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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Anyone who has been to a concert has encountered souvenir stands where clothing, posters, buttons, stickers, and more are sold to eager fans. These stands and kiosks are ubiquitous at every event venue. We all know concert and festival goers aren’t just there for the show. They want to take the experience with them. From T-shirts emblazoned with the logos of their favorite bands, to the event wristbands slipped on their arms as they passed through the gates of the venue, guests prize paraphernalia that proves they’ve been there.

Tyvek and vinyl wristbands allow you to manage your guests and reward them at the same time. Used in conjunction with event tickets or on their own, these handy crowd management tools allow you to keep track of guests’ coming and going, monitor appropriate alcohol consumption, keep an eye on concessions, and manage the flow of attendees into and out of special events and back stage. Perfect for multi-day events, wristbands can free guests from having to hold onto paper tickets, which might be damaged or lost after their initial use.

Wristbands serve another important function for your guests. Durable, secure and easy to customize, event wristbands make a fun fashion statement. Adorned with your custom design, they look great at the venue and can double as bracelets once the show is over.  Today’s concert wristband is tomorrow’s trendy accessory!

Of course, you’ll want to help guests preserve the integrity of their event wristbands, so they can continue to wear them in the days following your event. Here are a few tips to help maximize this collateral:

• Tyvek wristbands are strong! The material, manufactured by DuPont™, is resilient like plastic, yet comfortable like fabric.
• Wristbands should be loose enough to be comfortably worn, but not so loose they can slip off and be lost or transferred.
• Feel free to move! These event wristbands are waterproof, so guests can work up a sweat on the dance floor or in the mosh pit. And they’re perfect for outdoor events, rain or shine.
• Guests want to make a bold fashion statement, and you want your event to be remembered for a long time. Choose a highly visible logo that wearers will be proud to sport.
• Got environmentally minded guests? No problem! They can make their own statement by recycling Tyvek wristbands at the end of the show.

Your next event is sure to be the source of great memories for all of your attendees. Help get them started making those memories the moment they step through the turnstiles. A colorful, custom wristband might become the most cherished souvenir of the moment and serve as a cool body ornament later on.

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Tyvek® wristbands used to mean pretty much one thing, as far as I was concerned. You know those paper-plastic bracelets they stick on your wrist, which don’t come off unless you cut them off. It wasn’t so long ago that I thought they were meant exclusively to keep kids away from the bar at large events. At big festivals, we’d often flash our I.D.s to get one, which was usually printed with the logo of some large beer company. Event Wristbands meant beer.

That was before I became involved in events from the other side: the planning aspect. No doubt, from a liability standpoint, over-21 wristbands are still a great asset. They keep me and my bartenders safe from teenagers (you’d be surprised at the number of teens sporting a few gray hairs, or even a bald spot) but they do a lot more. What do I use them for?

• VIP Passes—if there are private rooms or side events, I can keep them exclusive by creating unique wristbands available only to those who pay for the VIP Pass
• Backstage Security—when I’ve booked a popular band, it’s important to keep that backstage area secure, so distinctive wristbands are issued to musicians and those authorized to be back stage
• Staff and Volunteers—my guests and I can easily identify official representatives of the event if I choose a vivid color for their wristbands; a lost child knows who to ask for help, and I can identify my people at a glance
• Event Passes—sometimes I don’t issue tickets in advance, so what’s the point of offering them at the gate? A wristband serves as proof of payment, so we can determine with ease if someone has jumped a fence

This last use surprises some people, who consider these recyclable wristbands something of a luxury. First of all, when I buy them in bulk, I usually get a nice discount from the manufacturer. They’re not expensive at all. In fact, they’re really cheap: substantially cheaper than printing event tickets: we’re talking in the realm of 8 or 9 cents a piece, for a wristband custom printed with the name of my event and my sponsor’s logo. They’re also harder to counterfeit, since they’re made from DuPont’s™ unique Tyvek® material. And I still imprint them with the name and logo of my event, or of my sponsor, for greater visibility.

My favorite thing about party wristbands? I know I’ve hosted a really successful event when I see someone proudly sporting my event wristband a few days after the festival’s ended!

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When your guests are ready for a fun day or night out, they dress the part. A reggae festival brings with it comfortable ensembles, bright colors and dance ready wear. For a fair or carnival, good shoes for walking and a T-shirt you don’t mind getting a little grease from an elephant ear on are more appropriate. A symphony concert might command something more refined, a tie or an elegant gown. And, the accessory that goes with all of them? A custom DuPont Tyvek® wristband!

You Don’t Have to Leave Fashion Behind

When planning your opus event, you don’t have to leave fashion behind! Event Wristbands can be customized to fit any occasion and any audience. Whether your guests walk in straight from the streets or all dressed up as haute elites, you can design and print custom paper bracelets to fit their style and serve your purpose.

For your reggae crowd, go bright with festival wristbands in a variety of colors. Red, yellow, and green wrist bands are the perfect way to show off a little Rasta pride and allow you to manage your crowd effectively, while staying in the groove of the event.

