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You Want It Where? Hitting the Bull’s Eye with Stickers
Feeling crafty? Go under the radar with a tightly focused guerilla marketing campaign. You don't need to spend thousands of dollars on print or video ads when you create and print your own custom Stickers. Take an edgier, grass roots approach to publicity. Once you've...
The Search
The internet can be a wonderful source of information when it comes to planning a raffle and all the various trappings that can go along with it, from where to buy raffle tickets to how to make your own raffle tickets. But sometimes all that information can only serve...
Reverse Raffle
There are a wide variety of options with regard to holding a traditional raffle. Most raffles are the focus of a larger event, which can run the gamut from a simple backyard barbecue to a luxurious gala in a swanky ballroom. Then you have the wide variety of charities...
Y’all Come Back Now! Stickers for Repeat Business
For most businesses, it's not enough to draw a customer and make a sale. You need that customer to return again and again, to become a loyal shopper, and to influence others to visit. Whether you are running a business, directing a play, leading a band, or supporting...
How To Price Your Raffle Tickets
Research shows that the majority of organizations that hold raffle ticket fundraisers do not know how much money they will make until after the raffle is over. Nearly all raffles have a target amount of money that they would like the raffle to produce. What they do...
Going Places
Some of the more popular types of raffles involve items that help the winner get away in some manner, be it an actual destination or just the open road. The appeal of these types of raffles is that they offer what people consider to be luxury items, things they...
The Science of Raffles
Why are raffles so exciting? What is it about buying a raffle ticket and waiting to see if your number is called that is just so appealing? For most people, it's the rush of the unknown, the idea that the end result is left to chance. But is it really? Raffles depend...
Feeling Lucky? 7 Tips to Boost Raffle Ticket Sales
Whether you're an old hand at the raffle game or just starting out with your first stack of tickets, you know your goal this holiday season: sell more tickets, make more money! No matter where you are in the process, if you're selling raffle tickets, the...
General Admission Event Pricing
When you are trying to manage an event there are a million things on your mind. In real life it is just more important to have an event than to make sure that the tickets are priced correctly. However, that is generally not a good reason to just use last year's...
Holiday Raffles
That Benjamin Franklin was a smart guy, but he could be a little on the gloomy side. After all, he said that the only things certain in life are death and taxes. But he forgot the obvious – and much more entertaining: holidays! There's a holiday during every single...
The Information Age
One of the great things about having a raffle in today's day and age is all the new ways of getting the word out about your event. There is, perhaps, no bigger source for impact these days than the internet. Raffle HQ: The Web Site If you decide that you're going to...
Adding Ticket Security to Your Next Event
Managing an event can be a headache in a lot of ways. One of the technologies that are making this worse is digital imaging. The same technology that makes it easy to share and reproduce pictures makes it even easier to duplicate tickets to events. With a $50 scanner...