How to Sell Raffle Tickets

Advertising experts know that the three sweetest words in the English language are “win,” “free,” and “money.” Nothing arrests the viewer’s attention more than these delightful concepts, which, when strung together, turn the average person’s thoughts to a positive assessment of any message that follows.

While the cash raffle is an unsanctioned option in the UK, you can still make an impact with your prize draw by taking advantage of the love of winning.

Communication is key: pricing your raffle tickets reasonably and offering prizes that are desirable are the first steps, but your overall sales are determined in great part by your ability to share the potential good fortune you have to offer a few lucky winners. How can you use these words to your best advantage?

Where to Sell Raffle Tickets

• Email subject lines: Don’t mince words. Whether the prize is an HDTV or free housekeeping services, announce it boldly in your online communications. Grab their attention with the wonder of the free prizes in .
• Article titles: Whether you’re writing a press release, a blog post, or an article for a local paper, make your case with a eye-catching headline that informs the world what they can win.
• Word of mouth: Of course, you’re going to talk up your prizes when you’re selling raffle tickets, but you should also consider talking up those prizes when you’re not attempting to sell raffle tickets. That is, the salesperson in you can easily slip references to winning into other conversations, turning any interaction into a potential sale.
• Targeted ads:If you have the funds to do so, you may wish to use ads on Facebook, Google Adwords, or similar platforms to draw traffic to a webpage where you are advertising your prize draw or selling raffle tickets. Employing the important focus words will increase your click through rate.

Sell Raffle Tickets without Fear

Be shameless in your promotion. The more tickets you wish to sell, the more important it is to find supporters willing to take a small gamble on a big prize. Everyone is a potential customer; it’s up to you to promote yourself. If your cause is just, your prize fabulous, and your ability to sell motivated by enough desire, you can sell raffle tickets anytime, anywhere, to very nearly anyone.

Don’t sell yourself short. Find the right words to advertise and just sell!

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With Valentine’s Day approaching, it’s time to consider the sweetest prizes money can buy (or your supporters can donate). Standby favourites include:

• Chocolates
• Flowers
• Spa day
• Holiday getaway
• Massages

For an orthodox approach to Valentine’s themed fundraising, pair these prizes with a romantic raffle ticket, which you can print online and receive in just a few days.

How about an unorthodox approach? The prizes above work well for most groups, but perhaps you wish to try something a little different. Consider ways in which you could make your supporters’ lives more comfortable, or provide them an extra avenue for romance. Busy, two-parent families, for instance, might have difficultly redeeming those massages or sensual holiday getaways, for lack of time or childcare!

What can you do for them? What about:

• Gift Certificate for free childcare
• Catered dinner in their home
• Free house cleaning

Consider the reality of your supporters’ lives? What is most likely to make them feel loved and happy? If you can’t guess, why not ask? You may be surprised to find what people are willing to pay for.

Once you’ve settled on the perfect Valentine’s themed prizes, select a romantic, Valentine themed Raffle Ticket. Printing your tickets online helps save time and money so you can start selling your tickets more quickly.

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You may recall, some weeks back, a post about a prize draw where raffle tickets could not be purchased, but rather were rewarded for each instance of an online activity benefiting the sponsoring organisation. Recently, I participated in such a raffle, earning four virtual raffle tickets.

The prize? A free professional massage!

Yes, I wanted to win this very badly.

One of the nice things about this sort of draw is that the odds are very, very good. I was able to increase my odds by taking action to receive the maximum number of raffle tickets. And my efforts paid off. For the second time since I became your fabulous ticket girl, I won!

If only I had scheduled my massage a few days earlier. Little did I know that the therapist would cancel on me at the last minute, having contracted a disease that left him unable to stand for any period of time

However, the sponsoring organisation made a complete success of their raffle, garnering a great deal of free publicity. In this case, every raffle ticket represented, essentially, a free advertisement, written by customers, extolling their virtues! This type of prize draw is a winning situation for everyone!

