August 30th, 2010 admin
The popular rubber bracelets also known as silicone awareness bracelets are used for representing extremely serious issues as well as fun issues. These rubber bracelets are quite a hit with the teens and the young people. Funky rubber bracelets are used as a part of the fashion accessory.
On a more serious note, the rubber bracelets are also used for representing social and medical causes also. The bracelet was first made popular when the great cyclist superhero Lance Armstrong wore the yellow wristbands to create awareness against testicular cancer. Being a survivor of cancer, who had fought cancer successfully, he wanted to create awareness against the problem was able to collect $25.1 million for the awareness of cancer and how it can affect people. Many of those that helped to further the cause were also survivors of cancer. Many celebrities also helped to further the cause, when these bracelets were worn by them.
Various types of rubber bracelets and usage
There are several types of such rubber bracelets that are being used. The silicone bracelets that are used for controlling the crowd are usually made of a single color. These bracelets are extensively used in concerts, conventions, clubs, discotheques and others such places, where there are likely to be many people.
Many glow-in-the-dark varieties of rubber bands are popular, especially for nightclubs and theme parties. There are glitter rubber bands that are also available that truly shine in the dark also. If you want, these bracelets can even be engraved, fragrance filled, come in various shapes such as twisted, intertwined, spiral, round, oval and such.
Many couples have also used it as a wedding favor and getting their names engraved on the rubber bands. Even cartoon, funky symbols and superhero characters can be etched on the rubber bracelets also. Sometimes silver and beads can also be added as an option to make them look very ethnic.
Types of printing for the rubber bracelet
The printing that is done on the rubber bracelets can be embossed, silk screened, debossed, and handmade, metallic features can be inserted and other such creative options can also be used. Using such varied metals, the silicone bracelets or the rubber bracelet have actually acquired a cult status.
If you want to order custom rubber bracelets according to your needs and requirements, then there are plenty of online websites that can achieve this for you. Some may even ship the bracelets free of cost.
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June 1st, 2010 admin
A silicone bracelet is used for many things. You can use this to make a statement about your feelings or allegiances. These bracelets say a lot of things about different things that we will slowly discuss in a while. You may also use them just to have fun and nothing more than that. But what can be said is that it is a way to voice your concerns and passions.
These rubber wristbands were introduced by Lance Armstrong Foundation. This organization supports the cause of cancer awareness and education. The color of these bands is yellow which is same the color of Lance Armstrong’s jersey while leading the Tour de France. On the bracelet is a message embossed on it saying “LiveStrong”.
Likewise these silicone bracelets of varying colors stand for different causes such as Green living which stand for the earth’s ecology, purple for Cystic Fibrosis, black and white for anti-racism which are very prevalent in the U.K., and blue for tsunami relief, anti Bush vote and prostate cancer. All these stand for different causes and these bracelets also have messages printed or molded onto them which make the causes clear to others.
Additionally, these bracelets are very handy when you want to raise funds as well. They are reasonably priced and can be worn by people of any age. This makes them a popular way to raise funds for a charitable cause. In 2005 Lance Armstrong Foundation sold some 32 million of these bracelets alone in that year!
Apart from this what you can do is create a bracelet for yourself. Yes customize it with your own creativity. You may design it for your beloved kids or even friends, and make a statement or simply pass it on for fun. These are a few ways to enjoy using silicone bracelets and become a designer!
These silicone bracelets could be worn by anyone. Yes they are not limited to any gender, religion or race and everyone is free to wear them. There is nothing more than that. In a way what can be said is that these bracelets support people among different communities and all parts of the world, and that is the best contribution of silicone bracelets.
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May 10th, 2010 admin
There are different ways with the help of which you can promote a particular cause. Sometimes you need to advertise or start campaigning for something. When you think about promoting something you might not find a better idea in the beginning.
But as you start thinking you can get loads of such ideas. You might know about the silicon bracelets that are quite popular these days. This is one of the best ways to start promoting a cause or a particular thing.
The first thing that comes to our mind when we hear about promoting a cause is the budget. There are lots of people who cannot afford the high rates of the promotional products. This is the reason why they look for something which is quite affordable.
The silicone bracelets can be the choice of lots of people because they are quite cheap and affordable. You can either purchase the wristbands with the common causes or you can even customize them. Other than promotion the wristbands are also used for creating a style statement.
Lots of people wear these colorful bands in their hands and it looks good on everybody’s hand. These bands are available in various designs. You can choose the design you like most.
You can even wear it according to the dress that you wear. You can create a mix and match style with the help of the silicone bracelets. If you are interested in promoting your cause with the help of these bands then you need to plan the thing properly.
First of all you need to choose the color of the band. You can choose multiple colors but make sure that the colors are bright so that it is visible. After this you need to plan whether you are going to print or emboss or ink fill the wristband.
