Personalized & Customized wristbands
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 Raising Funds for Charity with Personalized
Wristbands
Customized
Silicone Wristband Styles
Alternative
Names and Uses of Personalized Wristbands
Customized
Wristbands - Passing Fad or Here to Stay
Choosing
the color and slogan of your Customized Wristband
Brand
Promotion using Personalized Wristbands
Customized
Wristbands and Team Building
Customized
Wristbands -Crowd Control
Using
Customized Wristbands as Souvenirs at Events |
Raising Funds for Charity with Personalized Wristbands
Finding the best way to raise
funds for charity is often a big headache, and it’s quite hard to find something
that makes the general public willing to contribute to a charitable project.
Recently personalized & customized wristbands have proven to be a
great way of getting support from the community at large. Customized
Wristbands are bracelet-like strips of plastic, silicone or paper worn
around the wrist, these objects are usually engraved with a catchy slogan that
says something about the cause and evokes a desire to help. 
Customized &
Personalized Wristbands have always been around for one purpose or the
other, but the use of customized & personalized wristbands in
charity resulted largely from the efforts of the cycling great Lance Armstrong
to raise funds for cancer with his LiveStrong campaign. Millions of yellow
rubber customized wristbands engraved with the words ‘LiveStrong’ were sold to
raise money for cancer research. The whole idea was a huge success, especially
when celebrities started sporting famous yellow customized wristbands, in order
to show their support for the cause.
Former Vice-Presidential
hopeful Dean Edwards wore the famous yellow customized wristband throughout the
duration of his campaign. Rock Star Bono and others used the white silicone
personalized wristband to bring the global attention to the ‘Make Poverty
History’ campaign.
It doesn’t cost much to use
customized & personalized wristbands as a means of raising funds for your cause;
personalized wristbands cost as little as 1 dollar each. Buying customized &
personalized wristbands in bulk from suppliers can attract a large discount, its
best to create custom engraved wristbands to give your cause or project a
feeling of individuality. These are some of the steps you should follow if you
intend to use personalized wristbands to raise funds for your charity:
i) Choose
a slogan for your customized & personalized wristbands
- The slogan is a short series of words engraved on the length of the
personalized wristband that says something about the cause being represented
e.g. ‘Youth Against Hunger’, ‘Make Peace Not War’ the slogan should be short so
that it can easily be engraved for the customized wristband of choice.
ii) Choose
a customized wristband color – The color
of the wristband is one of the distinctive features of the wristband, it’s the
first thing that attracts, and recommended colors are usually bright colors. You
can use a mixture of colors if necessary, but make sure the colors you choose
are available. This depends on the wholesale supplier of the personalized
wristbands you wish to purchase
iii) Determine
how many customized wristbands you require and the type-
When promoting a campaign you need to have an idea of the possible number of
personalized wristbands you require. Another thing is the type of material the
wristbands should be made of, rubber and silicone wristbands are usually the
best as they tend to last longer.
Advertise
–No campaign is complete without some form of advertisement, in this era of the
information highway the internet could be an avenue for advertisements. You can
also use posters to advertise the personalized wristbands. Radio can also be
considered. Schools should be included in the coverage zone when marketing
customized wristbands, because customized & engraved wristbands are quite
popular among the youth who also see personalized wristbands as a great way to
accessorize while supporting a cause at the same time! |
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