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Three Days of Anything You Like!

by Lance on April 15, 2011

Simply the Best Multi-Day Events with Wristbands

When summer is on its way, it’s time for festival season. With the sun shining down and the weather warming up, folks are ready to get out and gather.  Planning your own Woodstock? How about a street food fair? Do you have a renaissance faire in the works? Or, do you plan on inviting a group of artists to take over your community for a few days. Any multiday event can benefit from wristbands.

Tickets and Event Wristbands

Whether you are welcoming a gaggle of modern day lords and ladies or your guests are navigating a thoroughfare of taco trucks full of street food and slow food, event tickets and wristbands will help you manage the crowd.

When an event spans several days, admission tickets can get lost or dog-eared, causing anxiety for both guests and staff. When you sell tickets in advance and exchange them for Tyvek wristbands at the gate, crowd management becomes much easier.

These custom printed wristbands are made of Tyvek, a material that is somewhere between paper and plasticDuPont Tyvek wristbands are strong, waterproof, and non-transferable. Once staff members place them around guests’ wrists, they will remain in place until they are cut off at the end of the event.

Because they are durable, event wristbands can be worn for the several days spanning the events relieving worries about lost or damaged tickets. Guests need only present their wrists as the gate to be let inside.

Custom event wristbands allow guests a great freedom of movement, so they can wander through the festival grounds or get out and dance with the crowd once the band gets started.

Who’s Who?

At a multi-day event folks will quickly need to be able to distinguish between attendees, volunteers and staff members. By choosing colored wristbands for individuals who have different roles at your big event, you make your venue friendlier and safer. When guests are lost or in need of help, they can easily identify the folks who can help them.

Tyvek wristbands also allow you to manage special events within your multi-day affair. Do you have guests you want to invite back stage or to a party within the party. Colored wristbands allow you to keep sort out your VIPs from the rest of the crowd.

If you are serving alcohol at your festival, wristbands of different colors can make your barkeep’s jobs much easier.

Reduce the Impact

Big events, especially ones that span several days, can have a big impact on the environment. When you’re planning your affair, you want to find ways to reduce the footprint of your event as much as possible. You will feel great about it. Your guests will appreciate it and so will the planet. You can start by choosing recyclable materials for your event collateral.

Tyvek wristbands are functional, and they are also recyclable. Your guests can wear them throughout the multi-day event and then turn them in for recycling when it is over.

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A Crowd at Your Church? No Problem!

by Lance on March 20, 2011

Manage your Ministry with Event Wristbands

Whether you are managing the activities at a megachurch or one with a smaller congregation, you know that your attendees will be more open to the message if they feel comfortable in their surroundings. If you are sponsoring a Christian concert, faith based seminar or convention, or hosting a vacation Bible school or Bible study retreat, you are sure to attract a crowd. No matter how many folks show up, you will want to make sure to manage your event properly. Choosing the right collateral, from invitations to flyers and posters that announce your big event to making sure the attendees are in the right place with event tickets and DuPont Tyvek wristbands, is the first step in a well-run and successful event.

Christian Concerts

Maybe your church is putting on a faith based battle of the bands or you have one of the hottest new Christian acts cruising through for a show. You want attendees to have a great time and to benefit spiritually from your church’s musical ministry. For crowd management consider choosing durable event wristbands. These custom wristbands can be printed with your church’s logo, as well as a memorable bible verse or special message of fellowship.

Colored wristbands can help you distinguish the different roles of folks at the event, ministers, volunteers, members of the crew and guests, helping you to keep track of folks and helping folks keep track of each other.  After the show your attendees can keep the event wristbands as a keepsake of a fun and faith filled evening, and your church’s logo or a carefully chosen Bible verse printed on that wristband is another great way to spread your message!

Faith Based Conventions and Seminars

Hosting a convention or seminar? Maybe you are bringing together an interfaith group of ministers to discuss issues central to faith or your hosting a faith based seminar for couples who are about to be married. Big or small your event can benefit from event wristbands.

At your Christian convention, keep track of your vendors and attendees with a variety of paper wristbands. Easily identify guest ministers and speakers with colored wristbands. If you want to add a little fun to the big event, consider a raffle using securely numbered wristbands. You can give away gift certificates to the local bookstore or next big faith centered event.

Vacation Bible School and Retreats

If you host a vacation Bible school or retreats at your church, you know there are always ways to make the event go more smoothly. For this purpose, event wristbands are a great help.

