by Lance on April 20, 2011
The Best Events use Wristbands
Maybe you have been an event planner for years or maybe this is your first time planning a big event. From choosing the venue, to getting the appropriate permits, lining up vendors, volunteers, staff and service people, from finding entertainment to advertising and managing the crowds of people who will show up, you’ve got a lot to think about. Lighten the load when you use Tyvek wristbands to manage your attendees.
All the Colors in the Rainbow
Color code with custom wristbands to organize your big event. Veteran and new party planners alike can appreciate the importance of keeping things organized. This applies to all aspects of your event, especially your crowd. On event day, you want to be able to distinguish your guests from your vendors, staff and volunteers.
Colorful Tyvek wristbands let you do this, by allowing you to quickly and efficiently separate your attendees. Simply place the appropriate event wristband on each attendee as he or she arrives at the gate and their roles at the event will be revealed.
Selling alcohol at your event? Choose a highly visible and unmistakable colored wristband to mark your underage drinkers. Your concession staff will thank you when they are able to move guests through the line with ease.
Brand it
You’ve put a huge amount of planning into the details of your event. Don’t let your guests forget who made it possible. Tyvek wristbands can be customized with your logo and information. Choose a memorable design that will stick with your attendees far into the future.
As if they could forget! The design will be stuck on them for the duration of the big day. Waterproof, durable and non-transferable, event wristbands allow you to make sure your brand will never be out of your guests’ sight.
When you customize wristbands with your own unique design, you help to ensure guests identify your brand, but you also increase the security of your event. Not any old wristband will do. Guests need to be wearing your event wristbands. A quick glance at their wrists can tell you whether they are meant to be there or not.
For Added Security
Custom wristbands can be individually numbered. They can also be printed with a unique holographic foil label that is very difficult to duplicate. In addition to choosing unique colors and a branded design, these features make it quick and easy to spot the genuine article anywhere in the crowd.
The Most Important Color
Green! DuPont Tyvek wristbands are recyclable, so no matter which colors you decide to print them in, you will lesson your impact on the environment. Guests can turn in their event wristbands at the end of the event and leave knowing that they have done something to reduce their footprint.
Make Event Wristbands a Part of your Plans
Choose custom printed wristbands as part of your event and make your crowd management simple.
by Lance on April 15, 2011
Simply the Best Multi-Day Events with Wristbands
When summer is on its way, it’s time for festival season. With the sun shining down and the weather warming up, folks are ready to get out and gather. Planning your own Woodstock? How about a street food fair? Do you have a renaissance faire in the works? Or, do you plan on inviting a group of artists to take over your community for a few days. Any multiday event can benefit from wristbands.
Tickets and Event Wristbands
Whether you are welcoming a gaggle of modern day lords and ladies or your guests are navigating a thoroughfare of taco trucks full of street food and slow food, event tickets and wristbands will help you manage the crowd.
When an event spans several days, admission tickets can get lost or dog-eared, causing anxiety for both guests and staff. When you sell tickets in advance and exchange them for Tyvek wristbands at the gate, crowd management becomes much easier.
These custom printed wristbands are made of Tyvek, a material that is somewhere between paper and plastic. DuPont Tyvek wristbands are strong, waterproof, and non-transferable. Once staff members place them around guests’ wrists, they will remain in place until they are cut off at the end of the event.
Because they are durable, event wristbands can be worn for the several days spanning the events relieving worries about lost or damaged tickets. Guests need only present their wrists as the gate to be let inside.
Custom event wristbands allow guests a great freedom of movement, so they can wander through the festival grounds or get out and dance with the crowd once the band gets started.
Who’s Who?
At a multi-day event folks will quickly need to be able to distinguish between attendees, volunteers and staff members. By choosing colored wristbands for individuals who have different roles at your big event, you make your venue friendlier and safer. When guests are lost or in need of help, they can easily identify the folks who can help them.
