5 Easy Ways in 5 Minutes – Help Promote Mini Tree Festival Fundraiser

The countdown has begun in earnest with only 26 days until for our Festival of Trees Mini tree Raffle/Auction Fundraiser. We’ll need “all hands on deck” to work together to make this event a smashing success. Moose 318 is a relatively small community, with lots of friends,  so we have to work extra hard to magnify our voice as loudly as possible.  One way is to ask other people we know to help extend our reach through their friends, family and network as well.  Here are five easy ways in five minutes, you and your contacts can help us to make this important FUNdraising event awesome!

  1. Forward all  event emails to your complete email contact list. This multiplies our reach substantially. We have not extended our message widely enough. Everyone’s efforts to magnify our message can help.
  2. Print out and distribute the flyer at http://thirdmill.com/trees/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Festival-of-Trees-public-flyer.pdf to give to friends, post at your workplace or ask local businesses to post on their premises. This .pdf can also be downloaded and included as an attachment when creating and forwarding emails.
  3. Share both event listings both our 11/15 “Decorate and Donate Tree Decorating Party”  and the 12/7 “Festival of Trees” events are on the  Lodge Facebook page at Facebook.com.moose318 . Do not just “like” these. First click on the “share” link and select “invite your friends”.  Then select from your FB list. Also post these events to your timeline AND via direct message to your friends.  Ask your friends not to just “like” but to share them as well. (Simply posting to your page DOES NOT insure everyone sees it. FB wants money to actually promote your posts and shamelessly throttles your timeline reach.)
  4. Ask everyone to decorate and donate a free tree. Approach  merchants, scouts, teams, church groups and other friends in the local area about sponsoring/decorating and donating a tree. Most people will say yes! And they are more likely to come to the event on 12/7 if they have a tree in the raffle.
  5. Invite timid “decorators” to our “Decorate and Donate” party at 7:30 on November 15th. Tell them they just need to bring the decorations and we  will provide help!Here are even MORE GREAT IDEAS to extend our reach even further! Don’t limit yourself to just the first 5 ideas – read on for 8 more ways to help!!
  6. Tell EVERYONE you know about the 12/7 event. Don’t be shy. This is where the actual FUND in Fundraiser happens. Robust attendance is critical. This year we would like to welcome lots of people buying mass quantities of tickets 🙂
  7. Ask anyone and everyone to share, share, share our event information. Many helpful people won’t think to forward the information along to their networks but are happy to do so when asked. People are inherently helpful and nice. Just ask.
  8. Visit the  new information site for Festival of Trees 2018 at  Thirdmill.com/trees for helpful posts containing information, images and ideas to share when talking about our event.
  9. Download  and post images (right click and “save as” on your PC) found on the Moose 318 website or the Festival website ( Thirdmill.com/trees) to your social media accounts like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter etc. and DON’T FORGET Linkedin!!
  10. Tell people who can’t attend they can still participate. Let them know trees will be set up for display and tickets sold before the night of the event. Where possible pictures of submitted trees will be posted online so they can pick trees even if they’re not there.
  11. Scour the internet to find free event posting sites and list our events there. I cant find and complete listings at all of them – this can be a team effort. If your workplace has a community calendar or bulletin board please use it to help spread the word.
  12. Reach out to senior groups. Anyone who knows seniors at Paumanauk, the Huntington Senior Center or elsewhere, they would be great guest additions to our event, maybe offer transportation. A small tree in their homes will bring much cheer in the holiday season.      Finally…
  13. Share your email contacts with us. We have set up an email account HuntingtonMoose@Optimum.net just for this event to mail out promotional materials, The names WILL NOT BE USED for any other purpose. Once again this will allow us to magnify our outreach that is so critical to the success of our event. Please email  any and all names you or your friends are willing to share to HuntingtonMoose@Optimum.net
Thank you for your support of The Lodge Huntington Moose 318!