Reading at Home Program
In addition to Reading At Home, we offer several other fundraising opportunities for both schools, groups, and organizations as well as smaller squads and clubs.
MailMAGS
eMailMAGS
Personalized Greeting Card Program
Music Brochure
Smart Billing Magazine Sale
Magazine Xtra
Corporate Pen Add-On
GMP (Group Mailing Program)
SMP (School Mailing Program)
MailMAGS
MailMAGS is a magazine mailing program designed to accompany a regular magazine or product program. It allows family, friends, and relatives of the sponsoring organization who live outside the community to help support the group's fundraising efforts.
Adding the MailMAGS program to your product or magazine sales gives you a unique way to stand apart from the competition.
- Students are given a student packet and asked to supply at least 7 addresses.
- NCS mails the notes along with a list of over 400 of the most popular magazines.
- Customers order magazines and send the payment to NCS.
- The sales rep earns commission on all magazines purchased and the school receives the profit. Commissions are higher on this program compared to the other mailing programs, so the sales rep is asked to incorporate the returning of the completed packets into the regular prize program.
Since students normally do not contact these people during their regular sale, this is an untapped customer base that will add to the profit of the group.
For those customers preferring to do business over the Internet, EmailMAGS™ offers the same features at MailMAGS™ with the added convenience of email correspondence.
eMailMAGS
Similar to our MailMAGS program, eMailMAGS is a magazine mailing program designed to accompany a regular magazine or product program. It allows family, friends, and relatives of the sponsoring organization who live outside the community to help support the group's fundraising efforts via their computer.
Students are asked to send emails to their friends and family members encouraging them to order from an online web site. Each email is customized by the student for the particular recipient. When supporters order online, students and sponsors are given immediate feedback. The sales rep earns commission on all magazines purchased and the school receives the profit.
Since students normally do not contact these people during their regular sale, this is an untapped customer base that will add to the profit of the group.
Personalized Greeting Card Program
The personalized greeting card program can be run in conjunction with a regular magazine program, a product brochure or as a stand-alone program. These high quality cards can be ordered with or without personalization and shipped directly to the end customer.- When run with another brochure, the cards will be shipped to the group prepacked by student.
- When run as a stand-alone program, you have the option of end customer delivery or shipped to the group prepacked by student.
Music Brochure
Our Music Program is fulfilled through Sony. This allows us to choose from among 350 music titles and 60 children's titles from many different sources. Music listings come from Sony, Universal, BMG and EMI.
Smart Billing Magazine Sale
The Smart Billing program eliminates two of the major problems that can occur in a product fundraising drive: collection of money and delivery of products. In our program, students use the traditional RAH magazine catalogue and Smart Billing order form, which allows the student to take orders without collecting money at the time of the sale.- The student collects the order forms and the school mails them to NCS.
- NCS mails an invoice to each customer with instructions to make payment, by check or by credit card (American Express, Visa, or MasterCard) directly to NCS.
- NCS collects payments and sends a profit check to the school and the sales rep.
Magazine XTRA™
The Magazine Xtra™ can be run with a product program. This program includes an insert depicting 48 magazine titles. All magazine price points are $15. Most subscriptions will run one year.
The program is simple.
- The customer writes the code number (all magazines have the same code) on the product order form. This code alerts the pre-packer to pull a voucher.
- Each voucher contains a barcode with the SKU number so the pre-packer can scan the product.
- A voucher from NCS for each magazine order is packed with each student's product order.
- The student delivers the voucher (just like a regular product) to the customer. The voucher lists the magazine titles available and contains an order form to be completed by the customer.
- The postage paid voucher is mailed to NCS for processing.
- Each customer will receive a confirmation card from NCS after the order has been processed.
This program will increase the group's overall sales. Results show the magazines have been pulling 6%-15% of the sale! This program provides the sales rep with another helpful tool to be effective in a competitive situation.
Corporate Pen Add-On
The corporate pen add-on allows you to target business owners wishing to support your school or organization. With a minimum order requirement of 50 pens, this add-on is an excellent opportunity to increase your over-all sale.
Supplemental Programs for Smaller Groups
For smaller groups, such as bands, cheerleading squads, and clubs, the following supplemental programs can be source of added profit or may fulfill your fundraising needs entirely:
GMP (Group Mailing Program)
GMP is a stand-alone magazine mailing program that solicits family orders (in addition to family and friends living out of town). The program runs the same as the MailMAGS™ program with the exception that students may earn a music or spirit related t-shirt for returning completed packets and having an order from home. Proven to be very successful with Jr. High and High School music programs.
SMP (School Mailing Program)
SMP is another stand-alone magazine mailing program designed for Elementary Schools. The students are asked to bring in 7 names of family, relatives, and friends. The program runs like the GMP except students are able to earn a $12 value participation prize for returning a completed packet and having an order form home.
