If you’ve never printed your own event tickets online, don’t despair. It’s fast, simple, and convenient. Your online ticket printing company will provide you with an easy-to-use ticket template and hundreds of designs to fit any budget, suit any organization, or create the perfect impression for any event. Still, it doesn’t hurt to plan in advance.
Here’s what you’ll need to know:
• All the event details
Date, time, and location are imperative details, which you’ll need to have settled before you print your event tickets. You’ll probably want to include the name of the event, perhaps in a large or fancy font at the top of the ticket. The name of the host organization and the names of any major sponsors are also important. Special details, such as whether the event is black tie, the bar is cash, or attendees should bring a white elephant gift, can be included as well. Don’t forget to add the price of the ticket. If you’ll offer reserve seating, you’ll want to print special tickets with this information.
• Your vision
Perhaps you have an idea of what your event tickets should look like, but you might not. Either way, you’ll want to browse a design gallery to find the perfect ticket template. Consider the type of party and the type of organization. Should you go for fancy, fun, frivolous? What kind of imagery will impress your guests? You can use search terms to find just the right design and choose a really lovely ticket.
• Additional imagery
Some companies offer you the option of uploading your own custom image onto a stock template. If your organization or sponsor has a recognizable logo, use it! You may also choose a head shot of a speaker or some other figure who will be in attendance. Be prepared: make sure the picture you wish to include is cropped into a perfect square, and saved in a common file format, such as a JPG or GIF,
• The paper
Most folks don’t spend much time thinking about card stock, but when you print your own event tickets online, you will have to make a choice. The heavier the card stock, the more impressive the ticket will appear and feel, but heavier paper is more expensive. You may also have the option of choosing a glossier finish. What about color? Often, you can pay a little extra for colored paper, but you’ll only want to consider this option if your design is to be black and white.
When do you need these tickets? If you plan well in advance, you can save a lot of money by having your order shipped ground. If you are in a bit of a hurry, you may choose to spend a little extra to expedite processing and send your shipment overnight air. You may even have an in-between option, with middle-of-the-road pricing, that will be slower than next-day, but faster than ground.
• Billing
As with anything you order online, you’ll need to have your credit card handy. Most companies won’t process your order without payment details.
Use these bullet points as a checklist, collect all the information you need, and you’ll make the process of printing your own event tickets online even faster and easier than it already is!
Need a little help getting those donor wallets open and jump starting event ticket sales? Maybe you haven’t provided a great enough incentive. Give your supporters the gift of glamor: make your next fundraiser a fabulous casino night. Recreate the allure of Monte Carlo and start selling event tickets for your casino night.
You’ll need:
• A crew of eager volunteers
• Games of chance (call a local party supply company for rentals)
• A passel of donated prizes
• A venue of sufficient size
• Flashy print publicity
• Some event ticket printing
If your organization supports it, a cash bar will truly make the night successful. You can boost bar sales with Drink Tickets. Remember: inebriated gamblers are your most profitable gamblers.
Start by determining whether there is interest in this night among your group. Once you have enough support, you can start rounding up the volunteers. Take some time to ascertain which skills each volunteer possesses, and then dole out the tasks. Events flow more efficiently if everyone has their own job. Decide whether your volunteers will work the game tables—many party supply companies will also supply the croupiers and dealers.
Meet regularly with your team to check on progress. This will help you see, in advance, if you’ve assigned the proper tasks to the right people. Make a schedule: who will book the venue, and when? How will you distribute event tickets? If there is to be live entertainment, that must also be arranged. Of course, it wouldn’t be a casino night without fabulous prizes.
Your best bet is to start early and look for impressive donations. However, even if nobody has the courtesy to offer you a speedboat or a big screen HDTV, don’t despair. Keep asking. Ask local business owners if they would be willing to make a donation in exchange for extra publicity (you can mention them as sponsors on your event tickets, in the event program, and in other forums, wherever you promote the event). If you get a lot of great donations, amp up your fundraising ability by adding a prize draw to the event. Then you can start selling raffle tickets well in advance, and add another fun component to the night as you announce the winners.
