The Ultimate Church Fundraiser

The Ultimate Fundraiser for Those Who Hate Fundraising

WHY NOT CONSIDER AN ALTERNATIVE TO TRADITIONAL FUNDRAISING?

Does it seem like your ministry's financial situation often limits its effectiveness? Do you wish that you had abundant financial resources to further the work of your ministry? Are you thinking about raising funds for your church or nonprofit but are tired of going back to the same people with coupon books, cookie dough, or some other item that they weren't planning on buying? These are not bad ideas. Many people have been ministered to by funds raised from these strategies over the years, but they are becoming less and less effective.

What if you could raise money for your ministry by giving something away for free that everyone wanted? What if the fundraising potential was unlimited? What if you could raise money by helping others save money on the things they were going to buy anyway? What if these savings could be hundreds of dollars each month? What if they could make a significant income for themselves while supporting your ministry? What if I told you that there was something available that makes all this possible? Would you call it the ultimate fundraiser or too good to be true? Think again! Once in a great while something comes along that is so good it has to be true. This really is true; the "ultimate fundraiser is here"!

You may be wondering if the My Shopping Genie can be that "ultimate fundraiser". The answer is yes! We base this resounding "yes" on the fact that My Shopping Genie enables us to take advantage of several significant trends in the economy, such as changes in how goods and services are distributed and how the Internet is changing the world we live in. Churches, nonprofits, and individuals can raise funds by giving My Shopping Genie away for free; and by doing so, they and the recipients of the software take advantage of these trends.

First, let us consider the fact that we are in the midst of a major economic shift from an Industrial Age economy to an Information Age economy. We see evidence of this change in our economy all around us. Manufacturing companies and the financial institutions that invest in these companies are struggling for their very survival, while Internet-based companies like Google and Amazon are thriving. This trend points to the fact that many of the most successful companies of the future will be in the high-tech Internet field. My Shopping Genie is uniquely positioned to take advantage of this shift in our economy because it enables the average person to make money online by helping them leverage the Internet.

Second, the way the goods and services that we need are delivered to us has been evolving over the last several decades. About one hundred years ago everything we needed was made by hand and, therefore, very expensive. In the 1960's the cost to manufacture products had dropped significantly due to mass-production to about 50% of the cost of a product, while the cost of getting the item to the consumer accounted for the other 50%. By the 1990's manufacturing had become so inexpensive that the distribution costs were 85% of the price of a product to the consumer. Sam Walton knew that since most of the cost of a product was now in its distribution. If he could reduce those costs, he could save his customers money and also create a significant income for himself and his company. He was right!

Michael Dell took Sam Walton's example of lowering distribution costs (to save money for the customer and to make money for his company) to the next level. Wal-Mart was able to lower the cost of goods to the consumer by bringing much of the distribution channel under one roof. Dell Computer has been able to lower the cost of goods even further by eliminating the roof. In other words, Michael Dell was able to become a billionaire faster than anyone before him by using the Internet to save people money on the electronics they wanted because he could eliminate the need for thousands of stores and employees. Those of us who have a license to the My Shopping Genie software are able to do exactly what Michael Dell did with electronics. He was able to lower his cost by using the Internet as his medium of distribution, thereby helping people save money online and creating a huge income for himself. When My Shopping Genie brings a buyer to an online store, that company saves as much as 60% over the same product sold in a traditional retail establishment. Some of these companies like Amazon.com and Buy.com share their savings with us, creating an income stream. This is a win-win situation for everyone involved. The customer using the free Genie saves money, the person with the My Shopping Genie license gets paid, and the company providing the product has a sale.

We are sure it has not been lost on you that the Internet is the biggest technological advancement of our lifetime and that it would be a shame to not be able to find a way to leverage it to create a better life for ourselves and others. From people who have made a fortune selling collectables on eBay to the founders of Google, we all have heard of people and companies that have used the Internet to earn huge incomes. The problem that most of us are faced with when we consider how to make money on the Internet is that few of us have antiques or other valuables to sell online, and even fewer have the finances and the computer expertise to compete with Amazon.com or Wal-Mart.com. Consequently, we have been largely excluded from making money online - until now! My Shopping Genie enables the average person to have an online business that makes them money by giving away free software which helps people save money on the things that they were going to buy anyway. It does this by leveraging the power of the major online search engines such as Google and Yahoo and the income-producing websites like Amazon.com and Underground Bargains.