Strong, Tyvek wristbands are an excellent choice. Placed on the wrists of your vacation bible school kids, these wristbands help you keep track of your little guests. Whether you plan on staying on church grounds or taking a field trip to a park across town, you’ll be able to identify attendees quickly, leaving less time to worry about where the children are and more time to focus on your message.

Event wristbands are also perfect for retreat weekends and can remain a reminder of a special time for years to come.

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You Don’t Look Twenty-One!

by Lance on March 12, 2011

Event Wristbands for Legal Alcohol Sales

Underage drinking is no joke, particularly if you are an event organizer or promoter, particularly if you have a reputation to uphold, particularly if you are overseeing an all-ages event. Family gatherings can tolerate, and even thrive, with a controlled quantity of responsible adult consumption. If even a single green teenager finds his or her way into the good graces of a lax barkeeper, you leave yourself open to disaster: violence, lawsuits, arrests.

Even a little rowdy, drunken behavior on the part of an underage drinker can permanently mar your festival.

Event Wristbands were made for just these occasions.

Adult shows are another matter, of course. If you’ve advertised 21+ and have bouncers carding at the door, you’ve done what needed to be done. Barring some very skillful fake I.D.s, your bases are covered. It’s the big, all-ages events that need the extra security of the Event Wristband. Your vendors don’t have time to verify I.D. cards when there’s a line of thirsty patrons wending around the refreshment tent. They don’t need the hassle of dealing with tricky teenagers who might flirt distractingly or casually announce, “You remember me, right?” before trying to cadge a drink.

Your best bet is a wristband bottleneck near or at the gate of the event. Those who wish to drink must allow staff to scrutinize their I.D.s—and it helps if you have a tent for just that purpose, so that staff can focus on this task without distraction—and pass out Event Wristbands to those who qualify.

Some organizers may even choose to sell the wristbands. Those who truly wish to drink don’t mind a nominal fee to do so, especially if you can offer some small perk, such as a restricted beer garden or souvenir glass. The Event Wristbands themselves, made of vinyl or Dupont Tyvek, cost you pennies a piece, so either way, you come out ahead.

Your drinking-age identification Event Wristbands are recyclable and customizable: imprint them with your own personal details and design. Many organizers find that guests continue to wear them for some time after the event, a status symbol to prove they were there and did some drinking. But more importantly, they’re manufactured so that once you remove the adhesive backing and fasten them around a patron’s wrist, they stay on until they’re cut or torn off.

Underage drinking is a major liability for your event, but a thin, lightweight, flexible, paper or plastic bracelet can greatly reduce the possibility of its occurrence. Young people may work hard to obtain alcohol, but you don’t have to put much effort into denying it to them. Simply order sufficient sheets of personalized wristbands and save yourself and your staff the worry and hassle.

 

 

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Event Wristbands: What They Do for Me

Tyvek® wristbands used to mean pretty much one thing, as far as I was concerned. You know those paper-plastic bracelets they stick on your wrist, which don’t come off unless you cut them off. It wasn’t so long ago that I thought they were meant exclusively to keep kids away from the bar at large events. At big festivals, we’d often flash our I.D.s to get one, which was usually printed with the logo of some large beer company. Event Wristbands meant beer.

That was before I became involved in events from the other side: the planning aspect. No doubt, from a liability standpoint, over-21 wristbands are still a great asset. They keep me and my bartenders safe from teenagers (you’d be surprised at the number of teens sporting a few gray hairs, or even a bald spot) but they do a lot more. What do I use them for?

  • VIP Passes—if there are private rooms or side events, I can keep them exclusive by creating unique wristbands available only to those who pay for the VIP Pass
  • Backstage Security—when I’ve booked a popular band, it’s important to keep that backstage area secure, so distinctive wristbands are issued to musicians and those authorized to be back stage
  • Staff and Volunteers—my guests and I can easily identify official representatives of the event if I choose a vivid color for their wristbands; a lost child knows who to ask for help, and I can identify my people at a glance
  • Event Passes—sometimes I don’t issue tickets in advance, so what’s the point of offering them at the gate? A wristband serves as proof of payment, so we can determine with ease if someone has jumped a fence

This last use surprises some people, who consider these recyclable wristbands something of a luxury. First of all, when I buy them in bulk, I usually get a nice discount from the manufacturer. They’re not expensive at all. In fact, they’re really cheap: substantially cheaper than printing event tickets: we’re talking in the realm of 8 or 9 cents a piece, for a wristband custom printed with the name of my event and my sponsor’s logo. They’re also harder to counterfeit, since they’re made from DuPont’s™ unique Tyvek® material. And I still imprint them with the name and logo of my event, or of my sponsor, for greater visibility.

