• Call a town meeting: Advertise in local media and shops, as well as online forums where your supporters may be waiting. Share your goals, gauge local interest, and recruit volunteers.
• Get feedback: Let your grassroots army offer their input. The most you can depend on others to do the heavy lifting, the more you can accomplish.
• Start planning: Guide your group through the creation of a fundraising event. Find out what type of event would generate the most local interest, helping you sell the greatest number of event tickets. Ask volunteers what they want
• Keep it close to home: Capitalise on the grassroots nature of your movement by employing local venues and vendors. Choose local entertainment, speakers, and catering, and advertise in local media outlets. Let everyone know this is a homegrown event!
• This party doesn’t stop: Once you’ve sold all your event tickets and held a successful fundraiser, keep the movement going. Ask your local supporters to continue offering their fresh and creative ideas, and let them take the lead in organising projects.

You’ll be surprised where you find enthusiastic supporters, bubbling over with new ideas, just waiting for someone to harness the power of their collective desire to help. They’re waiting for you! Now go seek them out and get them organised!

They very idea is enough to strike fear into the hearts of some idealists. But you need not compromise yourself, your organisation, or your principles, simply because a larger company has offered you money in return for slapping their logo on some of your publicity materials. Schools do it; sports teams do it; and you can do it without hassle, if your cause is a worthy one.

Many corporations are already looking for charitable organisations to support. It looks good for them: they appear to be giving back to the community, acting with a social consciousness, and redistributing their wealth. So, if your group has long hosted a fundraising event, or if you are only testing the waters, consider finding a successful, for-profit company to help you along. They may be willing to make a sizable donation to your cause, and they ask very little in return.

If you have accepted corporate sponsorship, you will have to make some small concessions, but it amounts to little more than passing along a word from your sponsor. When you print your publicity materials, you will want to add your sponsor’s logo. Many Event Tickets allow you to add sponsor logos right on the ticket template; the same goes for certain pre-designed publicity Posters. You can write your thanks in any programme or other printed materials to be distributed to your guests. You can thank them out loud when you make announcements at the event itself.

Even if your sponsor wants a bigger hand in branding the event, you still come out ahead. Many companies will be eager to offer you hundreds of pounds of free merchandise to be distributed however you see fit. Items such as T-shirts or water bottles imprinted with the sponsor logo will be coveted by your guests as favours. If your sponsor offers free products, you can pass them on to your guests knowing that everyone wins: your sponsor receives positive publicity, you create a bigger budget, and your guests go home will all kinds of valuable, and free, prizes!

Last Friday, ticket in hand, I found my way to the hotel where the event was to be held, and indeed, it was an intimate event. The tree was trimmed, drinks flowed freely, and a table of delicious appetizers was refreshed every few minutes. I was fortunate to mingle with the president of the organisation, along with the founder, and other ranking members of the group, all of whom were happy to see me and welcomed me warmly into the fold.

After the introductions, we all sat down for a delicious meal, our choice of chicken, fish, or steak, followed by ice cream and cookies. The president made his speeches, thanking all of us for our contributions. The drinks continued to flow, and before I knew it, we were all singing Christmas carols with our arms around each other. I can only imagine what the other hotel guests thought of our gathering, but the spirit moved us, and a good time was had by all.

It truly was a memorable event. And it’s not too late for your organisation to create the same spirit of goodwill. Just print your own Event Tickets online and start gathering a crowd for your own Christmas party!

Pre-event publicity encompasses three tiers. For tightly-focused marketing to an existing mailing list, you can print Guy Fawkes Invitations, just the thing for drawing a proper crowd. Posters and Fliers allow you to advertise to a wider audience, reaching supporters you never knew about. Hang them in shop windows with the owner’s permission, and cover the city centre with your big announcement.

General Admission Tickets and VIP Passes allow you to control the crowd, and Drink Tickets are an ideal way to earn a little more money for your organisation. You can sell them in advance or at the event. They keep your queues short and orderly and your vendors at ease. Selling more than drinks? Customise your Event Kit by printing multiple tickets for several sale items!

