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Use a Darts exhibition to earn MONEY for your team, your league, a charity, or yourself, it will fall into One of Three categories, Profitable, Very Profitable, or VERY VERY Profitable, the difference between the three is YOU and your organisation.

Check the PDC website at www.planetdarts.tv to check when tournaments are scheduled on the events calendar, or when players maybe heading to your area of the country for a tournament.

Choose your venue, bigger the better, the more people you can fit in the venue, more ticket sales, bigger budget, better show, etc, etc.
Choose your night of the week, avoid the Darts league night obviously and just to add that Sunday afternoons make a cracking time for a Darts exhibition.

If this is your first exhibition, DO NOT BITE OFF MORE THAN YOU CAN CHEW.

Hire One player and learn off that first event, then possibly make your second exhibition bigger etc, etc.

The cheapest player I know of charges £250 plus expenses, the most expensive is £2000 plus expenses, an average is between £500 and £700 per event.

YOU SHOULD TRY AND WORK OUT WHAT PEOPLE WILL REALISTICALLY PAY FOR A TICKET IN YOUR AREA

Here are 2 senarios,
(A) A venue holding 150 people at £5 per head will generate £750 on the door You can reckon on earning another £450 from 150 people on the event on raffle ticket sales averaging £3 per head generating a starting total of £1200

(B) A venue holding 150 people at £10 per head will generate £1500, another £450 additionally on raffle ticket sales gives a starting total of £1950

Additionally you look at other avenues of income, sponsorship, adverts, etc, but with either of those senarios, youre quids in

Source a venue with 250 people and charge £15 per ticket and your income is £3750, plus an estimate of £3 per head raffle ticket spend equals £4500, thats a pretty healthy budget to put together a 4 man head to head.

Find an event sponsor, offer them FREE tickets along with other incentives you are able to meet, business cards on tables, event branding, leaflet distribution, advert in programme. Print an event programme and offer cheap advertising within it, more companies WILL go for the cheap option, make your money off a volume of advertisers rather than a couple.

If you agree to make whatever donation to a charity, local press will pounce on your exhibition for editorial, DO NOT PAY for advertising, you will get it FREE.
Contact the Sports editor of the newspapers, offer them free tickets, contact local radio in the area for an interview, your player will often help here too by offering an interview, it is all good PR, is there a local celebrity who you can offer a leg of Darts against your pro, another PR stunt, put a leg for auction on ebay, offer a leg as a prize for the local newspaper, it is all good PR for your event

Selling tickets is the big job, give a FREE ticket to every LOSS LEADER in your area, the Chairman and President of the Darts league, give a FREE ticket to every pub landlord in the area, then give him an additional Ten to SELL to his Darts team and regulars, the darts team captain is a good loss leader, give a free ticket to your closest pals and ask them to help sell them at their works, social outlets, etc.

Write to local companies asking for raffle prizes, tell them what the exhibition is in aid of and ask how many tickets they want too, at least get a prize off them, restaurants are a good source, sports shops, football clubs, leisure venues and attractions too.

If you have any tickets remaining around three days before the event, give them away, empty seats are BAD NEWS, plus you can always get extra money out of the customers at the event too, by way of raffle tickets sales, etc.

When your customers arrive, ENSURE THEY ALL REGISTER AT THE DOOR on the way in, this way you have all their details ready in a mailshot for your next exhibition, its a ready made database for GIG NUMBER 2

Sell raffle tickets to take on the pro, One pound for a ticket, Ten tickets for a Fiver, Twenty Five tickets for a Tenner, you will find this method works trust me, more people WILL part with a Fiver than a pound

If you can involve an auction at the event all the better, we are able to source signed sporting memorabilia on your behalf, in many cases direct from sports players agents, this can be a good source of income with the right goods dangled in front of the right audience, I personally sold an item for £600 which I had bought from the sports persons agent direct with all certificates of authenticity intact for just £100, I was the auctioneer and that also is a key factor in squeezing the extra bids from the audience.

Darts exhibitions are generally fun events, you get a chance to meet your favourite players and hopefully raise funds too, I hope these points and tips have wet your appetite for an exhibition, if you need any advice please fill in the CONTACT US form, advice is FREE it would be a pleasure to help you put a successful event together.

Good Luck with it