Fairs and carnivals can benefit, too. Manage admission to special events and rides with festive carnival wristbands and make it easier than ever to keep your event secure without sacrificing any of the fun.

You can keep it understated for your fashion forward crowd. Custom wristbands in complementary colors, ensure their outfits won’t clash with the collateral and help you maintain an orderly and dignified event.

Make Art of Wristbands

Of course, you can choose to print Event Wristbands in just one color or you can add your own design, making them one of a kind and even more coveted by your fashionistas! There is room for your own unique image. Imagine your stylish logo or event branding gracing the wrists of hundreds or thousands of guests!

Green is the New Black

If your guests are style conscious, they’ll appreciate the fact that Tyvek® is recyclable. Green is definitely in this season, so show off your commitment to environmental sustainability by giving your guests the option to reduce waste and recycle when they depart the venue.

Function and Form

Tyvek® wristbands for events aren’t just the sought after ornament of your fashion forward guests. They also serve a number of important functions during your big occasion. From security to crowd control, they help your event run smoothly from start to finish.

Not only do they help you to identify who should be at the venue, they allow you to make sure the right guests are in the right places. A coveted backstage visit or special event can be managed quickly and easily, simply by checking the color of your guests’ admission wristbands. If you’re serving drinks, bar wristbands help to make sure that younger guests are not able to imbibe. For added security, you can include sequential numbering or a holographic design in order ensuring authenticity.

Style on a Dime

You don’t have to break the bank in order to print custom wristbands for your event. Inexpensive Tyvek® wristbands can be designed and printed online. Order them in bulk and you may qualify for an added discount. You’ll have revenue left over to buy that fancy outfit you were planning to wear to your successful event!

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If you’ve ever attended a big event, chances are you’ve were outfitted with a DuPont Tyvek® wristband at the gate.  And, chances are, everyone around you had one firmly secured around his or her wrist as well. Admission wristbands have become ubiquitous at festivals and other occasions where they serve many purposes.

Admission, Crowd Control, and Re-entry

Event Wristbands, at their most basic, get guests quickly and safely into the venue. Once inside the event, they provide guests more freedom of movement and provide attendants and security with an easy way to determine whether they should be there. Rather than fumbling for ticket stubs or showing off an entry stamp that might be easily smeared or washed off, guests can simply flash their paper bracelets for identification. If for some reason a guest needs to leave the venue and return, the event wristband makes it simple.  Securely fastened in place, Tyvek® wristbands are durable and last the length of the event.

Security

Event Wristbands help to ensure a secure environment while the event is taking place. They can be printed in a variety of colors or printed with a variety of images to make identification even simpler. From managing who has access to alcoholic beverages, to who is allowed backstage, to which guests are allowed into restricted events, security bracelets make it much easier for you to maintain the safety of your event and help to ensure everyone has a great time.

Event Branding and Sponsor Advertising

Custom made wristbands can be designed with branding, sponsorship, and advertising in mind. Guests have to pay attention to the message because, for the duration of the event, it is a part of them. Tyvek® is printable, so they can be designed to carry the overall branding of the event. If your organization has a logo or a theme for its annual affair, it can be included.

The space can also be used to pay homage to event sponsors. They’ve graciously donated money and time to see your event become a success. Why not donate space so they can promote their message?

Promotional Coupons

Event Wristbands can also play double duty as promotional coupons. Sponsors or advertisers can choose to offer special discounts for guests wearing your wristbands at the time of sale. In this way, these devices provide a usefulness that extends far beyond the venue of your festival or carnival.

Raffles and Door Prizes

Tyvek® wristbands can be individually numbered and printed with a holographic strip that keeps them secure, making them are ideal for managing raffles and door prizes at bigger events. Organizers can run the event much like a traditional raffle, drawing from a pool of number printed on the admission wristbands. Guests need not worry about losing their ticket stub over the course of the day when they can wear their entry into a raffle or door prize competition around their wrists!

Keepsakes

When guests attend an event that they enjoy, they want to take something with them that will help them to remember. Many individuals collect custom wristbands from events they’ve attended, so they can relive the memories later on.

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The best art events are whirlwinds of color and greyscale, cacophony and music, insiders and outsiders. There’s the wine and cheese set, hosting events in galleries with clean lines and clean floors. There’s the bohemian aesthetic of an art event that takes place in a crumbling factory or foreboding alley. There are impoverished students seeking a little culture and wealthy benefactors searching for their next big investment. There are curators, critics, artists, dealers, and appreciators of art from the general public. How are you, the event promoter, to discern among them at a glance?  Consider the humble Event Wristband, a mere slip of Tyvek that provides broad exposure and keeps your event efficient and organized. If you could tag everyone who walked through the door according to type, wouldn’t that help all these disparate elements communicate more effectively?

An array of colorful Event Wristbands, provided at the door of a large art event, along with a key to help attendees understand what each color means, is a smart way to organize your guests.