When you print up your event tickets, you can create matching event collateral at the same time: flyers and posters, invitation and raffle tickets. Printing event tickets and matching event kits really helps you get your publicity going. Announce your casino fundraising event:
• In your print or email newsletter
• To your mailing list, using printed invitation
• On your website and allied forums
• Via a press release, sent to all local news outlets
When you’re printing event tickets for your upcoming car show, you’ve got to be ready rev up the right message. A group of Fiat enthusiasts who spend every weekend replacing spark plugs and polishing air filters has a different focus than a bunch of rat rods who just want to get their vehicles on the road. Whoever you are and whatever you drive, if you enjoy gathering together to admire your favorite vehicles, you’re probably pretty excited about organizing your group’s next car show. Now, it’s time to get your audience excited as well.
From small gatherings held in local parks attracting a limited number of ground pounders, to the fanciest, arena-style car show where dreams seem to roll off the assembly line and into your desires, you can make an event ticket to your automotive show the hottest ticket in town. I’ve seen small clubs forging their own way: a Buick club that held their show in conjunction with a local high school homecoming, a low rider show that took advantage of closed streets downtown during an annual cultural festival. The more exposure for your automotive club, the better.
If your show is to be small and informal, you may not want to sell tickets, and if your club is participating in a much larger event, with corporate sponsorship and a lot of organization, you may not need to sell tickets yourself. However, if you are selling tickets, make your show a success by selling the maximum number of tickets! How will you get the word out? Try advertising in some of these venues:
• Email newsletter
• Internet forum
• Car magazine
• Local entertainment paper
• Bulletin board at family-run parts shop or garage
• Word of mouth
Consider what kinds of tickets will sell. Perhaps you won’t charge for admission, but will require an event ticket to exhibit a car. Or, with a large show, you might offer varying levels of access: one event ticket gets visitors into the main exhibit, but VIP passes are required to enter certain rooms. I’ve also seen shows where entrance was free, and anyone could exhibit, but organizers sold tickets for the privilege of entering cars to be judged.
If you want to add a contest aspect to your show, how will you award prizes? You can do a “best of breed” competition, if it’s to be a large show. Or, you can open up the field. Consider these subjective categories:
• Most authentic restoration of a classic car
• Prettiest car
• Best craftsmanship
• Most originality in a custom car
• Best precision in workmanship
You can even add to your own profits by adding a prize draw to the event and selling raffle tickets. Just be sure to choose the perfect prizes for the raffle as well as for the contest.
• A year’s membership to your automotive club
• Subscription to a popular car magazine
• Cash
• Gift certificates to a parts catalog or store
• A set of new tires
Printing and selling event tickets is a great way to motivate your group to really plan out the details of the show. Once you have them in hand, the excitement level becomes palpable, and you know it’s really time to get the show on the road!
The best art events are whirlwinds of color and greyscale, cacophony and music, insiders and outsiders. There’s the wine and cheese set, hosting events in galleries with clean lines and clean floors. There’s the bohemian aesthetic of an art event that takes place in a crumbling factory or foreboding alley. There are impoverished students seeking a little culture and wealthy benefactors searching for their next big investment. There are curators, critics, artists, dealers, and appreciators of art from the general public. How are you, the event promoter, to discern among them at a glance? Consider the humble Event Wristband, a mere slip of Tyvek that provides broad exposure and keeps your event efficient and organized. If you could tag everyone who walked through the door according to type, wouldn’t that help all these disparate elements communicate more effectively?
An array of colorful Event Wristbands, provided at the door of a large art event, along with a key to help attendees understand what each color means, is a smart way to organize your guests.
