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Hello all! As some of you might know, I've started doing a series on 10 Ways to Fund Your New Startup Idea and Get it Started Up! And in that series, I'll be talking about 10 different startup fund raising ideas from using Crowdfunding & Seedfunding, Angel Investors to Capitalists, Bootstrapping to Lenders, Incubators and more. But in my planning and organising of posts, I've realised that the ways and methods in this series are very all official and serious. But when it comes to raising funds for a startup, there are some truly, awesomely spectacular and fantastic things you can do. Some of those thing so fantastic in fact, (and make for awesome content for the Community FAQ here), I've decided to do a sort of side-series of much more fun and creative ways to fundraise funds! 
And these will be truly fun and creative ways indeed that should bring a smile to your face just learning about them and thinking about yourself doing them! But more than that! These fun and creative fundraising ideas can be used by ANYONE that is looking to raise some funds for ANYTHING other than your new startup. Where the crowdfunding sites and everything else has failed you, these fun and creative fundraising ideas wont fail you and will be guaranteed money spinners for you. That is, provided you actually do them!
Okay so I've put together about 25 fun and creative fundraising ideas together for you from just brainstorming this today. And I'll do about 3-5 of them per post/series. I don't want to give you them all in one go because I want you to see the new ones each day I post them here! Exclusive for my SEOClerks users!
Are you an entrepreneur with a great idea for a startup but finding it hard to raise funds for it? Or perhaps you are just someone that wants to come up with a way to raise funds or funding for something else altogether? For a charity or some other noble cause or even for some personal goal or project or something. Whatever it's for! But especially more so for a new startup!
And doing these fun and creative things to fund your startup idea can have a lot of benefit for you all round next to getting you some cash. I'll list the benefits to doing them for your business as well as what they are, how you do them and some basic stuff to know to get you doing them too. So let me stop gushing and let the fun fundraising begin!
Tip: You will need a GREAT sense of humour to pull these off!
25+ Fun and Creative Ideal to Fundraise Your Startup
Fun & Creative Fundraising Ideal 1: Take a Bean Bath!
Okay now this probably isn't for everyone. I mean, it involves sitting in a bath full of cold baked beans for a few hours or something. It's not everyone's ideal of "fun". But to some people, it's nothing but fun to watch someone take a bean bath! And people have been known to take bean baths for hours just to raise funds for a good cause. Most Red Nose days are full of some celeb taking a bean bath. And this is something anyone can do and collect funds. You could do it outside of your own house! Just get an old tub, fill it with cheap beans from Tesco and put up a board about why you're doing it and have someone collect donations and tips etc. You could serve refreshments and even have chairs too, proper make a big thing about it and milk it for every bean you're sitting in!
But this one, having a bake off to raise funds is always a popular method and if done right, can be very successful and always turn a profit. Since hot cakes sell like, well like hot cakes! And if you advertise and hold events somewhere, like even in your home where you have all these fresh cakes sitting around for sale, invited people will rarely leave not holding something. You could sell all of it and chances are with enough hungry people about you will which is why it can be a great money spinner!
Thanks! Yeah, it's not for everyone! haha and the ice water one does some challenging. You could ask people to guess how long they think you can sit in it and give a small prize to the winner. But obviously still get sponsored and take donations. It would be daft if the prize you gave the winner costs more than you made as there wouldn't be much point in doing then other than the fun/community factor I guess lol :)
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Why can't you? You can't sit in a bath of beans or ice water? You can't get sponsored to do a skydive? You can't bake some cakes? Can't is not a word that the rich and successful people use in their vocabulary. Can't is a word that people use to excuse themselves from doing something. Instead of saying "I can't do it" Say "I can do that" "For I am infinitely able to exceed my expectations. That of my own and other people. But I will have some more fun and creative fundraising ideas coming soon anyway. :)
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