by ticketprinting on January 31, 2011
Ticket Printing for All Seasons
I do like to plan out my year. Particularly if your organisation holds regular events, on a weekly, monthly, or seasonal basis, you can maintain interest throughout the year by employing a thematic structure. Start assigning themes and each gathering can take on its own identity.
Some themes come with ease. Christmas, Easter, Midsummer all easily leap to mind when you begin categorising your meetings or parties. Back-to-school and graduation may be useful if your participants are children themselves, or in a child-raising demographic. In these cases, it’s simple to find print products to match your themes. Printing Invitations or Event Tickets to advertise and sell the event is a breeze.
Beyond that, you may wish to get more creative. If you guests are so inclined, why not create a Rainbow series, with each event assigned a different color? You’ll find plenty of Event Kits you can print online to match, and you’ll find taking glamorous photographs a breeze when all the guests, all the decoration, all the Posters and all the Raffle Tickets are blue, or gold, or black.
Once you sit down with your calendar, the schedule will begin to come together. Look at your year’s worth of events and begin assigning themes. Soon, you’ll have a plan to generate interest in your events, and you’ll simplify the process of printing your event collateral, as well.
by ticketprinting on January 19, 2011
Independent musicians walk a fine line between remaining true to their art and making a living from their music. You may not wish to spend excessive time on marketing, but if it’s up to you to fill the seats at your upcoming concert, methods of selling tickets to that event must be considered. If you believe in your music, convincing your fans to purchase event tickets is not difficult, and neither is finding new listeners and turning them into fans. Simply determine where you want to direct your efforts!
For instance, many small bands, once they develop some local following, find that they need not worry about excessive campaigns. A few Flyers, hung about town, in popular clubs and music stores, along with a few reminders on Facebook (you do have a Facebook fan page, don’t you?) suffice for the purpose of reminding fans about the details of the show. Let them know when and where they can purchase concert tickets and you’ll find yourself playing to a packed house.
In fact, some bands find that the Facebook notification is the best advertisement of all! If your supporters are on Facebook, make sure they can find you, and make sure to reach out to them through this convenient medium!
Selling event tickets online is another popular option. Many websites allow you to create a page for your concert, add all the event details, upload a photo, and then sell the tickets for you! Once you set up the event, your virtual box office is open day or night, and you can simply circulate the URL for your page. An automated system does the rest.
So, focus on your music, but set aside some time to consider new option for getting the word out. You’ll start selling more tickets to more events.
by ticketprinting on January 10, 2011
Consider the ease with which you may obtain all the high-quality event collateral you might need for any upcoming gathering. Parties, concerts, theatrical productions, and educational fundraisers all benefit from advance publicity, personalised invitations, and professionally printed general admission or reserved seating event tickets. Whether you’d like to hang small flyers or large posters, encouraging people to pay attention to your advertisements is much simpler with smart design.
All this can be yours through the power of on-line printing. Free designs accompanied by easy-to-use ticket templates allow you to select the image that best embodies your message, and then easily add your event details. Clearly stating when and where customers or fans may purchase event tickets greatly expedites the sale of event tickets!
Matching event kits, including products such as drink tickets and raffle tickets, really tie your event together. From the moment potential guests first hear about your get-together until long after the event, when they find their perforated ticket stub and remember the cohesive look and feel of the celebration, professionally printed publicity products truly allow you to create something memorable.
What events are you planning in 2011? As soon as you have the details, you can start printing your own event tickets and event kits online. The sooner you have tickets in hand, the sooner you can start selling tickets to your event!
by ticketprinting on December 17, 2010
The Christmas holidays are upon us! If you’ve been planning a party for Christmas or New Year’s, no doubt you’ve already printed your Event Tickets, mailed your Invitations, hung your Posters and Flyers, and begun tracking sales. How has that worked out so far?
If ticket sales are disappointing, it’s not too late to take some additional steps so all that ticket printing need not go to waste. Ratchet up your publicity efforts by spreading your message in new places. Have you taken advantage of all your social networks? If you organisation has a virtual gathering place on Facebook, have you created an event page? Sent out online invitations? Asked people to RSVP on your website?
Use human nature to your advantage: initiate a word-of-mouth campaign by leaking some of the exciting details, whether that might be the contents of your gift baskets, a popular local performer who may make an appearance, or a spectacular dessert that will be served. Create some buzz around the event and let it be known that tickets are limited and should be purchased well in advance.
