By BFS

If you’re on a tight budget, a school network of television channels might just be the easiest way to ease the pain and pump up your funds Maxcast offers a great way to publicize school fundraisers such as car washes, but there are many other exciting – and potentially far more profitable – ways to use this service to raise money.

Although no formal poll has been taken on the subject, if you were to ask the typical high school coach what is the most distasteful aspect of their job, it would be…drum roll, please…fundraising. Pick your poison: selling cookie dough, Gold cards, raffle tickets or – everyone’s favorite – the car wash. Sure, all of these fundraising efforts generate cash, but often the payoff is disappointing. This is especially true when several teams or after-school clubs find themselves competing against each other by pushing the same products. Here’s an innovative alternative. In our last issue we introduced an exciting new media tool, Maxcast.

Maxcast allows you to create your own TV station on the Web in which you not only control all the content but also who is allowed to watch it. Want to broadcast your homecoming game? You can do it with Maxcast. Want to have a school news channel? You can do it with Maxcast. And, as you’ll discover in other articles in this issue (and as shown in Figure 1), you can enhance the educational process by downloading instructional video clips. JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2008 Beyond its education and learning features, Maxcast offers many fundraising opportunities – fundraising that is both easier and potentially far more profitable than traditional methods.

Here are four of the most lucrative possibilities: Pay Per View: Just as cable television does with special sporting events, you can sell one-time views of your games. Let’s say a student films each baseball game and loads them onto the Web. Then each parent, relative, player or anyone who wants to watch the game would pay a small fee (that you set), and the money goes to your school. Fundraising potential: If you sell 10 family views at $2.50 per game, and there are four games a month, your school makes $100 a month from just that one family! Selling Commercials. This is a “pure profit”

fundraiser that works along the same format as the old standby of selling advertising space for sports programs. Rather than selling simple website banners, Maxcast provides the means for the school to insert commercials into your presentations. For example, a neighborhood oil change/tune-up service could buy three 30-second commercials that would be inserted into a football game. Fundraising potential: If you sell 30-second commercials for each of your five Maxcast channels at $100 per channel, your school earns $500 a month! DVD sales. Let’s say the school band makes a Movie Magic DVD of their performances during the football season.

Anyone wishing to purchase that DVD would do so from your site, sion on each sale! Fundraising potential: 25 families buy the DVD at $20 each and you boost a bonus of 20 percent, which equals $200! and there is no limit to the number of subscribers that can sign up under you. If just five schools sign up with Maxcast at the lowest rate, that’s $500 a year easy money for your school Subscriptions. Everyone gets a free trial channel on the BFS Maxcast Network that includes 60 viewing minutes. After their 60 minutes are up, they will receive notice that to keep using the service they’ll need to become subscribers, starting at $9.95 a month.

Fundraising potential: 20 families subscribe at $9.95 = $199/month, and the club is automatically rewarded with a commission.

Finally, with Maxcast your athletes do not have to go door to door pleading for money to support school programs, and you don’t have to go through the administrative nightmare of organizing another car wash and losing another precious Saturday supervising the event. What’s more, with Maxcast your profit potential is much greater and the money comes in on a regular, consistent basis. There are several other exciting fundraising programs that will soon be offered through Maxcast, and you can watch an overview of the entire Maxcast television network system by visiting www.maxcast.com/BFS. So before you order that next case of cookie dough, give Coach Roger Freeborn a call at 800-628-9737, ext.

603, and learn how we can finally resolve your fundraising woes so you can focus on coaching.

Commissions from sponsoring. Let’s say at your next league meeting you explain the Maxcast program to someone from another school and they decide to sign up. Then, for as long as that school uses the service, your school earns a commission from the other school’s activity. Fundraising potential: A five percent commission on each of their purchases, FIGURE 1. In addition to making fundraising easier, Maxcast is a great education tool for the classroom, such as for demonstrating plyometric exercises as shown here.

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From BFS Magazine — January/February 2008. Part of the BFS Magazine Archive (1980–2014).