HOW IT WORKS

How does the My Shopping Genie work? First you go to www.shoppingloyalty.com and watch the two minute movie to view the details; then you click "Get My Free Genie Now" and follow the simple installation steps. Once your free Genie is installed and you look for an item on any major search engine like Google or Yahoo, the Genie appears bringing you the best bargains.

How then does your church or nonprofit make money with My Shopping Genie? First, when you have a license to give away free Genies and someone downloads one that you gave them, you get paid a dollar up to a maximum of $200 per month. That is just the beginning. When your church or nonprofit gives away a free Genie and the recipient asks for the right to give away free Genies, you may invite them to become your personally-sponsored distributor. One really exciting thing about having personally-sponsored distributers is that My Net Universe, the parent company of the My Shopping Genie, will match (for every qualifying distributor) each dollar that your personally-sponsored distributers receive. For example, your church decides to make a one-time investment of $199.00 for a My Shopping Genie License and the $29.00 monthly fee that keeps all the Genies they give away active. Then the church asks 15 businesses or individuals in their congregation to purchase a license to give away free Genies, as well. The church can give away 200 Genies each month if it wishes, and using the Internet is an excellent way to accomplish this. (Please refer to the Genie Cash Club System www.geniecashclub.com from Stephen Pierce, one of the top Internet marketers in the world, discussed later in this report.) The 15 businesses that are partnering with your church begin giving away 200 free Genies per month to their customers, making a dollar for each download; and your church matches each of these dollars for downloads! What is your church's potential monthly income through the My Shopping Genie? $3000.00! That's right! When your church matches the $200 for the Genies given away by your 15 personally-sponsored businesses, it makes $3000.00 (15 x $200/month)!

This is highly unlikely, but what if you only had one person or business that wanted to give away free Genies? Well, if they make a one-time investment of just $199.00 and $29.00/month for the right to give away free Genies, add an additional $30.95/month for the Genie Cash Club System from Stephen Pierce, and follow his proven system to give away 200 Genies per month online, they immediately make $200.00 their first month, getting back their original investment. Each subsequent month they should make $141.00 more than their monthly investment. However, there's a whole lot more money to be made. Look what happens when some of the people that have gotten the free Genies write back and ask how they, too, can give away free Genies. On average, we have found that about 5% of these online software recipients become distributers. This is about 15 new personally-sponsored distributers coming into your business monthly, and you are matching dollar for dollar per download. What does that equal in income when you leverage the Internet with the Genie Cash Club System for this one individual? $3000.00 per month! Now, what if you leveraged the Internet with the Genie Cash Club System for the 15 businesses in the original example? You could multiply the income coming to your church or nonprofit monthly to the tens of thousands of dollars!

A great way to approach your church or nonprofit with the My Shopping Genie free software fundraiser is to treat it like a virtual golf tournament. Have each business sponsor a hole by purchasing a Genie license from the church. The business that gives away the most Genies is the one that gets closest to the hole. You can have a contest and even give away trophies. It can be a lot of fun. You can set up teams so you have multiple sponsors per hole; then you can double or triple your $3000.00 monthly matching dollars for downloads income!

There are a number of other ways to make money through the My Shopping Genie fundraising strategies, but we will just cover one more at this time. We mentioned earlier that major retailers save much of their cost in selling an item if they can sell it online rather than in a physical store. The My Shopping Genie has become affiliated with several retailers; and when you buy from one of these online vendors through the Genie, such as Amazon.com., Buy.com, The Gift Box.com, Kravers.com and Underground Bargains, they pay you a percentage of their savings in cash! Now that's exciting!

Some tax exempt organizations like churches and nonprofits want to keep sources of earned income separate from their organization so they might set up a for-profit business to invest in the license and manage the fundraising. You should check with your tax advisor regarding the best way to set this up. Once your church or nonprofit has a license in place, it is ready to make money by giving away free software and earning additional income by matching the money your personally-sponsored business partners make when they, too, give away free Genies.