After this you need to plan the size. These are usually rubber bands and this is the reason why one size can fit all. This is why the silicone bracelets are the most popular products which are used for the promotion of different causes these days.
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April 13th, 2010 admin
Are you a member of a non profit organization? Do you want to raise funds for the organization or the club? There are various ways of fundraising. It is very important to choose the right way so that you can collect as much money as you can.
One of the best ways of collecting the funds is with the help of the awareness bracelets. There are different types of silicone rubber bracelets available these days. You can utilize them as a fundraiser for your organization.
These awareness rubber bracelets can make a person aware of different kinds of things. These bracelets have different kinds of phrases and words printed or embossed on them. There are lots of organizations who have already used these bracelets for awareness as well as fundraising.
With the help of the items you can even promote the cause for which your organization works. The first of its kind was introduced by Lance Armstrong. He was the founder of the Live Strong bracelets which became quite famous.
So with the help of awareness bracelets you can perform two tasks at a time. You can create awareness and you can also raise the money that you require to support the cause. There are various companies which manufacture these bracelets.
You can either purchase the common bracelets available or you can even customize it according to the needs of your organization. You just need to give the message that you want to print on the bracelets.
You can either purchase the awareness bracelets from the stores or you can even purchase them from the internet. There are various websites online that can help you get the kind of bracelets you want. You just need to place the order with them. They will ship the products and deliver it to you.
You can also choose the kind of print that you want on the rubber bracelet. They will provide a number of choices regarding the awareness bracelets. You just need to choose one and order for it. There are so many causes to support so choose your cause now.
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March 24th, 2010 admin
Fund raising bracelets combine fashion and a good social cause. They come in several colors and are used by groups and organizations to raise funds to aid in serving the community.
An Easy Method of Raising Funds
Silicone bracelets are an easy and a hassle free method of collecting funds. Silicone bracelets are cheap. They are readily available out in the market place. This way of fund raising for charities attracts the attention of the youth.
You can purchase them from the suppliers for as low as 50 cents per bracelet. You can sell them for as much money as you like giving plenty of room for a decent profit margin. People with the heart to give to charity will not mind paying big amounts for them. After all, it is all for a good cause.
History of These Fund Raising Bracelets
These originated as Lance Armstrong bracelets in the year 2004. They were yellow colored bracelets that were manufactured as a fundraising tool supporting cancer research. It was also meant to support research on cancer combating drugs. This venture was a great success. This idea was adopted by many other organizations, both national as well as international. Even local groups adopted this method as a fund raising tool.
If you are planning to follow this procedure for fund raising, the first step you must follow is to choose the color of the rubber band. The original Lance Armstrong Live Strong bands were yellow in color. These were later followed by the pink colored fund raising bracelets.
These pink rubber bracelets were meant to support research to combat breast cancer. This was again a big success and managed to collect huge amounts of money for charity. We also get multi colored rubber bracelets, camouflage colored bracelets. Blue and white bracelets were sold for helping tsunami victims, and the list goes on, and on.
If you are planning to support some charity in this way, many manufacturers will help you out in selecting the right type of design and color based on the cause. You can also have the bracelets custom made the way you wish to have them. You can even put a logo on the bracelet, though you may have to take care to do this step carefully since not all logos are created the same.
The message on your fund raising bracelet should be brief, yet effective enough to get your point through. A few quotes found on rubber bracelets are ‘Faith Hope Love’, ‘Belief and find the cure’, ‘Live strong’ are some of the more well known quotes. What you print on the rubber bracelets should have a strong impact on the people so that they will appreciate it and buy it.
Generally, suppliers of these fund raising bracelets, allow up to 16 characters for placing your message. However, some of the manufacturers even let you place up to 60 characters on your fund raising bracelet.
Silicone bracelets are a great fund raising product to use with your next charity or awareness program.
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March 22nd, 2010 admin
A custom silicone bracelet has taken the world by a storm. Such bracelets are found on the wrists of people of all age group. Such is the power of silent words that the world has stood up and taken notice of the new means of creating or raising awareness and even protesting an event.
Live Strong was the first organization to use the silicone bracelet to create awareness and raise funds for research on cancer. Soon other organizations followed suit, coming up with even more attractive slogans and logos embossed on the silicone bracelet. The custom silicone bracelet had arrived and is surely here to stay. The dirt-cheap price and its all-age usage factors have clearly worked in its favor.
Using the Silicone Rubber Bracelet
Quite interestingly, many hospitals are also using the bands. The patients who have an allergic reaction are being provided with different color band to help others identify the type of allergy, he or she has been diagnosed with. For example, pink bands are being issued for restricted, extreme allergy, green bracelets denote latex allergy and so on. The far reaching applications might never have struck you!