Purpose in Design: It’s an art event: start with your design decisions and let form follow function. What purpose do you hope your wristbands to accomplish? Consider points of access for your varied guests. Critics may require different access than casual guests, and the wristband can act as a kind of press pass. Dealers in art may need a wristband that provides instant access to auctions and private showings by artists and auction houses. Different color wristbands can denote different functions, and you can further delineate with the addition of an image or logo that might denote a certain portion of the event. For added prestige, you could add a title for the wearer: “Critic,” “Dealer,” “Artist.” Color-coding the bands to instantly show points of access gives you a leg up in organizing. In addition, this can automatically turn an Event Wristband into a status symbol. If artists wear red wristbands that say “Artist”, dealers, curators, and critics instantly know who they need to talk to about accessing shows or an artist’s work. Even a mere “Art Lover” will enjoy having her status identified with pride.

Who’s Who: Niche crowds like those interested in the arts possess a natural hierarchy. Using custom, quality wristbands can highlight and incentivize these inherent hierarchies. First of all, wristbands provide natural exposure to your event, particularly if it takes place over several days, or is a long event where participants may leave and reenter the venue. That bright red “Artist” wristband attracts attention and instigates questions about what’s going on in that gallery across the street. Second, these various levels of wristbands create a “who’s who” status symbols for your visitors. Artists and dealers can find one another with ease, and no one will inadvertently insult a critic or a journalist. (On the other hand, this system can make it easier to deliberately insult a critic or a journalist.) Everyone knows instantly to whom they need to speak to during the duration of the event (and also who to avoid). Everyone can show off their accomplishments without overtly bragging.

Annuals, Biennials, Triennials: Large art events such as annuals, biennials, and triennials are attended by many people from a variety of diverse backgrounds in the industry. People from all over the world with diverse industry backgrounds also attend these events. Consider incorporating the wearer’s language into the wristband design for added organization and prestige. For example, the Whitney Biennial in New York City will have a lot of Americans in attendance, many of whom will be bilingual. The color-coded system may prove really helpful. A wristband that alerts others that one speaks Spanish and Italian will be a welcome sight to international visitors. The status of the polyglot, proudly donning 12 different colored wristbands, cannot be overlooked in this scenario. Her popularity among the international crowd will be assured.

Using quality custom Event Wristbands is a masterstroke in creating memorable, organized success, especially if your event will be large, diverse, and cater to a niche crowd where networking is a necessity.

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Using Your Event Wristbands for Guerilla Marketing

Sure, it’s sneaky, but that’s the point. When you can get your name, logo, and message under the radar of today’s media-savvy consumer with a tiny and unexpected image, in a tiny and unexpected place, you’ve accomplished more than the most expensive ad campaign often does. Guerilla marketing makes sense and saves money, and your customizable Event Wristbands, used correctly, fill that need for you. Turn a basic security device into a stealth marketing tools for your company or organization. Paying close attention to the quality of the wristbands as well as their design can showcase your company or organization to those who aren’t event attending your event.

Designing

In many cases, your guests will wear your Event Wristbands outside your event, particularly if your event span multiple days and they choose to eat something that wasn’t prepared in a convention hall. Remember, if you’ve taken the trouble to create an interesting wristband and branded the festival effectively, some guests will continue to wear that paper bracelet for some days afterward; it becomes a status symbol, signifying that they were there, at the party of the century.

So, you want to be sure to prominently feature your company or organization’s logo, where everyone can see it. Add other pertinent information such as your website and tagline, something that allows the viewing public to learn a little more about your services. Eye-catching colors help make your wristbands noticeable, and the design should be something eye-catching, too, so that passersby and casual observers can’t help but see. Beyond this, your Event Wristbands should be made of a durable, waterproof material, such as DuPont Tyvek, that will withstand the wear and use of those attending your event. Paying mind to these basic principles can directly affect the success of this built-in advertising.

At Your Event

If you offer multiple layers of access at your event, color-coded wristbands become instant status symbols. While you’re keeping your event secure and organized, you’re also offering subtle suggestions to the crowd that they could be experiencing more: special events and extra perks, available for just a little more money. Offer the ability to upgrade at any time, or just remind people to plan ahead they can be VIPs next year. If a certain colored wristband offers access to private parties, VIP lounges, better food, or meet and greets with featured speakers or artists, it’s easy for your staff to see who belongs where, and it’s easy for your guests to see who’s getting the celebrity treatment. If it’s a corporate event, those special wristbands may motivate some staff to work harder in the hopes of achieving more privileges next year.

Exposure

Durable Event Wristbands provide extra publicity for multi-day events. Your participants will wear them for the duration of the event, advertising your organization to everyone who sets foot near that venue. Many guests will probably leave the venue, if only to get some better coffee or pick up some necessities at the drug store, providing you with extra exposure. When the public begins to see many people wearing these colorful paper bracelets around town, they’re bound to ask what’s going on. Remember, for stealth marketing, the most successful wristbands will be those with eye-catching colors and designs. For high-profile and trendy events, your wristbands may turn into instantly recognizable symbols, identifying who was there, and encouraging those who weren’t to buy tickets for your next event.

