MasterChef 

Food is a multicultural social glue that binds communities together. Masterchef fundraisers are perfect for supporting an upcoming local restaurant or any other cause. Gather all your foodie friends and family to participate with an entry fee. It could be a food fest too if the nearby food joints sponsor and let teams participate in cook-offs based on their popular menu items. 

Musical Fundraiser

Benefit concerts are a great crowd puller. Whether you live in a small town or a huge cultural hub, a musical evening coupled with food and booze will guarantee a heavy footfall. Also, you never know which record label might turn up scouting for raw talent. Invite your local bands to rock out those riffs while the other participants have a go at the karaoke section. Keep the fundraiser open to a wide spectrum of genres. 

Casino Royale 

A bit of a posh affair, a black-tie affair themed around the British spy requires a lot of effort. With precise planning, a Casino Royale fundraiser offers dozens of ways to raise funds including poker tournaments, individual sponsorships, corporate sponsorships, and ticket sales. Keep these events high priced to keep the guest list exclusive and attract a wealthy roster. 

Movie Night 

With different genres to choose from, you can alternate your movie screenings based on the demography. All you need is a comfy location, inflatable movie screen, film rentals, and projection equipment. Setting up a private movie screening at a theatre that serves food and beverages also works wonders. Make sure you use Yapsody’s ticketing platform to streamline the process and get a FLAT 50% rebate. 

Trivia Night 

This one works well with smaller groups as a monthly affair. Hosting a trivia night for the history and sci-fi aficionados at your local pub or a pizza joint won’t pinch you financially as an event manager. A fundraiser like these harbors community building and brings a lot of business for the pub or restaurant which they can contribute to your cause as well. A win-win. Take our quiz if you’re a whizz-kid. 

Book Sale 

Another fundraiser that strikes a chord with the intellectuals and doesn’t demand strong finances. This fundraiser should bring together those who are cleaning out their bookshelves with those who like to read for a bargain price. Connect with your local authors, coffee shops, schools, and colleges to collaborate on the fundraiser. A book reading and signing should do the trick. 

Get Artsy 

Not every artist gets visibility for their work which is why these fundraisers work in their favor. Have an art opening where people buy a ticket to attend an auction of different art pieces. To make it more engaging, allow participants to try their hand at painting, pottery, calligraphy and so on. 

Go Green 

The need of the hour is saving our planet. A fundraiser in the form of a flea market that sells plants, organic and solar-energy products, seeds, and re-usable shopping bags are in demand. The proceeds should be directed towards planting more trees in environmentally sensitive areas. 

Gamers Unite 

You can start a general fundraiser or rally your fellow gaming brethren to launch a support campaign through an annual competition where a portion of their winnings is given away for charity. Approach gamers, YouTubers, and techies for these events for marketing it. 

Junk Donation Fundraiser

An old school trick that is relevant right now. Gather a group of volunteers that have the time and tact to go from door to door and round up unused junk like scrap metal, newspapers, and plastics. Bringing them to the recyclers will get a few extra bucks and make the community clutter-free. 

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Online Marketing Methods

The Power of Social Media
Most parents use social media to socialize with friends or check what’s going on in each other’s life. Since your target audience is online, go on and share the event you’ve planned on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Roll out contests, quizzes and offer giveaway tickets. When you engage with your attendee’s parents online, there’s a high chance the kids will attend your event. Alternatively, you can sign up with Yapsody and we can also share your events on our profile so your events can get maximum exposure.

Email Marketing: The Personalized Tool
Work on creating your contact list if you don’t have one already. Target parents, teachers and daycare providers. Get their email addresses through contests on social media or by calling up schools. You can use our MailChimp Integration to send out personalized email invites of your event. Let them know how the event will benefit their kids and what it offers. Offer additional discounts to schools and daycare providers as through them you can get maximum attendees.

