by ticketprinting on February 28, 2011
It may seem like a distant dream on a dreary day, but spring shall soon arrive, and with it, sunshine, flowers, and a mass migration to the out-of-doors. Your supporters have been holed up all winter. Why not provide them with a little taste of fresh greenery?
Printing colorful, vernal Raffle Tickets for your next fundraiser is the perfect way to welcome Persephone back from the Underworld while increasing your funds! Spread the joy of spring with the lush images of new life. Pictured above, one of UK Ticket Printing’s Nature Series, the Green Leaves Raffle Ticket, along with one of two Spring Fling designs. Both work wonders in providing some much-needed light after a gloomy season.
Consider giving your prize draw a festive name that summons the idea of new life and new possibility. Ensure your sales team maintains a sunny outlook as they go about selling tickets. Be sure to remind potential supporters that the weather is about to turn, the season will change, and that now is the time to support new ventures and nurture fresh shoots.
Your spring renewal starts with luscious, green Raffle Ticket designs, a splendid way to capitalize on the human heart’s hope for the new dawn of a new day.
by ticketprinting on January 8, 2011
Time is of the essence.
Your fundraising needs may be extensive, and your schedule is important, but you must keep in mind the needs of your donors as well. If you intend to sell Raffle Tickets for multiple prize draws in 2011, it is in your best interest to stagger them out.
Our experienced correspondents note that constant requests for money, particularly in a sluggish economy, can be irksome for your supporters. You may need it quiet badly, but remember that your fans are also experiencing the economic downturn. If they are good enough to give money a few times a year, the last thing you want to do is alienate them with repeated solicitations that seem endless.
Instead, schedule your prize draws so that you are selling Raffle Tickets at particular times when you are most likely to have success. A big raffle at the end of the year is a good idea, as is one that corresponds with a large event you hold annually. If you hold too many raffle, however, you may trigger a compassionate burnout, where followers begin to resent your request. Rather than continual, small draws, combine your funds or your prizes to hold a few larger draws at fortuitous times throughout the year.
by ticketprinting on December 6, 2010
Item 3 in our countdown to Christmas tips and hints for prize draw sales success is a combination of factors that can work on their own, or, when joined together, become a dynamic powerhouse for selling event tickets.
First, consider a large shop or department store where you know there will be increased foot traffic this month. If you represent a charitable organisation, or one that works for children, perhaps the owner will allow you to set up a table outside. This lets you bring your Raffle Tickets to your supporters, rather than forcing them to find you.
Second, man the booth carefully. If possible, have children or teenagers at the table, selling the tickets for you. Their pathos will improve sales. If your group represents a sport team, a band, a scouting group, or any club in which members can be identified by uniforms, make sure everyone wears their uniform!
Finally, if you can manage it, bring the prizes to the table. Set them up in an appealing arrangement. This raises interest levels in your prize draw and encourages people to purchase Raffle Tickets upon falling in love with your prizes!
by ticketprinting on November 27, 2010
As the Christmas fundraising season hastens, we continue to advise you regarding the best ways to maximize your earning power and raise more money for charity than you’ve ever raised in the past. Foremost amongst the top tips for Raffle Ticket sales suggested by our professional correspondents is to have ones tickets stapled into booklets of 5 tickets each. If you print your own Raffle Tickets online, this should be a standard option, and adds very little to the cost of your order.
To what advantage? Stapled ticket booklets help make your prize draw a financial success by encouraging donors to purchase multiple tickets, rather than a single Raffle Ticket: one step toward multiplying your profits by 5! It’s simply a matter of convenience for you and for your supporters. Stapled booklets are simple to sell. You can encourage multiple sales by pricing tickets appropriately, and ensuring that the price of 5 tickets is an even number. Sell 1 ticket for 2 pounds and 5 for 10 and watch your profits soar!
Keep checking this blog as the winter progresses for more expert advice from fundraisers who have traveled this road before and know the best route to take.
by ticketprinting on November 22, 2010
Has your organization begun planning your big Christmas prize draw? We’ve asked the experts for their top tips in aid of selling more Raffle Tickets this year, and might find yourself surprised to hear some of the best fundraising advice the Internet has to offer.
For instance, do you depend on a paid sales crew, or a group of dedicated volunteers? Have you not considered asking others to help? According to our most successful contacts, you’ll sell far more Raffle Tickets if you send stapled booklets to all members of your organisation. Consider the size of your mailing list. If each member receives 5 tickets to sell, how many additional sales would that create?
Include a letter asking each member to purchase the tickets themselves, or to sell those 5 tickets to friends, family, neighbors, or colleagues. It’s a small number, but it will truly add up. Just be sure that you provide a method for the home office to track these sales, so you can be assured that tickets entered in the prize draw have been bought.
by ticketprinting on October 18, 2009
It’s time once again for
More Raffle Prizes That Never Were!
