Re: Pricing for Tickets for Raffle Items
Re: Pricing for Tickets for Raffle Items
- Subject: Re: Pricing for Tickets for Raffle Items
- From: Nicholas Pyers <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 17:25:03 +1000
Hi Nicholas,
I like the way your formula works. We just started our raffle
program & charge $1 for 1 ticket, $6 for 5 tickets, $12 for 10
tickets.
You're lucky! Here in Australia (or at least in the State of
Victoria) it is illegal for us to "discount" tickets :-( They must
all be charged at the same rate. Makes it little difficult at time
to promote the "benefits" of buying multiple tickets.
We can offer book buyers or book sellers prizes on "big" raffles
(prize pool over $5000), but not small ones (prize pool under $500)
I'm wondering if you can also fill us in on how you're able to line
up such gems for prizes. We've been fully dependent on the "goodie
box" from Apple & a little from O'Reilly. I'd love to get more
things to have available.
O'Reilly have been great for us as well. It's little harder to get
stuff from Apple Australia, but they have helped out in the past with
various things and have been absolutely in lending equipment for
shows and things so we can't complain to much :-)
As to getting the others to help out, it was amazing to see what a
few (hundred :-) politely worded emails to the right people can
achieve.
Some tips:
- Check out if the company already has a User Group program - many
do, but you often have ask about it.
- Try and find out who the Marketing Manager is and address the
email/letter to them personally.
- If you don't know who to contact, try email@hidden or if that
bounces then try email@hidden
- Tell them who you are. Not just your name, but a brief paragraph
eg; I'm writting to you on behalf of AUSOM Incorporated, Australia's
Leading Apple Macintosh User group
- Point them to YOUR website (the feedback we got when we pointed
sponsors to ours was great and helped convince them that we weren't
just a "backyard mob")
- If you have a PRINTED magazine, tell them about it. They seem to
like the concept of the printed mag more than an email, pdf or web
one.
- Offer them something return. Free adverting in your magazine or on
your website or Better still WRITE & PUBLISH REVIEWS of the products
- they love this idea. (PS: You may also wish to share them with the
various newsletter content sharing lists (see
http://www.nicholaspyers.com/articles/ for the two list I contribute
to and gather articles from, plus a selection of my own articles you
can use)
- Ask for SPECIFIC items, not just "please give us a few items".
Asking for a particular item or two shows that you have "researched"
their company and product range and shows you aren't just grabbing
anything you can get your hot little hands on.
Be sure to tell them how you plan on using the donated items and what
you will be charging (if anything).
MOST IMPORTANTLY - ONLY HAVE ONE PERSON FROM EACH GROUP CONTACT EACH
COMPANY and preferably an office bearer.
If possible use an "official" club email address to contact them from
ie I am AUSOM's Special Events Co-ordinator and we have our own
domain so I use the email address email@hidden and set the
name to AUSOM Events.
Also, to get repeat business, keep them updated on how the "event" is
progressing. I'm currently sending our sponsors a short email each
month until the raffle is drawn
Hope this helps.
Cheers!
Chris Kiltz
JoMacs (Josephine County Mac User Group)
http://www.jomacs.org
On Tuesday, October 8, 2002, at 04:56 AM, Nicholas Pyers wrote:
Hi All,
Does anyone have formula for setting the price for tickets for
items for raffle at meetings?
At AUSOM, we don't really have a formula, but here is how we charge
for our raffles.
For our regular monthly raffle, we charge $2. Up until earlier
this, there was one or two prizes in that raffle, usually donated
from our guest presenters eg Adobe, Microsoft.
In recent months, we have had five prizes in the monthly raffle, as
we had a number of "extra" donations from suppliers from the iMac
rafle. These have included subscriptions to MacFans.com,
BackJack.com, games from norbyte.com, books from woodslane.com.au,
Norton products, and Freeway from softpress.com.
We have still keep the monthly raffle ticket at $2 as members seem
happy to pay that as it "is loose change"
We are now running an Awesome iMac raffle, with a prize pool worth
over $20,000.
These tickets are been sold at $5 per ticket. We thought about
selling them for $10 each, but thought we get a better sale rate if
they where $5 and that seems to have proven true.
Most of the prize pool was donated to us and our expenses where the
iMac it self, printing of 10,000 tickets and then postage. We
posted a book of 5 tickets to all our members to buy or sell and
most seem happy to do either or both :-)
Tickets went on sale in September and will be drawn in December.
For more information on the iMac raffle, se
http://www.ausom.net.au/raffle.html
Is it based on the cost of the item? Do you have different
pricing for members and non-members, or do you restrict raffles to
members only.
We sort of based pricing on what we believe members will pay.
We just charge the smae amount regardless of membership status.
I'm sure there are a number of group leaders who would like to know.
Note: The prices quoted are in Australian Dollars.
Nicholas Pyers
Special Events Co-ordinator
AUSOM Incorporated
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