Tyvek wristbands also allow you to manage special events within your multi-day affair. Do you have guests you want to invite back stage or to a party within the party. Colored wristbands allow you to keep sort out your VIPs from the rest of the crowd.
If you are serving alcohol at your festival, wristbands of different colors can make your barkeep’s jobs much easier.
Reduce the Impact
Big events, especially ones that span several days, can have a big impact on the environment. When you’re planning your affair, you want to find ways to reduce the footprint of your event as much as possible. You will feel great about it. Your guests will appreciate it and so will the planet. You can start by choosing recyclable materials for your event collateral.
Tyvek wristbands are functional, and they are also recyclable. Your guests can wear them throughout the multi-day event and then turn them in for recycling when it is over.
by Lance on April 5, 2011
Want a Successful School Event? Choose Tyvek Wristbands
You’re not sure what your classroom budget is going to be this year, but you are sure it won’t be enough. As you look out over the faces of your young students sounding out words and carefully calculating math problems, you wish you could give them something more to reinforce their education. Whether you want to raise the money for extra books, school supplies or creative materials, holding a fundraising event using custom printed wristbands can be key to bringing cash into your classroom.
A School Carnival
Paper bracelets or Tyvek Wristbands go hand in hand with your fundraising plans, especially if you’re planning a school carnival. A carnival is a traditional choice for a school fundraiser. It is the type of event that opens the doors of the school to the community. Individuals get to see the cause they are donating to, and faculty and students get a chance to show off their place of learning to the public. As an added bonus, school carnivals are just plain fun!
Security and Safety
Making sure that an event on school grounds is secure and safe should be a top priority of any planning committee. Tyvek wristbands can help you reach this goal. Somewhere between paper and plastic, these wristbands fit snugly around your attendees wrists. They cannot be transferred or removed without being cut off, so you can rest assured that the right folks are at your event.
Event wristbands are available in several colors. You can set aside ones for faculty and staff, parents, students and friends of the school. When individuals see the colored wristbands, they can easily identify the type of relationship an individual has to the school.
Raffles
Your school carnival will likely have games, food, student performances and displays. Another big draw might be door prizes or raffles, based on wristband numbering. In order to save additional money, you may want to solicit a local vendor or merchant sponsor the event by donating a prize. Prizes can be big or small. What counts is the spirit behind them and the enthusiasm with which your attendees participate.
Because event wristbands can be securely numbered, they can serve a dual purpose at your event. They will help to keep your event secure, but they will also double as a raffle ticket. Each guest with an event wristband gets a chance at the prize. And, they won’t run the risk of losing their chance at the raffle.
Guests can feel safe participating in carnival games and rides. The Tyvek wristbands will stay securely around their wrists no matter how many rounds of skee ball they play. They can even take a few rounds in the dunk tank because these event wristbands are waterproof!
Your Students are Worth It
It’s easy and cost effective to design and print custom wristbands. Event wristbands can be customized with your school’s logo making them unique and memorable. Not only will members of your school’s community have a fun time, you’ll be earning money so that you can buy the much needed extras the budget may not cover this year.
by Lance on April 2, 2011
Host the Most Successful Fundraiser Ever With Custom Event Wristbands
How many times has your organization found itself in need of fundraising? When your operating budget is simply more than you are bringing in or you want to make sure there will be money for next year’s initiatives, you may consider hosting an event to bring in a much needed cash infusion. An event paired with an auction or raffle can be a great way to have fun, rally your stakeholders, raise awareness, and fill your coffers. Event collateral including tickets and custom printed wristbands are essential for this type of fundraising.
Get them at the door
You’ve planned a big event. Your campaign was successful, and you expect a lot of guests. Whether you are hosting a charity gala, auction, dinner or concert, you can manage your attendees with event wristbands. Make sure to slip a Dupont Tyvek wristband around the wrists of your invited or paying folks as they enter your venue.
