How so?

By taking advantage of what's known as an affiliate program or in more common lingo - partnering.

How would you like to partner your school with bohemoth Amazon.com? Blockbuster? Disney? or even giant Wal-mart? Your school would receive a commission or fee for every paying customer you sent their way. No products to deliver, cakes to bake or cars to wash. In short none of headaches of traditional school fundraisers.

It's easy to do, it's free, and is earning a lot of private individuals in know a mountain of money.

Here's how it might work for your school: You partner with Amazon.com by filling out a simple form and setting up an account where your checks will be sent. And then let's put a link up on your school website to Amazon.com that is linked to your affiliate account.

Now what if you told your donors, church members or other friends of your cause that they could get great books, gifts, cd's and videos through your site and help your school with its funding needs at same time? Do you think you'd have any takers? I think you might have a lot!

Now Amazon.com may or may not be a match for you. But...the good news is there are literally thousands of affiliate programs, many of which are bound to fit your school like a glove and make a smashingly successful school fundraiser.

This is age of Internet entrepreneurs. You see millions and millions flock to Internet each day. They easily understand business potential and low bar in starting a business website. They jump directly without much thought or research, contact one or two product sellers and open shop as resellers of items. A very few succeed owing their success to previous experience or contacts they have. Many of them just fall into bottomless pit of waiting for orders spending money on pointless traffic sources. Nearly half of them finally figure out a way to grab attention of customer and finally manage to entice them to buy their products. There in problem starts. They now have to figure out best way to ship item. Unprepared, they initially end up paying for shipping and handling out of pocket for first 10 orders. Tell me I am wrong, author is a fine good example of this. If only we could present articles like this to them before they blindly start their journey to bottomless pit?