5 Benefits to Using Tickets for Christmas Eve Services
This time of year, I routinely get questions from folks about using free tickets for Christmas Eve services. As I’ve shared in the past, using tickets has several benefits:
- It helps us make sure we have seats for everyone to invite their friends and family.
- It helps us determine when we need to offer more services.
- It makes it easier for people to invite their friends.
- It communicates something special is going to happen.
- It communicates these services are open to the entire community.
For more specifics on each of these benefits, check out the article I previously wrote on Christmas Eve tickets.
What’s your experience? Has using tickets helped you reach more people? What are some specific lessons you’ve learned? Join the conversation by sharing your comment.
Thanks for putting this out there. We have done tickets for our Christmas Services for years. It’s incredible the buzz it creates. It’s been interesting to watch people line up and take 20 tickets for friends, co-workers and family. It started as a practical thing for us but then it took on a life of it’s own. Pretty cool!!
Tony we are a church start and having our first Christmas Eve services and I want to do this for our church is there any way that I could get a PDF of what you guys have done in the past. I want to be able to make sure that I have the right amount of information on it and see something to go off. Thanks I think that this is amazing and want to start this right away.
I shared a picture of the sample ticket in my most recent post.
Tony,
I assume you give out more tickets than you have room for each service. Knowing you track data fairly well, how many more tickets (percentage) do you hand out above the actual number of seats available for a specific service?
You’d probably be safe to give out 25% more tickets than the number of seats available. Then start tracking the data year over year to adjust that number based on your actual attendance.