For added exposure, give your guests a reason to step outside the event. Partner with local businesses to offer coupons in conjunction with the event that tempt people to spend a little more, or, negotiate with these businesses to let the wristband itself serve as the coupon. Provide a list of shops where flashing that bracelet gets them a discount. Another way to leverage to power of the Event Wristband is to organize a march, vigil, or other outdoor activity. When confronted with masses of folks, all wearing the same colorful wristband, the locals will start asking questions, and your marketing efforts start to pay off.

Wristbands are Better than Tickets

Tickets are silent. Once the stub is torn away, the ticket ends up in a pocket, only to be removed if there is a dispute over seating, or if your guest enjoyed your event so much they decide to display the stub on a mirror, cork board, or refrigerator. Do you want to restrict the viewing of your great design work to the person collecting tickets? Customized, Event Wristbands provide valuable, subtle exposure for your business, event, or organization: an instant and functional guerrilla marketing tool.

Consider quality, custom-designed Event Wristbands for your company or organization’s next event in addition to, or in place of tickets. They help with organization and security, and provide an inherent marketing tool while showcasing the status of individuals within your company or organization. This will make the event efficient and navigable to guests who desire to network with others in their field, or who share their interests. Event wristbands make your next event special, with the added bonus of marketability.

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Recycling Colored Event Wristbands for Cool DIY Crafts!

Times are green, and breathing new life into unlikely old objects is hot. Repurposing recyclables to create something cool and functional is not just great fun. It can also be great business. Tyvek Event Wristbands are among those unlikely craft supplies. Reusing wristbands gathered and saved from events, you can create wallets, key chains, jewelry, and even artwork. Creating something new from Event Wristbands saves the energy it would take to recycle them (or keeps them out of the trash) while adding flair to your style or to your living room!

*  From Wristband to Wallet: Wallets and purses made from a variety of odd materials are ending up as progressive trendy accessories. Wallets are being made from plastic bags, old public transit cards, and even old stationary, like greeting cards. Event Wristbands are another great and durable material to use to create wallets. Tyvek is strong enough to withstand the test of time and use, plus this material creates something that works as a trendy conversation starter. The easiest way to create such a wallet would be to figure out a weave that will be aesthetically pleasing and work to hold the wallet together. The backing can be as simple as colored duct tape, which binds the outside of the wallet: a weave you’ve created from your variety of saved wristbands.

*  From Wristband to Jewels: You can even roll and cut the wristbands to a desired size to create unique and trendy jewelry. Earrings or even a keychain are especially good ideas if you have only a few saved event wristbands since they don’t require as much material as a wallet or even a clutch purse. With only a couple wristbands, you can create enough Tyvek beads to make a nice pair of earrings or other charms. While adding style to your outfit, they also act as keepsake reminders of music festivals and other events you have attended. And if you and a group of friends go to a music festival, creating things from your wristbands afterward lets you extend the fun you have had at the festival.

*  From Wristband to Hanging Artwork: Using an inexpensive canvas, paper, or even repurposed wood, you can create hanging artwork out of your Event Wristband. Be creative in composing the piece, feeling free to cut the wristband into shapes or lines. Tyvek can be glued, sewed, or attached with most types of adhesive.

*  From Wristband to Sculpture: If freestanding art is more your thing, you can also use the wristbands to build sculptural pieces that will act as conversation-starters in your living room. Cut them up into organic shapes to create a modern flower arrangement, or make something abstract. Making a sculpture will give your reuse of the wristbands a more dimensional, interactive quality that is also trendy and wholly unique.

Reusing your event wristbands gives you an opportunity to stretch your creative muscles, stay green, and create an instant keepsake of a variety of events you have attended. Having a get-together with friends to repurpose the wristbands is another fun way to breathe new life into a one-time-use object. It’s cool to be green.

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Using Quality Wristbands for End-of-School-Year Fun Days

Some schools host an annual Field Day, full of outdoor activities and competition, but when I was in elementary school, our last day of school was called Fun Day. It was a day of games and fun in the schoolyard, and we played Tug-of-War and other classic games. Sometimes classes or grades were pitted against one another, other times we played boys versus girls, or chose our own teams, but most administrators today understand how that can get out of hand. If you want to keep any event organized, the addition of Event Wristbands can be a great boon. You can make your school’s Field Day or Fun Day an organized and successful day of excitement for all involved, with customized, colored wristbands, which provide teachers and kids alike with a visual way of remaining with their given teams.

* Designing the Wristbands: Use the opportunity of using customized, colored wristbands to add some flair to the day! In advance of the big day, you can allow teams to create their own designs, hold an all-school contest to choose everyone’s favorite logo, or use an image you already have on file, such as your school’s icon or mascot. Then, you can print your wristbands online, creating wristbands that define your teams, provide your school with some extra advertising, and serve as souvenirs of the best day ever.

