Last week I was
asked to help my local school fundraiser.
I really don't need another box of chocolates or donuts but I do like to
help out if I can. So what is the
fundraising product this time? I was
pleasantly surprised, nothing for my waist and but something my hip
pocket. It is membership to an
innovative little mobile web site. For
only $39.95 I got access to the site and with that I’m told more than 52000
offers from more than 3000 businesses across Australia. I live in Perth and have family in Melbourne
and both metro areas have more than 600 businesses providing exclusive offers
to MyPhoneVouchers members.
My second
surprise was that the offers on the mobile site were well represented across a
number of categories rather than being just restaurants. Don’t get me wrong, I love food but to be
honest my waist does not need it. What
was in there was tradesmen, car mechanics, and beauty services and yes some
food places that sound like places I would like to go. I have purchased a paper based voucher
product called the Entertainment Book in the past however I found that I always
forgot the book and also it was difficult to find discounts near me. This is where the MyPhoneVouchers.com really
excels. Just click the “Use GPS
Location” button at the top and when I then do searches it orders them by how
far they are away from me. Brilliant!
The “Find
Location” menu item also allows you to “Fake” where you are so you can tell the
application where you are going to be latter today or next week to find places
in that area that is going to give you a discount. I was able to plan an outing for next week
and best of all I’m getting it for half price…
I got in touch
with MyPhoneVouchers to see if
they could help our son’s football club, for wish I got roped into becoming the
secretary, and I was beyond impressed.
While they were more than willing to help with the fundraising product
they were also interesting in supporting us in other ways and all for
free. First we were given advertising in
the community information section of the mobile site so members of
MyPhoneVouchers.com that want to find a local football club will be able to
find us. Some groups like dance schools
etc. actually offer a discount that would also appear but that’s not for us. The second freebie that they gave us was free
access for our volunteers, committee and staff.
We don’t have any haha and I had already paid at the school but I think
the sentiment and idea is nice. MPV want
to help us reward those that are helping us and all for free. The last thing that was for free is actually
free accounts that we can give to anyone we like as prizes in other fundraising
events, events or just give them as thank-you’s at our presentation night. They also have a three step process to help
us get our supporters to become MyPhoneVoucher members. The first step is a free trial (obviously the
school decided not to run this phase), the second phase just gives the club (or
school) additional revenue for the first year which is $30 of the $39.95 (I’m
sure the school did take account of this phase
...smile…) and the final phase is the usual revenue splitting at $20 of
the $39.95 which is more than fair when compared with other fundraising products. We are in so if you would like to support us
or other groups, charities or schools you can go and purchase it from their
site.
