hello I'm Cheri truly the founder and
one of the lead auctioneers at red apple
auctions a charity auction firm and
today I'm going to give you a little tip
as it relates to raffles I'm a big
believer in using visual identifiers at
your benefit auctions and here's why
let's imagine you're set up you've got
five hundred people in your benefit
auction and you've got a team of three
volunteers three teams of volunteers
we're going to go sell $100 raffle
ticket for the Lexus that's parked
outside so your first team of two comes
into the benefit auction and they see
mr. Smith mr. Smith let me tell you
about this great raffle hundred dollars
for a ticket and you could win the
Alexus that's parked outside
mr. Smith says sure sign me up and he
buys a raffle ticket team number two
then comes through
mr. Smith we've got this great raffle I
know he says I just bought a ticket okay
thanks for buying now team two moves on
now your third team of volunteers comes
in to the benefit hall guess what they
see mr. Smith mr. Smith would you I've
already bought my raffle ticket mr.
Smith says he's starting to go a lil
annoyed at this point that didn't need
to happen if he would have had a visual
identifier if you have a visual
identifier on your people that have
purchased the tickets your guests don't
get annoyed because they aren't being
constantly asked if they purchased
number two your volunteers know who has
and who hasn't purchased so they can
focus on making new sales to people who
haven't purchased and third it alerts
other guests that there's actually a
raffle taking place mr. Jones who might
be talking to mr. Smith will say hey
where'd you get that blinky necklace
mr. Smith says I bought a raffle ticket
Jimmy Jones is like oh my gosh my kids
would love that so now he's more
interested in the raffle as well easier
to sell because of guerilla marketing
now here's three ways that you can use a
visual identifier three examples that
I've seen in auctions number one is a
simple metal pin this is very easy to
put around a lapel it's got a fold over
on the back that you would just use to
secure it easy to use simple metal pin
number two bracelets bracelets are very
common here we have one it's cloth it's
got slipped
so it will adjust the size of the wrist
that is going it's going around this one
it was an expandable rubber necklace I
broke it when I was playing around with
it earlier but that's the same concept
and then also you'll see a lot of these
as well here we've got a whole roll of
raffle tickets that it can be easily
pulled off this has a sticky on one side
of it that you put up put that around
your wrist you secure it and boom you've
got your identifier right there very
easy to use the final way is to use
blinky lights I mentioned earlier about
blinky necklaces I believe so here's one
example of a blinky necklace easy to put
around someone's someone's neck and then
the on and off device is on the back
this one the battery is dead or else I'd
show you what it look like these some
simple ones too you can order these in
all types of forms and shapes this one
was I believe a Mardi Gras theme this
one and they were trying to sell a
thousand tickets for the car and again
when you purchase these they'll be a
piece of paper between the battery and
the actual the front of the pin you just
remove that in order to allow the
connection to take place and you can
have a nice flashy item right there
very simple tricks and worth the
investment in time because you're going
to be able to sell more raffle tickets
at your benefit auction gala for more
ideas free ideas please check out our
website it's red apple auctions calm
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guide it's 100 of the best selling items
I sold last year and my benefit options
it's great for your procurement strategy
meetings I'm sherry true ler with red
apple auctions
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