Getting Prizes for Raffle Fundraisers by Sandra Sims
Raffles are one of the most popular and cost effective ways to raise money for a non profit organization. However, it would not be a raffle if you had nothing to give away!
So what kind of prizes should you have? First of all, put yourself in your potential supporter’s shoes - What if someone comes up to you and says they are selling raffle tickets? What prize would you like to win?
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Turning Tickets and Invites into Low-Cost, High-Impact Marketing Tools (Case Study) by Nancy Schwartz
I recently returned from a trip (part work, part pure play) to San Francisco. I grabbed a cable car ticket before jumping on and found myself enthralled by a strikingly effective marketing tactic – The San Francisco Cable Car Collectors' Series.
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Raffle Fundraising Success Using Joint Ventures from the book Raffle Secrets
by Chris Brisson
If you want to sell out your raffle faster than ever before, this one method will enable you to do this.
Joint ventures are the single most powerful marketing tool you can ever use. They can used to take advantage of the power of other websites or businesses to get your raffle across quickly and extremely cheaply. Most of the time, you can advertise your raffle ticket fundraiser for free in a joint venture.
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Evaluation by Doug Nash
Who benefits from evaluating? YOU DO!
Planning your event helps to avoid or minimize mistakes and so do the best you can, evaluation can help you avoid making the same mistakes and improve the return on your next effort both in the financial and fun departments. Companies and professional organisations use the tool of evaluation constantly to improve their performances in nearly everything that they do. As said elsewhere in this book, if it works for them then it will work for you and your organisation.
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