Crazy Busy is Good For The Soul!

Things have been crazy busy for me the past 2 weeks and I'm loving it. I'm in action and a lot of the contacts and work that I did in my first 2 weeks is starting to pay off.

The fundraising proposal that I'm working on for the Minnesota Knights of Columbus has been a long process. They need to cross all the T's and dot all the I's before we can actually set everything in motion. I will be at a pancake breakfast that they will be doing for one of their churches to introduce the candles to their congregation.

The cool thing is that we had a special label made to put on the jars with a phone number that we know the community will appreciate and will spark them into supporting the fundraisers that they will hold for the Holiday season.

I've set up a Cook's Association fundraiser for a school district in the city and look forward to their success in reaching their goal of $1400. That's not that many candles for them to sell.
Their really excited about the packs that I put together for them and how much profit they will make.

Fundraisers are popping up all over for me as referrals for me from family and friends in the city. And I found out that someone wants to talk to me from 2 other cities about fundraising also. I'm so glad that I decided to step out of my comfort zone and start asking for referrals.

Thomas J and I joined the Redwood Falls Chamber of Commerce also. This is something I wished we would of done a long time ago. We know a lot of the business people anyways so this will be a way for them to learn more about what we are doing. It will be fun networking with others and getting business, fundraising and retail leads from our group. And be able to help with referrals for them also.

This is some news we had lately from our gourmet candle company. Imagine the excitement when I opened this email today from the company -

Since we all know October and November are the two biggest months of the year we are going to make the "Holiday" Monthly Bonus Pool a little more exciting

"Special" Monthly Bonus Pool For OCTOBER and NOVEMBER

1st Place $4,000
2nd Place $1,500
3rd Place $1,000

New!
4th Place $ 500

Happy Holidays!!!!

This will be a fun competition because any candle distributor in out company can win this.

Tip: It takes action and patience to build an empire.

Cheers,

Susan