SEO
Parents find ways to keep their kids engaged in offline activities. So they google up upcoming kids events. But your event shows up after 3 pages. If you want more people to find your event easily, you have to use SEO to increase the visibility of your event. What is SEO? It’s a way of increasing the quality and quantity of traffic organically. To do so, you need to optimize your content, meta description and title with the most popular keywords. Through optimized content, ranking gets better and better ranking simply means your event page will show up before your competitor’s. Our online ticketing system gives you an option to optimize your content using the most searched keywords.

Premium Event Listing
Do you want maximum people to see your event?  List your events on popular event listing websites like Yapsody. You can fill up our form and post your events on our website for free. That way, our website visitors can see your events and buy the tickets from the online ticket store.

Get Featured on the Blogs
Do you want to know how to promote your event successfully? The answer is blogs. Blogs give the readers a gist of what your events are all about. Let me give you an event promotion example. Let’s say you’re hosting a Cinderella drama for the kids. You can sign up with Yapsody and we will feature your Cinderalla drama event on our website. Along with the event information, we offer a direct link to the ticket store to buy tickets online.

Paid Ads on Apps
Kids love to play games online. They can go on for days without eating unless the wifi or the internet stops working. You can use this situation for your benefit. While gaming apps display ads of other games, you can go for paid ads for your event. Make sure your ad is interesting enough for the kids to watch it till the end. Make sure your event ad is not displayed too many times as it will cause a reverse effect on your event promotion.

Offline Marketing

Flyers
Create and distribute appealing flyers at schools, toy stores, shopping malls and every other place you think kids or parents visit. To make sure your flyers don’t land up in the trash, add a discount coupon code on it that has to be used while booking tickets online. Additionally, design your flyers with the theme you’ve chosen for your event. For example, you’re hosting a magic show for the kids. Make sure you add pictures of the magician performing the magic. Alternatively, let the magician amaze the kids with a few tricks near the school and hand out the flyers after he’s the magical moment.

Banners
Be it an arts festival or a sports week for the kids, place banners of your event everywhere so there’s maximum participation. Remember the placement plays an important role in reaching out to the maximum audience. Schools, buses and parks should be your prime places for banner placement. The more people will see your ads, the more crowd you can expect at your location.

Radio Ads
Want to promote your Christmas lunch for kids and their families? Reach out to almost everyone through radio ads. Parents generally listen to the radio while driving, traveling or during a workout. If you want to promote your event, put up a radio ad, let the RJ give guests all the information about the event. You can also organize an interview with the artists and performers of your event. That way, your events get better exposure and can lead to a sold-out event.

While you organize the best of the events to keep the kids entertained, you’ll need a ticketing partner to offer your attendees a great ticketing experience. Zero down on Yapsody for your event ticketing needs as we offer the best features at an affordable price. Not only that, we’ve rolled out our irresistible holiday season offers so you can get a 25% off on your event ticketing fees. Sign up with Yapsody and use our promo code HOLIDAY25 while creating an awesome event.

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Avoid Chaos
A well-managed school event can mean a positive appreciation and good reputation for your school. While the parents would love to see their kids perform, you definitely don’t want them to keep checking the time. Cut the long queues short through our YapScan mobile app. This app lets you quickly scan through every attendee, so you don’t kill their excitement and let them in right away.

Save On your Cost
Organizing and selling tickets online can be your worst nightmare, especially when you want to save on costs. Let’s say you’ve planned a Hawaiin party. To offer parents and your guests a great experience, you want to sell tickets online, but the exorbitant event ticketing charges let you down. That’s not the case with Yapsody. While most ticketing systems charge $2 fee per ticket sold, our online ticketing system can be leveraged at a fairly low price. In fact, you can choose to pass on fees as the amount passed to your guests is relatively low and they won’t mind paying it. Additionally, you can avail our holiday season offers and get a flat 25% off on your event ticketing fees.

Create All School Events with Ease
Be it an International Fair or a Grandparents BBQ, hosting a school event requires you to handle multitudes of tasks with strategic planning. But creating your event online and selling tickets doesn’t need to be a time-consuming activity. At Yapsody, you can save a whole lot of time by creating all your events in the virtual box office. This means, if you have 10 school events this month, you don’t have to create each one from scratch. For example, once you’ve created the Grandparent BBQ event, you can simply copy the same event and edit it to make changes.

