You want your unity? I got it right here!
Some of you will have seen my posts about a charity raffle. My wife's walking the Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure this summer. We managed to get permission to run a charity raffle at Arisia, one of Boston's big Sci-Fi conventions.
The raffle is done, and I can now report that we landed a round $4000! (It is that because one person hear we were just a tad short of that park, and geeks like round numbers, and so gave us the extra $20-odd to round us up).
We sold over 5200 tickets to more than 375 people over the course of the weekend - which, if reports from Con Registration is accurate, means that we sold to more than 10% of the attendees! For those who know marketing and sales, that's remarkable uptake.
Several things combined to allow this to happen - my wife and I have worked hard to get prizes from donors (including some EN Worlders - thanks all!) who were incredibly generous. The con gave us the *perfect* location. A few friends stepped up to help us keep out table selling at all times, and so on. But, most of all, the people at the con were were eager to jump on board when we gave them a good cause to get behind. And that, I think, is just plain awesome.
Some of you will have seen my posts about a charity raffle. My wife's walking the Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure this summer. We managed to get permission to run a charity raffle at Arisia, one of Boston's big Sci-Fi conventions.
The raffle is done, and I can now report that we landed a round $4000! (It is that because one person hear we were just a tad short of that park, and geeks like round numbers, and so gave us the extra $20-odd to round us up).
We sold over 5200 tickets to more than 375 people over the course of the weekend - which, if reports from Con Registration is accurate, means that we sold to more than 10% of the attendees! For those who know marketing and sales, that's remarkable uptake.
Several things combined to allow this to happen - my wife and I have worked hard to get prizes from donors (including some EN Worlders - thanks all!) who were incredibly generous. The con gave us the *perfect* location. A few friends stepped up to help us keep out table selling at all times, and so on. But, most of all, the people at the con were were eager to jump on board when we gave them a good cause to get behind. And that, I think, is just plain awesome.
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