Happy New Year!

Here’s a wish that 2010 is the year your organisation meets all its goals, with pizazz and ease. It’s never too soon to start planning the year’s events, even if you have only the slightest idea of what you hope to achieve. Whatever your event, whatever your organisation, there is an Event Ticket just for you. In fact, there is an Event Kit with all the print material you’ll need to publicise, sell, and bring off your event with style.

Have you regular, annual events? Perhaps the date, time, and location have already been decided upon and booked. In that case, you can begin to search for the perfect design. Hoping this year’s turnout will be quite tremendous? Why not create your own save-the-date cards? If you’ve already decided upon an image, you can choose a small, stubless Event Ticket or an Invitation template. Even a Drink Ticket may suffice.

Let the ticket template be a tool that helps you create whatever you need. If you want to remind your supporters to mark their calenders well in advance, then say so! Just print it up and send it out to your mailing list. Your group will appreciate the reminder and you’ll start selling more tickets, earlier in the season.

You’ve an entire year to plan. Get started now and you’ll find more time to relax later!

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On the day of family, friends, and fun, we need not pause to consider the print products that drive our celebrations and gathering. There are loved ones to embrace, carols to be sung, and delicate, fanciful wrapping paper to be torn from enigmatic boxes. Cookies to eat! Ham to carve! Worship services to be attended!

On this day, we live with peace and joy in our hearts and on our lips. We may consult the directions printed on an Invitation as we drive to a large party, or check the time of an Event Ticket as we rush to attend a matinee performance of The Nutcracker Suite, but we realize that these are only tools that help us keep our celebration on track and and our minds at ease.

All too soon this perfect day ends. Children, worn out from a day of toys and surprises, drift to bed without complaint, while adults enjoy one last egg nog and savor the Christmas peace. With less than a week, we will tidy our affairs and wrap a bow around 2009. The New Year will be here soon, and with it, more parties, celebrations, friends, family, and fun.

There will be time enough for planning new gatherings, printing new Event Kits, and creating new memories. Today is Christmas.

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We’re calling it the Stand Up Comedy Event Ticket, but there’s no need to limit yourself by our labels!

If you’re flashing back to the 80s and opening your own comedy club, clearly this Event Ticket is a proper choice. But this ticket does much, much more. With spotlights and luscious red velvet curtains, the Stand Up Comedy General Admission Ticket works for any stage event!

Whether you’re hosting comedians, live theatre, or dance, anything that takes place on your stage can benefit from the anticipatory quality of the entire Stand Up Comedy Event Kit.

• General Admission Ticket
• Drink Ticket
• Invitation
• Poster
• Flyer
• Raffle Ticket
• VIP Pass

Whatever your printing needs, consider the versatility of this Event Kit. You can customise it to suit your event and have your tickets and publicity materials delivered in a few days.

Fine, fast, high-quality Event Ticket printing: it’s no laughing matter!

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Odds are, decisions about event publicity and ticket printing are not entirely up to you. You may be among the lucky few who can make their own choices without answering to anyone, but most of us must muddle through layers of bureaucracy and consensus building before anything ever gets accomplished!

Well, your printed materials are a big deal. You print company knows this; that’s why any company worth its ink will offer you a 100% satisfaction guarantee and work to make things right if they’re not right to begin with. You should be able to get exactly what you want. But what do you want?

Perhaps you have an idea about appropriate designs, or perhaps you are starting at the beginning. Here is a good checklist for event planners working with large groups to make decisions about publicity:

• Brainstorm session: let everyone share ideas
• Reality check: what’s available? What can you afford
• Debate: Everyone gets to share their opinion
• Democracy: put it to a vote
• Repeat, if necessary, until everyone agrees on your course of action

If you want to maintain an element of control over the process, do your research in advance. If you already know what’s available and what you can afford, it’s much easier to steer others toward your choice. Well-thought-out arguments are better received.

Working in groups is simple for some, complicated for others. When you are discussing how to hype your upcoming event, the choices you make can have great impact on attendance and fundraising. With a little extra effort, you can make it work!