These wristbands will help to keep your event secure, by indicating in an easily identifiable way that individuals are supposed to be there. If you are serving alcohol at your event, colored wristbands will also help you serve the right folks. You’ll have one less thing to worry about and can focus even more on your cause.
For an event open to the public, you might consider placing special wristbands on individuals who have donated to your cause or charity. Different colored wristbands or ones with varying designs can indicate different levels of donors. Individuals at the event will be inspired to donate, and hopefully donate more, when they see others wearing these event wristbands.
Have a Wristband Raffle
Consider generating an even bigger buzz around your fundraiser with a wristband raffle. If all of your guests received event wristbands, you can hand out door prizes or have a raffle as part of the big event.
You might consider upping the ante and making the raffle itself the main event! You can easily sell wristbands as raffle tickets. Your attendees will be able to show off the fact that they donated to your cause, and they will have a chance to win a big prize, too.
Securely numbered wristbands are an excellent choice for this purpose because they remain with the wearer. They are non-transferable. The winner needs only to show up and show off his or her wrist to claim the prize.
Durable and resilient, Tyvek wristbands can be printed on, so you can also show off the logo and information of your charity. Because they are wearing the wristband, your guests will be exposed to the branding of your organization throughout the event, making it something they won’t soon forget.
Win with Wristbands
Make event wristbands a central part of your fundraising event. From crowd management to event security, getting your organization’s brand in front of your guests, to being a central part of the event itself, custom printed wristbands help to ensure the success of your next big fundraiser.
by Lance on March 20, 2011
Manage your Ministry with Event Wristbands
Whether you are managing the activities at a megachurch or one with a smaller congregation, you know that your attendees will be more open to the message if they feel comfortable in their surroundings. If you are sponsoring a Christian concert, faith based seminar or convention, or hosting a vacation Bible school or Bible study retreat, you are sure to attract a crowd. No matter how many folks show up, you will want to make sure to manage your event properly. Choosing the right collateral, from invitations to flyers and posters that announce your big event to making sure the attendees are in the right place with event tickets and DuPont Tyvek wristbands, is the first step in a well-run and successful event.
Christian Concerts
Maybe your church is putting on a faith based battle of the bands or you have one of the hottest new Christian acts cruising through for a show. You want attendees to have a great time and to benefit spiritually from your church’s musical ministry. For crowd management consider choosing durable event wristbands. These custom wristbands can be printed with your church’s logo, as well as a memorable bible verse or special message of fellowship.
Colored wristbands can help you distinguish the different roles of folks at the event, ministers, volunteers, members of the crew and guests, helping you to keep track of folks and helping folks keep track of each other. After the show your attendees can keep the event wristbands as a keepsake of a fun and faith filled evening, and your church’s logo or a carefully chosen Bible verse printed on that wristband is another great way to spread your message!
Faith Based Conventions and Seminars
Hosting a convention or seminar? Maybe you are bringing together an interfaith group of ministers to discuss issues central to faith or your hosting a faith based seminar for couples who are about to be married. Big or small your event can benefit from event wristbands.
At your Christian convention, keep track of your vendors and attendees with a variety of paper wristbands. Easily identify guest ministers and speakers with colored wristbands. If you want to add a little fun to the big event, consider a raffle using securely numbered wristbands. You can give away gift certificates to the local bookstore or next big faith centered event.
Vacation Bible School and Retreats
If you host a vacation Bible school or retreats at your church, you know there are always ways to make the event go more smoothly. For this purpose, event wristbands are a great help.
Strong, Tyvek wristbands are an excellent choice. Placed on the wrists of your vacation bible school kids, these wristbands help you keep track of your little guests. Whether you plan on staying on church grounds or taking a field trip to a park across town, you’ll be able to identify attendees quickly, leaving less time to worry about where the children are and more time to focus on your message.
