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« Result #10 on Apr 19, 2009, 10:39pm » | ![[Quote]](http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-4/162238/JEZLBARMRHXDWGREDSRE-quote.gif) |
With the way the economy is, we know how tough it is to come up with money to run our Baseball programs. Here's a fundraiser event that may be of interest to you. This is a fun event that gets everyone involved, and can be very profitable, if run properly.
Plan a night where the league can get together for a bbq or pizza meal. (charge small amount for meal) Have raffles, not on single small items, put on package deals that consist of at least three items.
For example: Contact all stores in your area and ask if they can donate an item to be raffled off at your event. (and not a cheap item) Tell each store manager that most all local stores are donating fairly nice items for this large Raffle, and that you will advertise their business at the event for donating the item.
Group at least 3 items per package to be raffled off. You'll find out that if people see they have a chance to win multiple items in one drawing, then they'll be willing to purchase larger amounts of tickets. (most will purchase tickets for each package) Sell 6 tickets for $5.00, 12 tickets for $10.00, etc.
For the main event, have a Hit-A-Thon where kids, moms, dads, and family members can participate to see who can hit the ball the furthest from a batting tee or soft toss machine. The soft toss machine on this web site is a great hitting aid to use for this event. (www.shop.beebesports.com)
Group kids according to age group, moms against moms, dads against dads, etc.
Measure the distance on where the ball lands, not where it ends up rolling to. Have people in charge of the hitting stations and retreiving balls.
Each person that wants to participate, will pay x amount of money for each ball they hit.(minimum of $1.00 per ball) You may want to sell tickets for this event. Sell tickets prior to the day of this event, and also have a table set up at the event for people to purchase tickets. This will speed things up when it's time to hit balls. The participant will hand the tickets to the person in charge of the hitting station. One ticket per try. You may want to give a small prize to winner of each group.
The soft toss machine on the web site (www.shop.beebesports.com) is not only a great hitting aid for team practices, etc., but it's a fun product to use at this type of event. Kids have a blast with this machine.
We guarantee you that they will keep coming back for more trys.
One thing we suggest if you use the soft toss machine, is to let each person have at least two free trys, so they can get the hang of it. Show them to step on foot pad, (ball pops up)....shift weight back to rear leg.....when ball comes back down to waist level, swing away. Adults will also enjoy this machine.
If you have a lot of participants, you may have to use multiple fields, batting tees, and soft toss machines to make this go by more quickly.
Between the meal, raffles, and this Hit-A-Thon, there can be some real good money made at this event, and everyone will be involved. People don't mind spending money when there's good food and they're having a fun time......and of course, for a good cause.
These are just suggestions on how we would do this Hit-A-Thon event. You may have better ideas.
Just doing the Hit-A-Thon alone could be very profitable. Example: 100 plus participants, paying $1 per ball, at ten plus balls ea..........do the math! This could easily pay for 2 or 3 soft toss machines needed for this event. Next Hit-A-Thon would be 100% profit.
Note: We recommend kids 8 years and under hit off the batting tees.
Like stated above, if run properly, this could be a very fun event for EVERYONE, and can be very PROFITABLE.
Lots of luck this year,
Beebe Sports
www.shop.beebesports.com
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