Purpose in Design: It’s an art event: start with your design decisions and let form follow function. What purpose do you hope your wristbands to accomplish? Consider points of access for your varied guests. Critics may require different access than casual guests, and the wristband can act as a kind of press pass. Dealers in art may need a wristband that provides instant access to auctions and private showings by artists and auction houses. Different color wristbands can denote different functions, and you can further delineate with the addition of an image or logo that might denote a certain portion of the event. For added prestige, you could add a title for the wearer: “Critic,” “Dealer,” “Artist.” Color-coding the bands to instantly show points of access gives you a leg up in organizing. In addition, this can automatically turn an Event Wristband into a status symbol. If artists wear red wristbands that say “Artist”, dealers, curators, and critics instantly know who they need to talk to about accessing shows or an artist’s work. Even a mere “Art Lover” will enjoy having her status identified with pride.
Who’s Who: Niche crowds like those interested in the arts possess a natural hierarchy. Using custom, quality wristbands can highlight and incentivize these inherent hierarchies. First of all, wristbands provide natural exposure to your event, particularly if it takes place over several days, or is a long event where participants may leave and reenter the venue. That bright red “Artist” wristband attracts attention and instigates questions about what’s going on in that gallery across the street. Second, these various levels of wristbands create a “who’s who” status symbols for your visitors. Artists and dealers can find one another with ease, and no one will inadvertently insult a critic or a journalist. (On the other hand, this system can make it easier to deliberately insult a critic or a journalist.) Everyone knows instantly to whom they need to speak to during the duration of the event (and also who to avoid). Everyone can show off their accomplishments without overtly bragging.
Annuals, Biennials, Triennials: Large art events such as annuals, biennials, and triennials are attended by many people from a variety of diverse backgrounds in the industry. People from all over the world with diverse industry backgrounds also attend these events. Consider incorporating the wearer’s language into the wristband design for added organization and prestige. For example, the Whitney Biennial in New York City will have a lot of Americans in attendance, many of whom will be bilingual. The color-coded system may prove really helpful. A wristband that alerts others that one speaks Spanish and Italian will be a welcome sight to international visitors. The status of the polyglot, proudly donning 12 different colored wristbands, cannot be overlooked in this scenario. Her popularity among the international crowd will be assured.
Using quality custom Event Wristbands is a masterstroke in creating memorable, organized success, especially if your event will be large, diverse, and cater to a niche crowd where networking is a necessity.
Using Quality Wristbands for End-of-School-Year Fun Days
Some schools host an annual Field Day, full of outdoor activities and competition, but when I was in elementary school, our last day of school was called Fun Day. It was a day of games and fun in the schoolyard, and we played Tug-of-War and other classic games. Sometimes classes or grades were pitted against one another, other times we played boys versus girls, or chose our own teams, but most administrators today understand how that can get out of hand. If you want to keep any event organized, the addition of Event Wristbands can be a great boon. You can make your school’s Field Day or Fun Day an organized and successful day of excitement for all involved, with customized, colored wristbands, which provide teachers and kids alike with a visual way of remaining with their given teams.
*Designing the Wristbands: Use the opportunity of using customized, colored wristbands to add some flair to the day! In advance of the big day, you can allow teams to create their own designs, hold an all-school contest to choose everyone’s favorite logo, or use an image you already have on file, such as your school’s icon or mascot. Then, you can print your wristbands online, creating wristbands that define your teams, provide your school with some extra advertising, and serve as souvenirs of the best day ever.
*Getting Students Involved in the Design: Teachers may desire to have their students choose a team name and design their own logo. These can easily be added to the wristband. Just get your kids into their teams and ask them to work together to decide on a name, a color, and a design or logo for their team. Provide them with stickers, stencils, and pictures for inspiration. Animal pictures can really inspire some creative mascots. This activity can set the tone for the whole day of games and fun, fostering a sense of teamwork and creative thinking even before the kids get outside. Remember, durable, waterproof DuPontTyvek wristbands will really withstand the wear and tear of your active students.