Event wristbands are also perfect for retreat weekends and can remain a reminder of a special time for years to come.
by Lance on February 27, 2011
Event Wristbands for Kids, Teens, and Youth Leaders
It can be hard to reach young people. Today, more than ever, kids and teens are confronted with so many competing messages from infinite outlets; it can feel impossible to get your message through.
Youth oriented activities like Christian centered concerts, group outings, camps and meet ups not only make for a great time, but keep your ministry relevant by reaching kids where they’re at, in a fast paced, high tech, communication heavy and secular world. Today’s youth ministry events need just as much forethought as any other type of event. From reaching out via new media like Facebook and Twitter, to choosing venues and designing collateral such as concert posters and event wristbands, you’ve got some groundwork to do.
Concerts That Mean Something
Popular contemporary Christian groups, like Jars of Clay and Burlap to Cashmere, can fill venues with fans as quickly as their mainstream counterparts, and a large concert allows you to share your ministry with many people at once.
Because of this, when planning your concert event, you want to pay special attention to crowd management. You want your attendees focused on the message. When you choose DuPont Tyvek wristbands, you can keep your event safe and secure while spreading the good word to your guests. These custom wristbands can be printed with your ministry’s logo or a special bible verse that encapsulates the spirit of the event.
Event wristbands help you make sure your guests, presenters and performers are in the right place. Choosing a variety of printed wristbands allow you to keep track of who needs to be where and when ensuring that the event goes off smoothly.
They also can serve as a precious keepsake for attendees. Touched by the message of your event, your teen attendees may continue to sport their concert wristbands for days after. And why not? Tyvek wristbands are durable and waterproof.
Keep Your Group Together
If your church’s youth group is planning on attending a big event together, custom printed wristbands can be a great way to help you account for all your attendees. More cost effective than t-shirts, wristbands are a discreet way for you to identify members of your group and provide a connection point, binding your members together in the spirit of the event.
Print your event wristbands with your group’s insignia or a passage that resonates with your young members.
Tweet Up and Meet Up
Want to have fun and build some community among your youth group members? Use social media like Twitter and Facebook to announce events and bring groups together. Whether you’re planning something whacky and joyful like a Christian flash mob, or a spontaneous prayer group or bible study, you’ll get the attention of your demographic by communicating on their terms.
If you need to keep these events more structured, event wristbands are a great way to help you manage your event and your guests.
by Lance on February 25, 2011
Event Wristbands for Summer Celebrations
Whether you’ve just left the sunny days of summer behind or the season is just around the corner, any time of year is a great time to put your picnic planning hat on! Family reunions, neighborhood get-to-know-yous, and big fundraisers for your favorite causes go perfectly against the backdrop of sunshine and comfort food.
With a little preparation and dedication, your picnic party will be a success. From picking the right venue, choosing a catering company, auditioning entertainment, managing transportation and crowd control, you’ve got some big decisions to make. Consider using event wristbands to help keep things simple.
Event Organizers Just Wanna Have Fun!
When you’re hosting a summer time affair, you want to enjoy it, too. Party wristbands can allow you to lighten up and have a good time along with your guests.
If you’re expecting a large number of folks, charging for food or serving alcoholic drinks, you should consider managing your guests with Dupont Tyvek wristbands. These helpful accessories are great for single or multiple day events and make it easy for anyone working or volunteering to help manage the crowd. Instead of worrying whether the young guy by the concession booth should really be drinking that beer or if that unfamiliar looking group of folks chowing down on potato salad under the food tent really paid the admission fee, you can relax, knowing that everyone is right where they belong.
With event wristbands, you’ll be able to maintain the integrity of the event, ensuring everyone has fun in the sun! If you’re hosting a company picnic or family reunion, wristbands can help you easily identify members of your party when you throw your event at a venue open to the general public.
Get Active and Enjoy the Weather
Are you planning some activities at your picnic event? Perhaps a little three-legged race or game of volleyball? Everyone wants to join in on the fun. With event wristbands, guests can have a great time without worrying they’ll lose their proof of admission.