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I can’t believe I missed this one! I’m going to resist the urge to weigh in and simply report the news. Apparently, in March, a group raffled off a human egg. This was an enormously controversial move, not only because trafficking in human genetic material is a moral grey area at best, but also because the very terms of the raffle violate UK gaming laws. To circumvent this quandary, the treatment will be provided in America.

I’m not certain how much they were selling individual Raffle Tickets for, but the value of the prize is placed at £13,000. This covers not only the egg from a healthy female donor (the winner can choose a donor who looks like her, or choose based on the donor’s racial background, upbringing, and education) but also the cost of the IVF treatment needed to fertilise the egg with the male genetic material of ones choose and the implantation of the embryo into the uterus.

The company’s idea was to sell Raffle Tickets in order to promote their new service: Baby Profiling. It was a joint venture between a London fertility clinic called Bridge Centre, and and American group, the Genetics and IVF Institute (GIVF) in Fairfax, Virginia.

No matter how you break it down, this prize draw helped the group reach its goals. Not only did they earn money selling Raffle Tickets, they garnered a remarkable amount of publicity, a great deal of it free. Yes, much of the publicity was controversial, but I would argue that those who decry this prize draw are not potential clients to begin with. Their outrage, however, has allowed a greater number of potential clients to become aware of the clinic, as well as the technology.

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I’ve entered so many raffles this week!

Some of them were free raffles, and others cost a pound or so to enter. I could be winning extra borrowing privileges at the Uni library, a 50 pound gift certificate to the Uni book store, a year’s subscription to a newspaper, a Curious George doll, a few different books by unknown authors, or a tiny torch that clips on to your book so you can read in bed without keeping your partner awake with excessive light.

As you may have guessed, I attended a large book festival this week!

While I often write about printing your own Raffle Tickets online to help you raise more money, free raffles have their place in the world. Rather than selling Raffle Tickets for fund raising purposes, completely free raffles help your organisation in another way: they help you to build your mailing list and create free publicity for your group. While potential supporters are filling out the information on your Raffle Ticket, you have an opportunity to pass out literature, discuss your mission, and generally create goodwill around your name.

Once you’ve mined the data from these Raffle Tickets, you can add the names and details to your database. Spreading the word about upcoming events and promotions is easier than ever. Remember, with free raffles, you need not obtain expensive prizes. Small, coveted items work just as well. What do people like? As you can see, an item like a book can draw certain customers to you. Perhaps a tray of meats from a local butcher, or an attractive scarf. If it’s attractive and perhaps a bit frivolous, you will quickly collect plenty of names while drawing in new supporters!

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If you are considering hosting a prize draw to earn more money for your organisation, consider the following:

• Dream Big Certainly, you can decide you need no more than 50 quid, and sell 100 Raffle Tickets for 50 p. each, call it a day and go home. But if you are certain you can sell 100 tickets, why can’t you sell 150 or 200 tickets? The more you sell, the more you earn. More money for your cause!
• Talk Hard Selling Raffle Tickets is not for the faint of heart. It may be simple to approach friends and family, neighbors and coworkers, but if you want to earn more money, you’ll have to approach strangers. You must prepare yourself to discuss your mission and your group with anyone who might contribute.
• Look Pretty Choose a Raffle Ticket template that appeals to you, speaks to your audience, and represents your cause. With hundreds of lovely designs, you can easily find the most appropriate image for your campaign, an illustration that helps you look smashing and draws more attention to your work.

Whether it’s your first prize draw or your fiftieth, you can always hone your technique. Think big, talk hard, and look pretty, and watch the funds add up!

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More exciting news from the world of Raffle Tickets, philanthropy, and self improvement! Today’s story comes from Austria where, after a lifetime of hard work, millionaire Karl Rabeder has decided that his fortune and riches have brought him only misery. In pursuit of true happiness, Rabeder has begun raffling off his worldly possessions, including a mansion in the Alps, a home in Provence, a collection of gliders, and his sports car.