When the weather gets cold, manufacture your own heat. Just start gathering wood and printing Event Tickets. Let your Guy Fawkes bonfire light up the night with traditional treats and festivities, and let your Event Kit design speak for itself.

Believing in the cause is not enough. You need ideas! Long before you print your own Event Tickets, you need to plan your event.

What do your guests want? Believe it or not, the best way to determine this fact is to act your potential guests. Perhaps you’ve been worrying about hiring the coolest band to play a dance for teenagers. Why not try asking the teens what they want? They may name a local group you can afford, or you may learn that they would vastly prefer a proper DJ, or even that they’d rather you save the money for snacks and simply install one of their own number in the DJ booth with an iPod!

The same goes for for charity benefits. Just because your organisation has always held a posh gala in a museum or hotel ballroom does not mean that is the best solution. Start asking questions! You may learn that supporters wish to scale down to a less expensive venue, or that they’d prefer a family-friendly gathering in the park or at the beach. Especially when times are tight, traditional solutions may not be the best.

Planning events is hard enough without having to guess at your guests preferences. Don’t just print Event Tickets without thinking things through! Send out surveys over email, ring up some vocal supporters, or add the question to your meeting’s agenda. Give your supporters exactly what they want!

If you have taken the trouble to hire out a museum or hotel ballroom along with the finest caterers, gloved waiters, and the band of your choice, surely you will want to print your Event Kits with the same attention to detail and high style. Event Kits allow you to coordinate all the printed material you’ll need to summon your guests and keep the night orderly.

You’ll begin with lovely, high-quality Invitations. Perhaps you’ll choose the Dinner Dance Event Tickets, to speak to the formal elegance of your affair.

(actual size: 127 mm by 98 mm)

Invitations work well if your organisation has a large mailing list. If you would rather cast your net a little farther, Posters and Flyers help you let more potential guest know all about the event. Hang them everywhere! Once you’ve done so, you can watch the RSVPs pour in as you continue to plan for the big night.

Will you offer a cash bar? You can sell Drink Tickets in advance of the event and guarantee some nice bar sales. Don’t worry! You can still sell Drink Tickets at the event as well. Why? They take the work of making change off your barkeeper’s head so the bar queue keeps moving. In addition, Drink Tickets are a splendid way to say thank you to volunteers and special guests.

(actual size: 99 mm by 60 mm)

Of course, you’ll maintain the integrity of your design with matching Event Tickets. General Admission Tickets printed with the same images as the rest of your publicity materials look smart. In addition, you can choose VIP Passes if your party will feature private rooms or backstage access. And finally, if you’re raising money for a worthwhile cause, you will raise even more when you sell Raffle Tickets that match the rest of your efforts.

For charitable causes, summon the greatest effect with a proper Event Kit for your party!

For athletic clubs and school activities, we can encourage young people to take their physical activity seriously by demonstrating that we take it seriously ourselves. Printing and selling tickets for these events is a wonderful way to help show we care and keep everyone looking forward to the future. Tickets are lovely little reminders of upcoming excitement!

What kinds of activities deserve tickets?

• football
• rugby
• gymnastics
• swimming
• cricket
• tennis
• squash

Any organized spectator sport can be the right occasion for ticket printing.

Whether you’re the director of a popular sport club or an administrator at a school with a strong athletic program, you can show your young athletes that their hard work deserves recognition. Printing your own tickets lets you add a professional feel to the games. Perhaps you are merely distributing them to parents and family friends, but imagine the joy and pride on a child’s face when she sees her team name on a lovely ticket, just like for a professional sporting event.

If you are selling tickets, what better way to get noticed than brightly-colored, customized tickets? Sending your young athletes into the community to sell seats to their own games helps them take ownership of their skills. Your team, school, or organization will stand out from a crowd. You’ll raise funds while encouraging healthy behaviors.

Who knew printing tickets could do so much good in the world?