My favorite thing about party wristbands? I know I’ve hosted a really successful event when I see someone proudly sporting my event wristband a few days after the festival’s ended!

 

 

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How to Sell Event Tickets

by Lance on December 3, 2010

How do you sell event tickets? Most theaters have their own box office, with set hours when patrons can come and purchase seats to upcoming performances. But what if you’re not a theater? What if you only hold one or two events a year? Sometimes, companies will let your organization sell its own tickets out of their box office, even if you’re not affiliated with the theater or selling tickets for a show. Or, you might have a team of dedicated sales professionals, or dedicated sales volunteers, or an office manager who can deal with the numbers. But there are other options.

Increasingly, we live in a twenty-four hour society, and increasingly, our patrons find that they’d rather deal with a computer on their own terms than have to go out and wait in line, or even on the telephone, to speak to a real human being. If I can spend two minutes on the Internet and save twenty minutes of my life, I’ll chose ecommerce every time.

There are a few options for those who want to help their guests and supporters purchase tickets on their own schedules, at their own convenience, online.

  • Hire a web designer to build the perfect checkout for your website, allowing customers to purchase tickets to your event right from your homepage. You’ll get exactly what you want, and make it easy for your guests to check out, but this is an expensive option, and may take some time to develop.
  • Build a virtual store using a site such as Shopify.com, Flyingcart.com, or Highwire.com. These sites allow you to add events, collect payment, and track sales. However, you will have to spend some time setting them up, and maintaining them can be costly. There may be monthly fees, or a cost for adding new items for purchase.
  • Use an online ticket sales site, such as Ticket River, where you can create a page for your event in a minute or two and start selling event tickets immediately. You’ll be able to accept all major credit cards, plus PayPal payments, and it won’t cost you anything!

The online ticket sales site is really your best value. You don’t have to host anything, or pay for anything. You’ll never lose money if sales are down. At Ticket River, the only cost is a 3% service charge added to each transaction, pretty much the lowest surcharge in the industry. Compare that to a markup that could exceed 58% from a company like TicketMaster! Most customers don’t mind paying a tiny fee for the convenience of doing business on their own terms (e.g. at 3 a.m. in pajamas and bunny slippers).

Creating a page for your event helps you sell more tickets, since it’s easy to paste the URL wherever you think people might be interested to know about your event. Customize your event page with a photograph and all the details about your event and your organization and put that page to work for you.

Once you start selling event tickets, a good online ticket sales site, such as Ticket River, will collect names and addresses for your mailing list and even help you track sales by generating charts and graphs! You’ll be able to sell e-tickets, which can be printed out at home, or you can send paper tickets out through the mail, or hold tickets at will call. Whatever makes sense to you: selling tickets through an online ticket sales website is a flexible way to create the sales you want.

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Make It Stylish!

by Lance on July 24, 2010

Accessorize with Wristbands

When your guests are ready for a fun day or night out, they dress the part. A reggae festival brings with it comfortable ensembles, bright colors and dance ready wear. For a fair or carnival, good shoes for walking and a T-shirt you don’t mind getting a little grease from an elephant ear on are more appropriate. A symphony concert might command something more refined, a tie or an elegant gown. And, the accessory that goes with all of them? A custom DuPont Tyvek® wristband!

You Don’t Have to Leave Fashion Behind

When planning your opus event, you don’t have to leave fashion behind! Event Wristbands can be customized to fit any occasion and any audience. Whether your guests walk in straight from the streets or all dressed up as haute elites, you can design and print custom paper bracelets to fit their style and serve your purpose.

For your reggae crowd, go bright with festival wristbands in a variety of colors. Red, yellow, and green wrist bands are the perfect way to show off a little Rasta pride and allow you to manage your crowd effectively, while staying in the groove of the event.

Fairs and carnivals can benefit, too. Manage admission to special events and rides with festive carnival wristbands and make it easier than ever to keep your event secure without sacrificing any of the fun.

You can keep it understated for your fashion forward crowd. Custom wristbands in complementary colors, ensure their outfits won’t clash with the collateral and help you maintain an orderly and dignified event.

Make Art of Wristbands

Of course, you can choose to print Event Wristbands in just one color or you can add your own design, making them one of a kind and even more coveted by your fashionistas! There is room for your own unique image. Imagine your stylish logo or event branding gracing the wrists of hundreds or thousands of guests!

