March 1st, 2010 admin
Awareness bracelets are wristbands made of silicone. They are used as a symbol of awareness and are distributed to promote awareness for several causes. They come in a variety of colors. They are bright enough to attract people’s attention.
The Origin of Awareness Bracelets
Awareness bracelets started becoming popular in the year 2004. An organization called Lance Armstrong Foundation stated the trend of awareness bracelets. These bracelets were yellow silicone bracelets and they spread awareness against breast cancer and support the researches conducted on breast cancer.
This trend was carried forward and adopted as a tool to spread awareness for many other campaigns. Silicone bracelets were used to promote causes like ‘Make Poverty History’, BBC’s ‘Beat Bullying’ campaign.
This trend has not died down. Silicone bracelets are used by many organizations/ charities to promote several social causes for the betterment of the society. This has taken a universal dimension. International organizations as well as national ones and even local clubs use silicone awareness bracelets.
Awareness Bracelets and Fund Raising
Awareness bracelets are also used for the purpose of raising funds for many different causes. This has grown as an extremely popular trend. Many schools follow this in order to raise funds for sports. The names of teams are written on these silicone bracelets. The costs incurred for the purpose of training are raised by selling these bracelets.
Schools, churches sometimes use this method to raise funds in this way to support transport expenses and expedition expenses. They also purchase items that are needed in churches. Some groups raise money by selling silicone awareness bracelets to take part in various competitions that are held at the state level or for that matter, even in the national level.
Not just breast cancer, these bracelets are used to raise funds for many other malignant diseases. Nonprofit organizations or charities even use them to promote awareness against multiple sclerosis, AIDS, diabetes. Animal rights organizations also motivate people against the cruelty and unjust treatment done upon animals with the help of these bracelets.
These silicone bracelets are medium sized and are flexible. These are the most affordable tokens that can be distributed for fund raising purposes. It is highly unprofitable to distribute tokens that are expensive by themselves. The purpose will be lost in that case. However, the silicone awareness bracelets at school and church levels are sold at extremely affordable prices.
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January 4th, 2010 admin
Rubber wristbands have been considered to be a great medium for promoting charitable, fund raising events and also for spreading awareness among people. They are hugely popular today among people of different age groups not only because they serve a useful purpose but also because they come in stylish designs and are light.
The rubber wristbands are made of silicone and are highly durable and have served to be great promotional items. The most important features of the rubber wristbands are that they are cheap and customizable. You can customize a rubber wristband according to your choice and preference.
What are Custom Wristbands?
Custom wristbands are the most “in” thing now, but do you know how to customize them? Customizing and ordering them is really easy. All you need to do is to contact the manufacturer and let them know about your preferences. Tell them about the color, design, style that you want your wristband to have and then just place an order, usually can be done online.
Since you would be personalizing the wristband you can have all the designs, styles that you like to be included in it. You can also ask to imprint some message of your choice on it.
Choose Your One
Generally there are three varieties which are popular when it comes to the rubber wristbands; embossed, debossed and imprinted. Imprinted ones have text and symbols printed on the silicone bands while the other two varieties use a similar method. But there is a slight difference between the two. While in the debossed wristbands the letters would be embedded in the embossed ones it would be raised.
Once you are sure about the design you can proceed with it; which means to contact the manufacturer and give him the details. The ordered wristband would be delivered in one or two days. But you can also order rubber wristbands online which can be shipped to you.
Get a Custom Rubber Wristband
Rubber wristbands are hugely popular today so why shouldn’t you get one for yourself? Moreover you are getting the scope of customizing them. You can also order a wristband for some particular occasion. They are durable and cheap so even better. Moreover the custom wristbands can help you to promote a cause that you are supporting.
If you wear a custom wristband bearing a message in which you strongly believe wearing it can create some positive impact among the people who you meet. The custom wristbands reflect emotions and feelings hence so popular. You can also gift a custom wristband to your near and dear one on special events. They can also be bought within a fixed budget that is suitable for you. They don’t lose their shape or flexibility so can be worn for many years.
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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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July 30th, 2008 Raymond
If you need to bring attention and remind people of an important cause, an Awareness Bracelet is the perfect solution. You remember these, Lance Armstrong brought them to the world’s attention with his trademark bright yellow, rubber bracelet that had LIVESTRONG embossed on it. He wanted to remind everyone to support cancer research. In a short time, when you saw someone wearing a yellow bracelet or wristband, you knew what it meant. Not long after this phenomenon, many other charities and organization started to customize their own trademark colors and messages. Later we started seeing pink bracelets that were to symbolize support for breast cancer. A simple inexpensive concept can symbolize so much more then the few cents it cost to create it.
As noble a reason as charities were to use these awareness bracelets, it wasn’t the only practical application for these bracelets/wristbands. Many other groups, organizations, and companies found other uses for the bracelets; schools began using them to promote school spirit, music groups used them to promote their band, and businesses saw them as an easy way to create brand recognition. Even churches have been known to use them to promote the gospel by embossing a pray on the bracelet.
Today these awareness bracelets are well known throughout the world. Very often if someone sees you wearing one of these bracelets they will ask to read what it says or ask what it represents, and that is exactly what you want, isn’t it?
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