by ticketprinting on March 22, 2011
Ready to print your own raffle tickets? If you’re uncertain, the advent of filling out your raffle ticket template is the perfect opportunity to determine whether or not you have taken care of the necessary details. An online ticket template, which prompts you to fill in all the required details, can help you identify any missing information.
Finding the prizes is your first step. Since you must identify the three largest prizes in your draw directly on the raffle ticket, it’s best to take care of this issue prior to considering the other details. What can you offer? The more attractive the prize, the more raffle tickets you can sell.
You must also identify the time and place of the actual prize draw. Don’t have this information? Figure it out immediately! If you do not already have a venue in mind, perhaps you can make a deal with someone who does have a space (such as a the owner of your local pub) and would appreciate the extra business your crown might draw. Choose a time and place.
How about prices? Typically, you’ll want to sell your raffle tickets for one or two pounds. Work out the sums: how many tickets will you need to sell at various prices to reach your sales goal.
Finally, if your raffle is to require a licence, go get it! This information must be printed on the body of the ticket, so you’ll need the licence number prior to ticket printing.
Review the information. If you’ve filled in all the blanks and it all makes sense, then you’re ready to print your own raffle tickets online and start selling!
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 July 30, 2010
How will you help your supporters get away while you sell more Raffle Tickets??
The most popular types of prize draws are those awarding holidays and vehicles. Are you ready to capitalise on this information? Indeed, these are big-ticket items, but with proper preparation, you can organise and manage a big-ticket prize draw. It takes only some advance planning, some networking, and some hard work and you’ll be well on your way to selling more Raffle Tickets.
Some organisations have the funds or the connections to pull this sort of promotion together effortlessly, but most of us will need to think about it. Who do we know in a position to donate our large prizes? Travel agents? Collectors? Do you know the owners of a car dealership, a bed and breakfast, or a company that offers day trip adventures? Begin by making up lists. Don’t think merely of the people you know. Consider their friends as well. If someone in your organisation has a rich, philanthropist uncle or an old university chum who collects antique vehicles, put them on your list, too.
Now, create your pitch. In many cases, it’s helpful to write your script down first. Remember to include:
- You name
- The name of your organisation
- Your group’s mission statement
- The specific intention for the fund you will raise
- A specific donation request
Do your research. Find phone numbers and contact information for everyone you wish to reach. When you do reach them, speak politely but confidently. Don’t feel any shame in asking for a donation: you are working for a really worthy cause, and people will be happy to help you out! Consider how happy you’ll be when you’ve secured your large donations and can get down to the happy business of printing your own Raffle Tickets online. It will be easy to choose a design that reflects the nature of the prizes you offer, and those prizes will be spectacular.
by ticketprinting on July 16, 2010
At the height of the season, summer can feel like an endless joyride, but it’s already time to start planning your end-of-summer celebration, and, if you fancy adding a little extra money to the operating budget, it’s time to start planning your end-of-summer prize draw. Finding a proper Raffle Ticket for the affair is all part of the fun.
Whether you’re planning your parish’s annual Summer Fair or scheduling a golf tournament, you can find the perfect Raffle Ticket to accompany your summer celebration. Create a themed prize draw to go along with your planned activities, or sell tickets for chances to win high interest prizes.
Even small prizes can generate great interest. If you are to sell Raffle Tickets to the sun-and-sand set down at the shore, you may be tempted to invest in big prizes such as Jet Skis or boats, but consider your audience. Perhaps they’d be more willing to purchase less expensive tickets for a chance to win items such as boogie boards or even plastic shovels and pails for their children. Similarly, your golf-themed event could generate a lot of interest if you are to award a complete set of new clubs, but if your cause is a good one, you may get almost the same mileage from a gift basket of new golf balls, tees, and perhaps a visor or novelty coffee mug.
Whatever you choose, do take advantage of summertime’s good vibrations. Find the holiday crowd and capitalise on their good mood and free spending ways and ensure your group’s financial solvency for another season!
by ticketprinting on January 29, 2010
Don’t worry. We’ll be gentle!