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Here’s a time-saver. Think you’re ready to print your own Event Tickets online? Don’t waste your time until you’re sure!

While it’s always fun to look at designs and debate which ones you’d choose, it’s simply quite disappointing when you start to mock up your ticket proofs and realize that you’re not certain about some of the details that should appear on the ticket.

Here’s what you’ll need to know:

• Sponsor names (your organisation as well as other sponsors)
• Event name (you’d be surprised at how long it may take to decide!)
• Event date and time (double check–you don’t want to get this wrong!)
• Event location (should be easy, but again, double check)
• Ticket price (especially if your price structure reflects different levels)
• Numbering (this can be a security feature to prevent ticket fraud)
• Other security features (determine in advance whether you need to watch for fraud)
• Images (if your Event Tickets are to include custom images, be sure they are chosen and available in a standard format, like a .jpg; it’s also helpful if they are already cropped to be square)
• Paper (there are a few types to choose from; do the research first)
• Shipping (when do you need your tickets and will you pay extra for fast shipping?
• Payment (this can be the hardest decision of all in some organisations)

Once you’ve sorted all these matters out, you’re ready! Select the design that appeals to you. Enter your event details and relax while your Event Tickets are printed and shipped to you.

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Yes, this is the Event Ticket Blog, but what about those moments leading up to your event. Even before you begin selling Event Tickets, you must consider the factors that will encourage your guests to attend. How will you inform others of the gathering? How can you frame the event in such terms that it appears exciting and desirable to attend? Poster and Flyers are a good way to blanket an area with publicity, but suppose you want a more tightly focused campaign. You need to target individuals. You need to speak directly to your strongest boosters, those most likely to attend.

In small and close-knit organisations, word-of-mouth can take you quite far. Perhaps everyone already knows that your gala will be the event of the year. Still, a little reminder can’t hurt! You may already be reaching your supporters through a weekly or monthly newsletter, sent by post or over email. Perhaps you have an active website where members of your group can regularly look for relevant news.

These methods still do not target individuals. Important guests may not realize that they are expected to attend, or may not read every word of your website or newsletter. If you really want to reach everyone, you need to reach out to everyone. If you are not making use of your mailing list, you’re missing a golden opportunity to draw supporters to you. That’s where individual Invitations come in.

When you need to sell Event Tickets, you need to tap those who are most likely to buy. You need to tap them directly on the shoulder, and you can do that remotely when you print Invitations that match your General Admission Tickets and other publicity materials. Sending these focused Invitations out to your group makes it more likely that your supporters will buy tickets to your event. You already have their names and addresses. Sending an Invitation to their door makes a more personal plea, one that is hard to ignore. An Invitation that arrives in the mail suggests a sense of inclusion and helps your members feel closer to and wanted by the organisation.

Invitations also help your guests remember to RSVP or buy tickets, mark their calenders, tell their friends, and develop a sense of excitement regarding the upcoming event. You can provide all the details in one place and limit confusion.

Invitations! When you want to bring people together, it’s the way to go!

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Some events are big business. Fashion shows, gallery openings, trade events. If you’re gathering for the sake of commerce and you intend for your event to lead to sales, or if your business is sponsoring someone else’s event, why not stimulate traffic with Gift Certificates?

Fashion Show Gift Certificate

Some Event Kits are matched to themed Gift Certificates, such as the Fashion Show Gift Certificate above, and tickets in our Nature Series. However, with dozens of designs to choose from, we can help you select and print the proper image for your business. In any event, you can offer Gift Certificates for sale, or you can offer them as raffle prizes or other incentives.

What’s the benefit of selling or giving away Gift Certificates? They increase your traffic. When you sell Gift Certificates in your store or at your event, your loyal customers will build your base for you. Everyone who receives a Gift Certificate is a potential new customer, one who might never have frequented your shop otherwise. The same can be said for Gift Certificates won in prize draws or offered to certain visitors. And those lucky individuals who receive your Gift Certificates are likely to spend more than the face value of their gift!

