The most important thing you can do is eliminate plastic products. Every year, we produce about 250 billion pounds of plastic pellets, a great deal of which ends up in landfills, or, even worse, floating in a garbage gyre in the ocean, killing fish and birds. The more sophisticated your event, the less likely you are to depend on plastic, but if you do, just swap it out. Real glasses, plates, and cutlery, or least recyclable ones (all these products, even forks and knives, can be made from paper) are you tickets to reducing waste.

Find responsible venues. Reduce your usage of fossil fuels. Some places will advertise as depending upon renewable, sustainable resources like solar power, wind power, hydroelectric power, or even geothermal power. Find ways to cut your energy usage: use fewer lights, or choose LEDs, or even candles (fire code allowing).

Choose foods grown locally: it’s an excellent way to reduce your dependence on fossil fuels. Shipping food about the planet is a huge waste of resources, especially if you’ve a farm down the road a bit.

Remember that buffets increase waste: people are likely to take more than they want. Use servers for portion control. Consider donating leftovers to a local shelter. They’ll thank you for it and may provide free publicity for the event.

Take a careful accounting of your costs. Most promoters find that they can reduce costs and waste at the same time. What do you really need? What can you do without?

Be sure to document your environmental practices. Write about your quest for efficiency on the Internet, where people can find it. You can start attracting a new, environmentally conscious base, increase your ticket sales, and host a spectacular event!

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!

There are those lucky organisations among us with dedicated sales team, active membership rosters, and, in some cases, easily accessible box offices. We may have dedicated volunteer teams, active word-of-mouth campaigns, or popular and navigable websites. Some groups even have extra cash on hand, saved solely for the purpose of publicity campaigns: Posters, Flyers, TV or radio spots, and print advertisements in newspaper or magazine.

The cleverest sales campaigns seem to take on a life of their own: music promotions where Stickers or graffiti-style ads pique the curiosity of those in the know, Internet marketing that goes viral and is passed around the Internet through links and reposts.

In the 21st century, groups seeking to increase their Event Ticket sales ignore virtual marketing at their own peril. It’s the rare event that attracts crowds of younger people without making use of blogs, home pages, social networking, forums, and other online spaces. When you want to sell more Event Tickets, Internet marketing provides you with publicity that costs almost nothing (or, possibly, nothing at all) and can be reproduced and disseminated with the click of a button.

The best part is that, with a properly mounted campaign, your message spreads with no further effort on your part. If it’s smart, compelling, or entertaining, potential customers will pass it on to new potential customers, creating a wonderful chain of publicity for you. So don’t fear the Internet. Put your bravest, most colorful promotions out there and see what transpires.

Your advance publicity materials, including your Event Ticket, are visual cues to your guests. A proper image helps define your group, your mission, and the theme of your gathering both to returning supporters as well as potential new members.

Are your guests interested in design? The environment? Beauty? Appeal to them on the appropriate level by choosing imagery that speaks to their desires. Choose from 100s of Event Ticket templates and find the one that is most likely to capture the imagination of those who are considering attending your event, supporting your efforts, and aligning themselves with your cause.

There exists a wide gulf between a simple printed messages and a brilliant design. Even the most staid academics will appreciate the draw of a stunning calligraphic font on a coloured background. Athletes prefer athletic themes.

Don’t settle for something plain and unremarkable. When you’re hosting an event, you want supporters to remark upon your Event Tickets and other advance print publicity. Consider your audience. Make it special. Make it lovely.

Theatres large and small may find themselves in competition with the hundreds of free and convenient forms of entertainment favoured by modern audiences: TV, DVDS, Internet, and more, all offer digital entertainment to dazzle and hypnotize the masses. Most modern theatres find themselves scrambling to reach their audience through blogs, forums, and social networks. Selling theatre tickets is no longer simply a matter of announcing a theatrical production. You now must shout to be heard above the noise of a thousand viral videos, the din of streaming content, the roar of MP3s.

Enter your brightly coloured Event Ticket.

Even if no one is listening, you can still provide a quiet path directly to the audience’s eye. Simply print your own Event Tickets online, choosing vivid imagery and, if you choose, uploading your theatre’s logo directly to the ticket template. With a small, dedicated fan base, you can send your ticket into the world where it can do some good.

When you create beautiful Event Tickets, your tickets don’t end up in a drawer. If they are too pretty to be put away in a safe place, they will remain on view for the world to see: attached to the refrigerator or cork board, tucked under the corner of a blotter. There, they can quietly advertise your theatre to whomever passes by.