Reserved Seating
Whether it’s for their children’s drama performance or live school concert, watching the parents and guests run for the best seats can look pretty ugly. As a prestigious school, you’d want your attendees and parents to be comfortable once they arrive for the event. Reserved seating gives your attendees an option to choose from our seating layout so they can book their tickets in advance. With reserved seating, they can enjoy the most awaited performance of their children from their chosen spots. Besides, you can also offer access codes to VIPs or volunteers like some of our presenters do so they can get early access to the event.

Easy Promotion
With most of your school parents and other guests available on Facebook and Twitter, promoting your event in advance can get you a good response. When you sign up with Yapsody, marketing your events is a cakewalk. Here’s how we promote your event:

• Share on social media – We share your school events on our social media profiles
• Premium event listing – You can list all your school events on our website for free
• Blogs – We feature your school events on our blogs along with a buy tickets button, so your attendees can directly purchase your tickets from your online ticket store.

Additionally, you can use our MailChimp integration to send out personalized email invites to the parents and other attendees. For example, if it’s a Cinderella musical you’re planning to host, you can create an invite using Canva or photoshop with a shiny glass slipper and details of the event.

Ticket Customization
Watching your child perform on the stage is a very exciting time for parents. Pump up the excitement by offering your school parents and other guests customized tickets. Let’s say, you’re organizing a Halloween lunch party for the family, you can add Jack-O’-Lanterns on your ticket to give it a Halloween theme. Using our online ticketing system, you can customize your ticket the way you like. Also, 2 out of 30 attendees can forget their tickets at home. That won’t happen when you sell tickets online. You can choose how your attendees should get their tickets, either in the inbox or take a print out at the box office.

Avoid Overpricing and Fake Tickets
As teens, we have done everything to get the extra pocket money, even if it means selling the school event tickets at a higher price. However, overpriced and fake tickets should not concern you anymore. At Yapsody, every ticket is assigned a QR code. It contains all the information about the event like the date, venue, the type of ticket and the ticket purchaser’s name. So if anyone attempts to enter with a fake ticket, our mobile app YapScan will easily detect it. Want to avoid fake tickets? Sell your event tickets with Yapsody.

Track your Ticket Sales
Whether you’re hosting this event to raise funds for your school or to give your students better provisions, you can easily track how successful you’ve been in generating revenue. Our mobile app, YapStats gives you detailed reports on tickets sold and daily conversions so you can alter your sales strategy to sell more tickets online.

You have all the reasons to pull off your next school event and make it the most memorable one. While you plan your next school drama or an ice skating event, offer your attendees a seamless ticketing experience through our premium yet low priced event ticketing system. Go on and create memories, sign up with Yapsody and avail our holiday season offer using the HOLIDAY25 promo code.

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Plan the Event
When hosting an Alumni meet, planning is the key. With attendees working in different locations, it can be difficult to coordinate with everyone. Start with attendees who are currently in your location. If you already have an event management team, divide the tasks. Let your team coordinate with the attendees for a suitable date and time they’ll be available.

Venue & Pricing
Once you have the budgets, date and the number of attendees confirmed, select the venue for the reunion. Depending on your budget, you can plan the event outdoors or simply make it an indoor event. If it’s an outdoor event, you can host it in an open park with special food arrangements (we’ve written all about it below). If you’re planning to keep it during the winters, find a cozy cafe or a club to remind them of their old party days. Once you’ve finalized the venue and know approximately how many are expected, set up the ticket pricing. Now, this can be a little tricky even for the expert event presenters. We recommend you go through our blog on “how to price an event ticket in 3 steps” to make you an expert in ticket pricing.

Invitation
You’re about to reunite the old batchmates of a university. Make it a memorable one. Begin with a creative invite. You can request for an old photograph of the batch and use Canva or photoshop to create an engaging invite. Moreover, you could use a graphic design software like Vectornator to create a stunning vector-based invitation card including your old photos.
Get a list of all the batchmates of that year and send them a personalized invite using our MailChimp Integration. Some attendees could be in different parts of the world. To make sure everyone gets to be a part of it, send the invite months in advance. Use MailChimp to send access codes to make it an exclusive event.

