Obviously, a healthy combination of the two is good but, in the long run of a season, what would produce better results?

You really need both, but for campaigns definitely go for fundraising. Influence makes a much smaller difference than ranking up your staff does, especially early on when staff is cheap

Good to know. when do they start getting expensive? mine are all at like Level 5,6 or7 through out my groups. (I level my staff evenly, typically I won't go any higher than the asst. directors level though on the other staff.)O_o

Staff increase pretty incrementally I think, so Usually in the teens they get expensive. At lvl 20 though, your staff will jump a few thousands in cost. Lol

If I was fundraising I would buy the Administrator skill point thing to double your stuff. instead of earning 20 bucks an hour you would get 40 (at 60 max)

Yeah that's what I did, and the returns were immediate. I would definitely recommend that ASAP

Oh yeah. I wasted too much on getting the extra point upgrades so I got the administrator too late. Lol

Thank y'all for the advice!