Raffle suggestions

[maodiver]

Since your real motive is to make people aware of the chapter. Why not tie up a bunch of flies, if you have a 100 give away 25 each morning stuck on a business card with the chapter information on it. Just a thought.

I have seen this. business cards with a fly stuck into them. real attention getter, and if you have a decent sized club, you can get 1000 flies pretty quickly. make sure you only give them to people who stop, or people like me will swipe a few off the table because we are cheap barstids

[redietz]

A water proof camera has proven popular with my chapter's annual raffle, as well as guided trips (especially if you can get a guide to donate part of his time.)

[oldfrat]

OK, I'll confess. I've been a professional marketing guy for over 40 years. This response is based on that experience.

It appears that the objective of your raffle is to maximize the funds your raise, not to maximize booth attendance by current and potential fly fishers. If it was the latter, your raffle item should be fly fishing related. But the former indicates it should be an item or items that appeal to the widest number of people attending the event.

Narrowing it even further, you need to decide if it is better to appeal to a sub-segment who are willing to spend a lot (either in a high priced single ticket or in a lot of more moderately priced tickets) or to a larger group willing to take a flyer on a low priced ticket with a low odds of winning.

I don't know the right answer to these. But I have noted that the West Denver TU chapter, which is in an area with LOTS of fly fishers, has raffled off a single prize for many years at local shows. It is always a collection of high end fly fishing gear packed in a custom fitted hard case that makes it easy to carry and display at multiple shows. The value is in the thousands and I think tickets are around $2, but could be wrong about that.

If you want to learn of their experience with this approach, you can contact them at this link.
http://www.westdenvertu.org/

Good luck with it!

[Grn Mt Man]

Royce - our TU Chapter's raffle offered several good prizes and most were donated with credit to the donor on our website (www.roanoketu.org) and printed flyers and tickets. In the past we've also had a rifle or shotgun as a prize and that might appeal to non-fishers in your area too. T.U. Chapter #308 Roanoke, VA
A listing of our raffle items and details are on the website page. When you get to the home page just click on the banner that runs along the top of the page.