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If you are looking to open a bed and breakfast for whatever reason, I would like to tell you that you have made a great choice. You should know that it is going to take some time to fully establish your bed and breakfast, unless you choose a franchise. The most work in establishing a bed and breakfast business is the planning.

Having a bed and breakfast franchise is great but you should do the proper amount of research before you have completely made up your mind. First, do you know what a bed and breakfast is? A bed and breakfast is a cross between a very nice hotel and your home. If you are looking to start a bed and breakfast business then you should know that it is not like a regular hotel, it does not have fifty to one hundred rooms. One bed and breakfast will consist … Read more

Just as I told you before, to have your business fanchised, you’ll need everything on your business to be standardized. This is why you should develop documents of Standard Operating Procedure (SOP). With a good SOP you won’t be bothered by your franchisee asking how to operate the store, how to pay their employee’s salary, etc. You could compiled and explain everything they need to run the business in the SOP document. SOP is made as detail as possible, so even people with no clue about running a burger outlet (assume this is a burger franchise) could be an expert on the business just by reading the manual. Yeah, it’s just like the manual book included on your notebook, reading this SOP as a manual to run the business is a smart way for a franchisee.

SOP documents are unique between one business compared with another, each business has its … Read more

Wouldn’t it be nice to tell donors what to say when they talk about your nonprofit? The Rule of Threes won’t let you control what people say, but it will give you an edge. Use it, and you will be giving them “mini-scripts” that will come to mind when they talk to their friends, colleagues and associates about you and what you do.

I first learned of the Rule of Threes from professional coach Molly Gordon and author Kim Krisco. I like the Rule of Threes because it is so simple:

1. Identify three authentic qualities about your organization;
2. Identify three natural channels of communication; and
3. Feed the three qualities into those three channels three times for the next three months.

Follow the Rule of Threes, and by the fourth month you will be hearing people talking about you and saying just what you hoped they’d say!

THREE QUALITIES

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It’s Fall!

That means lots of nonprofits are ramping up their fundraising efforts and asking for donations.

It can be a bit intimidating, and it’s easy to get confused about the best path to fundraising success in the mail.

Here are three things you can do to get the most out of your fall direct mail appeal and raise more money for your mission.

1. Evaluating Past Fundraising Direct Mail Performance

It’s always a good idea to look at the things you’ve done in the past to see what worked and what didn’t. This includes:

• Cleaning up your mailing list to be sure all updates from the last mailing have been entered and any new prospects or donors have been added.
• Looking at the data from past direct mail appeals to see what were the smallest/largest gift amounts and the average gift amounts from other appeals, how many gifts were

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Planning and organizing an elementary school fundraising event can be a great help to any school in the sense that this can help gather funds, which can be used for different purposes such as for the development of new school programs that will help kids to hone their talents more; purchasing new school equipment that will improve the learning experience of students; and for buying different school supplies such as notebooks and pencils that students can make use of during their classes. The zeal and enthusiasm of the students in your school is one of the major factors that will put your fundraising campaign on its feet. In addition to this, the help that teachers and parents will be able to provide will also aid you in making your event or campaign a huge success.

Today, most of school fundraising programs are carried out in musical concerts and talent shows. … Read more