Or, create some underground buzz. Print out some custom Stickers with eye-catching designs and the URL to your website, which will tell them more about your event, and stick them in random places. Use chalk to write your own short advertisements on sidewalks or fences where students or other you wish to attract may be walking. Shoot a short video that’s funny or intelligent, which also advertises your event, host it on YouTube or your homepage, and spread the link via email or Twitter. Be creative. Keep telling the world about your upcoming event and keep selling event tickets!
by ticketprinting on November 28, 2010
The time has come! For church festivities, secular gatherings, and every celebration in between, Christmastime is nearing and ’tis the season to plan events. And, whilst you are planning events, a full service ticket manufacturer can offer your party or gala a little added organisation and security when you choose a free ticket template or custom ticket to complement your event.
Whether you’re searching for an appropriate design, or wish to employ your own ideas to create a unique, personalised or customised event ticket, printing your own event tickets online is a simple and inexpensive process. Standard security features, such as individualized, security numbering, make ticket sales easier and help you track your numbers.
Print event tickets in full colour, and add a prize draw with matching raffle tickets for maximum impact. You can even choose an event kit with matching products like invitations, posters, and other useful print products. Fundraising at winter charity events has never been easier!
by ticketprinting on November 22, 2010
As the Christmas season approaches, your schedule may begin to fill up fairly quickly. If you are planning a Christmas event, large or small, imagine what your guests’ planners might look like in the middle of December! Printing your own event Invitations online is a smart solution for helping others plan to attend your event.
You can use an online ticket template to enter your event information, and the printer will create your Invitation and ship it directly to your home or office. You can distribute them by the mails, in person, or at group meetings. However you choose to pass them out, your Invitations will ensure that your event is not lost in the flood of winter galas, with which many find themselves inundated.
There is simply nothing like a physical reminder, to be hung where it can be seen, to help friends, family, neighbors, or coworkers anticipate your party and make a point of attending!
by ticketprinting on October 25, 2010
Are you loving your supporters to death? Driving them away with your attention? Or even annoying them with your methods? Charitable organisations much keep their donors happy or risk losing their base. Perhaps you spend hours brainstorming ways of rewarding the most loyal, but have you given a thought to mistake you might be making?
Consider these three ways that some organisations drive off existing supporters, lost potential donors, and otherwise sabotage their own missions:
1) Make them do all the work
If you’ve spent a fortune updating your website, don’t sit back and wait for folks to find it! Having a splendid website is only the first step. It’s up to you to drive traffic there. There’s no quick fix for this: paid advertisement is simply not the best way to drive clicks. Rather, people respond to other people. Why not find the websites where potential supporters are already participating? Become active in those communities, leaving intelligent posts and comments in forums. Add your URL at the end of each post, and interested parties will follow your link home!
2) Make them do work they don’t want to do
Most people do not care to read dry pages of figures, interminable reports, or constant updates. We’re already inundated with information, and may have difficulty sifting through to find the important parts. If you send out too many emails or newsletter, or overload your communications with excessive facts, numbers, and details, you’ll lose readership and disconnect from your base. Instead, limit your emails to no more than one a week, and keep those short. Choose a few powerful anecdotes, rather than an exhaustive list of accomplishments. You can make the complete information available elsewhere, but not in people’s inboxes!
3) Don’t let them do any work at all
Some groups become so focused on their mission that they forget their supporters entirely. Would you rather lose out on a big donation because the donor’s purpose does not completely fit your own? Would you prefer to alienate potential supporters rather than reconsider how you work? Intractable organisations don’t make or keep friends easily. Instead, try opening your administration up to others’ ideas. Let your supporters feel that they have a say in how their money is spent, and that they are important in your decision making process. Solicit ideas and be open to advice. Make them feel welcome and they will return the favor.
Keep those donors happy, and when your annual fundraiser comes around, they’ll be happy to purchase more Event Tickets than ever.
by ticketprinting on September 24, 2010
Here’s a splendid idea for your annual fundraiser: offer donors an inside peek at your organisation’s workings.
When your guests have grown accustomed to the yearly charity ball, and particularly if you’re offered scaled Event Ticket pricing, those holding more expensive tickets should receive some unexpected bonus beyond having their name writ in large letters upon the program or newsletter.
