CharityMania Fundraiser eTickets Program

Sell Electronic CharityMania Tickets
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As a customer, you can sell both paper and electronic CharityMania tickets. We create a personalized web page for your organization that allows people to buy CharityMania tickets online and support your organization. Electronic CharityMania tickets help you raise money from people that are located outside your immediate geographic area. See below for details about how the program works and how you can use popular online tools, such as email and Facebook, to promote your cause.

A working example, the Alzheimer’s Association
The CharityMania team has a special cause that we support every year. We support the Alzheimer’s Association through personal donations and through our own CharityMania fundraiser. If you would like to see a working example of a fundraising web page (and electronic ticket sales), view our Alzheimer’s Association fundraising web page... and consider making a donation to this great cause!

eTicket Program Costs
There is no additional cost to enter the eTicket Program but there is a small credit card usage fee on each ticket purchase. This fee is usually about 2.5% of the purchase price plus 30 cents per transaction. This fee is simply deducted from the profit you make on each sale.”

Sell electronic CharityMania tickets online in just 3 easy steps:

Step 1: Activate your personalized fundraising web page
In minutes, you can activate your organization’s personalized fundraising web page that allows you to promote your cause online. People who want to support your organization can purchase tickets with just a few clicks and a credit card. You track your progress with the fundraising thermometer on your web page.

Step 2: Promote your cause to people across the country
When you sell electronic CharityMania tickets (in addition to your paper tickets), you can raise money from people who do not live in your local community. Ticket sellers can take advantage of popular tools like email and Facebook to promote your cause to 1,000s of friends and family, no matter where they live. Direct your supporters to your fundraising web page (see step 1) where they can contribute to your cause with their credit card. People who support your cause get a CharityMania Ticket and a promotional Sweepstakes Game Card (see next step for ticket details).

Step 3: Supporters print out their tickets at home
Electronic CharityMania tickets offer all the same benefits as paper tickets. The only difference is that they are delivered with email and are printed out at home. They are the easiest way to raise money from people that don’t live in your local community. You’ll never need to mail paper tickets across the country again!

CharityStudio music downloads

Why sell music downloads? Why not just use the sweepstakes game cards?
There is a legal difference between a sweepstakes and a raffle. In a raffle, people pay money for a raffle ticket that gives them a chance to win prizes. Only specific types of organizations can conduct a raffle and states strictly regulate how the raffles can operate. A sweepstakes is not a raffle. A sweepstakes is a promotion that provides extra incentive for people to buy a product or service that you are selling. The sweepstakes must have a ‘no purchase necessary’ method of entry. In a CharityMania fundraiser, the sweepstakes game cards are for promotion only and are not sold directly. Every time someone buys a CharityMania Ticket, they purchase over $5 to $30 worth of premium music downloads (depending on the price of the CharityMania ticket) from our CharityStudio. The sweepstakes game card is the promotion that provides a great extra incentive for a person to support your cause.

Our Sweepstakes Game Cards work much like the game pieces in the Monopoly sweepstakes at McDonald’s. You can not buy a Monopoly game piece directly. Instead, you purchase things like hamburgers and drinks and receive the game pieces for free. The Monopoly game pieces are a promotion.

No purchase necessary sweepstakes:
All CharityMania sweepstakes are “no purchase necessary”. If someone wants a free sweepstakes game card, they can come to your organization and fill out a request form (provided by CharityMania) to get a free Game Card. They mail the completed request form to CharityMania along with a self-addressed stamped envelope and then we will mail the person a game card. We do not mail them the access code that allows people to download the digital music (because they are not paying). This process is very standard for all companies that conduct sweepstakes.