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Conan O’Brien is a big celebrity name right now.  With all of the drama that has been going on with his career this past year, pretty much every person knows about him and the injustice that has been done to him by NBC.  I am personally a big fan of Conan O’Brien, and I recently found out that he is doing a stand up tour all around our nation right now.

This is a great opportunity for any of you out there that are thinking about hosting a raffle or are already in the midst of having one.  If you could raffle off two tickets to go see Conan O’Brien, it would be a huge money maker at this point.  Your main buyers would be 20-30 year olds who have grown up with his comedy.

My husband and I have tickets to see him in June in Chicago.  The tickets cost us around $250, but it’s well worth it to us.  If there is anyway for you to get the tickets donated, I would try your best to do that.  If you can’t, there are a lot people selling them on Ebay right now.  Be careful, because some people are out to make a huge profit.  Good luck!

Although I deal mostly with business, I deal with schools occasionally too.  With schools always come kids, and kids make for great raffle ticket sellers.  They are cute and friendly, which everyone loves.  Usually, if I’m working with business I’ll encourage them to get their kids to sell tickets.  They can sell tickets like nobody’s business.

However, sometimes it can be hard to get kids to be motivated.  One of the things that I have found helpful is making selling raffle tickets fun for the kids.  Tell the kids that they get one kid raffle ticket for every raffle ticket they sell.  Then they are entered into a raffle for a good kids gift.

This will get them so excited for the raffle and they will want to sell as many tickets as they possibly can.  Kids are pretty easy to please, so the prize you get for them doesn’t have to cost nearly as much as the actual raffle prize.  It can be anything from an i-Pod shuffle to a big stuffed animal.  It all depends on the age of the kids you are dealing with.  Kids are great.

When doing raffles, you can sometimes have a hard time selling tickets.  I have a great tip for helping with that process.  The ideas is to make pre-sale tickets.  Bands do it all the time for concerts.  It’s a great way to advertise for your event and to get your name out there.

The key is to sell your pre-sale tickets at a lower price than what you would normally sell it for.  It’s important for your customers to feel like they are getting a great deal.  Technically, you will be able to sell more tickets at this lower price.  It’s a great way to kick off your raffle.

The pre-sale tickets offer should not last long.  I would say no more than a couple days to week.  If people feel like its a one-time opportunity they are more likely to buy more tickets.  So as you can see, this can big help to selling tickets for your raffle.  Good luck with your raffle!

The are so many organizations out there looking to fund raise.  While it may be a trying time to try to ask for money from anyone with the economy being what it is.  But that doesn’t take away the need for fund raising.  Anyway, what I have discovered about raffles is that they are easily done along side of other fund raisers.  A raffle is a good addition to any fund raiser.

A raffle is easily done by itself, but it may help aid in your other fundraisers.  Raffles are easy to produce, considering that you’re only costs are buying the prize to raffle off and the tickets to raffle it off with.  A raffle is easily done along side of carnivals, black tie dinners, or a car wash.  Where someone might not feel comfortable donating money without getting something in return, the raffle is a nice option for that certain someone.

I think that its also important to advertise the raffle along with your main fundraiser.  Most people want to know about good deals, and a raffle is one of the best deals around.  Raffles draw in a wider crowd than most fundraisers, so you can expect that when you have a raffle along with your fund raiser that a lot of people will show up.

I feel like I’ve been coming up with raffle ideas left and right.  It’s kind of exhausting really, but I love it.  It’s really fun to come up with ideas, but its a little harder to execute them.  I’ve been presenting the ideas to all of my clients, some of them have gone over well and some of them not so well.  But I know that my clients love that I am always working to come up with new ideas for them to try.

To better be able to help each of my clients more specifically with their needs.  I’ve asked them to come up with ten ideas of things that they could raffle off, and I could help them execute the ideas well.  The all liked that plan and have committed to giving me their ideas when the new year begins.  I think that this will help us work together well and come up with great ways to help them earn money.

Now you might say that this is me shirking my responsibilities, but I’m not.  I too will be using this time to do some more brainstorming for new ideas.  I want to do my best for my clients.  I will also be using this time as a break for Christmas to spend with my family.  We all deserve that atleast, right?!

If there’s one commodity that’s not going out of style any time soon its Twilight.  Everywhere you go, you see Twilight series merchandise.  With New Moon coming out soon, there’s a ton of New Moon stuff around.  I just went into Bigg’s the other day and they have New Moon party supplies!  I am a Twilight fan, so I don’t mind all the hype around the movies and books.  I also think that because the Twilight series is so popular right now, and because New Moon is coming out very soon, that it would be a good idea for any organization in need of a fundraiser to raffle of a few pairs of tickets to see New Moon.

I’ve been suggesting this idea to all of my clients.  One of the restaurants I work with is actually raffling the tickets off with 2 dollars off the ticket price.  I thought that that was a great idea because it means that people are more likely to buy raffle tickets to win the tickets to the movie rather than buy the tickets themselves.  You can raffle off tickets to the midnight showing or just an any day showing of it.  I think either way, you will have success with this kind of raffle.

What might help your raffle with the movie tickets is if you include some New Moon merchandise with the tickets.  Just about any store you walk into sells New Moon merchandise, but you can go try to find the most unique stuff and put them into a gift basket and raffle that off with the tickets.  You can also plan a raffle event for the raffling off of this stuff where you have food and drinks and a showing of the Twilight movie.  This will help get people hyped up and want to invest their time and money into winning the tickets.  Plus its just really fun.  There’s a new moon rising…