Upload Your Own Images to Create Fabulous Raffle Tickets

Which would you prefer to buy: drab raffle tickets that are a bore to look at, or colourful, unique raffle tickets that include logos or pictures? It’s not hard to answer that question, because human nature prefers that which is appealing to the eye.

Put yourself in the average ticket buyer’s shoes. You can’t quite expect everyone to instantly want to buy your raffle tickets just because you’re selling them. You shouldn’t even expect them to buy simply because the cause you’re supporting is important (which it surely is), or even because your prizes are desirable (which they ought to be).

Expect the Unexpected

What you can expect from raffle ticket buyers isn’t rocket science. It’s simple, really. Ticket buyers want the most for their money. The best deal they can get.

So give them what they truly want. Print raffle tickets that are so attractive, even the losing tickets won’t end up in the bin. If you add the right pictures and colours to the mix, your tickets will serve as keepsakes.

Logos and Pictures are Lovely

Have you a fantastic sponsor? A grand prize that’s just to die for? Well, you’re in luck, because you can upload your very own image right onto a raffle ticket templates. Every ticket is printed full colour and full bleed, which is sure to brighten even the dingiest of days.

Combine the best of your efforts. Print beautiful, reasonably priced, high quality raffle tickets, and upload any image that you like. The best part: do it all online, with the ease of a few clicks!

Don’t Reinvent the Wheel

Don’t be a bother trying to come up with new ideas for which images to upload onto your raffle tickets. One of the primary reasons people will be buying your tickets is to win a prize. Take advantage of this fact. Upload a clear snapshot of the most coveted prize right onto your raffle ticket.

If your head sponsor is popular with the masses, be clever. Upload their logo onto your raffle ticket, and ride on their coattails for a bit (at least until you get the word out there). Once you’ve spread the word to a few people, especially if there’s a big time, well-known sponsor backing your raffle, they will tell their mates, their mates will tell their mates, and you’ll be off to a roaring start.

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Educational fundraising is an uphill battle: when your school needs money for extras (or even for essentials, when times are hard) and you must turn to the community for additional funding, generating interest and maintaining it over the long term requires a lot of forethought.

Long-term prize draws for nonprofit organisations such as your school can be fun, but they require a lot of hard work. Start planning in advance and make a success of the occasion. Choosing the appropriate prizes, proper sales strategies, and turning the final draw into an exciting event can all translate into success.

First, know your supporters. To whom will you be selling raffle tickets, and for what prize are they most likely to open their wallets? Ask around, or use an Internet quiz feature like Facebook Questions to get the best intelligence. Your draw will be a bigger success if people are excited about your prizes.

Next, prepare your sales force. Consider a separate prize draw for students who sell the most tickets, or else offer them their own tickets for a student raffle based on the number of tickets they sell. Get them excited to start selling, and teach them the fundamentals of sales. Be sure to teach them how to be safe as well as how to be polite and be good salespeople.

Then, set a date for the big draw. If you can incorporate it into a larger event such as a carnival, performances, or dance, you can increase interest and continue selling raffle tickets right up to the moment of the prize draw.

Once you know what prizes will be offered, how much they will sell for, and when the draw will take place, it’s time to print those raffle tickets. Choose an appropriate design online, fill out the ticket template, and print those tickets. They’ll be shipped to you so you can get your kids to start selling.

Next week: The big sales drive

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When you purchase customised Raffle Tickets, you expect high-resolution printing.

At home, you might spend fifty pounds on a toner cartridge so your child can print out full-colour images of his favourite cartoon character or holiday snaps of the friends she made over the summer. Perhaps you remember the daisy wheels and dot matrices of the past, but today’s printers need to be fast and sharp or they end up in the rubbish, just another jumble of plastic and electronics that’s outlived its usefulness. And if that’s why you expect from your home printer, how much more ought to be accomplished by a professional quality machine?

Your Raffle Tickets, professionally printed, should look even better than anything you can print at home, providing your prize draw with that air of perfection you want to bring to all your endeavors. Sharp lines, bright colours, glossy finish. These tickets are the emissaries of your organisation. No matter what you’re raffling off, or what text and images you’ve employed, the printing on your Raffle Tickets should be all business.

And under the printing, the paper on which your tickets are printed ought to be all business, too. Never thought much of paper? We measure papers grams per square meter, or gsm. Your standard paper, the paper stocked in your office, used in most office applications is between 75 gsm and 120 gsm, whereas your durable business cards are most likely 175 gsm. When you print your Raffle Tickets, you should expect coloured card stock to weight in at 175 gsm, with 165 gsm for white card stock.

Smooth matte finish or semi-gloss? It’s your choice. Either way, when you choose professionally printed Raffle Tickets, they should look as if they’ve been printed by professionals. Read your printer’s website and find out what you’re about to receive.

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…when you print Raffle Tickets

Now is not the time to be coy! UK gaming law requires you to spell it all out, and indeed, printing your own Raffle Tickets with intuitive Raffle Ticket templates makes it easy to get all that information right where it belong: on the body of your Raffle Ticket.

• By Law you must include your registered charity number as well as the organisation under which you’ve received your licence to hold the prize draw. You must also include descriptions of the top three prizes, the cost of the Raffle Tickets, and the time and location of the actual draw. Of course you need to name your charity or organisation.