WHO ELSE THINKS THIS IS A GOOD IDEA?

Why do so many businesses like major car dealers and real estate companies want to give free Genies to their customers? One reason is to help the churches and nonprofits they care about. Another reason is because their customers appreciate saving money on the things they buy, maybe even enough to pay their car payment each month. Still another reason is because the My Shopping Genie is brandable. When a business invests in a license for the My Shopping Genie, they can brand their Genie with their own company name, logo, and marketing message. (See Genie's Brandable Showcase at www.shoppingloyalty.com.) When a business displays its brand on the Genie, it finds itself prominently positioned in the midst of other key brands such as Amazon, Wal-Mart, and Underground Bargains. The most exciting part is that every time one of their customers or prospects that has the Genie searches the Internet for an item using Google or Yahoo, they immediately see their brand right there on the results page. This is a very potent form of advertising because the average person searches the Internet 88 times per month. If the business has given out 200 Genies a month for 10 months, there brand will have been seen by approximately 88,000 people each month. Now that's exposure, and that advertising more than paid for itself because the business got a dollar when each of their customers downloaded the software. Many churches, nonprofits, and businesses approach their congregations, supporters and customers by giving them the free Genie as an appreciation gift for their valuable support of their ministry or business. People appreciate getting the Genie, especially in tough economic times, because it helps them stretch their budgets by helping them find the best deals on the things they are going to buy.


HELPING YOUR TEAM UNDERSTAND

Church and nonprofit leaders are frequently confronted with ministry supporters or congregational members that need financial help and guidance. The My Shopping Genie coupled with Stephen Pierce's Genie Cash Club financial training system can be a tremendous help to these individuals. These are significant tools that can potentially turn these situations from draining off ministry resources to situations that increase those resources. It is important that we help the constituents of our churches and nonprofits to think of wealth creation in new and more potent ways. The following information will help you communicate this to your people.

"The Genie" - The Multiplier of Success
Professor Paul Zane Pilzer, advisor to two U.S. presidents and world-renowned predictor of economic trends, stated in his best-selling book The Next Millionaires that technology is the multiplier of success. He went on to say that each of us has a "Technology Gap", which is basically any new technology that we have not yet adopted but that would enable us to be more productive. For example, if a person did not have a cell phone they would have a "Technology Gap". If they bought one and learned how to use it, they would be able to make better use of their time and be more productive. According to Pilzer, the technologies that we have not yet adopted are our potential for multiplying our current level of wealth. Pilzer created a formula to help explain how learning to take advantage of new technologies is the key to increasing our personal wealth:

W = P X T

Pilzer's formula W = P X T means "Wealth equals Personal Resources multiplied by Technology". Wealth does not mean that a person is rich. A person's wealth is defined by Pilzer as the length of time a person can live without having to earn an income. In other words, if a person has enough savings to live at the same standard of living for a year, then that is the level of their wealth.

The Personal Resources represented by the "P" in this equation includes the people that we have influence with, the work experience that we possess, and the amount of time that we have available. Our personal resources have created the standard of living that we currently have. Our life is a direct result of the people we know, what we know, and how we have invested our time. In addition, if we have taken on debt to maintain our current lifestyle, then we have leveraged personal resources from our future. The sad thing about borrowing from future resources is that when the future becomes our present, those resources will no longer be available. The only way to make up for these lost resources is by leveraging technology now to increase our personal resources for the future.

This brings us to the "T" in Pilzer's formula. This is where it gets really exciting! We can grow our personal wealth very quickly if we can find our own gap in technology. The Internet, according to Pilzer, is the largest technological innovation of the last century; and to miss the opportunity of making money through this vehicle would be the tragedy of a lifetime. Most of us are only using the Internet for email or as electronic yellow pages. Very few of us have figured out how to use this remarkable technology to create wealth. What makes My Shopping Genie so significant is that it enables the average person to increase their wealth by opening the opportunity for them to create multiple streams of income.

