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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November 20th, 2009 admin
Are you advocating a very worthy cause, indeed a very noble humanitarian and philanthropic cause that you know people would support and help? And do you require quite a few thousand dollars immediately to raise funds for that noble cause?
Have all those traditional methods failed to bring in the desired amount of money? Have you exhausted all those other options such as garage sales, cookie sales, bake sales and car washes and everything else that could possibly fill up the donation boxes?
And no, you still haven’t succeeded. Do you know why? People are damn tired of seeing the same old thing again and again. Where’s the novelty in the same old routine? Why should they pull out money from their pockets for that same old boring stuff especially in these tough economic times?
Come on, get a reality check. You need unique ideas to raise money for your cause or event, you have to surprise people, shock them, push them to grab their eyeballs and make them aware.
And the best way to arrest people’s attention and focus that attention on your cause is by using silicone bracelets for fundraising. This is the oven hot fresh idea you had been searching for to raise funds for your event.
Cute and colorful silicone rubber bracelets are the way to go if you want people to send donations for supporting your local church group or to sponsor any orphaned child’s education and other expenses or to support a needy individual’s cancer treatment.
Just as every unique business strategy stirs people out of their stupor, similarly a unique fundraising idea like selling silicone rubber bracelets will also force people to sit up, take notice and help.
And the good thing about using silicone bracelets for fundraising is that they are good looking, available in a multitude of colors and rainbow hues, in a variety of patterns, styles and designs and the best part is that rubber silicone bracelets make your hands look very pretty.
They are ideal fashion accessories and you can easily purchase a bunch in a dozen of colors and team them with your different outfits. They are also cheap and durable and don’t break or get damaged easily. These silicone bracelets are attractive and people love to spend money on them.
So if you emboss the logo or slogan of your cause on colorful silicone bracelets, people would buy them in dozens and sport them on their hands. This will fill up your coffers and by utilizing silicone bracelets for fundraising will also create awareness among the general public about your cause, prompting more sales and more revenue.
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November 16th, 2009 admin
Do you remember those old days when you used to visit trade fairs and wrote down your name, address, contact details etc at a small booth in order to obtain a free gift mug or pen set with the name of the company embossed on the gift? These were all regarded as corporate gifts given out free of cost so that it would publicize the company, and create general awareness about that company among the public.
A pen set or mugs as corporate items are pretty costly giveaways costing around $2 to $3 per mug. It is, needless to say, a very expensive way of promoting and publicizing your company or organization or cause that you are supporting.
I am sure you would welcome a more cost effective giveaway item that wouldn’t burn big holes in your pocket. Welcome to the world of custom silicone bracelets or customized silicone rubber bracelets and wristbands.
The custom silicone bracelets became big things around 2 to 3 years back, but they are still highly in demand. By custom silicone bracelets or silicone rubber bracelets, I am referring to those cute colorful wristbands that bear an uncanny resemblance to the yellow Livestrong bracelets, extremely ubiquitous nowadays.
These custom silicone bracelets are made of high quality silicone rubber that lends itself to customization and you can choose any shape or color or pattern or design of your choice. Custom silicone bracelets are available in a multitude of colors, in swirling patterns or shaded patterns or in stripes or where 2 or 4 colors are blended together.
You can choose to emboss your company or organization logo or your cause slogan on the custom silicone bracelets which will spread the message of your cause to the world or publicize your event or your company. You can even inscribe messages on the custom silicone bracelets and decide on a font of your choice.
And compared to mugs which are brought out in the kitchen only during breakfast or teatime and are seen only by your family members, custom silicone bracelets enjoy a lot more visibility. People love wearing custom silicone bracelets because they are cool fashion accessories as well and they do their bit for society and contribute to social welfare by purchasing these custom silicone bracelets which are cheap as well.
They don’t even cost a dollar, sometimes they cost just half a dollar and by spending only $4 to $5, you can get a dozen different kinds of custom silicone bracelets. The economics work out well for both buyers and sellers. You can easily distribute 500 or 1000 pieces of custom silicone bracelets for promoting your company or sell 1 million custom silicone bracelets to raise funds for a philanthropic cause or event.
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November 10th, 2009 admin
The humble silicone rubber bracelets that found a pride of place on your dressing table and on your wrists, which served as an inexpensive mode of dressing up your outfit and which you and your friends bought in dozens in every color imaginable, have now metamorphosed into something bigger, better and more useful – Awareness bracelets.