Charity groups use the custom silicone bracelet quite frequently with various color labels; pink is for breast cancer, black and white are for anti-racism and green for reforestation. They can be made into ideal birthday invitations as well, where all the children can wear the bracelet which has a customized birthday invitation or message embossed on it. Fundraisers can find a safe and powerful alternative to paper leaflet usage. You can now be sure with the custom silicone bracelet that you’re not sacrificing more trees on pretext of making the earth greener!
Companies can buy custom silicone bracelets to be distributed amongst the audience during a football match or, a basketball game or, for that matter any other sporting event. Apart from being a sponsor, you can choose to be an effective advertiser as well. NGOs can promote the causes they are fighting for with suitable color bracelets.
These are just some ideas which one can have implemented. The real charity begins with getting a custom silicone bracelet for your cause – fight for it!
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February 16th, 2010 admin
Do you know silicone bracelets can also double up as awareness bracelets? You can use fashionable and stylish silicone bracelets to sport a slogan or carry a message or tagline that can arrest people’s attention and champion a particular noble cause.
Silicone bracelets have been in use since time immemorial and they are used by people to raise awareness about different types of cancer, especially blood cancer and breast cancer, liver diseases, diabetes, cervical cancer, dyslexia, AIDS and a host of other such diseases.
Awareness bracelets or silicone bracelets can be of different types. Let me cite some of those different styles of silicone rubber bracelets which help to create awareness for a cause.
Embossed silicone wristbands
The most common type of silicone rubber bracelet is the debossed silicone wristband. Compared to that, embossed ones are not that ubiquitous. But I personally feel embossed silicone wristlets have their own charm and they can be customized as well so that you can use them to create any kind of awareness you want.
Just like debossed bracelets, embossed silicone rubber bracelets also are made out of a customized mold. In case of debossed bracelets, the awareness message is debossed or imprinted into the silicone rubber band. While in case of embossed silicone wristbands, the awareness message that is imprinted or embossed shoots up from the surface of the silicone wristband, the message is raised up.
The turnaround time for embossed silicone bracelets as well as the prices is pretty similar to those of debossed silicone rubber bracelets.
Printed silicone rubber wristbands
In this case, the 1st step involves preparing a template that can be customized and you can add your own designs and awareness messages to that template. The artisans will then place the template on top of the silicone bracelets.
Whatever awareness message or cause you want to champion will get printed or imprinted on the surface of the silicone rubber bracelets through silk screen method. In this method the printers use a special kind of dye which has the ability to penetrate through and impregnate the silicone rubber.
You can safely use customized printed silicone rubber bracelets for quite some time because they are durable enough and can withstand every day wear and tear. Nor do they get chipped or experience flaking. Printed silicone rubber wristbands are cheaper and far more pocket friendly compared to the other two kinds of awareness bracelets or silicone rubber bracelets I mentioned above.
This low and affordable price is because these types of silicone rubber bracelets do not feature customized molds. Apart from a lower price, the turnaround time is also faster compared to embossed and debossed silicone rubber wristbands or awareness bracelets.
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December 8th, 2009 admin
Gone are the days when silicone rubber bracelets were only silly fashion accessories that were seen on the wrists of prepubescent teenagers and high schoolers or college goers. Nowadays you will find adults wearing custom silicone rubber bracelets of all kinds on their wrists. These are mostly found on the wrists of celebs, pop stars, sports personalities and politicians.
You must be thinking that these people have gone mad to sport such prepubescent fashion on adult arms, but if you take a closer look, you will find that these are not just any silly fashion accessory that dresses up your outfit. These are what they call, custom rubber bracelets, which spread social awareness about a particular cause or event.
These custom rubber bracelets are special. They are inscribed with messages supporting a particular cause or event, usually meant for charity and these charitable organizations often sell thousands or millions of custom rubber bracelets which act as fundraising items.
Because these silicone rubber bracelets are very cheap and within the budget of most people, people can afford to purchase a dozen or two of these bracelets in different colors and patterns, matching with their outfits. Half a dollar price tag for such cute rubber bracelets is the real reason behind the popularity of these bracelets. After all who wouldn’t love showing off such colorful and fashionable bracelets on well manicured hands?
So far we thought only corporate organizations and companies tried to publicize and promote their companies by distributing hundreds of custom rubber bracelets, completely free of cost. Of course rubber bracelets are better giveaways than cups and mugs and pens and they are less costly as well. In fact rubber bracelets are ideal giveaways for corporate companies because of their aesthetic appeal and dirt cheap rates.
But nowadays even politicians are using custom rubber bracelets to promote their party or a particular candidate. These politicians emboss their names and party slogans on rubber bands of their chosen party color and distribute these silicone rubber bands to supporters and the general public for free during campaigns.