* Getting Students Involved in the Design: Teachers may desire to have their students choose a team name and design their own logo. These can easily be added to the wristband. Just get your kids into their teams and ask them to work together to decide on a name, a color, and a design or logo for their team. Provide them with stickers, stencils, and pictures for inspiration. Animal pictures can really inspire some creative mascots. This activity can set the tone for the whole day of games and fun, fostering a sense of teamwork and creative thinking even before the kids get outside. Remember, durable, waterproof DuPont Tyvek wristbands will really withstand the wear and tear of your active students.

* Activities for Colored Wristbands: In addition to Tug-of-War, other games can also utilize the color-coded wristbands that will keep your teams organized on this fun, yet chaotic, day in the schoolyard. Classic games like tag and a safe, less physical version of Red Rover all will work well with the colored team wristbands, which also make it easy to join smaller groups together to create bigger teams. Try other games like kickball and even fun trivia games that use knowledge learned throughout the school year, and be sure to ask the students for their input. Their ideas may surprise you! Whatever you choose, being able to identify and organize your students based on easily visible wristbands will make transitions fast and simple.

* Turning the Wristbands into Keepsakes: After coming in from the outdoors, teachers may plan arts and crafts activities that use the wristbands from the day. Many parents keep scrapbooks of their children’s activities, so a keepsake will be very much appreciated by the parents. Something as simple as mounting the wristbands on colored construction paper that the kids may decorate would work, or something as complex as turning it into a craft object like a pencil holder can also create a keepsake for students and parents.

Durable quality colored wristbands that are waterproof will stand the test of activity in the schoolyard, as well as the test of time as a keepsake. Keeping large, active school events organized and fun is very important to keeping the day safe, efficient, and fair for all. Colored wristbands are a great way to achieve a successful school event like Fun Day!

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Using Quality Waterproof Wristbands for a Multiple-Day Event

Big events can translate to big fun, whether that means a long weekend of nonstop music, a week-long athletic competition, or a company getaway that includes your employees’ families. Large events spanning multiple days usually take place in large venues, often with a large variety of activities. If you need to control access to different parts of the overall event, high-quality, colored, waterproof wristbands do the job, so you can keep your event organized and maintain your own peace of mind about security. Wristbands are an efficient way for you to identify your guests, and DuPont Tyvek wristbands are soft, flexible, comfortable and waterproof, so your participants can continue to wear their wristbands for the duration of the event, and perhaps for some days afterward!

* Designing Your Quality Waterproof Wristbands: If you’ll offer different levels of access, you’ll want color-coded wristbands to denote who can go where. Choose vibrant and distinct colors to immediately allow access to different parts of your event. For example, a gold wristband could mean unlimited access to all parts of the event including meals, swimming pools, and so forth. A green wristband could denote special access to the vendors’ floor. Blue wristbands could be assigned to speakers, volunteers, or other special guests. Determine how many different levels of participation you’ll offer and choose the perfect colors for each.

Every Event Wristband should include some basic information, such as your organization’s name, along with the name of the event. You might also include the venue and the dates. Also, you’ll probably want include your organization’s logo. If your participants leave the event for part of the day, they’ll still be wearing their wristbands: a bold and well-placed logo on a brightly colored wristband works as a stealth advertisement: an instant marketing tool for your company and your event.

* Getting a Handle on Your Event’s Venue: All-company events in large hotels or convention centers can benefit from the use of colored wristbands. They can help your employees identify each other and ensure they end up in the right place. For instance, you could color-code based on individual employee’s status within the company. Consider offering sales representatives green wristbands that denote access to all the panels about sales and marketing, while the I.T. team gets blue wristbands for technology panels. Your vice presidents and higher ups can have access to all panels and parts of the event. You can further ensure order by color-coding the rooms, speakers, or panels themselves, so that your employees know at a glance if they’re in the right place, because their wristbands will match the space.

Or, consider the venue’s available services as you determine points of access. Will there be private parties on some nights, or receptions to which on certain levels of management are invited? Multiple dining options, or optional day trips? Event Wristbands allow you to organize and assort your guests in whatever way makes sense to you

* Making the Wristbands Durable: Make sure, too, that you create your customized, quality wristbands out of waterproof material since your participants will be wearing them for several days, and many of them may be swimming. The waterproof material will also help them last through weather and general wear during the event. Tyvek is the material of choice for high-quality wristbands. It feels almost like paper, but it’s tough like plastic, and so comfortable your guests will forget they’re wearing it. It’s even recyclable! Once they go on, these wristbands stay on until they’re cut off, so you can rest easy, knowing that they’ll last for your entire event.