For the busy fundraiser, drumming up suitable donations for your organisation’s prize draw can be a time-consuming element of the job. Bumping elbows with the bigwigs, drumming up sympathy for the cause. Courting your monied supporters can get tiresome. Perhaps you have some valuable prizes right there in your own home. You can start printing your own Raffle Tickets even sooner once you know what you’ll be raffling.
- Your child’s macaroni collage: It’s priceless! The only question is, can you bear to part with it? It’s for a good cause, you know!
- Pile of comic books: Your spouse swears “they’ll be worth something someday.” Why not today?
- Collection of old tins from back fence According to Grandfather, these are genuine antiques! Suitable for target practice.
- How about a nice shrubbery? There’s loads of them just growing by the side of the road. Bring your own shovel.
- Chance to win more Raffle Tickets You could get quite a bit of mileage out of this one. No shortage of prizes, no end to the fund raising possibilities.
Of course, you’ll need to make all these decisions in advance prior to printing your Raffle Tickets. Must abide by the law, after all. Your supporters will thank you for it, and so with the Gaming Council!
Happy drawing!
by ticketprinting on September 18, 2009
The Top Ten Reasons Your Raffle Failed
I know you tried. You wanted to make money, brand your organisation, and spread your message to the world. What went wrong?
- 10: Should not have printed “All proceeds go directly to bailing Mum out of jail…again” directly on the body of the Raffle Ticket
- 9: Sponsors misunderstood donation request, were under the impression they would all be getting free cars
- 8: Confounded everyone by printing your text in black on a black Raffle Ticket
- 7: Your 4-year-old mistook your collection of Raffle Ticket stubs for confetti
- 6: Next time, don’t store Raffle Tickets in the same area where you store sensitive documents for your assistant to shred
- 5: You delegated the job of ordering Raffle Tickets to your illiterate chav nephew
- 4: You delegated the job of selling Raffle Tickets to your agoraphobic auntie
- 3: You neglected to delegate the job of selling Raffle Tickets to anyone in your organisation
- 2: Your top prize of a brand new rubbish bin was not as big of a draw as you’d anticipated
- 1: You forgot to browse the design gallery at UKTicketPrinting.co.uk!
Ready for success in fund raising and strong Raffle Ticket Sales? Print your own Raffle Tickets with designs that fit your budget and sense of style and start selling more tickets in less time!
by ticketprinting on December 13, 2008
What are you looking for?
If you’re worried about fund raising with raffle tickets, relax. It’s not foolproof, but you can handle it with a little advance preparation. Even before you start printing and selling your raffle tickets, you need to know what you’re getting into.
Short on prizes? Run a cash raffle starting with next to no capital. Just set your ticket price high enough and turn a small investment into a huge return. I would usually earmark about 30% of minimum ticket sales for prizes, leaving my organization with most of the profits. You’ll still give thousands of pounds back to your investors!
If you’ve got some good connections in the community, you can ask local businesses to donate prizes. Spa days, restaurant gift certificates, or small handicrafts let you help area merchants with more exposure while you earn more money. For charitable fund raising, most business owners are happy to help out. You can even print their business name right on the raffle ticket!
Of course, if you have big donors, you can raffle off the big-ticket items, the tellies and the new cars. Or, if a celebrity favors your cause, you could be the lucky one to raffle off an iconic dress or autographed artefact.
Raffle prize possibilities are everywhere. Keep looking!
by ticketprinting on December 12, 2008
I confess…
…that I love the idea of raffles. What you’re selling when you sell raffle tickets is, essentially, hope. It might look like you’re selling a brightly-coloured bit of paper, or a chance to win a guitar signed by Pete Townshend, or an all-expenses paid trip to Majorca, but really, what you’ve got there in that little stapled booklet or fat roll of tickets is possibility and anticipation. That’s why raffle tickets basically sell themselves, especially if you’re selling them for a charity. What could be better than donating a few quid to a good cause and getting to carry a slip of hope around in your pocket for a couple weeks?
Maybe you win a big screen HDTV. Most likely you don’t. The important part is the thrill of the expectation. That’s why I would always try to find the right raffle ticket. If the big prize were an island getaway, I would want a luscious picture of tropical palms on the raffle ticket, to remind people to dream big. If the prize were a new car, you can guess what kind of design I would look for. Or, if I wanted to raise money for an important cause like breast cancer research, a pink ribbon ticket would be a reminder not only of the possibility of winning a raffle prize, but also the possibility of helping to find a cure.
That’s the main reason you want to customise your raffle tickets rather than buying generic tickets. You can find a design that suits your needs and a ticket template that lets you remind patrons what they’re really buying.
So, until next time, keep your hopes up!
