How?

Let’s say you collect $1 from your attendees. With our 50% rebate, you pay us only $0.5 and when you pass on the fees, the remaining $0.5 is borne by your attendees. By the end of the month, you only pay 50% of the collected ticketing fee (which is already paid by your attendees). The price that you would have paid us is the additional revenue can be utilized to raise more funds.

Along with that, we also have a feature called “Accept Donations” which is specially designed for non-profit entities for accepting donations from their Online Ticket Store and Virtual Box Office. It is applicable for presenters across all our pricing tiers, irrespective of whether it is general admission or reserved seating event. So if you want to raise funds by selling event tickets online, learn more on Accepting Donations From The ‘Online Ticket Store’ & ‘Virtual Box Office’

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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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Social walls are big screens that are put up during events that collect and display all the social media activity that’s happening inside the event. For example, if you are hosting an casino events and have a dedicated hashtag for it, the tweets sent out by your attendees with your hashtags will be displayed on the social wall. This is refreshed every few seconds, ensuring that the display is real-time. Of course, your attendees will love it if their tweets are flashed on the big screen for everyone at the event to see, but is that all a social wall has to offer? If not, what else? Well, let’s have a look.

SCREENCEPTION

As funny as it sounds, that term is on its way to competing with ‘selfie’. The few seconds of glory that is received when an attendee sees his tweet on the screen encourages everyone to keep posting more and more on social media with your event’s hashtag. That level of social media activity can just work wonders for your event and your brand. Coming to screenception, it is a phenomenon that’s observed when someone clicks a picture of the wall when his tweet or post is being flashed and posts it. Doesn’t make sense, but sure as hell makes your online presence huge.

PROGRESS

The technology only witnessed the display of tweets and Facebook posts related to the event in its early days, but now social walls have a lot more than just that. Walls now have aesthetically arranged and integrated posts, images, and videos from across a large number of social media outlets including Instagram, Vine, Tumblr, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Pinterest.

WORKING

As much as I wish it were true, this Wall-E cannot think on its own and find out what has to go up and what needs to be ignored. For text posts, hashtag filters are used, while keyword or phrase filters are used for images and videos. Social walls can be highly customized, though, according to what you need for your event.

MODERATION

Like I said, this Wall-E doesn’t have a brain of its own, so it cannot moderate the posts that go up. Usually, live moderation is the most preferred technique where you can view and moderate every post before it is sent up on the wall using your phone or laptop. If you don’t have the time or resources for live moderation, you could also buy packages that provide basic profanity and keyword filters that can be preset. The easiest way to moderate the posts is by creating a twitter handle where you simply retweet the posts that you want to share and only these posts get to go up.

OPTIMIZATION

Social walls can be included in all kinds of events including conference events, trade shows, and fundraisers. You can embed social walls in a website or mobile app to create a buzz and encourage social media activity before or after the event. But, what matters is that your screen be large enough so that it is viewed by a large number of people at the same time. Social walls can also be used for internal purposes. For example, a private live screen can be used to connect remote employees to enable them to connect to each other.

WHY

• SOCIAL REACH: Like I’ve mentioned a million times before, it’ll increase social media activity around your event, boost conversations and foster communities before, during, and after your event.
• EASY TO USE: Live displays are big, but not complicated. They can be easily set up and configured. Plus, they create a happening environment that entertains your attendees and gives your event a tech savvy edge.
• MONETIZE YOUR WALL: You don’t have to share a random train of tweets when you can easily use your wall for running competitions and marketing your brand. Some smart techniques and you’ll be able to come up with a hundred ways of using the big screen.
• QUALITY CONTENT: Since their tweets will have a chance to get displayed on a screen that is being viewed by so many other people at that very instant present in the same room, the quality of the content is bound to shoot up.

WHAT

Social walls are a big leap when it comes to technology in events, and within no time, presenters have come up with innovative ways to put them to use. At the same time, one should realize that events have a lot more to them than just social media, so care should be taken that these big screens don’t overshadow everything else the event stands for. Your event wall shouldn’t just be an add-on; it should blend with the rest of your engagement tools and represent the innate values of the event. Depending upon your event, you can have a list of things to do with your wall, and the best way to figure that out would be to look at examples, sit with your team and brainstorm.

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