For instance, a local botanical garden holds a yearly dinner dance, which happens to roughly coincide with the beginning of two features: their unusual plant sale, and their seasonal butterfly garden. The organisers create an event that is thematically linked with these two other events, using butterflies and unusual plants in their promotional materials, decorations, and naming. But they offer some added incentive: those attending the ball are given early access to the unusual plant sale, and have first choice of the plants, before other members or the general public.
That’s for the price of the basic Event Ticket. Donate a bit more, however, and your ticket entitles you to a behind-the-scenes tour of the plant sale, with botanists on hand to discuss the mechanics of collecting and transporting plants, answer questions, and add value to the affair. Remember, the guests are all members of the botanic gardens, so an evening with a botanist is quite a treat. But for an even greater incentive, at the highest level of donation, a ticket entitles the holder to a behind-the-scenes tour of the butterfly exhibit, with, of course, lepidopterists available to educate visitors.
Does your organisation have any backstage secrets? Have you a warehouse or other offices that are normally closed to the public? Are your administrators normally unavailable to members? Museums often have rooms of uncataloged or undisplayed materials that may pique members’ interests; schools can offer tours of off-limits area of the physical plant. Most groups have their own inner workings, and your supporters are interested in seeing them! Use those hidden details as a behind-the-scenes bonus for your loyal supporters.
by ticketprinting on August 23, 2010
I attended rather a novel fundraiser event last weekend, one which came together in such a splendid way that I would consider it a model of charity fundraising. This clever event benefited the charity, the performers, their sponsor, and their venue.
In this case, the charity was meant to benefit musicians, while the sponsor was a shop that specialised in the work of local artists, and the venue was a popular pub in the city centre, but I believe the general concept could be adapted to any triumvirate of organisation.
The pub in question has an extensive beer-garden style pavilion out front, so that those passing by on the street could see that there was a large event taking place. At one point in the evening, they had women dancing with candles near the fence, so that the event simply couldn’t be missed. Increased traffic to the pub, of course, increased their profits in drink and food sales for the evening.
Event Tickets cost a paltry £5 per person, very little for a long night, with live music playing all evening. Indeed, there was a line to get in. With the 5 quid fee, each guest received a Gift Certificate from the sponsor, which could be redeemed for a Raffle Ticket at the sponsor’s shop. Of course, this encourages more traffic to their shop, while the entry fee went directly to the charity.
There were bands and entertainment in the beer garden as well as inside the pub. Also within the pub was a second prize draw, this one featuring merchandise from the sponsor’s shop. Raffle Tickets for the second prize draw were only £1 a piece, and some of the prizes (the work by local artists) were charming and seemed quite dear.
Well, everyone involved with this event benefited. The charity made quite a lot of money on Event Ticket sales, as did the venue, simply from selling their regular products. The artists whose work were exhibited and the musicians and dancers who performed donated their products or time for free, but they received valuable and copious exposure. And the sponsor earned some money on the prize draw, but, more importantly, ensured increased business in the future, as guests would visit the shop to trade their Gift Certificates for Raffle Tickets.
by ticketprinting on July 30, 2010
Is your theatre poised for success? Prepared to sell even more Event Tickets?
You are players indeed, but not merely players. You are your company are so much more than puppets making exits and entrances on cue. You are pillars of the community, offering up an escape from the dull greys of the workaday world, and a portal into the brilliant rainbowscape of the imagination! Your product is a necessary element of the landscape, and ought to be worthy of the ages. In which case, your event collateral should be worthy too!
When you’re ready to start selling General Admission Event Tickets for your upcoming performance, choose carefully. There are many to choose from, but what about matching publicity? Does your chosen Event Ticket offer Posters, Flyers, Invitation, VIP Passes, Invitations, Raffle Tickets, and more, all in matching patterns, with eye-catching design and high-resolution printing? Why not?
The bard and his words are immortal, but a performer is only as good as his or her last performance. Make sure everyone sees that performance by decking the city centre with proper advertisements. Print your own information on a beautiful, professional looking poster and draw traffic toward your web site, box office, and house. Print your own Event Tickets and look great as you do so.
The fine and performing arts are too important to be given anything less than a professional publicity job. Uplift your company and your sales with proper, theatre-themed Event Tickets!