Yes, you heard that right. This is the name currently in use for those sweet little pieces of fashion accessory that have ceased to be just some other trendy pieces! Of course, these silicone rubber bracelets are still all the rage, they still sport different colors borrowed from the rainbow, they are still available in a riot of colors, in different designs and patterns and yes, they are still trendy.
But they are now being used to spread awareness about social issues such as cancer or hepatitis or AIDS or swine flu or other such diseases or issues.
These silicone rubber bracelets are essentially jelly-like thin silicone bracelets or wristbands and are manufactured out of industrial silicone, as you have already guessed. Silicone is a cheap rubbery flexible material and the Awareness bracelets made of this substance are favorite pop picks amongst early teen groups and middle school or high schoolers.
But of course, nowadays it is the adults who are wearing them to espouse one charity cause or another and every day you will find at least a dozen celebrities wearing some kind of Awareness bracelets or other in support of the non profit organization or charity organization with which they are attached or which they own. Of course these people are not really making a fashion statement; rather they are keener on spreading awareness about the social cause they are supporting.
When you wear the Awareness bracelets, you are seen as a socially responsible citizen and these charitable trusts mint millions by selling these Awareness bracelets. The fund that is raised through the sale of Awareness bracelets globally is used to support the cause of that non profit organization.
The money is used to help patients of various kinds of diseases, to offer rehabilitation to people who have been outcast from mainstream society or to fund the education and growing up of orphans or whatever it is that they are supporting.
Sometimes these Awareness bracelets are worn to create consciousness about environmental damage and pollution or to create awareness about the destruction that wars cause to life and property or to raise funds to rehabilitate victims of natural catastrophe like earthquakes or tsunamis or floods or famines or landslides or volcanoes or about global catastrophes like global warming. That is why people treat Awareness bracelets with respect.
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November 3rd, 2009 admin
Oh yes, the humble silicone Rubber bracelets are hot property right now and they are doing great business all over the world, proving the fashion pundits wrong! These graceful little silicone Rubber bracelets had once been completely written off by the high priests of fashion, but they have found a popular fan following amongst the masses. Millions of people all across the globe love to wear silicone Rubber bracelets and they are trendy pieces of fashion accessory found in every wardrobe.
You can spot these on every second arm when you step out of your house and they are available in a riot of colors, in pale pastel shades as well as in shocking shades, in contrasting colors to grab eyeballs and of course you have the liberty to choose from a variety of designs.
They are extremely pocket friendly, affordable and even college goers can easily flaunt a dozen of them on their wrists. If you want to make a cool campus statement, you can mix and match 3 or 4 Rubber bracelets and wear them on your wrists, matching with your outfit.
Silicone Rubber bracelets are also strong and durable; they can stand the pressure of wear and tear and are created in such a way that they last for a long time. So, as you can understand, these silicone Rubber bracelets are good value for money fashion pop picks.
But these Rubber bracelets today are no longer simply fashion accessories, they serve a graver purpose in the form of being vehicles through which you can create public awareness regarding burning social issues. You can customize your Rubber bracelets and inscribe messages on them, emboss your organization’s logo on them, scribble messages and slogans on them to create awareness of various kinds of social or charity or fun events, social causes etc.
Almost every second celebrity nowadays are seen wearing silicone Rubber bracelets espousing some cause or the other – some carry the messages of the United Nations, some of WHO, some of CRY or Child Relief and You, some of UNICEF and so on, and so forth. Many of these Rubber bracelets spread awareness about cancer, AIDS, hepatitis, influenza and other such life threatening diseases.
Even basketball players, workers and members of health awareness organizations, peer counselors, religious groups, cheerleaders and political leaders as well as missionaries wear these message or awareness silicone Rubber bracelets to espouse their respective causes. Sometimes they are worn to show solidarity for some cause.
These silicone Rubber bracelets were popularized by a certain Lance Armstrong during the Tour de France, 2004 when he wore a yellow silicone rubber wristband to support his Lance Armstrong Foundation – a charity organization that raises funds to fight against cancer.