Choose an Ideal Ticketing System
Once you’ve planned the alumni event, you’ll need an event ticketing system to sell tickets online. Be it price-wise or feature-wise, Yapsody only has the best to offer. The attendees will reunite after a long time. Don’t ruin their experience by making them wait at the entry point. Give your attendees a seamless ticketing experience with our mobile apps. Validate your attendees in a jiffy and track real-time stats of the Alumni event using the YapsScan app. Whether the university is in Germany or Canada, you can create an Alumni event in multiple languages. Our online ticketing system supports 15 prominent languages so there’s no language barrier between you and your attendees. Make event ticketing absolutely free with our ‘Pass On Fees’ feature. Our feature lets you add the ticketing cost to the ticket price so you pay nothing.

Offer Discounts
No matter how successful your Alumni maybe, giving a good offer can always light up their faces. Before you announce the event online, plan some exciting offers that your Alumni can’t resist. You can roll out the early bird offers and discount coupons and promote it on social media. While your attendees enjoy the best deals, you can take advantage of our crazy offers, we’ve rolled out this holiday season so YOU can host your next Alumni event with ease. You can choose from the multiple offers and avail a 25% off on your event ticketing fees.

Promote the Alumni Meet
Once your event is all planned, roll it out to the audience on social media. Alternatively, you can sign up with Yapsody and we’ll be happy to share the load for you. Once you’re a Yapsody event presenter, we share your events on our website for free. Moreover, your events get featured on our blogs and our social media profiles. That way, your attendees, no matter where they are, can view the Alumni event and buy tickets well in advance. While you promote your event online, don’t forget to reveal your offers and contests online. Use our integrated tool MailChimp to send out the Alumni invites directly to your attendee’s mailbox. Use popular platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn to reach out to the Alumni. Not sure when to promote your event? Read our blog.

Food
Every Alumnus offers food and drinks. You can offer your attendees a different experience. Find out what the attendees of the alumni meet will prefer through our survey or what was the popular food during their batch. If they remember something special that everyone relished together, be it an In-N-Out burger or the pepperoni pizza, add that in the menu

Performances
To make the class reunion extraordinary, talk to a few attendees much before the event. A few attendees can create a short performance for their friends. It could be a dance or a popular group song of their time. If anyone plays a musical instrument, let’s say guitar, you can have an on the spot jam up session with the popular hits of the era.

Organize Games & Activities
Every get together is fun when you organize games and activities with it. Organize games like guess the teacher or beer pong games. In the guess the teacher game, the attendees imitate their favorite teachers and the others guess the name. Entertain your attendees with a live band or a DJ who’ll play popular music that will take them back to the college days. Whether it is the “YMCA” or “Hotel California”, let your attendees bring back the nostalgia with great music and games.

Host a Sports Event
Basketball, Rugby or Football, pick your attendees’ favorite sport that they played during the college days and host a sports event. They could relive the olden days playing the match while their kids (if any) can be the cheerleaders at the event.

Create Memories
While your attendees will create new memories at this event, you can collect all the old pictures of the batch through your attendees to create a video. This video can be shared on a big screen at the event. You can also arrange a photo booth with appealing props so your attendees can create new memories and post them on social media.

Repeat the Graduation Ceremony
Let your attendees relive the traditional graduation ceremony. You can invite the teachers too and have a felicitation program for them. With graduation hats and gowns, you can take them back to the olden days. To honor them and thank your attendees, you can print out thank you certificates for taking time out and attending the event. In return, your attendees will thank you for putting up a great show.

Giveaway
To make this event a memorable one, giveaway party favors in the form of bottle openers, bags, t-shirts or mugs with the year you passed and the university name on it. Your party favor should be a daily use item that reminds them of your event even after a decade.

Bring the memories back to life and create a happening Alumni meet with a lot of memories to take home for you and your attendee. Sign up with Yapsody and avail our COVID Recovery Offer.

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