* Wristbands to Work as Identifiers of Status: If your group is large and hierarchical, your wristbands’ color can indicate where on the ladder participants are stationed. This can provide the event with added texture: attendees can identify others with the same level or position, or, if they seek to move up, they can determine with whom they may want to communicate with during the event. These delineations can also motivate your employees to achieve more. Perhaps at the next event, they can experience the prestige and privilege that comes with the next level of wristbands.

* For Families: Events for families can especially benefit from wristbands if there are to be various levels of age-appropriate activities. Color-code children’s to denote age: grade school kids will need different activities than tweens, while teenagers will need their own areas (and be grateful to you for keeping the younger kids out). Of course, this system can also help you keep older teens out of adults-only areas! You shouldn’t have to be policing the bar all week, or policing serious events for childish infractions. As an added benefit, these wristbands can help your staff determine where lost children belong if any should happen to wander away from their designated areas.

Using quality, colored wristbands that are waterproof will allow long-time use for your guests and their families. Including your group or event’s logo and name will also act as a marketing tool when participants are outside of the event itself. If you’re looking for a higher level of organization, security, and peace of mind, Event Wristbands can take you where you need to go.

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Customizable color wristbands can make your business's or organization's regular events to boost teamwork among employees more fun and efficient. Need to divide employees into different groups for corporate team building exercises? Color-coded and individually numbered Event Wristbands make it a cinch. You can create large groups of odds or evens (or, if your group is mathematically inclined, using more complicated functions) and smaller groups based on a random distribution of colors. Just order as many different colors as you need groups and ask each participant to choose a wristband. Or, pass out the wristbands yourself if you want to create your own groups.

Here’s an example of one team-building exercise to kick off the festivities.

Begin with a selection of colored Event Wristbands: each participant gets a color, and each color becomes a team. For this exercise, you will also need several large ropes with different types of knots tied throughout (maybe 4 knots per rope). The object will be to untie each knot, and the team to do so first will win. But this is the main task, be sure to utilize the wristbands throughout the event to create a variety of team-building exercises.

*  Colored Wristbands as the First Step to Team-Building: When you begin with colored wristbands, you’ll be able to easily identify each group by color. To make it even more unique and fun, let the first team exercise be coming up with a team name using the assigned color. For example, a red team may decide to call themselves the “red roses” and a green team may call themselves the “green giants,” and so on. In addition to a team name using the color, they can also design a logo for their team. This can even be done before an event at an office meeting, in which case, team names and logos can be printed on the Event Wristbands in advance, for greater team cohesion.

*  The Best Name and Design: You’ll want a panel of judges to declare the winners of the exercises. Points can be awarded in advance for winning designs and team names. Some companies will randomly choose their panelists, or you can wrangle some supervisors for the task, whichever is more fitting to your event. The judges will have to come to a consensus in choosing the winner of the name and design on the wristband, so this, too, will require teamwork on the part of the judges.

*  After the Winning Design is Unanimously Chosen: After the winning team for design and name on the wristband is chosen by the panel, that team will be permitted to choose which of the knotted ropes they will untie. The rope, therefore, should comprise a diverse variety of knots of difficulty. The winning team’s prize is the power to, as a team, figure out which rope has the knots that they would mostly easily untie. The remaining teams can be assigned to other ropes by the panel of judges, or, if ranking has been assigned to the previous contests, let that determine the order.

*  Untying the Knots: After the team with the winning wristband design and team name chooses their rope, the teams will begin to untie the knots. Teamwork and communication is imperative in untying the knots in the rope, so it is a very good exercise for communication and teamwork. The first team to successfully untie all of the knots in their rope will win the exercise. Depending on the event, prizes will be awarded to the team who finishes first.

Of course, that’s only one exercise. Once you’ve used your Event Wristbands to divide your company into groups, the day’s work has just begun. There are plenty of team-building exercises to help you create cohesion and unity.

Exercises like this require teamwork and communication, just as the design and team name on the customized wristbands requires strong teamwork and communication. This exercise can be adapted to a variety of businesses and organization employing team-building exercises at an event.

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Event wristbands can denote the VIP status of your visitors, verify their ages, or simply affirm that they’ve paid the price of admission. They're ideal for increasing event security. Creative minds can think of dozens of inventive uses for these versatile paper bracelets. Why not save money and add some extra excitement to the proceedings by turning your functional Event Wristbands into exciting Raffle Tickets?

*  Designing Your Raffle Wristband: In addition to the information and logo of your event, a wristband may also include a set of secure, individual numbers that can facilitate a giveaway throughout your event. You can choose prizes that spotlight your organization or business’s services or products, thereby adding a marketing edge to your event. Since people will be coming and going at your event, you may choose to have prize draws every hour or so during the event. This, along with the event wristbands, will create a buzz about the services or products your event endorses.

*  Choosing Appropriate Raffles: If your event is a local music festival, raffles can include CDs of the bands playing the event, as well as merchandise like T-shirts and posters. If your event is more focused on a business, you may raffle gift certificates and gift baskets that highlight your products.