*Activities for Colored Wristbands: In addition to Tug-of-War, other games can also utilize the color-coded wristbands that will keep your teams organized on this fun, yet chaotic, day in the schoolyard. Classic games like tag and a safe, less physical version of Red Rover all will work well with the colored team wristbands, which also make it easy to join smaller groups together to create bigger teams. Try other games like kickball and even fun trivia games that use knowledge learned throughout the school year, and be sure to ask the students for their input. Their ideas may surprise you! Whatever you choose, being able to identify and organize your students based on easily visible wristbands will make transitions fast and simple.
*Turning the Wristbands into Keepsakes: After coming in from the outdoors, teachers may plan arts and crafts activities that use the wristbands from the day. Many parents keep scrapbooks of their children’s activities, so a keepsake will be very much appreciated by the parents. Something as simple as mounting the wristbands on colored construction paper that the kids may decorate would work, or something as complex as turning it into a craft object like a pencil holder can also create a keepsake for students and parents.
Durable quality colored wristbands that are waterproof will stand the test of activity in the schoolyard, as well as the test of time as a keepsake. Keeping large, active school events organized and fun is very important to keeping the day safe, efficient, and fair for all. Colored wristbands are a great way to achieve a successful school event like Fun Day!
Big events can translate to big fun, whether that means a long weekend of nonstop music, a week-long athletic competition, or a company getaway that includes your employees’ families. Large events spanning multiple days usually take place in large venues, often with a large variety of activities. If you need to control access to different parts of the overall event, high-quality, colored, waterproof wristbands do the job, so you can keep your event organized and maintain your own peace of mind about security. Wristbands are an efficient way for you to identify your guests, and DuPontTyvek wristbands are soft, flexible, comfortable and waterproof, so your participants can continue to wear their wristbands for the duration of the event, and perhaps for some days afterward!
*Designing Your Quality Waterproof Wristbands: If you’ll offer different levels of access, you’ll want color-coded wristbands to denote who can go where. Choose vibrant and distinct colors to immediately allow access to different parts of your event. For example, a gold wristband could mean unlimited access to all parts of the event including meals, swimming pools, and so forth. A green wristband could denote special access to the vendors’ floor. Blue wristbands could be assigned to speakers, volunteers, or other special guests. Determine how many different levels of participation you’ll offer and choose the perfect colors for each.
Every Event Wristband should include some basic information, such as your organization’s name, along with the name of the event. You might also include the venue and the dates. Also, you’ll probably want include your organization’s logo. If your participants leave the event for part of the day, they’ll still be wearing their wristbands: a bold and well-placed logo on a brightly colored wristband works as a stealth advertisement: an instant marketing tool for your company and your event.
*Getting a Handle on Your Event’s Venue: All-company events in large hotels or convention centers can benefit from the use of colored wristbands. They can help your employees identify each other and ensure they end up in the right place. For instance, you could color-code based on individual employee’s status within the company. Consider offering sales representatives green wristbands that denote access to all the panels about sales and marketing, while the I.T. team gets blue wristbands for technology panels. Your vice presidents and higher ups can have access to all panels and parts of the event. You can further ensure order by color-coding the rooms, speakers, or panels themselves, so that your employees know at a glance if they’re in the right place, because their wristbands will match the space.
Or, consider the venue’s available services as you determine points of access. Will there be private parties on some nights, or receptions to which on certain levels of management are invited? Multiple dining options, or optional day trips? Event Wristbands allow you to organize and assort your guests in whatever way makes sense to you
*Making the Wristbands Durable: Make sure, too, that you create your customized, quality wristbands out of waterproof material since your participants will be wearing them for several days, and many of them may be swimming. The waterproof material will also help them last through weather and general wear during the event. Tyvek is the material of choice for high-quality wristbands. It feels almost like paper, but it’s tough like plastic, and so comfortable your guests will forget they’re wearing it. It’s even recyclable! Once they go on, these wristbands stay on until they’re cut off, so you can rest easy, knowing that they’ll last for your entire event.