Green is the New Black

If your guests are style conscious, they’ll appreciate the fact that Tyvek® is recyclable. Green is definitely in this season, so show off your commitment to environmental sustainability by giving your guests the option to reduce waste and recycle when they depart the venue.

Function and Form

Tyvek® wristbands for events aren’t just the sought after ornament of your fashion forward guests. They also serve a number of important functions during your big occasion. From security to crowd control, they help your event run smoothly from start to finish.

Not only do they help you to identify who should be at the venue, they allow you to make sure the right guests are in the right places. A coveted backstage visit or special event can be managed quickly and easily, simply by checking the color of your guests’ admission wristbands. If you’re serving drinks, bar wristbands help to make sure that younger guests are not able to imbibe. For added security, you can include sequential numbering or a holographic design in order ensuring authenticity.

Style on a Dime

You don’t have to break the bank in order to print custom wristbands for your event. Inexpensive Tyvek® wristbands can be designed and printed online. Order them in bulk and you may qualify for an added discount. You’ll have revenue left over to buy that fancy outfit you were planning to wear to your successful event!

 

 

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Food-lovers are an ample and diverse crowd with diverse dietary needs. There are vegans, vegetarians, diabetics, carnivores, those needing gluten-free foods, Paleolithic, or kosher diets. Some people are allergic to dairy, while others will only eat cruelty-free animal products, raw foods, or grass-fed beef. This summer, millions of people with a common interest in food and radically different tastes will flock to food festivals all over the country. Customized, color-coded wristbands can increase the efficiency and safety of your event.

All you need to do is determine which categories of dietary restrictions are most likely to be represented at your event, then be sure that your vendors tag their offerings with the same visual color-code as your Event Wristbands. Here’s how.

* Decide on Your Color-Coding: Once you’ve settled on your categories, assign each one a color. For instance, you may choose red for meat-eaters, green for vegans, and so forth. Be sure to consider ease of use for the staff and participants at the festival. You should distribute the coded list that corresponds to color and significant to vendors and staff in advance, so they can become familiar with it. Be sure to print out extra wristbands, so that vendors can attach the correct colors to sample dishes or menus, allowing your guests to know at a glance if the food is right for them.

* Have Fun with the Design: For each wristband, in addition to the color-coding, you may also include a graphic that shows the wearer’s dietary needs. For a vegan, you may include a graphic of fresh veggies, while a vegetarian who eats dairy may have the veggies with an egg. Meat-eaters’ wristband may have an animal, and so forth. Have fun with his aspect of the design and your Event Wristbands, with some simple printing, become engaging to the wearer. Most people are proud of their dietary choices and consider them part of their identity, so a meat-eater may proudly display a bracelet with a cow on it, while the vegan will be equally happy to show off their carrot design, providing your festival more free publicity.

* The 21 and Over Crowd: No matter what you decide upon for your final design, if you will serve alcoholic beverages, you need a fast way of identifying whether the wearer is 21 years of age or over. Something as simple as a square that may be stamped or checked on the wristband can show alcohol vendors that the wearer is of legal age, proving that they were carded upon entrance into the event. Or, you can distribute a second wristband with a radically different design and color for easy identification.

* Keep It Simple: A multi-level system of Event Wristbands works best when it is simple, allowing vendors and staff to identify distinctions at a glance. Imagine how grateful a vegan will be if someone is able to shout, “Hey, do you really want to eat that? It’s fried in lard!” upon glimpsing the green bracelet around their wrist and the chimichanga in their hand. Fortunately, once you’ve created your color-coded system, it’s easy to order and print your wristbands online. A little bit of advance thought will make your event that much more successful, and your patrons will be grateful. No one will have to quiz busy food-prep workers about ingredients. Nobody will have to stand in line hungry while someone else quizzes busy food-prep workers.

* Adding Advertising: In any case, your Event Wristbands will serve another purpose: advertisement. Adding the logo of your company, sponsor, or organization provides added exposure for the event and the group. People will be wearing your wristband throughout the day and perhaps into the following day. Choose a waterproof DuPont Tyvek wristband, to guard against weather and hand-washing and let that paper bracelet do its work as long as it hangs around. No matter how small the space, don’t forget to add that extra advertisement.

It may seem like a radical idea, but people are more concerned with their diets than ever. Give your guests what they want by color-coding your wristbands for dietary restrictions at your next food festival!

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            From print to radio, from television to the internet, the medium for selling event tickets seems to be ever evolving. While the internet appears to be the frontier of the future, the focus has shifted from traditional web advertising. Promoting your event tickets through a web site is still essential, yes, but now it’s a part of a larger movement, that of social media marketing.