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October 22nd, 2009 admin
Oh no, these silicone rubber bracelets aren’t necessarily what you think them to be. Most people look at these silicone rubber bracelets as just another silly fashion accessory that makes the women and girls go crazy. But in reality, these humble and often derided bracelets have succeeded in transgressing the boundaries of the fashion and style world and have managed to enter the hallowed precincts of a socially responsible “spread awareness” zone.
Yes, I am talking about the Cancer awareness bracelets. You must have heard of them or at least seen the yellow Lance Armstrong Foundation Cancer awareness bracelets? This particular Lance Armstrong Foundation supports the victims of cancer, spreads social awareness about cancer, supports cancer patients and they came up with this fabulous idea of selling yellow wristbands or Cancer awareness bracelets to raise funds for supporting the cause of their charity.
You won’t believe it but millions of people across the world have purchased and now proudly sport the famous yellow Cancer awareness bracelets. Naturally, as you can understand, millions of dollars have been raised through selling these Cancer awareness bracelets and the latter are well recognized wherever you might go. These Cancer awareness bracelets have made people stand up for the cause of cancer and made them fight this life threatening disease.
You will find many celebrities sporting Cancer awareness bracelets and they are all associated with various cancer fighting NGOs or social organizations or charity groups.
There are also breast Cancer awareness bracelets, cervical Cancer awareness bracelets, ovarian Cancer awareness bracelets as well as other kinds of Cancer awareness bracelets and the color of choice is a pretty pink. Pink is a healing, comforting and soothing color and it is also regarded as a girlie color. And this pink ribbon owes its origin to a 68 year old woman named Charlotte Haley who used to make and distribute peach ribbons.
Along with these ribbons she sent out handmade cards with the message – “the National Cancer Institute has sanctioned $1.8 billion as its annual budget for fighting cancer, but only 5% of that money is being utilized for the prevention of cancer. Please help us wake up America and its legislators by sporting this ribbon”. This lady, Haley had a grandmother, a sister and her own daughter who suffered from breast cancer.
This is the story behind the invention of the pink ribbon symbol. She had refused Self magazine’s request to use the peach cancer ribbon on grounds that it was too commercial and the magazine came up with the idea of a pink ribbon. This is how the pink ribbon was born. In fact Cancer awareness bracelets are extremely ubiquitous nowadays.
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October 18th, 2009 admin
Contrary to what the high priests of fashion or fashion pundits might predict, Custom rubber bracelets or silicone rubber bracelets are very much here to stay. Although this humble little piece of fashion accessory has been regularly written off by the style gurus and trend watchers, Custom rubber bracelets have their own set of followers in liberated fashionistas who believe in making an individualistic style statement through something different yet simple!
High points of Custom rubber bracelets
Do you know why so many women, girls and men and boys patronize this simple piece of fashion accessory?
- Because Custom rubber bracelets are trendy and look good on your hands, they even make your hands look pretty.
- Unlike bracelets in precious metals which cost a bomb, especially during festive periods, Custom rubber bracelets are cheap and inexpensive and extremely pocket friendly. Even college goers can afford to purchase a dozen of them in different colors and designs.
- There are innumerable patterns to choose from, endless styles and varieties and they help you make a fashion statement that is hard to imitate.
- But perhaps the most important reason for sporting Custom rubber bracelets or silicone rubber bracelets is to spread awareness about burning social issues, spread a valuable social message or raise funds for different causes and varieties of significant charities.
- In short Custom rubber bracelets are both socially responsible as well as chic and sophisticated and they have finally managed to transgress the boundaries of being mere fashion accessories.
- Companies which want to promote events and activities, distribute Custom rubber bracelets, so do groups and NGOs which are trying very hard to make a big or small difference by trying to raise money to support various charity causes.
- There are Custom rubber bracelets with messages inscribed on them and many of these lend themselves to customization and personalization. You now have the opportunity to create and order Custom rubber bracelets engraved with your own design or logo or text or message, in a color of your choice.
- The best part is that these Custom rubber bracelets are strong and durable, crafted to last, boast of excellent quality and are manufactured out of 100% high density industrial silicone.
The internet is one of the best places to order these Custom rubber bracelets and it hardly matters whether you order one or 1 million! They will be delivered to you at your doorstep whether you want it next week or after 10 days or tomorrow!
To add a unique touch to your Custom rubber bracelets, you can fill them up with words of your choice or emboss a slogan or add your organization’s logo and choose attractive, contrasting colors to grab the eyeballs.
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