Sell Movie Tickets

The most obvious fundraising opportunity is, of course, selling tickets. People buy tickets to watch movies at indoor theaters, and won’t bat an eye at purchasing tickets for an outdoor movie screening. Especially if the cost is slightly lower than the $13 or so that the indoor theaters charge. You can sell tickets either at the door, or presale tickets. You can also give people a discount for a group purchase, to encourage a large audience–after all, with outdoor movies, the more the merrier!

Request Donations

You can ask for donations instead of naming a ticket price–either presale or at the door, or during intermission. For instance, having volunteers walk around the crowds before the movie can be a great way to increase visibility and encourage attendees to donate.

Sponsorships and On-Screen Recognition

Contact local businesses and organizations and ask if they would be willing to donate money in exchange for having their business or organization featured during your event–perhaps giving out free pens and small giveaways with their logos printed on them, or through on-screen advertising which will play before the movie begins.

Sell Raffle Tickets

Before your movie event, collect silent raffle items–throw together a movie-lovers’ basket, or get donations from local individuals or businesses who want to support your organization, and then sell raffle tickets before and during the movie event (not while the movie is playing, of course). At the end of the movie, you can say a few words about your organization, select the raffle winners, and send everyone home happy and eager for the next movie night and another chance to win.

Have a Concession Stand

Popcorn, cotton candy, cookies, candy, and soft drinks are all popular movie snacks. But you can also be creative with your concession stand, selling alternative foods (gluten-free cupcakes? Veggie wraps?) and mementos such as T-shirts or mugs with your organization logo prominently featured on them. Not only will you make money, it will remind movie watchers of your organization and encourage trust and loyalty between you and your patrons.

Picnic Dinners

Another option is to turn the movie into an entire picnic dinner event. Hire a caterer, order pizzas, or bust out some grills and start flipping burgers and hot dogs to sell for a set price. Picnics are a great way to get family and friends together. What better way to spend a clear outdoor evening than with a picnic than a movie?

Outdoor movies are fun and interesting, and a great way to bring people together–all fantastic characteristics of an effective fundraiser. Moreover, unlike a car wash or a bake sale, movie nights provide a myriad of opportunities. Clever and creative minds can come up with fundraising ideas, including but not limited to the suggestions above. For more information on fundraising concepts and how to set up your own movie night, remember to contact us.

So grab the popcorn and your cash box–the movie’s starting!

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To advertise outside a venue, and to compete with the advertisers that dominate the market inside a venue, a company must find innovative and eye-catching solutions to reach consumers driven to look at screens, and the larger the screen the better for the potential to reach more consumers.

In the past, advertisers set up tables with large banners to promote and sell products relevant to the event’s audience at a venue. People walking by the table see the sign, and with the advertising staff’s help, perhaps sign up for a raffle contest or another promotion, while sampling, and hopefully purchasing the product. However, there is no entertainment value of this common marketing tactic–only information and persuasion. Most people walk away after politely rejecting personal and confrontational sales techniques. People attending sports and music events have actually learned to avoid the marketing tables at the venues and now seek entertainment on the way to see the entertainment they have a ticket to see.

If planning to advertise outside a venue with a ticketed event, your audience are the groups of people walking from the parking lots to the venue’s entrance gates. They want to see the show. Strategically placing advertising like signs and sales tables along this path is a great idea. But a better idea is to put on a show before the show.  An inflatable movie screen attracts more people than a banner and a table, and a screen entertains an audience, while informing them about the product and persuading them to buy it.

Ultimate Outdoor Movies has many large sizes of inflatable weather-proof screen available to rent for any size event. Six sizes from 10 feet to 75 feet allows your company to adjust the size of the advertising messaging appropriately to the size of the crowd or to a venue’s rules and regulations. A crowd will gather around the large screen to see your company’s show. Even people who do not wish to stop and gather cannot avoid seeing such a large screen and the messages that appear upon it as they walk by.

People waiting in long security lines to get into events appreciate entertainment as they wait. Some will stop and gather around the screen to wait for long lines to shorten. So either way, your inflatable screen gets attention from those holding tickets to the main event.

Sometimes sports events or music concerts face delay due to passing inclement weather and the audience are kept out of the stadium or amphitheater for safety reasons. People walking back to their vehicles appreciate weather-proof entertainment that keeps playing. When ticketed events face cancellation, the audience who came still sees your advertising.

Ultimate Outdoor Movies provides all the advanced technology to run your advertising films. Top-of-the-line projectors and speakers communicate your messages at the right speed and volume to directly target large audiences walking around a sports or music venue.

Ultimate Outdoor Movies expert event staff professionally sets up the inflatable screen and equipment for the best possible image for your company. Our projection crew  repeatedly runs your advertising films through the event consistently checking for technical issues and scanning for audience satisfaction. Our professional staff then stays to take down the equipment after the event concludes. Ultimate Outdoor Movies makes advertising at large venues convenient and fun.

To get more information about our outdoor movie screen rentals for your next event, contact your nearest Ultimate Outdoor Movies office www.Ultimate Outdoor Entertainment.com/locations

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