The Alpine villa, appraised at £1.4 million, is to be raffled off, with all proceeds goings towards Mr. Rabeder’s own microlending charities, providing small loans to self-employed people in Central and South America. He hopes to sell almost 22,000 Raffle Tickets, with each ticket selling for the equivalent of £87 a piece. Now that’s a chance worth taking!

Eventually, he hopes to achieve true contentment with nothing, having given away his entire fortune. He plans to live a simple existence, in an isolated mountain cabin or perhaps a bedsit in a small town. Karl Rabeder is one man who has certainly learned the value of giving and the happiness that comes from supporting a meaningful charity!

Raffling off ones home is nothing new, but, in this case, purchasing a Raffle Ticket would have a special meaning, given that the proceeds will all go entirely to worthy causes.

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Have you ever participated in a cakewalk? There is something to be said for the game in which everyone wins. A spirit of camaraderie and joy infuses those gatherings. Each participant contributes something and goes home with a prize.

You can capture the spirit of the cakewalk with a book raffle. This is a fundraising activity for groups with no capital whatsoever. If your organisation can afford to print its own Raffle Tickets online, this adds a lovely souvenir to the game, but even if you cannot buy Raffle Tickets, you can still come out ahead.

Simply ask each participant to bring a gently used book to the fundraiser. Ask them to choose something they have enjoyed, which they believe others in your group will also enjoy. Each participant checks in, deposits their book on the prize table, and receives a ticket, depositing the stub into a hat or bowl. Charge a small amount to play; all those pence will add up! At an appointed time, or at intervals throughout the evening, stubs are drawn, and the ticket holder is called to choose a book from the prize table. Everyone receives a new book, and your group earns more money!

Of course, you need not make it a book raffle. Use this same model with any commodity your group may enjoy:

• Gently Used Toys
• Yarn or Fabric
• Baked Goods
• CDs
• Sporting Goods
• Clothing
• Craft or Scrapbooking supplies

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Happy New Year!

Your fabulous ticket girl expects that you found plenty about which to feel jolly, with no coal in your stockings and all the eggnog you could stomach. It’s a new year and a new decade, so how about making a new start with your fundraising efforts?

Margaret Mead once said, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world: indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” Your group can make a difference in 2010, and you can power that change machine with the proceeds of your next prize draw. Start planning today and you can start printing your own Raffle Tickets online tomorrow.

Don’t think you have the funds to get started? You’d be surprised. Raffle Tickets, even beautiful, customised, full-colour Raffle Tickets, are not terribly expensive. If your organisation is a charitable one, prize donations should be easy to obtain. And even if you can’t find proper prizes, remember that certain services are always welcome.

• Cleaning
• Animal Care
• Tax Preparation
• House Painting
• Auto Service

Gift certificates for local companies that provide the services we always need are always welcome. So be creative! It’s a new year; time to make a new start for your group!

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On this day of joy and celebration, we don’t leave anything to chance. Meals are planned in advance, Christmas shopping is all completed, and the last travelers, having planned well in advance, are sure to arrive in time to open their gifts beside the Christmas tree. We may attend large celebrations or charity parties where printed Raffle Tickets are offered. We may even find ourselves the proud winners of such prize draws. But we never stop being thankful for our good fortune.

Christmas is a time of hope and our own charity efforts are most likely to thrive at this time of year. Supporters reach deep into their pockets, anticipating the warm glow that results from helping those less fortunately. If we have thought ahead, we have already printed and sold our own Raffle Tickets, and added to the joy of the season by holding our prize draws in public forums with appropriate merrymaking.

Charity begins wherever we begin charity. Christmas is an excellent time to kick off our charity drive, or to conclude them, with the wonderful news of our success. Christmas-themed Raffle Tickets simply increase the feelings of hope and anticipation that already fill the air.

UK Ticket Printing wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, full to overflowing with success and happiness!

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