And the Seasons, They Go Round and Round

by ticketprinting on February 28, 2011

Don’t despair! Winter’s end is nearly upon us. Soon the weather will turn, the rains will end, the sun will rise, and the first shoots of new life, bright and green, will emerge to wake us from a dull, grey, lethargy. Why not make the most of this season of hope by planning your next event?

Exciting springtime ideas include:

  • Garden Party
  • Barbecue
  • Nature Walks
  • Scavenger Hunts
  • Book Fairs
  • Music Festivals
  • Children’s Parties

Perhaps your organisation already holds a regular springtime gathering or fundraiser. Perhaps you’d like to start a new tradition. Either way, you can fertilize your sales of Event Tickets by planning ahead. Printing your own Event Tickets and other publicity materials online allows you to bask in the sunlight of beautiful, lush, spring-themed designed while spreading some rays of light on your supporters.

Springtime is a time of hope, and your hopes for a successful event can be realized. Begin with the proper pre-event publicity, including Posters, Invitations, and Flyers, and choose matching Event Kits with designs that express your intentions. Flowers, leaves, and sunshine all communicate the rebirth of the year. Choose matching Event Tickets, plus Raffle Tickets and other useful print products, like Drink Tickets, VIP Passes, and Gift Certificates, to complete the collection.

Print your materials online and start selling tickets to your event sooner.

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Valentine’s Day Is for Lovers

by ticketprinting on February 7, 2011

The most romantic day of the year is fast approaching. Have you completed your Valentine’s Day plans?

For the younger set, a chaperoned dance is just the thing for Valentine’s Day. It provides teens with a place to go and have fun while adults can supervise. Schools, juice bars, and other venues that cater to adolescents can bring in some extra revenue by selling General Admission Tickets to these events. Advance Event Ticket sales provide a good estimate of how many participants to expect, so you know how much food to order.

For teens, you’ll want:

  • A live band or a hot DJ
  • Space for dancing
  • Room to socialize
  • Snacks and beverages
  • Candy
  • Some age-appropriate games
  • A photographer

Consider ideas like a balloon drop, a machine that blows soap bubbles or fog, or (venue permitting) a foam party to create a fun atmospheres.

For adults, the best Valentine’s events tend to be more intimate. Upscale restaurants offering prix fixe menus, romantic music, and candlelight dining do especially well for themselves on February 14. Distributing Event Tickets with reservations can add an air of exclusivity to the evening. Offer champagne, fancy chocolates, strawberries, oysters, and, of course, white linen. A strolling photographer may also delight your clientele, particularly if he brings a romantic backdrop.

In either case, boost attendance with some pretty, Valentine-themed Posters or Flyers. Spreading the word in advance increases sales.

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A Year of Events

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.

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Counting Down to Event Sales

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!

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Oh, Christmas Events!

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!

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Join Together

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!

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Holiday? Celebrate!

by ticketprinting on July 16, 2010

Summertime is outdoor time, and now is the right time to start selling Event Tickets for your big end-of-summer celebration. What will it be? According to our customers, the most popular events are:

If you simply can’t decide, your smart option is to let your fans, customers, or guests decide for you. Make the process as formal or as informal as you like. For instance, you can open your next meeting up to a vote by the general assembly. You can create an online poll on your website, where interested parties can anonymously vote for their favourite choice. You can ask a select group of members to make the decision, or you can ring up some influential voices and let those popular members lead the crowd.

Once you’ve made the decision, it’s time to book the venue (if necessary) and start printing Event Kits. Determine what type of pre-event publicity you will require. Will you advertise with Posters, or only send Invitations to a select group? When you print your Event Tickets online, you can create matching documents for VIP passes, Drink Tickets (which can also be customised for other food sales, so that those in charge of concessions need not worry about counting money and making change while a queue of hungry guests forms), and, of course, Raffle Tickets, if you’d like to earn a little extra money before the day is over.

Whatever you choose, start planning now! Make this summer the most successful summer yet for your organisation.

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Summer Tickets on Ice!

by ticketprinting on July 11, 2010

Summer holidays getting a bit sticky? Fancy a quick chill? If the mercury is rising along with tempers within your organisation, use a little cooling psychology. Why not create a winter-themed event to help your compatriots stay cool through those long, hot day?

You could try a Christmas-in-July (or August) event, surely popular with young people. Complete with ornaments, lights, and presents, it’s a surefire fundraising activity to beat the summertime blues. Crank up the air conditioning, blow the cobwebs off your Santa suit and start selling Event Tickets for a summer celebration. It’s a true opportunity to create some real joy, which is the best way to kick off any fundraising activity.

Or, recreate the majesty of the mountains. You can even rent a snow machine and churn out some of the cold, white stuff for a unique summertime event. Let the children make snow angels, snow men, and snowballs, and slide down the snow-covered hills. Sell snow cones or ice lollies and help everyone cool off. It’s a thrilling, chilling way to enjoy the best that winter has to offer at the time of year when a little taste of winter would truly be welcome.

Mountaineering associations pair perfectly with such an event, but, with the addition of a few strings of Prayer Flags, this could be a wonderful fundraiser for Tibet. Some fine chocolate turns it into a tie-in with a planned trip to the Swiss Alps. With the right posters and speakers, you have an attractive educational program on other mountains of the world. Just raise your elevation and you can elevate your Event Ticket sales!

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Love Is in the Air!

by ticketprinting on January 29, 2010

It’s not to late to create your romantic Valentine’s Day Event Kit!

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!

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Merry Christmas!

by ticketprinting on December 25, 2009

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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