*  The Advantage of Raffle Wristbands Over Tickets: Put simply, small tickets become lost at events, but wristbands will remain on the wrists of those at your event. Wristband raffles add some efficient flair to your event that puts the focus back onto your organization or business through the products and services raffled.

*  Charging More for Raffle Wristbands: To raise even more money at your event, charge more for admission for visitors to be given a raffle wristband. As long as the price is reasonable, most supporters will pay an extra couple of dollars for a chance to win something during your event. This can also help deflect costs of the event as well as the prizes being awarded.

The advantages to having event wristbands that double as raffle tickets will give your event a uniqueness as well, making your event stand out among others. This will also be a draw to your event in the coming years: some people will come to your event simply because of the added excitement of leaving with prizes. Previous winners and their friends will be strong supporters in this group!

Your business or organization gains instant exposure and your  raffle Event Wristbands instantly become a great way to advertise and market your business or organization. The ease of use and your ability to design customized event wristbands give you a lot of control over the marketing aspects of your event and what it signifies for your organization at large. Going yet another level for marketing, the prizes can even possess the logo of your event and organization, continuing to provide added exposure even after your event comes to an end.

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Tyvek ® Wristbands for the Win!

You're preparing for a big crowd, and you want to manage it effectively. Event tickets get your guests through the turnstiles, but you want to make sure you can keep your attendees organized once they're at your venue. For this purpose, Tyvek ® wristbands are the perfect tool.

What is Tyvek ®?

Tyvek ® is a non-woven, synthetic material, with qualities of both plastic and paper, manufactured by Dupont ™. It can be printed on like paper, but it's durable like plastic, resisting folding, bending and tearing. It's strong, but lightweight and comfortable. Guests wearing admission wristbands made of this material may be surprised to learn that it is also waterproof, so your event can go on whether it rains or shines.

Tyvek ® is not only used for event wristbands. It  can be found in construction materials,  car and boat covers, advertising banners and posters, shipping envelopes, packaging for medical equipment and protective clothing. It has even been used by some designers as a material for fashion collections.

Tyvek ® Can be Upcycled and Recycled

One of the big draws of this material is that it can be reused and recycled. The material has found a strong following among crafters and "upcyclers" (individuals who creatively repurpose used materials).  One need only do a quick search on the internet to find a myriad of Tyvek ® reuse projects on DIY websites. From durable wallets made from reclaimed envelopes, to ponchos, purses, tents, and kites, Tyvek ® can be reused in countless creative ways.

Another benefit of this material is that it is recyclable. When you use wristbands at your big event, you can ask guests to return them at the end of the day. Made of polyethylene, similar to the material that plastic bottles are made from, this product is fully recyclable. Both you and your guests will feel better knowing that your event wristbands will be put to good reuse. You can find out more about how to recycle Tyvek ® by visiting the Dupont ™ website

Keeping Your Event Secure With Tyvek ® Wristbands

Wristbands can be found in a variety of colors, so that you can organize particular groups of guests. Whether you want to keep your underage attendees from sidling up to the bar or get your VIP guests into a backstage gathering, the brightly colored event wristbands can be used to quickly and effectively discern who should be where.

If you want to brand this material with a particular logo or text, brand away. Tyvek ® wristbands are best suited to inkjet printing which will not smear or rub. So when you decide to print event wristbands, you can submit your unique graphic to be included in their design. You can also order custom security wristbands that feature sequential numbering and unique holographic foils for quick visual checks. This  helps prevent imposters from entering your venue without paying.

Tyvek ® wristbands make use of a tamper-proof adhesive when fitted to an attendee's wrist. They can be attached securely and snugly. Because they resist tearing, they cannot be removed without destroying the wristband, so individuals can't exchange one band for another or pass a used wristband on to a friend.

A Unique Material for a Unique Event

When you're ready to ensure the security of a big event design, print and buy Tyvek ® wristbands. Made of a unique material, they are both cost effective and secure. You can order and print cheap custom wristbands online using your own custom logos and text.  Your event is special, and it takes a special material to help manage it!

Why Tyvek ® Wristbands? is a post from: TicketPrinting.com Blog

Food-lovers are an ample and diverse crowd with diverse dietary needs. There are vegans, vegetarians, diabetics, carnivores, those needing gluten-free foods, Paleolithic, or kosher diets. Some people are allergic to dairy, while others will only eat cruelty-free animal products, raw foods, or grass-fed beef. This summer, millions of people with a common interest in food and radically different tastes will flock to food festivals all over the country. Customized, color-coded wristbands can increase the efficiency and safety of your event.

All you need to do is determine which categories of dietary restrictions are most likely to be represented at your event, then be sure that your vendors tag their offerings with the same visual color-code as your Event Wristbands. Here’s how.

* Decide on Your Color-Coding: Once you’ve settled on your categories, assign each one a color. For instance, you may choose red for meat-eaters, green for vegans, and so forth. Be sure to consider ease of use for the staff and participants at the festival. You should distribute the coded list that corresponds to color and significant to vendors and staff in advance, so they can become familiar with it. Be sure to print out extra wristbands, so that vendors can attach the correct colors to sample dishes or menus, allowing your guests to know at a glance if the food is right for them.