• In addition you must number your Raffle Tickets individually and provide space on the ticket stub for your supporters to write their names, addresses, and phone numbers or email addresses. If your prize draw is to be help in conjunction with a larger event, or if it is an annual drawing, you should add the name of the event!

Now you’ve included all the information that potential supporters want, as well as everything the government needs. But you needn’t worry about remembering it at all! Just find the design you like online and the ticket template will guide you through, with suggestions as to where each piece of information should go, so you won’t miss a thing.

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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!

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Just ring 0808 1683766

We try to make our website as user-friendly as is possible, but we acknowledge that there may be times when what you want is quite out of reach. For those moments, we offer polite, helpful customer service from 9:00 to 18:00, seven days a week. UK Ticket Printing is committed to providing you with everything you need to purchase proper Raffle Tickets for your fundraising efforts.

Perhaps you don’t understand the difference among the various types of card stock. Customer Service can help! Perhaps you can’t find quite the proper design for your event. Customer Service can help! Perhaps you are simply not comfortable with making large orders or purchases over the Internet without human interaction. Customer Service can help!

Of course, your fabulous ticket girl is here to answer all your questions in blog format, but there are times, surely, when you need to hear a friendly voice. In that case, don’t be shy! Simply dial up our Customer Service Hotline and find the solutions to all your printing problems and raffle-related riddles.

In our modern economy, we find sometimes that service becomes impersonal without face to face contact. Although we are an Internet business, you’ll find our face as friendly as your corner chemist’s. Whenever you have a problem, we are here to help!

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Need it now?

We’ll admit it: we haven’t yet perfected the time machine, nor the teleporter. We’re still constrained by the laws of physics. Therefore, the speed of light is out of reach.

We can still get your tickets to you quite quickly.

How quickly? Well, you know that you can mock up your raffle tickets in under 15 minutes. Our ticket templates are that simple. Just enter your information into the boxes comprising your chosen template. We even tell you what details to fill in where.

Presumably, you know your organization’s name and the who-what-where-when-why of your raffle. It’s nothing but simple data entry.

Then what? Review the proof. That’s all we ask! Once you’re satisfied that you’ve created the perfect raffle ticket, use our secure Internet portal to pay for your purchase and share your shipping information. You’re done.

That’s when we get started printing your raffle tickets. Most orders print out within 24 hours of order processing. That’s fast! And we’ll ship that order out as soon as it’s done. Need it now? Choose the delivery option that’s right for you. We pride ourselves on fast turnaround.

So you need not worry about the speed of light. You’ve got the speed of raffle ticket printing!

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Are you ready?

You want to make a mint, and a successful raffle will put you on the path to success. You’ve chosen the perfect design: perhaps elegant, perhaps playful. Either way, you know printing the right image will catch the eye of your target audience. Striking tickets sell more.

Of course, you haven’t neglected to proofread your tickets before printing!

You may have chosen to have them stapled into booklets, which will make your sales team’s lives that much easier. Everything stays neat and orderly with this feature. When you print your own raffle tickets, raffle ticket books are only one of the many benefits.

Do you have a professional sales team? They’ll have so much more to be enthusiastic about when they see the lovely design you’ve chosen to represent your organization and your cause. This helps you sell more.

If you haven’t a professional sales team, who will sell your tickets for you? May I suggest the most adorable of all salespeople? I refer, of course, to small children. Who can resist the allure of a child who’s painstakingly memorized a sales pitch in aid of a great cause?

Target your audience. Where will you sell? In the City Centre? At arts events? Door to door? Who are your patrons. Determine where they are and bring your raffle to them!

Whoever you are, whatever your cause, if you’ve found worthy prizes, printed your own custom tickets, and taken the time to sell them, you’re well on your way to financial success!

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So far

You’ve identified potential donors, contacted them, and made your pitch. You’ve presented yourself and your charity in such glowing terms that the donor could not help but be impressed with your dedication and your cause.

If you have taken all the right steps, you should find yourself the recipient of many pledges for fabulous prizes. To ensure that all goes according to plan, you must the immediately take steps to collect those prizes. Don’t rest on your laurels! Once your benefactor has agreed to donate, make arrangements.

Most likely, you will need to produce some paperwork for tax purposes. Your charity’s business office should be able to help. If the donation is a large one (physically large), you may need to arrange special transport. (If you know a lorry driver, this might help!) If your organization does not have sufficient storage space, you will have to find some secure facility. The last thing you want is for your precious prizes to be lost, stolen, or damaged.

Once you are in possession of your prizes, you are ready to print your raffle tickets! Consider carefully. How will you present your group in print? Do you have your own recognizable logo? Choose a raffle ticket that allows you to upload that image. Or, if you would rather provide one of your donors with that publicity, obtain their logo for the ticket.

If there are to be many prizes, consider which ones you want to promote. Which is most valuable? Which is most desirable? Three prizes might be mentioned on the ticket, but you may have more than three. In fact, the more opportunities to win, the more tickets you are likely to sell.

It’s not as complicated as it may appear. You simply want to cover every possibility to guard against trouble. Next time, we’ll walk through creating our ticket!

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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!

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