*Wristbands to Work as Identifiers of Status: If your group is large and hierarchical, your wristbands’ color can indicate where on the ladder participants are stationed. This can provide the event with added texture: attendees can identify others with the same level or position, or, if they seek to move up, they can determine with whom they may want to communicate with during the event. These delineations can also motivate your employees to achieve more. Perhaps at the next event, they can experience the prestige and privilege that comes with the next level of wristbands.
*For Families: Events for families can especially benefit from wristbands if there are to be various levels of age-appropriate activities. Color-code children’s to denote age: grade school kids will need different activities than tweens, while teenagers will need their own areas (and be grateful to you for keeping the younger kids out). Of course, this system can also help you keep older teens out of adults-only areas! You shouldn’t have to be policing the bar all week, or policing serious events for childish infractions. As an added benefit, these wristbands can help your staff determine where lost children belong if any should happen to wander away from their designated areas.
Using quality, colored wristbands that are waterproof will allow long-time use for your guests and their families. Including your group or event’s logo and name will also act as a marketing tool when participants are outside of the event itself. If you’re looking for a higher level of organization, security, and peace of mind, Event Wristbands can take you where you need to go.
Customizable color wristbands can make your business's or organization's regular events to boost teamwork among employees more fun and efficient. Need to divide employees into different groups for corporate team building exercises? Color-coded and individually numbered Event Wristbands make it a cinch. You can create large groups of odds or evens (or, if your group is mathematically inclined, using more complicated functions) and smaller groups based on a random distribution of colors. Just order as many different colors as you need groups and ask each participant to choose a wristband. Or, pass out the wristbands yourself if you want to create your own groups.
Here’s an example of one team-building exercise to kick off the festivities.
Begin with a selection of colored Event Wristbands: each participant gets a color, and each color becomes a team. For this exercise, you will also need several large ropes with different types of knots tied throughout (maybe 4 knots per rope). The object will be to untie each knot, and the team to do so first will win. But this is the main task, be sure to utilize the wristbands throughout the event to create a variety of team-building exercises.
*Colored Wristbands as the First Step to Team-Building: When you begin with colored wristbands, you’ll be able to easily identify each group by color. To make it even more unique and fun, let the first team exercise be coming up with a team name using the assigned color. For example, a red team may decide to call themselves the “red roses” and a green team may call themselves the “green giants,” and so on. In addition to a team name using the color, they can also design a logo for their team. This can even be done before an event at an office meeting, in which case, team names and logos can be printed on the Event Wristbands in advance, for greater team cohesion.
*The Best Name and Design: You’ll want a panel of judges to declare the winners of the exercises. Points can be awarded in advance for winning designs and team names. Some companies will randomly choose their panelists, or you can wrangle some supervisors for the task, whichever is more fitting to your event. The judges will have to come to a consensus in choosing the winner of the name and design on the wristband, so this, too, will require teamwork on the part of the judges.
*After the Winning Design is Unanimously Chosen: After the winning team for design and name on the wristband is chosen by the panel, that team will be permitted to choose which of the knotted ropes they will untie. The rope, therefore, should comprise a diverse variety of knots of difficulty. The winning team’s prize is the power to, as a team, figure out which rope has the knots that they would mostly easily untie. The remaining teams can be assigned to other ropes by the panel of judges, or, if ranking has been assigned to the previous contests, let that determine the order.
*Untying the Knots: After the team with the winning wristband design and team name chooses their rope, the teams will begin to untie the knots. Teamwork and communication is imperative in untying the knots in the rope, so it is a very good exercise for communication and teamwork. The first team to successfully untie all of the knots in their rope will win the exercise. Depending on the event, prizes will be awarded to the team who finishes first.
Exercises like this require teamwork and communication, just as the design and team name on the customized wristbands requires strong teamwork and communication. This exercise can be adapted to a variety of businesses and organization employing team-building exercises at an event.