* Have Fun with the Design: For each wristband, in addition to the color-coding, you may also include a graphic that shows the wearer’s dietary needs. For a vegan, you may include a graphic of fresh veggies, while a vegetarian who eats dairy may have the veggies with an egg. Meat-eaters’ wristband may have an animal, and so forth. Have fun with his aspect of the design and your Event Wristbands, with some simple printing, become engaging to the wearer. Most people are proud of their dietary choices and consider them part of their identity, so a meat-eater may proudly display a bracelet with a cow on it, while the vegan will be equally happy to show off their carrot design, providing your festival more free publicity.

* The 21 and Over Crowd: No matter what you decide upon for your final design, if you will serve alcoholic beverages, you need a fast way of identifying whether the wearer is 21 years of age or over. Something as simple as a square that may be stamped or checked on the wristband can show alcohol vendors that the wearer is of legal age, proving that they were carded upon entrance into the event. Or, you can distribute a second wristband with a radically different design and color for easy identification.

* Keep It Simple: A multi-level system of Event Wristbands works best when it is simple, allowing vendors and staff to identify distinctions at a glance. Imagine how grateful a vegan will be if someone is able to shout, “Hey, do you really want to eat that? It’s fried in lard!” upon glimpsing the green bracelet around their wrist and the chimichanga in their hand. Fortunately, once you’ve created your color-coded system, it’s easy to order and print your wristbands online. A little bit of advance thought will make your event that much more successful, and your patrons will be grateful. No one will have to quiz busy food-prep workers about ingredients. Nobody will have to stand in line hungry while someone else quizzes busy food-prep workers.

* Adding Advertising: In any case, your Event Wristbands will serve another purpose: advertisement. Adding the logo of your company, sponsor, or organization provides added exposure for the event and the group. People will be wearing your wristband throughout the day and perhaps into the following day. Choose a waterproof DuPont Tyvek wristband, to guard against weather and hand-washing and let that paper bracelet do its work as long as it hangs around. No matter how small the space, don’t forget to add that extra advertisement.

It may seem like a radical idea, but people are more concerned with their diets than ever. Give your guests what they want by color-coding your wristbands for dietary restrictions at your next food festival!

Picky Eaters: Event Wristbands for Food Festivals is a post from: TicketPrinting.com Blog

Creating custom wristbands for your event turns a simple security feature into a great marketing tool both during and after your event. A wristband may appear a small space to work with, but it can be very effective in its inclusion of pertinent marketing information, as well as its inherent visibility.  

You can use wristbands in lieu of event tickets, or in addition to tickets, in which case your guests receive a customized paper bracelet at the door. The design and purposes of your event wristbands are dependent upon the event you are hosting. Different colors can denote different functions: VIP, over 21, plus simple general admission, allowing mobility for your participants as well as added exposure for your brand. Since it is the season of outdoor festival events around the country, let’s use this as our example as to how to best maximize your wristbands’ effectiveness.

*  Your Customizable Wristbands: Custom Wristbands offer effective marketing, advertising your event while also allowing for exceptional organization, so start designing them before you begin selling tickets. If you will serve alcohol or offer VIP admission, color-coding is a quick and simple way to make the event an organized success. Decide on the color coding and choose the text and image that will appear on the wristband. Include the logo for your event, your sponsor’s logo, or an image that can help you brand the celebration. The wristband can also include times, dates, and venue of your event. The inclusion of these pieces of information will instantly act as an advertising tool. People leaving your event will be walking advertisements, evoking curiosity.

*  Waterproof Wristbands: For music festivals or food festivals that continue all day, or over multiple days, you may want to use waterproof wristbands to keep them from discoloring and deteriorating from sweat, weather, and hand-washing. Waterproof materials will also encourage the wearer to continue to wear the wristband after they leave the venue, maximizing your event’s exposure.

*  Custom Printed Wristbands: Perhaps you can use an online template to create your customized wristband and print them as needed. Designing and printing them yourself cuts out the middleman and saves you money. Custom printing also provides event promoter control over the color of the wristbands, the quality (waterproof), and the overall design that will maximize marketing.

*  Research Quality Discount Wristbands: Especially if your event is going to be very large, research where you can design and print quality discount wristbands. Many online vendors can help you to create customized, quality wristbands for a reasonable price, especially if you will be creating these in great volume.

The use of event wristbands can give your event an added marketing edge in its constant visual exposure. They will also keep your event organized through the inclusion of important information and a color-coding system that tells your door staff necessary information about your visitors: whether they are 21 and over, a VIP, or general admission. And don't forget: a well-designed wristband becomes a fun souvenir for your participants.

Making the Most of Small Spaces: Custom Event Wristbands is a post from: TicketPrinting.com Blog