Arizona Sundogs
EFFECTIVE BUSINESS USES FOR SEASON TICKETS
Sales Department
Sales Department
- Entertain a potential client at a game. Plato once said, "You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."
- Thank a client who just signed on to your business by giving them tickets to a game
- Recognize a client's anniversary with your company and thank them for their business with tickets to a game
- Re-introduce yourself to a past client by offering them tickets to a game
- Use tickets as part of your sales inventive program, offering free tickets to: - The one who makes the most monthly sales - The one who makes the most sales calls - The one who retains the most business each fiscal year
- Use tickets as a pick-me-up to the salesperson having a slow week
- Use tickets as a "thank you" to assistants and other behind-the-scenes people who helped you complete and present a proposal
- Use the tickets as part of a planning retreat for managers
- Establish a referral program with the persons and businesses you work with by offering free tickets if they refer your business to someone else
- Establish a reward program for employees who suggest a cost-saving idea and offer them tickets
- Reward employees with tickets if they bring a potential client to your sales staff
- Take an existing client to the game and try to encourage them to increase their business with you
- Creatively use your tickets for a drawing, attracting potential customers to your place of business or to your website
- Offer free tickets to people to motivate them to participate in a focus group
- Soften the ire of a customer who was wronged by surprising them with free hockey tickets
- Reward an employee who patiently diffused the frustration of a customer
- Reward an employee who went over and above to help solve a customer's problem
- Provide tickets to a customer who offers a good suggestion for your business
- Repair a damaged relationship with a client by offering them tickets
- Help sell a prospective employee on the Northern Arizona area and your business by taking him or her to the game
- Welcome a new employee on his or her first day with tickets to the game
- Honor an employee on his or her birthday by giving him or her tickets to the game
- Include tickets in a raffle at the company's Christmas party or summer picnic
- Thank your hard-working but non-paid interns at the end of a semester
- Reward temporary employees for a job well done
- Offer tickets as a "thank you" to the clean-up crew
- Reward someone who consistently pays their bills on time
- Give your accounting department a break after long hours at year-end or month-end
- Reward the employee who finds the missing item that makes the report balance
- Hold a post-audit night at the game for your auditors
- Encourage employees to fill out expense sheets correctly by holding a drawing for tickets for those employees that do
- Give your IS team a night out at the game for working extra hours to rebuild a server after a crash
- Offer free tickets to the person outside the company that provides free help on a hardware or software problem
- Reward a vendor who rush-orders you a new software upgrade

