all your supporters to forward it on to their networks too. The more people you ask the more donations you may receive. Don't forget friends and family overseas - they can use their credit cards to support you from afar.
First donation - ask family or a good friend to sponsor you first and hopefully they'll be generous so that everyone else feels the need to match them or give more. Or sponsor yourself first!
Every dollar counts - remind your supporters that their dollars are going towards vital research into the prevention and cure for breast cancer. You can find out more online at Where your money goes.
Tax deductible - all donations of $2 and over are tax-deductible so remind everyone who sponsors you and let them know they will receive a receipt via email for tax time.
Your work can help - ask your company to sponsor you, or even better see if they will match every dollar you or your team raises.
Birthday wishes - if you have a birthday coming up between now and MDC then you could ask for donations rather than gifts.
Email every time - add your fundraising page URL link to your email signature - at work and at home. Next to your URL say 'support me on 13 May as I walk/run in the Mother's Day Classic and raise funds for breast cancer research'.
Countdown - when it gets near to Sunday 13 May, send out a friendly reminder to all your contacts who have yet to sponsor you. Remind them about the event, where the dollars go and how their contribution will help the future for women with breast cancer. Fundraising stays open until 18 May so you can send another reminder out after the event giving them an update on how you did on the day.
Face to face - don't forget to ask people face to face too, it's the best way to raise money. Carry around your fundraising URL so you can give it to anyone you meet or catch up with and then they can donate directly online.
Thank - all your supporters for donating to your fundraising efforts.
THANK YOU - for committing to a future without breast cancer. Your fundraising dollars will go towards research to help prevent and cure breast cancer in Australian women.
SEE YOU ON SUNDAY 13 MAY!
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For even more tips have a look at Top up you fundraising.
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