…When We Sell Raffle Tickets

Consider this: When you made the decision to hold a prize draw, you did so for the sake of your organisation’s bank account. Perhaps your funds are running low due to overspending. Perhaps, like many organisations, your donations are down in this this economy. Perhaps you simply have grand ambitions. At any rate, you’re selling Raffle Tickets.

But Raffle Tickets are more than brightly coloured pieces of paper. When you print your own Raffle Tickets with your organisation’s name across the top, you are selling:

• Your Mission. Your sales team should be able to articulate your goals. You’re not just selling a chance at a prize. You’re selling your own image. Make yourself look as stunning as possible and generate new supporters and plenty of good will in the community.
• Hope. Raffle Tickets are about taking chances. When you talk about your fabulous prizes and start selling Raffle Tickets, you are selling possibilities. People love the feeling of hopefulness that comes from expecting something wonderful.
• Lovely images. When you print your own Raffle Tickets online, the beauty of the design becomes part of the draw. Looking wonderful is a wonderful way to attract new supporters.

So look at your own promotion through the eyes of your customers. What do they see? What do they get? Start to spread a little joy and hopefulness while you make the most money for your organisation.

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Customised Raffle Tickets

They proudly announce your name and mission in bold colours. They help you sell more with brilliant design. They keep your prize draw safe. What’s so wonderful about printing your own Raffle Tickets? Everything.

• Appropriate Design: Print your own Raffle Tickets and find a beautiful image that perfectly suits your group and your message, while attracting attention for its own loveliness.
• Customised Text: Printing your own allows you to add you organisation’s name, your event name, your tagline, and even your sponsor’s name, so your message really comes across.
• Advanced Security: With individual numbering beginning wherever you choose, along with watermarks, security barcodes, and more, you can prevent ticket fraud and keep your prize draw safe.
• Fast Delivery: Order your tickets now and they will be shipped to you in a matter of days. No need to brave the crowds. Pick up your tickets on your own doorstep!

Printing your own Raffle Tickets online ensures that you receive exactly what you want. Use your own ideas and come out ahead. Sell more Raffle Tickets and make more money for your organisation. That’s why I print my own.

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It’s a beloved tradition around the world. I refer, of course, to the meat raffle or meat draw! What could be better than taking a chance with a few quid, preparing for the possibility of winning a lovely roast or some chops from the local butcher? There can be no more delicious way to liven up a slow night down at the pub. When a kindly gent approaches you with a handful of Raffle Tickets, it’s hard to resist.

While not widespread in the States, bars in the American state of Minnesota are also familiar with this tradition. It seems nothing heats up a frigid night in that region than the excitement of a prize draw. For most of the year, they need not even worry about the meat going off while they continue drinking. Simply popping their cuts into the boot keeps them even colder than an icebox!

In New Zealand and Australia, such raffles are also known as “the meat tray.” As the name implies, these prize draws usually offer a tray of meats. Perhaps it will contain meat suitable for the barbecue, but more often, the trays are breakfast trays (with sausage, bacon, and eggs) or seafood trays. Care must be taken in these climates to keep the seafood trays fresh and cold!

In any event, Raffle Tickets are sold, the atmosphere in the pub remains jovial, and the charity hosting the prize draw benefits. Everyone goes home happy. Meat raffles are a simple way to make a few pounds in a short period of time, while brightening the day of everyone in the pub. Looking for a new fundraising opportunity? Try some meat?

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Dreaming of sugarplums? Decking the halls? And what about all the lovely packages under the tree?

The season is upon us! Carolers, a light dusting of snow, a jolly old elf, and presents galore! In December, our thoughts turn to giving and receiving. It’s the most productive time of the year for charities and nonprofits, as everyone digs deep into their pockets, knowing that St. Nick is watching to see if you’ve been naughty or nice! Most of us find our returns increasing in December. More folks are willing to volunteer, more folks are willing to donate, and everyone gives a little more of themselves, thinks a little more of others.

Now is the time to order your Christmas Raffle Tickets! Remind your supporters of the needs of those less fortunate while helping them feel a little more fortunate themselves. When you print your own Raffle Tickets, it’s simple to get your message across.

Hark! The herald angels sing! Spread the spirit of the season with solemn designs, sacred designs, or festive designs. Whatever your organisation needs to succeed, you can find a Raffle Ticket to express your purpose.

Add a little colour this Christmas! Print your own Christmas Raffle Tickets online and start doing more for your cause.

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Who can resist children’s charities?

Even the toughest among us cannot help but turn our heads when the cause is to support a children’s hospital or underprivileged youth. So make the most of your advantage! If you’re raising funds for the folks who have the most fun, let your Raffle Tickets reflect that. Choose a design with a strong sense of fun.

Something Sweet: If your kids are the most adorable things you know, shovel on the sugar with some candy-coated fundraising. Just find the images that appeals to your sweet tooth. Making money has never been so delicious!

Something Savory: They may have trouble eating it without taking a meat sauce bath, but that just adds to the fun. Smarten up your charity efforts with a Spaghetti-themed Raffle Ticket, or search for other food-related fun!

Something Sporty: For your active would-be footballers, try something from the athletic collection. Football is just the beginning! Raffle Tickets reflect a wide variety of interests. Whatever your game, you’ll find something to liven up the fund drive.

Children remind us that the world was meant to be enjoyed. When the stress and strain of fundraising starts to bring you down, perk yourself up with some seriously fun designs for your next prize draw. Make it a raffle to remember with unforgettable Raffle Tickets.

