Re: AUGD: 2. Prizes (admin)
Re: AUGD: 2. Prizes (admin)
- Subject: Re: AUGD: 2. Prizes (admin)
- From: Giuseppe Quinn <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:13:49 -0600
Giuseppe Quinn
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Producer, Director, Editor~ RedQuyn ZOOM Productions
President, Santa Fe Macintosh User Group
Director, Synapse to Screen 1.0
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On Oct 19, 2010, at 11:23 AM, claudia crask <email@hidden> wrote:
> The one idea I have to add to this discussion is consider allowing the winners
> to choose from the available prizes.
>
> Alex Lindsay of Pixelcorps advised me to do that years ago, and the InDesign
> User Group here in SF has always done that.
>
> Everything is the same - up to drawing a winning ticket -
>
> but instead of the ticket being attached to a prize - the winner goes to the
> raffle table and chooses.
>
> Avoids people getting things they already have, can't use or aren't interested
> in. Since we've been doing that we have a much higher rate of people coming back
> to me telling me how they are using the prize. Nothing's perfect, you just want
> to do what you can.
>
> For larger items we often do an essay contest, or people turn in contact forms
> for the company - they know beforehand that entering the contest with a contact
> form means they are sharing their personal info and the company may contact them
> for business purposes.
>
> I do an essay contest mainly to make people think - do I really want this, will
> I use it. I always do this for conference passes since people may have to take
> time off to be there, and/or pay for travel and lodging. When we gave these away
> without an essay contest or really going over the details we were having an
> awful - "gee I don't want to do that anymore" issue, and sometimes these are not
> transferable. If they are transferable I try to keep a "backup" list of people
> who did want to go. Now people are using these opportunities.
>
> We stopped selling tickets because we had a couple of people who would put down
> a $100 bill and always win. We upped admission to $10 and it includes
> refreshments and one raffle ticket. Special occasions - like for Halloween
> people will get an extra ticket if they come in costume. Admission does not
> cover all our expenses but we do have sponsors. Over the course of the year we
> take in about the same amount of money - probably a little less than when we
> were selling raffle tickets.
>
> My feelings about complaints about the raffle is that if members can articulate
> them and we can incorporate and improve it we will. But I always offer the
> option of dropping it altogether. I am limiting the total number of sponsors at
> this time. Life is not always fair, so you can either offer something where
> everyone gets the same - like a goodie bag, or all attendee benefit, but I have
> found in general one ticket per person does spread it around if they stay to the
> end of the meeting. Our next meeting our sponsor is giving all attendees a free
> plugin instead of one big prize - I like it, we will see what works in terms of
> attendance.
> Claudia Crask
> SF Cutters Ambassador/ Business Manager
> Next meeting: http://sfcuttersoct27.eventbrite.com/
>
>
>
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