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Make Money Organising A Quiz Evening
Thursday, 19 November 2009 09:37 | Written by Mike Tants
Organising a quiz evening can be a great and reasonably easy way to raise money. This article will talk about how to get punters, how to get a great quiz and how much you can make.
Organising a quiz evening can be a great and reasonably easy way to raise money. This article will talk about how to get punters, how to get a great quiz and how much you can make.
Get the Word Out
The more people you get, the more money you'll make. Simple. So, advertising is key. How you go about this will depend on the venue and your target audience. If you are planning on running it in a local pub get the landlord's permission to put up some posters.
An excellent method of collecting email addresses of potential quiz participants is to put a large jar or some other container on the bar with a sign telling people to drop their business cards in for the chance to win some great prizes. This can quickly allow you to get a good number of email addresses so you could email them details of you quiz night.
If the quiz night is going to be held for a parents evening at a school, or targeted at some other club or group of people then send out letters or flyers telling them about the evening and prizes (which I'll come onto later).
Quiz Packs
Right, now you will hopefully have a lot of people turning up. The next step is to buy or create a quiz.
There are plenty of free resources on the internet allowing you to create your own quiz. However, another option for people with not much free time is to buy a quiz pack online - you can usually pick one up for a couple of quid and download them immediately for very reasonable prices, and they can include picture rounds, answer sheets, questions and answers and tiebreaker questions.
If you want to create your own quiz pack then remember these simple rules... don't make the questions too difficult or too easy. You want to separate out the winners, but you want most people to be able to answer around 40-50% of the questions. Try to be inclusive, so in a music round don't just ask about recent music that the older generation won't know. But above all - keep the questions interesting!
The Prize
Some people will come along just for the challenge of the quiz, but good prizes will only help the popularity of the quiz night. If you are holding the quiz in a pub you may be able to pursuade the landlord to give the winners some free drinks (after all, your quiz is bringing him a lot of extra trade!). If the quiz is to raise money for a school or charity try to get prizes donated. If all else fails, you could give a cash prize, but this will probably come out of the profits
How much could you make?
Obviously, more people = more money. Say you attract 50 people which is easily possible. Charging them an entrance fee of 3 will generate 150 immediately. Pub owners will also see a large increase in bar takings.
If you have hired a hall out or its being held in a school hall you could then start selling beverages, snacks and chocolate bars. That 50 people will probably spend between 2-5 each, resulting in an extra 100-250.
To conclude, if you got 50 people to take part you could make between 150 and 400 in a single evening. And this is only for 50 people. Get the number to 100 and you could be taking home 800! Not too bad for a night's work and some basic advertising.
by MikeTants
Organising a quiz evening can be a great and reasonably easy way to raise money. This article will talk about how to get punters, how to get a great quiz and how much you can make.
Get the Word Out
The more people you get, the more money you'll make. Simple. So, advertising is key. How you go about this will depend on the venue and your target audience. If you are planning on running it in a local pub get the landlord's permission to put up some posters.
An excellent method of collecting email addresses of potential quiz participants is to put a large jar or some other container on the bar with a sign telling people to drop their business cards in for the chance to win some great prizes. This can quickly allow you to get a good number of email addresses so you could email them details of you quiz night.
If the quiz night is going to be held for a parents evening at a school, or targeted at some other club or group of people then send out letters or flyers telling them about the evening and prizes (which I'll come onto later).
Quiz Packs
Right, now you will hopefully have a lot of people turning up. The next step is to buy or create a quiz.
There are plenty of free resources on the internet allowing you to create your own quiz. However, another option for people with not much free time is to buy a quiz pack online - you can usually pick one up for a couple of quid and download them immediately for very reasonable prices, and they can include picture rounds, answer sheets, questions and answers and tiebreaker questions.
If you want to create your own quiz pack then remember these simple rules... don't make the questions too difficult or too easy. You want to separate out the winners, but you want most people to be able to answer around 40-50% of the questions. Try to be inclusive, so in a music round don't just ask about recent music that the older generation won't know. But above all - keep the questions interesting!
The Prize
Some people will come along just for the challenge of the quiz, but good prizes will only help the popularity of the quiz night. If you are holding the quiz in a pub you may be able to pursuade the landlord to give the winners some free drinks (after all, your quiz is bringing him a lot of extra trade!). If the quiz is to raise money for a school or charity try to get prizes donated. If all else fails, you could give a cash prize, but this will probably come out of the profits
How much could you make?
Obviously, more people = more money. Say you attract 50 people which is easily possible. Charging them an entrance fee of 3 will generate 150 immediately. Pub owners will also see a large increase in bar takings.
If you have hired a hall out or its being held in a school hall you could then start selling beverages, snacks and chocolate bars. That 50 people will probably spend between 2-5 each, resulting in an extra 100-250.
To conclude, if you got 50 people to take part you could make between 150 and 400 in a single evening. And this is only for 50 people. Get the number to 100 and you could be taking home 800! Not too bad for a night's work and some basic advertising.
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