            Aside from being fairly easy to implement, social media marketing is also extremely inexpensive.  No matter the cost, though, you want to get a return on your investment, be it money or time. Here are a few aspects to focus on when using social media marketing to sell your event tickets:

·      Frequency

·      Interaction

·      Quantity vs. Quality

·      Integration

These four items are key to being successful as you jump into the world of social media.

Like Clockwork

            Part of the appeal of using social media platforms for marketing is the frequency with which you can send out your message. Web users are constantly looking for new information, and sites like Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter allow you to give them that information. You need to mention your event tickets as frequently as possible, so your promotion doesn’t get lost in the constant information stream.

            Remember, all news is important in the social media world.  If you’ve just designed your event tickets, mention it online. Even if you’ve just started considering what your event tickets should look like, bring that up. Frequent updates engage your audience and make the process more personal, no matter how tiny the detail might be.           

A Part of the Team

            The internet allows you to interact with your audience like no other medium and social media sites take this to the next level.  That germ of an idea for the design of your event tickets? See what your audience thinks. Invite them into the process. You don’t have to listen to their suggestions; you just have to ask for them. The simple act of listening to your audience will draw them in.

            Get them talking. Allow comments on your posts on sites like Blogger and WordPress. Create a posting board. Encourage discussion on every aspect of your event, from the aforementioned event tickets to reviews afterwards. Getting them to come back for updates is great, but getting them to come back because they want to interact is even better.

Playing the Odds

            When promoting your event tickets online, try to cast as wide of a net as possible. Networking can spread like wildfire, as one connections links you to another who links you to another and so on. Your target demographic for event tickets is simply your first audience, but they are certainly not your last. Once you connect with them, you can expect your message to spread.

            If you’re creating compelling content about your event tickets, your updates will get passed along from person to person, and suddenly a link to your site is popping up everywhere. This makes up your expanded audience, those who end up visiting your site and investigating your event tickets because they saw a link somewhere.

            It’s the grapevine of the 21st century!

Headquarters

            It is absolutely essential that, while promoting your event tickets, you have all of your online interactions point back to your web site. Your latest status update may be interesting enough to gain you new fans, but unless they are following you back to your web site, it won’t translate into event ticket sales.

            The process works both ways. It easier than ever to imbed your social media updates into your web site. You want to make sure that anyone who comes to your site directly can also follow you through other sites. Once they add you as a friend or a follower, they indirectly become a part of your marketing team!

            Social media marketing is a cost effective, high traffic way of selling more of your event tickets. With just a little bit of time and effort, you can receive a big return on your small investment!

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They say the best things in life are free, and they might be right, particularly when it comes to generating interest in an event.  Strictly from a business standpoint, giving away your product could seem counterproductive.  But giving away your event tickets can actually increase your sales, if handled correctly.

 

            There are three, basic ways to look at giveaways:

 

·      Free event tickets on their own

·      Free event tickets paired with products

·      Free event tickets in addition to purchased event tickets

 

All three of these options offer challenges, but they also offer opportunities which can result in unique moments for promotion.

 

Confidence Sells

 

            In general, giving away event tickets on their own proves most beneficial if you’re planning a series of events.  The idea is that getting potential audience members to come to one event will be enough to convince them to come back again, this time at full admission price.

 

            Make sure you consider how you’re going to give away free event tickets.  This is a promotion, after all, so you want to reach your target demographic.  If you’re holding a celebrity softball game, then give away those event tickets at something like the local minor league baseball game.  Finding a connection between your event and the venue for your ticket giveaway allows you the greatest chance of success.

 

            Remember, giving away your event tickets is all about confidence.  You are tell your audience that you feel strongly enough about the quality of your product to give them the first event for free.  It’s important to tell them that.  Consider promotional slogans along the line of “you’ll love it so much, you’ll come back again!”  You need to plant the return business seed into their heads right off the bat, because that’s what event ticket giveaways is all about.

 

A Match Made In Heaven

 

There are two types of giveaways connected to products: broad and focused.  Broad giveaways involve products that regularly sell in large quantities and are readily available to the average consumer.  Focused giveaways involve specific products that relate either to your event or to the audience you’re trying to capture.

 

Which method to choose?  Well, that depends on your event.  If you’re planning something with broad appeal, than attaching event ticket giveaways to a high visibility product can be successful.  If your event falls into a smaller niche, then target specific products.  For example, if you’re holding a concert for a group whose audience is primarily children, attach the event ticket giveaway to products aimed at parents.

