Get the Recognition You Deserve with ID Badges at Events

Nothing is worse than not being recognized at your own event.

Say what you will about someone forgetting your name or what company you work for, but when you hold an event, like a gathering of a group of members from a club for example, that last thing you want is the attendees forgetting that you are the one that put the whole thing together!

You Deserve That Credit

You earned it with all that hard work you put into the planning and organization. You’ve spent countless hours reserving the perfect spot, making the invitations, and coming up with fresh ideas about how to earn money for the cause you all support.

What Can Be Done About It?

• Include a 4 x 6 photo of yourself on the front of your invitations
• Print your name in bold, italics using size 72 font on your invitations
• Require your attendees to RSVP by tattooing your name on their hands, and sending you a picture of the tattoo as proof
• Use event/ID Badges to identify (most importantly) yourself and others at your event

Identify Yourself

Event/ID badges are a great way to identify you to others quickly and easily. You can have your name and title printed any way you want, right on the front, showing others that you indeed are the one who put on the event. That way, you can get all the credit due such a big responsibility and job well done.

Identify Others

Not only can you use ID badges at your event to identify yourself, you can use them just in case (oops!) you forget someone else’s name too! If that influential member who you’ve had lunch with once a year for the past few years walks up to you and his name just slipped your mind, you can simply glance at his badge, saving yourself from an embarrassing situation. If an important guest or someone of high status who wouldn’t normally attend an event like yours were to come, you would want everyone to know who they were and that they were a guest.

Wear it with Style

One of the things I really liked about the event badges was that they were so easy to wear. We had the option of clipping them to our shirts or pants, or we could use a lanyard to wear them around our necks.  I used a lanyard for mine, which I had ordered in the colors of our club with the membership logo printed right on them.  It looked great, and when I wore my badge, everyone knew I was responsible for putting on the event!

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Event Programs for Business Meetings

Funny thing about Power Point presentations: they’re made, primarily, of light. Certainly, I could email one to a customer, colleague, or trainee, and often I do, but in many instances, it’s nice to have a professionally printed booklet available to distribute during business meetings. They’re easy to create, simple to distribute, and always available, even during airplane takeoffs and landings.

It’s just another option.

If I often give a particular presentation, I’ll keep copies of the booklet on hand and present those in the meeting the choice: would they like me to email the presentation, or would they prefer to take the event program with them? Often they choose both. Clients who prefer not to take a paper brochure are free to leave them. I only make these books up for situations when I’ll be giving the same talk multiple times. That way, I can save costs with a larger print run, and keep distributing the booklets over a period of years.

They’re particularly useful in staff trainings. Even if I’m projecting a Power Point presentation, trainees can follow along in the printed book. They can make notes in the margins. In fact, I leave a few blank pages at the end for the purpose of taking notes. New employees have a handy document to which they can refer back at any time, and I spend less time explaining the same things over and over.

On more than one occasion, my event programs have saved the day when equipment failure and technological issues have made it impossible to share my Power Point presentation on a large screen!

For business meetings, I include items such as:

• A brief introduction to my business and the services provided
• An agenda for the meeting
• Details on how we operate and how my business can help
• Important contact information for people in the organization

I can reuse this basic information even if I need to change some of the major details in the template. For instance, if I am to give a large presentation to many people regarding a big project, I can still use many of the point, and most of the layout, while adding the details of the specific project being discussed.

Printing event programs for business meetings is an economical way for me to share information in a lasting format with those who prefer to receive print materials in addition to or instead of digital information.

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Event Programs for Organizational Success

Small and medium sized conventions and conferences can become even friendlier when participants have a simple way to redefine their social networks: in print. Rather than depend on Internet forums, you can help your guests and members out by publishing a print directory including only information that those involved are comfortable sharing with the group.

The idea of a face book predates the online social network. Used in schools, these little booklets included names and photographs of students, so that older students could identify new ones, and so that everyone could get a little extra help remembering the name of that kid they met at that party, or figuring out who that girl down the hall was. If your event is to include wide-spread socializing, there’s nothing like a list of names and faces to keep things friendly and social.

It’s easy and inexpensive. Here’s what you do:

1)   In advance of the event, contact those attending and ask them to provide headshots along with some standardized information they wish to share with the entire group.

2)   Compile the image files along with the text.

3)   Compose an introduction to the pamphlet or the event, along with any another information you’d like to include.

4)   Organize your group’s logo, along with any other digital images you’d like to you.

5)   Send the files out to an online publisher, who will print your books fast and ship them directly to you.

6)   You can mail your booklets out right before the event, or distribute them at registration.

This kind of event program helps your gathering become easier. In many groups, there may be tight knots of friends, newcomers who know no one, and shy wallflowers. Printing out a list of names, faces, and some interesting information about each person encourages mixing and mingling. Older members can see immediately which new members may need some encouragement, or may be of interest to them. New members can determine which older members they want to approach. And everyone can remember everyone else’s name.

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Event Brochures, Ad Books, Pamphlets, Booklets, Guides, and Programs

Ready to add an extra professional look to pretty much anything you undertake? Event large and small benefit from the production of beautiful, custom made Event Brochures, printed to your specifications and customized with your own text and images. Whether your event is large enough to require a guide with schedules and maps, complex enough to need detailed descriptions, or special enough to require a souvenir, printing your own booklets is a great way to solve your informational needs.

Where can you use a printed book?