Tyvek wristbands fit snuggly around attendees’ wrists. They are made of a durable material that feels a little like paper and a little like plastic. They’re waterproof as well, so if you’re planning a beach or poolside picnic, wristbands are an excellent choice.
Whether you’re having an egg relay, a game of four-square or playing some softball after lunch, encourage your guests to join in! Their event wristbands will stay put, until they decide to take them off at the end of the day.
That is, if your guests decide to take them off. Printed custom wristbands bearing your event logo make a great fashion accessory!
Don’t Let Summer Pass You By
Summer is a wonderful time to host and outdoor event. Take advantage of sunny days and warm weather to plan a gathering that really shines!
by Lance on February 23, 2011
Concert Tickets? Concert Wristbands!
Last night I got to see my favorite band play at the beautiful Fox Theater in Oakland, Ca. It had been a while since I’d been to a fairly big show. As I strolled down the street with my fellow concert goers toward the glowing marquee with a sense of happy anticipation, I knew I was in for a great time!
What pleasantly surprised me was the friendliness and efficiency of the theater staff, the easy and unobtrusive flow and management of the crowd. After having my ticket scanned at the door, I presented my I.D., and a DuPont Tyvek wristband was quickly affixed to my wrist, clearly identifying me as “old enough to drink.”
The venue had an easy going vibe. Rather than fishing my identification from my wallet each time I wanted to buy a drink, I needed only flash my event wristband when I approached the theater bar. Around me other attendees enjoyed themselves regardless of their age. Behind the counter, the bartenders were relaxed, taking orders from guests after just a quick glance at their wrists.
As I sat back in the low lit bar, sipping my drink, casually conversing with friends while I waited for the opening act to begin, I looked down at the paper wristband I wore. I thought about how uncomplicated and stress free it had been to gain entry into the venue and how much a part of the experience of a show that can be.
The last concert I had been to was held at a much larger venue. Though the space was outfitted to handle big crowds, the staff was clearly inexperienced. Beyond the tickets we printed to get through the gate, there were no other direct attempts at crowd management, not even hand stamps or event wristbands for in and out privileges.
The lines were long and slow. After being patted down and having everything on my person rifled through, I felt stressed out. I wasn’t even in sight of the stage yet! And without drink wristbands to distinguish who could or couldn’t belly up to the bar, attendees were forced to dig through their purses and wallets to produce an id each time they wanted to purchase a drink.
Crowd control consisted of a few attendants forcing people to produce their tickets once again in order to get into certain restricted parts of the venue.
Sitting in my comfy chair, drink in hand, in Fox’s bar, I thought about how all of that could have been avoided if those event promoters had outfitted guests with colored wristbands that clearly identified where they belonged.
This experience was much different. I knew the flow of attendees was being expertly managed, but I just felt like I was having a great time. The most artfully done crowd control allows you to feel like you’re not just part of a crowd. I took one last look at the custom wristband I wore, smiled, took another sip of my drink and waited to hear the first strains of the opening band to call me out onto the floor.
by Lance on January 21, 2011
The Thrill of Events, The Thrill of Event Wristbands
Lately, researchers are revisiting the science of happiness, with surprising results. They’re learning, it’s not about the things we buy but the experiences we purchase. It turns out, happiness can be bought, if we spend our money in the right way.
Splurging on a new dress is ultimately less satisfying than putting the same cash down on a pair of theater tickets. A new MP3 player is nice for listening to your favorite band on, but can it really represent the same memories as the event wristband you received when you actually saw your favorite music group in concert? You get the idea. It’s something to think about when you plan your next event.
Side with the Science
The economy may be in the doldrums, but if you’re in the event business, according to the research, you’re in a better position than your retail counterparts to give your audience members more satisfaction for their dollars. Take heart! With every ticket and Tyvek wristband you print and sell, you begin the process of creating something lasting. And each successful event is an investment in repeat business.
