Make some spare cash by organizing quiz nights.

Quiz nights are a great way of making some extra money. Whether you want to increase the takings behind a bar (if you’re a landlord) or want to raise some cash for some extra luxuries, quiz nights are fairly simple to organise and will bring a fistful of cash.
The more competitors you get to enter, the more money you’ll make. Pretty simple, eh? For this reason, marketing is all important. 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.
Another great way is to get contacts is put a large jar on the bar with a sign saying “Drop your business card in for your chance to win BIG prizes”. This should get a number of email addresses so you can then email them with the details of your quiz, including of course, the BIG prizes you have mentioned…
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.
Now, let’s assume you’ve had a successful marketing campaign you will now want to write or buy a great quiz. If you have the time you could create your own quiz, but a lot of people don’t have the time or inclination for this so the other option is to buy a professional quiz pack online. There are plenty to choose from and can be of a much higher quality than if you tried to create your own.
If you do want to write your own quiz pack then you must keep to these rules: Include questions from different generations so as not to exclude people. Don’t make the questions too hard or too easy. Make the questions interesting. If someone doesn’t know the answer to the question but wants to know, this is a sign of a good question.
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 persuade 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 can a quiz night make? Well it’s not rocket science – the more people you have the more you make. Let’s assume you have 50 people in the quiz, each paying a ?3 entrance fee. That’s ?150 straight away. If you are the owner of the pub you may also get twice the normal takings behind the bar.
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.
The bottom line is that you could make anything from ?150 to ?400 from a single night, and that is assuming you only get 50 people turning up. Double the number of people taking part and you can double your takings. So get 100 people there and you could make ?800! Pretty good for a night’s work!

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