Blue Water Navy

What do you think about adding coffee to the ship's store?
There's a site, Best Bean that is set up for organizations to use to raise funds.
From their sample ordering page.

The Best Bean Coffee Gift Box is an excellent way to generate money for your worthy cause. The affordable pricing makes sure your fundraising efforts are maximized, all while selling a quality product to your supporters. Perfect for schools, churches, charities and more.

I will make sure John knows about this, it couldn't hurt, everybody drinks coffee!

Remember that we still have shirts, patches and pins. The Caregiver pin is going to be sent to those caregivers who are on our list, but we will have some available for sale. JR has a form for you to use to order the pins -saw the link on his notice, just can't find it now. Makes a nice gift for others you might know that needs the pin. We are also still taking donations as we don't charge dues. I think a nice ball cap would sell too- I'll have JR check on prices if anyone would be interested.

Marcella wrote:Remember that we still have shirts, patches and pins. The Caregiver pin is going to be sent to those caregivers who are on our list, but we will have some available for sale. JR has a form for you to use to order the pins -saw the link on his notice, just can't find it now. Makes a nice gift for others you might know that needs the pin. We are also still taking donations as we don't charge dues. I think a nice ball cap would sell too- I'll have JR check on prices if anyone would be interested.

Cafe Press is a good resource for ball caps, coffee mugs & other similar goods.

Here are some samples I have on line.



It would be easy to set up and the only thing I can think of that may be needed is a very high resolution graphic of the logo.

LOOKS GOOD. Thing is we need committment for these items before we can order them. We don't have alot of money to have things just sitting in the store - and postage always costs. BUT we have to have a way to make money so we can continue to keep things moving along.

JR will read this and surely get with the board and membership.

Marcella wrote:LOOKS GOOD. Thing is we need committment for these items before we can order them. We don't have alot of money to have things just sitting in the store - and postage always costs. BUT we have to have a way to make money so we can continue to keep things moving along.

JR will read this and surely get with the board and membership.

Ah, that's the good thing with Cafe Press. Nothing up front. With this way of doing it a link to the BWN store that would be on Cafe Press would be where the purchases are made. BWN would not have to warehouse, package or ship anything. When an item is ordered the product is made and sent out direct from there. The product can be purchased by the store owner as well if one were to have, say a swap meet space or something like that as additional outlets but is not necessary.

I put a quick and dirty storefront together so you can see what it looks like.
http://www.cafepress.com/BWNVV
Prices I have showing are at 10% markup.

A couple of samples using and resizing the existing logo.













With additional hi res graphics that are now used in the ship's store that could also be added.

Daklander,
EXCELLENT and I love the fact that it is ordered direct from their store, we do the same with the Tshirst.