“an exotic holiday to the five star luxury Cuixmala resort on the coast of Mexico (the private estate of Sir James Goldsmith) and a day of pampering at the Harrods Urban Retreat (they really are spoiling you!)” -www.handbag.com
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handbag.com in full support of raffle.it
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Marie Claire loving Raffle.it!
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Visit Mary Claire online at http://www.marieclaire.co.uk/news/fashion/369309/win-a-2-000-net-a-porter-shopping-spree-jimmy-choo-heels-and-more.html to read the full new article introducing a host of new luxurious prizes now up for grabs on raffle.it!
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Pascal Wheeler
Reactive redesign
Many thanks go to our developers, Kyan, for turning round a very quick teaser site last month (48 hours) and just today a shuffle around of the important parts.
Did it need to change?
We wanted to get something up to support Mothers4children.org very swiftly and had to ensure our design matched their branding. This presented challenges for us as the branding went through a number of dramatic changes right up until their launch, the same day we needed this teaser site.
We had our main emphasis on encouraging people to sign up for the head start and as a result had the information about Mothers4Children contained in a small restrictive box. This meant we couldn’t got into any detail about the people and the charity.
We also needed to include donators’ logos and felt that although the videos (more of which are coming) were fun, they weren’t so important.
The Shuffle competition got lost in the mix.
What was a great design needed to accommodate a few more modules, at first pass braking it.
Fast forward a couple of hours cutting, pasting and cropping within Apple Pages (great mock up tool) and we had new iteration, not perfect but all requirements in place. 24 hours later we had a perfectly designed running demo and a couple of tweaks later it was live. Do you like?
I hope the proper site rebuild goes as well!
Kudos to Kyan.
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Pascal Wheeler
LisaB is all over you (.co.uk)
Visit the Mail Online to read the full article, but well done to Lisa for securing this great exposure.
It’s worth reading to get you inspired into either donating a prize for their big raffle event, or to help you justify to your partner why you’ll need to buy so many tickets in all the wonderful prizes we’ll shortly be unleashing
You have registered for early doors access right?
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Why so long?
Pascal Wheeler
Why so long to wait?
To make the Mothers4Children Raffle event as successful as possible we want to have loads of individual raffles running. These will be donations from celebrities, designers, brands and retailers, all rallying to support Mothers4Children. Some of the prizes will be completely unique, others aspiration items we’d all love to own.To organise this takes time. Added to the donations we also need to ensure there are great and relevent reward vouchers in place for every player and again this is no small challenge.
Friday was the official anouncement of our partnership with Mothers4Children and we have given ourselves until the end of May to pull all raffles and rewards together. In the meantime we have dedicated Raffle.it to Mothers4Children to encourage lots more donations.
Make sure you get your name down for our invite only head start by registering at Raffle.it now.
Also if you are on Twitter follow @raffleit and send us the number you believe will be the lowest that no one of 499 other followers tweeted.
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Pascal Wheeler
Free iPod shuffles anyone? Grab one in our Twitter Raffle
Simply follow @raffleit and tweet us the lowest number you believe only you will tweet.Example:
If 10 people tweeted the following numbers: 1, 10, 3, 2, 4, 3, 5, 2, 8, 1, the person that tweeted number 4 would win the iPod as he tweeted the lowest unique number.We’ll break this up every 500 new followers and send the person who has tweeted the lowest unique number an iPod shuffle absolutely free.
Can we say fairer than that? I don’t think so.
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Pascal Wheeler
The Power of Love
So it’s official, we’ve taken Raffle.it on holiday in preparation for an incredible re-launch in June. We have partnered with the new charity, Mothers4Children.org to help them with their fund raising efforts.The board of Mothers4Children are an inspiring bunch, Lisa Bilton, Yasmin Le Bon, Natalie Massenet, Trinny Woodall and Anya Hindmarsh. Between them they have created a charity that is set to improve the lives of many neglected children in the UK and Europe.
Lisa recognised that Raffle.it provides a perfect solution for charities trying to fund raise in this tough economic climate. As opposed to relying on auctions and the ever diminishing group of deep pocketed individuals, Raffle.it appeals to everyone by only requiring a tiny financial commitment.
To celebrate the launch of Mothers4Children, the girls organised an incredible lunch at The Mayfair Hotel for 200 of their closest friends. And we got to go along and explain how Raffle.it works.
I’ll add the video of Yasmin attempting to explain how our raffles differ from traditional raffles and how we got on with our biggest live raffle to date as soon as it becomes available.
On a serious note though Mothers4Children.org isn’t just for Mothers to help. I’m a Dad, most of the Raffle.it team are dads, uncles or big brothers and what we all take for granted is love. This is what is missing for most of the children Lisa and co are trying to help.
The cuddles I receive from my children on arriving home have almost magical properties, a sense of relief flooding over us and the weight of the day being lifted away. I can’t imagine what it would be like not to get these hugs. Money can’t buy love, but if we raise enough we’ll be able to help Lisa provide the support network and education required to help show many more children what it feels like to be loved.
If you’ve got something you’d like to donate for the Mothers4Children Raffle please complete this form and we’ll be in touch.
If you haven’t yet registered at Raffle.it, do it now. You’ll get early access to the raffles meaning you won’t miss out on the most popular unique gifts currently being pledged.
And if you’re on Twitter follow us @raffleit. We’ll mostly be tweeting the prizes being pledged but we’re also going to be running a cute Twitter Raffle, more on that in another post.
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Pascal Wheeler
Raffle.it goes on holiday .. off line & crashing a charity golf day
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I don't call, I don't write ..
Pascal Wheeler
No excuse, always drafting posts in my head (when writing/typing isn’t sensible) but there’s so many other issues to attend to, this poor blog is left to wither in the icy winds of the Forgottensphere.
Too late for Happy New Year, too early for Happy Easter so I’ll dispense with the niceties and get on with a quick update.
The end of last year was pretty hectic, sourcing new rounds of funding and working with some incredible people on projects that will soon see the light of day.
What we did neglect though was developing the site, publicising the site and maintaining an acceptable level of communication with you. We are a fairly small team and not always the most organised.
So here’s my little todo list for this blog. I’d like to share it here to make sure I actually do it. I’ll update this bit with links as the posts become available.
1. Fundraising, we’re not experts so learn from our mistakes.
2. Project management, it’s all in the detail
3. Goals for Raffle.it over the next few months
4. Ongoing – an activity stream detailing what’s happening over on Raffle.it.That’ll do for now.
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"Youtube of Raffles" - Jason Calacanis
Pascal Wheeler
Incredibly overdue (was still in drafts??), but this is a video of me, pitching in front of the Future of Web Apps audience in October. An amazing opportunity that opened many doors (we’ve been keeping ourselves very busy jumping in and out of these doors ever since).
Luckily for me, Carsonified (the organisers of the event) recorded everything (!) so here it is (I’m up second):
I’ll hold my hands up first and say it wasn’t my finest minute, I’d used a couple of words on paper to point me in the right direction but hadn’t anticipated such a large crowd. It messed me up a little. Luckily the panel were really supportive
Thanks again to Ryan and Carsonified oh and Mike Butcher, Jason Calacanis and Brent Hoberman
CasaMan 6:32 pm on March 22, 2009 Permalink |
Great to hear you took this route!