I will be renting a booth at a huge Pet Expo. I will be promoting a Holistic Pet Food and I will have one maybe more Adoptable dogs with me. I will be trying to promote my pet food of course and was thinking of a drawing, raffles, helium balloons to be seen above the crowds. There are over 200 other not for profits attending. Expected over 600 people to attend. Ideas for my booth to be attractive and elegant and of course profitable will be appreciated. I will have people helping me with the adoptions and the booth.
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Find someone to make homemade biscuits and sell them. This brings in a lot of change but if its just a 3-4 large biscuits in a baggie for a $1 people buy. We actually have several different kinds and let people pick their own. 1 for quarter five for a dollar. The kids buy them one at a time to keep feeding the pets at the function.
Balloons I would be leary of with other animals around - if one pops it could spook I would not take that to an event.
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For a lot of raffles and drawings you may need a gambling license so check your laws - the license isn't expensive but the laws can be confusing as to what you can and can not do.
Go to small business for a donation. Oreckk vaccum has donated to us air cleaners and vaccums that people know the value and have been more than willing to take a chance to win. Create doggie baskets small little supplies, bowls, shampoo, leash collar all with a certain theme. Sports team thems get a lot of attention.
Be sure to have a fun small activity for kids. Parents will give them money all day to aggravate someone else. Have cheap stuff they can buy to help support the critters.
If this is your first have fun and be prepared to sleep the entire day after. !!
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I like the utensil idea. Chiming won't scare as many dogs as a balloon pop.
The problem with the coloring pages is space and crayons for you to keep track of. Dogs eating them rolling on floors it would be great if you had a whole room of table and chairs but a booth is rough for that. You could print some stickers with your logo just on word. Kids do love stickers.
Well u should do raffles and helium balloons that will be a good idea!Thank you!%26lt;33
Instead of balloons, how about going to a Dollar store and getting some cheap cooking utensils to put up around your booth? That would kind of keep with your pet food theme. You could wear an apron and a chef's hat too.
Also, get some free coloring pages off the internet, put your logo and contact info on them, print out some copies and give them away to the kids. They'll color a picture, mom and dad will put it on the refrigerator, and your info will be right there in front of their face every day.
Wow, what great ideas everyone has! Don't pick mine as a best answer, but I just wanted to let you know that your holistic food may :-) have a non-profit fundraising program like the one on the link below... Maybe have some fliers explaining it, or have a poster with fake Monopology money and pictures of dogs and cats all over advertising "win-win-win" with your holistic food's picture at the top.
I kind of second the idea not to do balloons but what about a gigantic stuffed dog?
I would go ask this question in one of the business forums.
I would stay away from balloons..if one pops it could cause chaos..Use crepe paper streamers..Have fliers ready talking up your adoptions program.. you can print your own business cards... make little gift "doggie" bags for people that stop by your booth. with maybe a sample of your food, your business card, and a flier.. Also Put up pictures around your booth of (that is if you think people you have adopted to wont mind) the dogs and their "friends" that you've gotten together..also make sure you have copies of your adoption agreement..and on your flier make sure you stress key points of your adoption program.. Make sure that you and your help are dressed sorta similiar..maybe different colored polo shirts but all black pants. you can also sometimes have shirts made pretty cheap with your logo info on it...I dont know where your located, but find someone local, and maybe offer them advertising for doing shirts on a discount or whatever...Use a nice tablecover, for your booth table, nothing neon, umm ok i'mma stop there..lol Hope your Expo goes great...and most of all have fun!!
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