Raise Money
The FUN Way!

Revenue is generated by and dependent on ticket sales, ticket price charged and overall attendance. We recommend aiming for a minimum goal of 100 guests. As a general guideline, organizations with 100 attendees at $30 per ticket can raise approximately $2,000 after expenses. Our most successful fundraiser to date was for CenterStage Dance Studio who sold 150 tickets and raised $6,125! The more tickets you sell, the more you raise! Additional revenue can be raised with basket raffles, 50/50 raffles, or an extra “grand prize” raffle for some high value item.

The main way your music bingo fundraiser makes money is through ticket sales, but you can generate additional revenue at the event by offering basket raffles, 50/50 raffle, or a “grand prize” raffle, such as a big ticket item with its own special ticket.

If you book our “Tier 2: Entertainment Only” package you will sell your own tickets and collect all your revenue. We do not handle your money. If you book our “Tier 1: Full Event Support” Package we build and sell your tickets online and collect ticket sales on your behalf. The day or evening of your event we will have a printed sales summary of all ticket sales and a check for your organization in the total amount minus our remaining balance.

 If you book our “Entertainment Only” package you pay a $250 non-refundable deposit up front to book the date and pay the remaining balance the date of your event. If you choose our “Entertainment & Event” Package you pay a $500 non-refundable deposit up front to book the date and the remaining balance is deducted from your ticket sales automatically. 

We recommend that you have at least 3-4 staff or volunteers to help during your event. You will want 2 people to work the door, checking in guests, handing out bingo cards, and selling to any walk-ins. Your other two people can help with seating and selling raffle tickets (as needed). If you’re short staffed or need extra help select our “Additional Staff” add-on for $100 and we’ll bring back up.

We recommend any large restaurant or banquet space that can accommodate up to 100 guests (or more). The ideal space will have food and drinks available, or allow you to provide your own through catering. Some good locations include: restaurant/bar private rooms, community centers, church halls, school gyms, VFW halls, and general event spaces. We work closely with many area restaurants and event locations and if needed, we can help you book a venue for your event when you select our “Book A Venue” add-on for $300.

Our music bingo game lasts approximately 2.5 hours and includes two intermissions, but from start to finish the event will be slightly longer. A common schedule looks like this: We arrive at 5:00PM to set up, doors open at 6:00PM for guests to arrive and be seated, the bingo game is introduced and starts at 7:15. We play music bingo until 9:30. Raffles are drawn and the event is wrapped up by 10:00PM.

For our standard music bingo event you will need 6 main prizes for the winner of each bingo game. We also recommend having 2-3 “backup prizes” or “tie breaker” prizes. You can acquire prizes by purchasing them outright, or campaigning for donations. If this is too time consuming you can select our “Prize Package” add-on and we will build and organize a full pool of prizes for your event.

Music Bingo can often come down to several players waiting on that one last song to win. “Ties” can and do happen regularly when more than one player hits the winning bingo pattern on the same song. As a general rule, the first player to recognize the song and call the BINGO is our winner. However, it can often be “too close” to call and then we’ll award the win to the player that has hit “the most recently played song”. In a situation where this happens we like to utilize a backup or tiebreaker prize for the runner up.

The majority of our events are hosted at venues that have food and drinks for sale and guests are happy to order food and visit the cash bar. If you’re hosting your event at a venue that allows it you can sell your own food and drinks, or include a buffet in your ticket price, for example.

We like to say our ticket prices are “all inclusive” and include your full evening of entertainment. Attendees will get all their bingo materials and their choice of daubers that we provide. We do ask for our daubers to be returned at the end of the event. Guests are always welcome to bring their own special or lucky daubers with them, of course. Typically your ticket will not include food, drinks, or raffle prizes.

 Our standard Music Bingo plays 6 games and takes an intermission after every 2 games. Our Team Bingo games are longer and we play a total of 3 Team Bingo games.

 We sell tickets in two different tiers: Single Card and Double Card. They are exactly what they sound like. When your guest purchases a Single Card ticket they’ll get one card for each game. When they purchase a Double Card ticket they’ll get two cards for each game. More cards sold equals more money for you! 

Our standard ticket price for the majority of our fundraisers is $30 for a Single Card ticket, and $40 for a Double Card ticket. That works out to be $5 per game. This price also allows flexibility to offer an early bird discount to kickstart sales and a group discount to encourage large groups. We have found this pricing to be the sweet spot for an affordable ticket that leaves room to spend on food and drinks at your venue and still raises a good amount of money. Your guests will leave feeling like they had a great time for their money and helped a wonderful cause at the same time. That’s good value!

Yes! We always recommend offering a “VIP Table” with a small group discount. The two main advantages of offering this is that it encourages your guests to invite more people and friends to join and it simplifies the check-in and seating process dramatically.