Conferences and Conventions: Include vendor hall and venue maps, schedules for speaker and panels, and descriptions of events to create a complete guide to your event. Honor special guests and include highlights of the event and the organization’s accomplishments

Theater and Music: Playbills and programs let your fans know all about the show. Artist biographies, play synopses, band lineups and more all provide a stunning souvenir that helps your guests navigate performing arts endeavors large and small.

Food and Art Festivals: Publish a diagram showing who’s in which booth and where your patrons can find their favorite artists or flavors. Honor sponsors with ads large and small, and offer special deals.

Weddings and Family Reunions: Create a memorable souvenir for group gatherings of any size. Lay out the schedule or let everyone provide their own updates. Print photos old and new for a unique touch.

Fundraising: Print your own ad book, selling ads to local businesses or group members to make more money. Or, describe your organization’s work in detail, so potential donors can see exactly where their money is going.

New Member Information: A stock booklet is a great idea for any organization. Include names, phone numbers, and email addresses, and any other information that remains the same from year to year, which might be of use to those who have recently joined an existing group.

Annual Updates: Every year, there’s something new. Share your accomplishments with a large group when you write all your exciting information down into a fun narrative, complete with photos and illustrations.

In fact, there are thousands of ways pamphlets and event programs can be used. The possibilities are really only limited by your imagination. Whatever information you need to share with any size group, you can have it professionally printed in a booklet made to your specifications.

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Event Badges for Mixing and Mingling

I have a secret.

I am terrible with names.

Say what you will about mnemonics, making an effort, and repeating names two or three times upon original introduction. I just can’t remember your name. It’s nothing personal. Sometimes I forget my husband’s name—just for a moment. Actually, he’s a real lifesaver. Seeing that I’ve clearly forgotten the name of the person to whom I’m talking at a party, he’s fast to introduce himself, thus allowing my conversational partner to share his or her name without making me look ridiculous.

But my husband can’t accompany me everywhere.

For instance, chapter meetings for a national organization in which I have a position of some responsibility. I should remember all these women’s names. I know I should. But I don’t.

That’s why I ordered a stack of fancy event badges for our meetings. I explained it as a courtesy to new members, and everyone seems to love the idea, but mainly, these event badges—ID badges, really—have saved the day in many ways.

Event badges, printed with the names of group members serve several purposes:

• Help members remember each others’ names
• Keep unwanted non-members out of our snacks
• Make taking attendance a breeze

Before every meeting, I just lay the badges out in alphabetical order on the table at the back of the room. Everyone picks up their own badge, and our secretary can take a quick scan of those badges unclaimed at the beginning of the meeting to determine who hasn’t shown up. At the end of each meeting, she collects the badges again.

I was able to print these event badges online for just pennies a badge. I sent the company our organization’s design files, so we could use our own logos and background. I included a file with every member’s name, and every few months, as we attract new members, I collect those names up and send them back to the printer. They keep my files forever, and anytime I want to make a new order, it’s simple: I just ask for the same product, with these new names. They know exactly what I want, and everyone’s badge looks the same whether they’re old or new.

There was some talk about printing different badges for officers, which, it turned out, would also be simple, but we decided that we should all keep the same identifiers.

Now, no one has to spend time filling out names on paper stickers. And best of all, I never look like an idiot because I can’t remember the name of a lady who’s invited me to her home many times. I just glance surreptitiously at her name badge and no one’s the wiser about my little problem.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Event Wristbands for Legal Alcohol Sales

Underage drinking is no joke, particularly if you are an event organizer or promoter, particularly if you have a reputation to uphold, particularly if you are overseeing an all-ages event. Family gatherings can tolerate, and even thrive, with a controlled quantity of responsible adult consumption. If even a single green teenager finds his or her way into the good graces of a lax barkeeper, you leave yourself open to disaster: violence, lawsuits, arrests.

Even a little rowdy, drunken behavior on the part of an underage drinker can permanently mar your festival.

Event Wristbands were made for just these occasions.

Adult shows are another matter, of course. If you’ve advertised 21+ and have bouncers carding at the door, you’ve done what needed to be done. Barring some very skillful fake I.D.s, your bases are covered. It’s the big, all-ages events that need the extra security of the Event Wristband. Your vendors don’t have time to verify I.D. cards when there’s a line of thirsty patrons wending around the refreshment tent. They don’t need the hassle of dealing with tricky teenagers who might flirt distractingly or casually announce, “You remember me, right?” before trying to cadge a drink.

Your best bet is a wristband bottleneck near or at the gate of the event. Those who wish to drink must allow staff to scrutinize their I.D.s—and it helps if you have a tent for just that purpose, so that staff can focus on this task without distraction—and pass out Event Wristbands to those who qualify.

Some organizers may even choose to sell the wristbands. Those who truly wish to drink don’t mind a nominal fee to do so, especially if you can offer some small perk, such as a restricted beer garden or souvenir glass. The Event Wristbands themselves, made of vinyl or Dupont Tyvek, cost you pennies a piece, so either way, you come out ahead.

Your drinking-age identification Event Wristbands are recyclable and customizable: imprint them with your own personal details and design. Many organizers find that guests continue to wear them for some time after the event, a status symbol to prove they were there and did some drinking. But more importantly, they’re manufactured so that once you remove the adhesive backing and fasten them around a patron’s wrist, they stay on until they’re cut or torn off.

Underage drinking is a major liability for your event, but a thin, lightweight, flexible, paper or plastic bracelet can greatly reduce the possibility of its occurrence. Young people may work hard to obtain alcohol, but you don’t have to put much effort into denying it to them. Simply order sufficient sheets of personalized wristbands and save yourself and your staff the worry and hassle.

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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.

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