 

Make sure you choose your product partner carefully.  Your event is going to become synonymous with the product you choose, so make sure it’s a name you want to be associated with.

 

Bring a Friend

 

            Perhaps the most common type of event ticket giveaway is the ubiquitous “Buy one, get one free!”  Similar to the straightforward giveaway, this method is less costly and more targeted.

 

            With free ticket giveaways, you run the risk of giving event tickets to people who might not even use them.  But by pairing free tickets with purchased tickets, you increase the chances that the free ticket will actually get used.

 

            This method also gives you the added advantage of having a built in marketing person to help you: the individual who paid for a ticket.  In many cases, the free event ticket is going to someone who isn’t familiar with your event, but is going with someone who is.  This strengthens the promotion from the start, as it gives you a theoretical advocate for your potential new audience.

 

The Price Is Right

 

            Regardless of which of these different options you choose from, it’s clear that giving away tickets isn’t as counterproductive as it might seem.  Considering all the money you can invest into different marketing avenues, giving away event tickets can ultimately save you money, and generate a greater return on your investment.

 

            If there’s one thing that will get people’s interest, it’s the word “free!”

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Roller Derby: The Sport of Queens

by Lance on June 11, 2010


Are you part of the resurgence in the world’s most awesome sport? It’s time for you and all your roller derby gals to get competitive. You can offer public sporting events—your team versus other local rollers. Start planning, promoting, and selling event tickets for your bouts and let your jammers start lapping for the fans! It’s time to lace up your skates, squeeze into your campiest uniform, and get rolling.

Call it like it is: Your team moniker

Roller Derby teams need clever names. Puns reflecting your punk third-wave feminist roots are a sure draw for crowds and fans: the Sandra Day O’Clobbers, the Shevil Knevils, the Beauty School Knockouts, and the Rushin’ Rollettes. Be as violent as you like! Or, choose two words, say an adjective and a noun, that best encompass your team, like the Zany Fembots. Just make sure your name is intriguing and your fans feel like they’re in on the joke.

High noon: When to meet

When you’re ready to brawl, contact other roller derby teams in your area and decide which one your team will battle. You may be able to join a league and schedule a series of derbies. Can’t decide whom to meet first? Create your own raffle tickets and draw a name from a hat. Once you’ve decided upon whom, you need to figure out when. Pick a date and a time for your event. Consider days and times that would work best for the audience you are trying to attract. Audiences for roller derbies are diverse: from families to hipsters to teens, so your breadth should be vast, but conscious about your target audience. Families prefer daytime, weekend event. Teens may be available in the afternoon, after school, and twenty-somethings like to stay out late.

Meet me in the parking lot: Choose your venue:

If your city doesn’t already have a dedicated roller derby rink, you will to find need a venue that can satisfy the inherent needs of the sport. True roller derby typically requires a sports arena or a gymnasium, but you could also convert a large gallery or performance space. If you know of a space that often exhibits artwork or avant garde performance, you may persuade them to host your derby as a way to further the venue’s original intent. Perhaps a very large gallery that could accommodate a derby may choose to have your team battle another team in their space while highlighting related artwork such as photographs of Derby girls alongside your event. If the venue already has a box office or a way of handling ticket sales, that’s a bonus for you, as it makes it easier to sell event tickets.

Shout it out: Event promotion

Get your artists on the job. Your general promotion should be creative and intriguing. Collage-style designs featuring your team portrait or other relevant images can be distributed as postcards. Include the date and time, the venue, the ticket price, the names of the both teams, and information on where to get the tickets (don’t forget to include any relevant URLs). Take it to the streets and pass out the postcards in your derby garb to attract some attention. Hang posters in book shops, record stores, college campuses, and other local businesses. In addition to this, use your website and other networking tools such as Facebook to promote the event.

At the door: Get your event tickets right here

Have fun with these! Use your original promotional designs to create a unique custom ticket, or choose an online event ticket template. These can be printed on demand and are a good way to create the tickets for your event. Remember to include the same pertinent information you used on your postcard or promotional flyer: who, what, when, where, how much. Don’t forget web addresses or phone numbers where people can get more information. Consider creative ways to make those tickets your own! In designing your event tickets, you may include the logo for both teams or photos of the two teams. Individually numbered event tickets with perforated stubs help you keep track of attendance, control the venue, and increase security. Selling event tickets helps you realize some profit for your event, giving your team even more passion to have a great and memorable roller derby battle!

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