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After all the care you’ve taken in finding donors, collecting prizes, printing proper Raffle Tickets, organising your volunteers, marketing your event, and selling those Raffle Tickets, do you really want to fore go all possible pomp and circumstance in the actual drawing of prizes?

No!

The big moment should be, after all, a big moment! This is the minute your entire raffle campaign has been leading up to! Make it sparkle. make it a moment to remember. Turn it from a someone’s hand fishing around in a hat full of tiny scraps of paper to a spectacle that will keep the crowd talking and double your event attendance next year. Make it a moment people won’t forget, a moment people will regret missing.

• Announce the time left until the draw at regular intervals.
• Stress that Raffle Tickets are still available for purchase.
• If possible, display the prizes prominently at your event
• Have a microphone and a podium? Use them.
• Appoint an engaging MC, someone who can talk and joke with the crowd.
• Find a local celebrity to draw the actual Raffle Tickets.

When the winners are announced, don’t skimp on the celebration. Call them up to the podium if you can. Media attention may be helpful. Perhaps you can convince a local news source to cover your event, in which case photographs are in order. In any case, you will want someone from your organisation to take snapshots of your winners as they claim the prizes. Let them pose with your celebrity guest, or with their raffle prizes.

If you already have a band, get them in on the action! Let them play an upbeat song as each winner takes the stage. Inexpensive tiaras or paper crowns make an excellent and amusing addition to the celebration.

Whatever you do, keep the atmosphere charged with excitement! Your supporters will go home happy, whether or not they’ve won, and you will have created your own publicity. Next year’s event will be even more well-attended!

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Once again fate has failed to favor me.

I should be satisfied with that time my boyfriend and I each won raffle prizes, but having won one raffle, once in my life, I want to win some more!

On Saturday, we went out to our favourite club, where a proper Halloween celebration was underway. The club were offering chances at a single big prize: free passes for an entire year. We attend this club quite often, so that would have been a brilliant prize for either of us. At fifteen pounds a head, it’s not exactly an inexpensive habit. (It truly is an absolutely fabulous club, though.)

Well, we each shelled out two pounds for ten Raffle Tickets at the door. Four hours later, on our way out, I asked the girl at the door when they would be drawing the winner.

“Oh, we did that already,” she said.

They had done it with no one looking, and then just told the winner. No big announcement or anything. What a disappointment.

You and I know better. If you’re going to the trouble of selling Raffle Tickets, you ought to play it up, generate some excitement, create theatre! Let everyone feel the anticipation. Let everyone envy the winner.

So, I didn’t win. Maybe next year!

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Yes, it’s true that we have some restrictive laws regarding prize draws in the UK, but small businesses can legally use raffles to draw customers into the shop, generate interest in the business, and reward those who have made them successful. While, in most cases, you will not be allowed to directly profit from your business raffle, there are still benefits for your organisation to such a game.

Running a prize draw out of a business carries its own rules and restrictions. If you already have a solicitor, it’s best to consult him or her before you print your Raffle Tickets, just to play safe, but here are some things to keep in mind:

• You must run your raffle directly out of your place of business
• You may only sell tickets to your customers
• Ticket sales can take place over no more than 7 days
• You may not offer prizes worth over 50 pounds
• You may not make a profit from your prize draw

Under the Gambling Act of 2005, your business raffle falls under System B. As such you are required to print certain information on the body of your Raffle Ticket: your name and address, the price of the ticket, the category of people who may purchase the ticket, and some verbiage stating that the rights conferred by the ticket are non-transferable.

Fortunately, most ticket templates for sale in the UK make it simple to comply by these rules. Often you will find a space on the template for specific information, or even suggested text.

While your business raffle may not, legally, allow you to do all you wish to do, it’s certainly a brilliant way to inspire your customers! If you choose your own popular merchandise for prizes, basing your sales on the 50 pound retail price of the item still allows you to come out ahead, and it allows your customers to take a chance on something they probably already want. Everyone wins!

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Your selection of prizes

go a long way toward persuading donors to purchase Raffle Tickets and support your organisation. Regular readers know that offering desirable prizes, and even prizes at two value levels, can make a difference in the number of tickets you sell.

But what motivates your sales force?

Some of us are lucky enough to hire a dedicated sales team, motivated to work for commission or salary. But most of us have to make do with volunteers:

• Angels and other supporters
• Friends and family members
• Children or those benefiting from the proceeds

These groups also have less incentive to see the job through. They are more likely to get discouraged and even disappear. After all, they’re not winning any prizes.

Consider these tactics to keep your volunteer crew involved in Raffle Ticket sales:

• Regular meetings, so they feel accountable and aware of their progress. Coffee and other treats make such meetings a social pleasure, and they will be well-attended. Volunteers look forward to this type of contact.
• Email updates. Even if it’s not possible to meet in person, they will feel more involved if you send them periodic reminders of how well you are achieving your goals with their help.
• Thank you notes. Be sure to let volunteers know they are appreciated. A short, personal note is a brilliant way to achieve this. The occasional volunteer breakfast or coffee also works wonders.
• Small prizes based on sales or attitude. Especially if you’ve done your work, you should have some small item available to the person who sells the most tickets, maintains the best attitude, or represents your organisation in the best light. Reward any behavior you like!
• Some organisations find that volunteers sell more tickets if they are held accountable for a certain number. Let them take a certain number of tickets, and, if they cannot sell them by a deadline, ask them to purchase the remainder themselves. This only works with a very involved volunteer crew.

However you choose to motivate them, remember that you need your volunteers. Treat them well, and they will repay you a thousandfold!

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