Give Them Something for Their Money
Not only are you planning and promoting an event, you’re selling experiences and memories to your attendees.
Human beings are nostalgic by nature. Your promotional materials can quickly become souvenirs, eliciting the good times had long after the show is over. Flyers and posters may grace your attendees’ wall. A ticket may find its way into a scrapbook. A custom wristband, worn for the duration of the event, may grace your guests’ arms in the days to come.
Make those Memories Last
When the show is over, and the venue is quiet, its lights dim, the band and crowd long gone, make sure the memories aren’t.
Quality, customized collateral can continue to do its job even after your super group has flown the coop.
Take Tyvek wristbands for instance. Manufactured by DuPont™, they’re flexible, durable, practical and decorative. Somewhere between paper and plastic, event wristbands made from this material are waterproof and strong, so they’ll last the length of the show and beyond.
They’re also perfect for printing on. This is essential when you’re in the business of memories. Make sure to choose a logo or text that’s sure to stick out in your attendees’ minds. Whether you take this space to promote the entertainment, your sponsors or your organization, remember it will be attached to your guests’ bodies for the duration of the show.
These event wristbands become as much a part of their memories as that awesome drum solo halfway in or when the guitarist broke a string and kept rocking out anyway! By branding your wristbands and placing them so prominently, you’re putting yourself in position to become tied to all the great memories made during your event.
Everybody Wins
When guests purchase tickets and wristbands to get into your venue, they’re purchasing memories. When you customize event wristbands with your own branding, you’re purchasing a cherished place within those memories.
by Lance on January 19, 2011
Event Wristbands and Environmental Responsibility
Big events can have real, noticeable impacts on their immediate environment. From tramped down foliage, to left over litter and tons of waste left behind once the fun it over, it’s often easy to see the real consequences that occur when a large group of folks shares a small space together.
These days, it’s hip to be green! Not only does it benefit the planet to make your events more sustainable, it may benefit your attendance. By taking small steps, like using recyclable DuPont Tyvek to print Tyvek wristbands that help you manage guests or larger ones, like booking an eco-conscious venue for your next event, you can build a strong cache with your environmentally aware attendees.
When you’re ready to make an impact by making less of an impact, you can take some easy steps to green your venue and event.
Offset Ticket and Wristband Printing
Tickets and event wristbands are necessary for crowd management. They allow you to keep your event secure and make it easy to account for your attendees. Consider offsetting the perceived environmental costs of ticket printing by donating a small portion of your sales to an environmentally conscious cause. You can continue to use these essential event management tools, and your guests will feel great knowing that the event wristbands they wear are contributing to a movement they believe in.
Support Green Transportation
Encourage attendees to go carless. Give clear instructions on using public transportation. Help arrange carpools and shuttles. Consider a bike valet service. Guests can drop off their bikes with attendants at the entrance to the venue in exchange for a ticket or paper wristband that allows them to claim their non-carbon emitting chariots at the end of the show.
Green Crowd Management
Have folks register for the event online and pick up ticket and event wristbands at the gate. Tyvek wristbands are great for crowd control, allowing you to easily identify groups of guests from the outset. They’re simple to print on, so you can share your message or logo in bright bold colors. Best of all Tyvek wristbands are recyclable. Guests can wear these wristbands through the show and send them off for recycling and reuse once it’s over.
Contain your Containers
Concession waste from paper plates, to plastic ware and cups is visually displeasing in the short-term and leads to long term sustainability issues. For your green event, use compostable or biodegradable plates and cutlery.
Better yet, encourage guests to bring their own! Give out special event wristbands to folks that enter the venue with reusable mugs and cups. Flashing the wristband can entitle them to discounts at concessions or enter them in a green giveaway raffle.
Go Greener!
Small changes to your event planning strategy allow you go greener and raise your event’s esteem in the eyes of your attendees. From effective use of paper tickets and plastic wristbands to fun promotions, you can easily put on a more sustainable event.