Consider the benefits to business. For your shop or for any event where sales are an issue, printing a series of smart Gift Certificates can only increase your revenue.

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You love Mother Earth and your organisation expresses that love. Why not choose an Event Ticket that lets everyone see the natural beauty of our home? For environmental causes, outdoors events, nature or science gatherings, and festivals with Earth-based themes, we’ve created the Nature Series, complete Event Kits featuring themes from the natural world.

For the green of the forest or the blue of the sea, there’s nothing more wonderful than natural beauty. Nature Series tickets are an exceptional way to inspire your customer, benefactors, supporters, and guests. You can choose from the arboreal splendour of the Green Leaf tickets, the cool majesty of the snow-covered Mountain tickets , the halycon tranquility of the Ocean kit, or the stark loveliness of the Desert ticket.

You’ll find plenty of other nature-themed tickets in our massive on-line gallery. Try searching “nature,” “flowers,” “butterflies,” “spring,” “summer,” and any other search term you fancy. Or, just scroll through hundreds of designs until you see the one that’s right for you.

So love your mother, and show the world how very lovely she is. Choose a nature-themed ticket for your next event and let the beauty of the world speak for you.

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The choice is up to you: we may take it for granted, but the ability to create massive print runs of coloured images is one of the miracles of the modern world. How far have we come in a hundred years? For a few pence, you can print something as simple as an event ticket with an image as complex as a renaissance painting. Indeed, for a few pence, you can reproduce the painting itself.

There is something to be said for black and white printing. As inexpensive as colour printing is, black and white is cheaper still. And there exists a shadowy aesthetic to black and white, or grey scale, something artistic and romantic, historical and sophisticated. Perhaps black and white event tickets are for you.

On the other hand, there’s glorious technicolour! Eye-catching spectra! Dazzling, rainbow possibilities. Today’s technology allows for photo-quality reproduction in a small format. You can choose from hundreds of full-colour designs for any occasion. You can even choose your own images, uploaded in thumbnail as an element of another design, or, if you choose to print custom tickets, cropped to become the background of your own unique ticket.

Have you a favourite photograph, one which expresses perfectly the nature of your organisation? In our digital era, such images are easy to come by and just as easy to reproduce. You are limited only by the scope of your own imagination. (And if that is lacking, you can expand your horizons to the scope of the imagination of a talented designer!) Whatever your idea, it can become reality in a few keystrokes.

Looking smart in print is well within your grasp. Full colour tickets with full bleed printing draw that colour all the way to the edge of the ticket. Or, you can choose a white border to make those coloured images stand out even more. The choice is entirely up to you!

If you’re printing Event Tickets in the UK, you can have exactly what you want. Illuminate your efforts with bold, beautiful colour printing.

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What’s in your event? If you’re like me, it’s your heart and soul. Whatever the reason for your gathering–conviviality, charity, social issues–you care deeply about the group that is to gather. You want everyone to feel comfortable. You want everyone to have as much fun as they can, or to be as productive as possible. You want things to run smoothly. You know that your events reflect on you. You want them to reflect well.

I pay attention to detail. That’s why I choose to print my own professional, affordable Event Kits. My General Admission Tickets, Reserved Seating Tickets, and VIP Passes have to look great. They speak to the success of my event before I open the doors, and I care that they speak well. That’s what I love about matching Event Kits selected for their beauty and relevance to my affair. They create a lovely and enviable sense of anticipation well in advance of the party. I can even find posters, fliers, invitations, and more publicity materials in the same design.

My tickets set the stage for my events. Yours can too. It’s easy to do a search for relevant keywords. Christmas? Hip Hop? Classic Cars? You can find what you’re looking for, and if you can’t find it, you can use your own images to create the perfect ticket, either with our DIY tool or by choosing to have a talented designer put the ticket together for you. It’s almost too easy. You may find yourself planning galas well in advance when you see all your options. You can print the right ticket faster than you can blog about it!

Who said event planning had to be a burden? Put the fun back into fund raising (or conferences and conventions, or huge social gatherings, or small, intimate theatre) with fantastic tickets for every occasion.

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