| As a part of your Charity or Non-Profit | | | | put a picture at least they may be able to put a |
| organization you are no doubt a solid member of | | | | link? It can't hurt to ask! Now imagine you get a |
| your community. You know people. And if you do | | | | picture of your raffle car or bike posted on the |
| not know them they will know you. . . or at least | | | | Town site, the Fire Department, the Hospital and |
| the organization you're a part of. Rather than | | | | the local Chamber of Commerce. Everyone of |
| hitting these people over the head to buy a raffle | | | | the visitors to those sites would know about your |
| ticket right off the bat start by leveraging these | | | | raffle who you may never have been able to |
| folks to help you sell more tickets online. Let's | | | | reach. Even if these folks have heard about your |
| look at the normal pillars of any town or | | | | raffle already the more they are exposed to it to |
| community. You've got your Fire Department, | | | | more probable it is they will buy a ticket. On |
| Police Department, Town Government, churches | | | | average people will say no to a sales pitch (which, |
| and synagogue's and other houses of worship, | | | | face it, selling raffles tickets is) SIX times before |
| Boy and Girl Scouts, Boy's & Girl's Clubs, | | | | they say yes. Wild, eh? And why not? Your |
| Library Branches, Hospitals and on and on. Sure | | | | organization is doing fund raising for the good of |
| you will approach these folks to buy tickets and | | | | the people in your town or city. These |
| maybe get a notice in their newsletters or hang a | | | | organizations exist the help those same people. |
| flyer in their windows. But there is one big step | | | | It's a win-win situation. If you don't know the |
| that a lot of organizers skip over. You want your | | | | people at these organizations get to it. Meet these |
| raffle (pictures, video, information, etc. ) on their | | | | folks, get their contact info, and see what they |
| websites. | | | | can do for your good cause. Of course be |
| How many of the people in your town, that you | | | | prepared to return the favor later on. By doing |
| may not have personal contact with that visit the | | | | this sort of "Local-Online" networking you are |
| websites of the Fire Dept, Police Dept, Hospital, | | | | casting a much larger net to capture potential |
| Library, Town Government site, Chamber of | | | | ticket buyers than just posting your raffle on |
| Commerce and so on? Tons. Now sure, there | | | | your organization website. You can expand this |
| may be some of these institutions that won't, or | | | | idea beyond the local governmental and non-profit |
| are not allowed to, put some other organizations | | | | area to local businesses as well. |
| raffle on their site. It's gonna happen. If they can't | | | | |