Now during presidential campaigns, if you see one group of people wearing blue silicone rubber wristbands and the other party wearing red, you will immediately guess which group belongs to which political party.
But mostly, custom rubber bracelets are sold or distributed free of cost to raise awareness about debilitating diseases or to raise funds for the rehab of victims of natural catastrophes like earthquakes and tsunamis and volcanoes and famines or floods.
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December 4th, 2009 admin
Everyone wants to publicize and promote/advertise his or her corporate organization or social welfare cause or event. The hackneyed methods of garnering publicity or the age old methods of advertising and promotion don’t just work anymore. People have seen them all, they have been duped innumerable times and there is no curiosity factor at work here.
If you opt for those age old methods of promoting your company, or try to raise money by organizing an event using those hackneyed methods, your strategy, in most cases, will fall flat on its face. People want something new, something they have never seen before, something that will arouse their curiosity.
Only then will they sit up and take notice. This is the 1st mantra for advertising anything. And silicone rubber bracelets are just the right items that can hike people’s curiosity easily.
Why do Silicone rubber bracelets score over other corporate giveaways?
The reasons are very simple. Silicone rubber bracelets are good looking, pretty, attractive and they dress up your wrists.
Secondly, they are extremely cheap, they cost only half a dollar each or even less and if you place bulk orders, so you can get them at even cheaper rates.
Thirdly, Silicone rubber bracelets, in spite of being inexpensive, are sturdy, durable and long lasting.
Fourthly, they are extremely easily available. If you want to advertise and promote your company by distributing silicone rubber bracelets embossed with your company name and logo or if you want to spread a social message, for example, raise awareness about cervical cancer, by distributing silicone rubber bracelets inscribed with anti-cancer messages, you can simply go online.
There are thousands of online companies selling custom silicone bracelets in all hues, patterns, shapes, designs and motifs. You can visit any online store, choose designs of your preference and place bulk orders.
You can order 5000, you may order 50000 or you may even order 5 million silicone bracelets, customize them according to your needs and you will get the delivery within 2 to 3 days.
The best part about silicone bracelets is that they are available in a multitude of designs – you can choose from swirling patterns or shaded bands or color blends or whichever other pattern catches your fancy. The color shade card is pretty exhausting and people love to sport silicone bracelets, especially if they sport a message of social awareness. It makes people feel socially responsible.
If you want to raise funds for your event or charity cause, then you can easily sell thousands or millions of silicone bracelets embossed with the name and message of your charity such as “freedom from illiteracy” or “awake, arise and fight against cancer” and the public will lap up these fashion accessories cum socially responsible bracelets.
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November 29th, 2009 admin
Whenever charitable organizations, corporate companies or some other kind of philanthropic foundation has to raise money for an event or worthy cause, they take to selling wholesale rubber bracelets or wholesale custom silicon rubber bracelets. These wholesale rubber bracelets are sold to raise funds about events like breast cancer awareness or diabetes awareness or dyslexia awareness or for some kind of environmental commitment.
Sometimes wholesale rubber bracelets are sold to raise money to help victims of natural catastrophes like tsunamis or earthquakes or floods or famines or landslides etc.
Corporations and companies and organizations usually opt for wholesale rubber bracelets because then they can buy it cheap. The wholesale price of silicone rubber bracelets can be as little as 50 cents or half a dollar. When corporate houses or charitable organizations and NGOs purchase wholesale rubber bracelets, they can save a lot of money.
Then they customize these bracelets, emboss their own slogans or logos or messages on these and either distribute them free of cost to publicize or promote a company or sell them to raise funds to support noble causes. Because wholesale prices are cheap, it makes sense to buy these silicone rubber bracelets at wholesale rates for this translates into a very economic way of advertising your company or cause and awakening public awareness.
NGOs and foundations often obtain excellent retails when they sell wholesale rubber bracelets at superior rates. Since the profit margin is high, the profit that is earned is spent on philanthropic causes. And the best part is that no other promotional item, be it cups, mugs, t-shirts, caps, pen sets, or whatever novel idea you have, can provide such high revenues. It is a win-win situation for all. Even pins or notebooks or calendars aren’t such revenue generating promotional products, compared to wholesale rubber bracelets.
And these are fast fliers from the rack. Because these silicone rubber bracelets are cute and attractive and sport different colors and different patterns, people love to wear them to dress up their outfits and wrists and these also last for a long time. They are always circular and they will never ever lose their round shape. The light, supple and soft texture ensures that it is easy on the skin and is ideal for daily wear. And they are resilient and durable as well.
There are many online companies which sell wholesale rubber bracelets at discounted prices and if you look through their catalogue, you will come across thousands of designs and patterns. Just choose the ones you like, order the number of pieces you require and you are done. Delivery of wholesale rubber bracelets can be made to you within 3 to 5 days.
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