opportunity for schools and community
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- Handout for Schools
- Presentation for Schools
- Benefits for local Business
  1. Raise money for schools
  2. Build community with local businesses
  3. Interact at school events
"Turn every school event into a fundraiser"
BoomerangCast provides a way for schools to raise funds for much needed extracurricular/academic/enrichment programs at no cost to the schools.  Through BoomerangCast’s voting and polling application, any school event can be turned into a fundraiser by creating a vote where there may not have been one historically.  For example, a vote for MVP at every sporting event, lunch time rallies, homecoming court, best science project etc.
By using BoomerangCast’s platform at school events, the school will in effect be supporting local businesses by showing their advertisements to parents and families in the community who will be happy to support a business that supports their schools.  
A mutually beneficial relationship will build between schools and businesses in the community. By involving the students to contact local businesses to solicit their support, they will gain real world experience in sales, digital marketing, advertising, and imaging. 
Sign up now for free and lock-in our introductory revenue rate for life...at no cost. 


what it looks like in action

Example: how BoomerangCast works at a High School Football game
1
Announcement to Vote
Attendees of the event are instructed to use BoomerangCast to submit their pick for:

1) half time MVP
2) PTA funding allocation
3) Teacher of the Month
etc...
2
Voting
Parents, students, and other attendees at the game open the BoomerangCast app and see the voting menu for the event, without any searching or filtering.  They place their votes in the app and see local business ads whose advertising money is supporting the school.
3
Capturing the Vote
BoomerangCast captures the voting and polling results from the attendees.  Real time voting results appear in the app as well as through the BoomerangCast admin portal online. 
4
Schools Raise Money
BoomerangCast collects payment from advertising and distributes the revenue to the school*

How it works

Voting and Polling
BoomerangCast provides access for schools to our online web portal.  The BoomerangCast portal lets you 
  • Create an event to be broadcast in the mobile app by time, date, and location
  • Insert all the voting questions and response options which will be broadcast when the event appears in the app
  • Sell, insert, and manage advertising and sponsors for your events, complete with payment processing capabilities

Advertising
Advertising is embedded into the voting screens through the BoomerangCast web portal.  Your school along with BoomerangCast’s team target local businesses around the school, previous sponsors, etc informing them of the ad space available for sale and for which school event(s).  Businesses are informed that their advertising revenue is helping the school and will be seen that way from parents and students in an effort to drive business back to them.  


Financials
There is no cost to use BoomerangCast for schools.  Revenue is generated through advertising dollars from local businesses.  Advertising is paid for through the BoomerangCast online portal.  The majority of the advertising revenue will be sent to the school after BoomerangCast’s service fee* and any bank imposed charges for payment transactions.

Frequently asked questions

What does it cost to use BoomerangCast?
  • There is no flat fee or up front costs to use BoomerangCast.  BoomerangCast makes a small percentage of the advertising revenue from your events to keep our systems up and running and our lights on (you keep 80% if you sign up early).  The more your school makes, the more we make so its in our best interest for you to succeed!  Our other partners (TV, Radio, stadiums, etc) will receive lower percentages of the advertising revenue and/or pay a service fee for use
What kind of “events” can I use BoomerangCast for?
  • Any and all sporting events (freshman, JV, Varsity)
  • Student voting - lunch rallies, homecoming court/floats, costume contests, project voting, PTA fund allocation, etc 
  • Community voting with parents and students
  • The more events you create, the more money you can raise
What kind of questions should we include in our voting and polling?
  • Short answer: any questions you see fit for your audience
  • Vote for your teams MVP, most improved from last game, biggest impact, best at each position, prizes/contests, best teacher, leadership teams, best local pizza/food, any internal school voting..etc
When can I start using BoomerangCast?
  • Our product is being developed and will be up sometime in March of 2015
What should I do now for my school?
  • Sign your school up and take advantage of our promotional revenue sharing rate without any obligation at www.boomerangcast.com/signup.html 
  • Give us feedback, direction, ideas; send us an email – founders@boomerangcast.com
  • Help us raise awareness to other schools, districts, PTA groups, educational funds, etc
  • Give us ideas on other types of voting and polling you would do so we can share the knowledge with other schools and education groups
How do people get the BoomerangCast mobile application?
  • Once fully developed, the BoomerangCast application will be available in the Apple IOS store and the Google Play store for Android phones.  We are currently looking at additional ways to access the app such as texting a number to receive a direct link to the app. Logging into the app will be through Facebook, Gmail/Google, or Twitter
How many advertisements can I insert on a voting screen?
  • Currently the system will support 0-4 advertisements on a single voting screen
How many voting screens can I have for an event? (voting/polling questions)
  • As few as 1, but as many as you want
How much should my school charge for a single advertisement spot?
  • Rather than set pricing ourselves, we leave the price up to you.  You may charge more for some events vs others.  You may also give discounts if businesses purchase multiple advertising spots at once.  Our team will be more than happy to help you create guidelines about pricing
  • If your school verbally acknowledges the business advertisers at your events, directs people to support them and thank the business for their support,  a single advertising spot could start around $100 or more
How is money collected from the Advertisements we sell?
  • Money is collected through our online web portal and kept in your organization’s name until the advertising is inserted and used in an event voting screen
When does my school get money?
  • When you use the advertising sold in your events, we transfer the value of the advertising inserted to your school either through a check by mail, or an online web account such as paypal
What the do the business advertisers get
  • If they purchase multiple advertising spaces at a time, we’ll send them a window placard for their business saying they support your school with BoomerangCast
  • Visibility for their business on the voting page at your event in the form of an advertisement space
  • To maximize their return on advertising investment, they should get verbal acknowledgement at the event for sponsoring the vote/event and a request from the school to parents and students to support them
  • Their advertisement will remain in the mobile app’s Deals/sponsors repository with the option for a web-link to their website and a digital coupon for attendees
  • Here is a slide outlining benefits businesses receive for sponsoring your events
* BoomerangCast is offering 80% of the revenue from advertising to go to the first few schools as a promotional offer.  Once on board, your school’s percentage of revenue will never get lowered.