Ordering print products off the Internet shouldn’t be scary. In fact, I believe printing your own Raffle Tickets online should be fast, easy, and, thanks to a massive Internet design gallery, enjoyable! I love browsing the images, selecting those that best represent the event I am organising, and marking for later consideration those that might inspire me for future events.
Go ahead. Give it a whirl! Doesn’t that feel good? You don’t have to buy anything…unless you really want to! In that case, it’s simple. Pick a design, fill out the ticket template, choose your shipping method and address, enter your credit card information, and you’re done. UK Ticket Printing does the rest: creates a stack of lovely, customised Raffle Tickets for your upcoming prize draw and ships them out, usually within twenty-four hours! You can start selling sooner when you order online.
Am I going too fast for you? One brilliant aspect to purchasing your Raffle Tickets online is the complete lack of the hard sale. No shop girls will pester you to choose. There’s no pressure, no upselling, no commission. I think the design gallery simply speaks for itself. If you can’t find what you want online, you didn’t really want a Raffle Ticket to begin with.
So don’t be shy! If you’re interested, it’s OK to look. It’s OK to fill out a ticket template and generate your free Raffle Ticket proof. Make up some Upload your organisation’s logo or a photograph of your dog. Create as many proofs as you like. It costs nothing, and you can gain that experience you’ve been lacking. Soon you’ll be a regular pro.
by ticketprinting on May 7, 2009
Summer is acummin in!
And with the long, hot days and short, sweltering nights, there are holidays to be taken! If you are a fundraiser for a nonprofit, educational, entertainment, or business organisation, you can make the most of the season by capitalising on your customers’ and supporters’ love of travel. Whether you are simply trying to raise more money, or holding a prize draw along with a large party or gathering, consider the appeal of winning a free holiday.
City dwellers and country folk alike will be willing to take a chance—several chances, perhaps—on the possibility of a lovely getaway to an exotic location. If you can persuade your benefactors to donate such a commodity, you’re well on your way to earning more money with your seasonal raffle.
Consider the image below:
What emotions does that sun-soaked vista evoke in your mind? You can take advantage of the romance of a tropical paradise when you offer beach-themed Raffle Tickets to cement the concept of winning a free fantasy holiday in the minds of your customers. Wouldn’t you love to be stretched out on golden sands, beside azure waters, beneath swaying palms? I promise you, it’s quite a compelling thought.
So, make the most of the upcoming summer season. Start with a holiday-themed raffle draw and give them what they them want!
by ticketprinting on December 16, 2008
Sometimes I like…
…to make mock-ups of joke raffle tickets online. (Don’t tell!) The templates are really simple to use and I can be as silly as I want to be. For instance, I’ve made tickets to raffle off my flatmates, with all proceeds to benefit the RSPCA. After all, humans are animals and my mates can be uncommonly cruel.
Ticket Printing’s raffle ticket templates are really simple, and basically explain themselves. They even tell you what information to add in each space. For instance, the first two spaces ask you to write the organizers of the raffle. So I could put in, for example, my name and my boyfriend’s name. The second two spaces might be the event name, so I would write “A night alone” and “with no noise complaints.”
Then, in the three spaces for the prizes, I would put each of their names, and then probably also the cat’s name, because usually you’d have three prizes, and I only have two flatmates. And while the cat is basically decent, she does like to stick her nose where it doesn’t belong, and jump on your head at night if you leave the door open.
In the box marked, “additional information,” I would probably write something rude, just to be silly and blow off a little steam. (Obviously, I wouldn’t be raffling them off were I happy with them!) In the price box, I would put maybe 2 pounds, my flatmates not being a high-ticket item. The “start number” would just be 1. If there is a space to upload an image, I would just find a funny one off my hard drive. It helps if the jpeg is perfectly square. Then you can click on “View Proof” and there’s your raffle ticket.
If you’re feeling very silly, you can save the proof and show it to them. If you’re feeling really silly you can buy the raffle tickets and try to sell them to people who might want a chance to win two freaks and an elderly pussy cat with delusions of grandeur.
Or, you could, you know, really have a serious raffle and make money that way. Either way, the templates work the same. Enjoy!