Overcoming the 80/20 Rule
There are two primary issues that most churches or nonprofits face that can limit the effectiveness of their ministries. The first of these issues confronting most ministries is the scarcity of funding for the work of the ministry, and the second is that it is always the same people who do most of the work. The second issue comes from something called the Pareto Principle, better known as the 80/20 rule. This rule states that 20% of your people produce 80% of your results. Does this sound like most churches and nonprofits you know? It doesn't have to be. There were times in history where this wasn't the case. For example, when Moses, the person who led the Jews out of slavery in Egypt and established them in the land of Israel, called for help in building the tabernacle, everyone came to help! So many came that Moses had to tell them to stop because they had enough for the work at hand. Wouldn't it be great if we had too much help for the work of our ministry? How was Moses able to break through the 80/20 rule so that most of the people wanted to give to the ministry and to participate in the work?

Moses was a great motivator, and the source of this motivation was that he clearly knew his mission and had a clear vision of what God wanted him to do. When we have a clear destination or vision for where and what God wants our church or nonprofit to accomplish for His kingdom, others will join in our mission to accomplish our God-given vision. The My Shopping Genie Fundraiser can assist you in your mission by helping to bring in the funds you need to see your vision become a reality.

Some gifted business people fall into the inactive 80% of the 80/20 rule because even though they would like to be more involved, they find few places to use their gifts and talents in ministry. If a church or nonprofit implements the My Shopping Genie fundraising strategies, they will open more opportunities for business people to use their capabilities to help support their church or ministries, moving them into the active 20% of the 80/20 rule. Before you know it, your church could flip the 80/20 rule to where you have 80% of your people actively involved in the ministry. Another reason why our churches and nonprofits are bound by the 80/20 rule is because most of their leaders, who comprise much of the active 20%, are so busy working in their ministries that they don't have time left over to groom new leaders. The My Shopping Genie coupled with the Genie Cash Club System can help them make a full-time income on a part-time basis, eventually freeing more of their time to serve in their ministries.

A TURNKEY SYSTEM THAT YOU CAN AUTOMATE

The Genie Cash Club System (www.geniecashclub.com) was created by Stephen Pierce (www.dtalpha.com/talkback), who is one of the top Internet marketers in the world, to compliment the My Shopping Genie, thus creating the easiest and most powerful fundraising strategy available. The Genie Cash Club System is the culmination of nine years of experience that Stephen gained in raising himself from bankruptcy to becoming a multi-millionaire by leveraging the Internet. Stephen Pierce consults with Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits and churches on how to grow their wealth by applying his proprietary strategies and techniques.

Stephen Pierce suggests that if you want to help your church or nonprofit move to the next level, you need to mobilize. This means that you gather your leaders together to assess your organization's current technologies to find where you may be able to implement an Internet training system like the Genie Cash Club. For example, you may have individuals on staff or in your congregation that are gifted at utilizing web-based social networks who could use the strategies and tactics in the Genie Cash Club System to attract new members to your ministry or new revenue streams through the My Shopping Genie. Your church or nonprofit should do an assessment of the kinds of businesses that comprise your organization; then you can use Stephen Pierce's systems to help these companies grow their businesses and improve their capacity to support your ministry. Stephen has coached over 300,000 businesses and individuals, so he has a proven track record that we can trust. You can also use Stephen's system to help start new businesses that can very simply create and distribute personal growth materials online. You can find resources online that are built around God's principles from which these reports can be created to help people, increase the influence of your church/nonprofit and generate income for the business and the ministry. (The steps required to build businesses like this are covered in the Genie Cash Club System.) Stephen also suggests that we mobilize the youth in our churches and ministries to help them learn how to create profitable businesses that can fund their college education so that they don't have to go into student loan debt.

Finally we have a way to go to the root of creating wealth for our churches and nonprofits, which is being able to help our members and supporters grow their own wealth, thus increasing their ability to fund the ministry. The My Shopping Genie and the Genie Cash Club System are the perfect tandem to help you mobilize your people to take your ministry to the next level and beyond. If you have any questions or you would like more information, feel free to contact us at www.shoppingloyalty.com