Choose a proper design and those tickets will continue to call attention to your troupe long after the curtain closes. Lovely ticket stubs remained tucked in mirror frames or saved in scrap books for years after the show has closed. For only a few pence, your low-tech theatre ticket can outlast the staying power of even the most potent viral video.

What a lovely warm-weather event! Any size town can easily host it. First, consider the purveyors of the printed word in your area: newspapers, magazine, book shops, and publishers. Most of these groups will be pleased to participate and even to sponsor the event, as it provides them extra exposure and a simple way to connect with customers. Schools and universities will likely want to get in on the fun, particularly if they have strong writing programs.

Next, you will want to contact any local authors, any authors with ties to your town, and finally, any authors willing to make the journey to your festival. Once you have firm commitments from everyone in the writing industry, you can add all the food vendors and musicians you like! Schedule book signings, public readings, and perhaps a writing contest in advance. If you plan to charge for attendance, start selling Event Tickets in advance. Or, pass them out for free, and get plenty of publicity!

Send Invitations and hang Posters and Fliers about town. Contact all the local media outlets with press releases and, if you can afford it, take out some advertisements as well. Drink Tickets, such as the one reproduces above, are wonderful incentives to encourage festival-goers to attend.

On the day of your book festival, hope for clear skies and pat yourself on the back. You’ve helped save humanity from ignorance and illiteracy, and you’ve provided a wonderful and intelligent day for book lovers everywhere.

You’ve put quite a great deal of effort into pre-event publicity, have you not? You may have plastered the city centre with Posters and Flyers announcing your big event. You may have spread the message via social networking websites, blogs, and other online forums. Perhaps you’ve gone so far as to construct a viral marketing campaign, letting your message move underground, via the power of public opinion.

But what about your Event Tickets? If you wish to sell many Event Tickets well in advance of your event, consider how effective a beautiful Event Ticket is in terms of advertising without extending your marketing budget. Surely, you could sell a plain, boring ticket, but if you choose instead to print your own full-colour, high-resolution Event Ticket on the Internet, you will be creating 500 or 1000 tiny but effective advertisements, without the hassle of disseminating them.

When your customers buy beautiful Event Tickets for large upcoming events, they are likely to hang them in plain view, on refrigerators, bulletin boards, and other high profile areas in their homes. Friends, family, and service people who walk through their homes will notice these stunning tickets, ask about them, and learn more about your event.

So think carefully when ordering Event Tickets. Wouldn’t you rather choose those tickets that will serve your needs, not only for admission to events, but also for communicating to the world the excitement your next big promotion promises?

If you’re planning a big, romantic dance, dinner, or other event in celebration of lovers, get a little added publicity with a proper Valentine’s Day Event Kit. You’ve already put plenty of thought into the venue, the band, the drinks, and the appetizers. Now, how are you going to find the guests?

May I suggest a Valentine’s Day Poster or Flyer? Candy and flowers feature prominently in these sensual Event Kits, making them an excellent way to attract potential supporters or customers. Let’s be honest: plenty of men leave their plans for this all-important evening for the last minute. Make the most of their lack of preparation by inundating your city centre with notices reminding everyone where they should be on February 14th.

You want to sell more Event Tickets, and you can still place an order in plenty of time before the big night. When you want people to pay attention to you, there’s no better way than with fabulous, colourful, customised print products. Poster, Flyers, and Invitations get them interested. General Admission Tickets, Drink Tickets, VIP Passes, and even Raffle Tickets help the keep the night lively and smooth.

So start planning for a happy Valentine’s Day. It’s fast and easy to print your own publicity materials and Event Tickets online. Ready to fall in love all over again? Just browse our selection of romantic Event Kits to get started today!

Viral marketing depends on hot, authentic concepts and works best for groups with a real message. Some commercial groups may hit upon campaigns that go viral because they’re creative and catchy, but the best viral campaigns are the ones that hit folks in the heart. Your supporters will pass on your message because it’s believable as well as interesting.

Viral video is a smart way to start. You’ll want to capture something endearing, amazing, or eye-catching. Just grab a video camera and start shooting footage of your events. If you film something you just can’t stop laughing at, add your organisation’s information to the video, post it on your website, on YouTube, or another video-sharing site, and email the links to everyone you know. If it’s worth watching, others will pass it on and your big event will receive plenty of free publicity.

If you can create an interesting printed image, this could become viral as well. Whether your organisation is popular or unknown, an eye-catching design that communicates your message can be the ticket to underground success. Print your design on stickers, distribute them to supporters, or stick them around town (make sure you are not breaking any vandalism laws). When you print up other publicity material, such as Event Posters, include your logo for instant recognition.

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!