October 26th, 2011 Theresa
In one episode of Oprah, renowned Tour de France competitor Lance Armstrong and his then-girlfriend Sheryl Crow were featured guests. Lance Armstrong related to everyone his long and difficult battle with testicular cancer and how he overcame it. He also talked about his involvement in Tour de France. At the end of the show, he and Oprah showed to the audience yellow silicone rubber bracelets that had the word LIVESTRONG debossed on them. Oprah encouraged her viewers to buy the custom silicone rubber bracelets to show their support in fighting testicular cancer. Each of the rubber silicone bracelets cost just a dollar.
Also called baller bands, these silicone wristbands are usually made from silicone rubber. Silicone rubber is a type of polymer that contains silicon, carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen that is combined together to make a rubber-like material. Silicone rubber is able to retain its properties even if it is subjected to extreme environments and temperatures; it is a stable and non-reactive material. Because of its properties, silicone rubber is extremely versatile and is used in a lot of industries, tools and products. Including sportswear, footwear, electronics, medical devices, and of course, silicone bracelets.
Ever since Lance Armstrong came out with his LIVESTRONG bracelets, silicone rubber bracelets have grown in popularity and have been used to raise awareness of certain issues and to show support for different causes. Not only are they fashion accessories, but they are also symbols of your show of support for a cause. Silicone rubber bracelets that are used to show support for a cause come in different colors with each color representing the cause, including:
- Yellow – testicular cancer
- Purple – LGBT rights
- Pink – breast cancer
- Blue – colon cancer and child abuse
Silicone rubber bracelets are also used as a type of marketing strategy by some companies. These are usually distributed during expos and trade fairs. They can also be used by organizations to identify members.
The market for customized silicone rubber bracelets is highly competitive due to its popularity. There are a lot of manufacturers of these bracelets, each have different product offerings. If you are thinking of ordering your own rubber bracelets you can choose your style of lettering (how the message is included in the silicone), size of the bracelet, and color of the bracelet.
Style of Lettering
- Debossed – the most popular style of lettering in rubber bracelets, these are similar to what the LIVESTRONG bracelets have. It refers to the design of the bracelet which are imprinted or recessed down into the bracelet itself. To do this, a custom mold is made incorporating the design you want. Debossed rubber bracelets can be in a single color, or it can be color-filled (the message has a different color than the rest of the bracelet).
- Embossed – embossed rubber bracelets have raised letters instead of etched letters. These are also made with the use of a custom mold.
- Printed – the message is printed on the surface of the blank bracelet with the use of screen-print.
- Laser-engraved – the message is engraved on the surface of a blank bracelet with the use of a laser engraver
Size
You can choose between a 1-inch bracelet and 3/4-inch wristband; or the standard adult 7.9 inches or the standard youth 7.1 inches.
Color
You have a broad range of colors to choose from. You can have them in solid, swirl patterns, tie-dye patterns, or in vertical stripes.
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October 24th, 2011 Admin
It probably started with Lance Armstrong and the Tour de France. Lance Armstrong’s cancer just went into remission and he started riding his bike again. To raise awareness for testicular cancer, he began wearing custom rubber bracelets in bright yellow. Seemingly etched in these customized rubber band bracelets was the word “Livestrong” and Mr. Armstrong marketed these in Oprah’s show together with his then-girlfriend country singer Sheryl Crow. Since then, custom rubber band bracelets in different colors and shapes have appeared.
These custom rubber wristbands are usually made from silicone. Silicone is a polymer that looks and feels like rubber. This polymer also contains carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, aside from silicon. This material is stable, non-reactive and resistant to extreme temperatures and environments. Silicone rubber is used in different industries and in a wide range of products and tools.
Silly Bandz
An example of custom rubber bands is the Silly Bandz. These are rubber bands made of silicone that are formed into different shapes that include numbers, letters, animals, and objects. The first shaped rubber bands made from silicone were made by Yumiko Ohashi and Masonar Haneda of the Passkey Design, a Japanese design team. They designed these rubber bands to discourage people from throwing them away. The team won the Best Design award for the Animal Rubber Bands in the Japanese National Competition in 2003. Businessman and BCP Imports owner Robert Croak stumbled upon the rubber bands in a business trip and decide to sell them as children’s fashion accessories when he got back. BCP Imports also distributed the Livestrong custom rubber bracelets in the United States. Silly Bandz are usually sold in themed packages; the company has also collaborated with celebrities like Kim Kardashian and Justin Bieber to have their own Silly Bandz themed packs.
Custom Rubber Bracelets
Nowadays, custom rubber bracelets are used by charitable and non-profit organizations to promote awareness and raise funds for a cause. Some of these include increase awareness of AIDS, elimination of poverty, and LGBT rights. A notable color for these rubber bracelets is pink for breast cancer awareness.
You can have your personalized custom rubber bracelets made. Available sizes are the standard 8-inch adult size, and the standard 7-inch kid size. If you plan to add letters or messages in the rubber bracelets, you can choose from:
- Debossed - this is the classic lettering style in silicone rubber bracelets. It is similar to the Livestrong bracelets, where the letters are engraved in the silicone.
- Color-filled Debossed - this features the same lettering style as the classic debossed rubber bracelet, but the engraved letters are filled with a different color from the rest of the bracelet.
- Imprinted - the letters are imprinted on the surface of the silicone rather than engraved
If you have these rubber bands made, you can order them in bulk, ranging from 100 to 5000+ pieces. Different lettering styles call for different pricing. These rubber bracelets are available in different colors such as white, black, red, lime green, light-blue, and hot pink.
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May 18th, 2011 Admin
These days, there are a lot of ways to get the public’s attention. With all the concerns that people may have, its only proper that they think of ways to make everyone aware of what is happening. Whether it is something in the line of global warming, or some disease like Aids for that matter, there will be good reasons for supporting such causes.
The media for one is definitely a good way of telling people that there is a need for concern on certain issues. But the costs for making even a 30-second infomercial are quite expensive. Plus, its not as telling as when you put a certain concern across your chest, or in this case, your arm. Cancer awareness has been one of the main causes of using another method of branching out peoples concern. Rubber cancer bracelets are a good way of showing that there is a need to be concerned about this terrible disease. As you may well know, cancer is one of the biggest killers in the western world, so it is only natural that people take a stand against this disease.
Rubber bracelets are the perfect fit when trying to voice out any concern. They are easy to wear, very fashionable and do not come with a very high price tag. As a matter of fact, you can buy cancer awareness bracelets in bundle without even costing as much as a fraction or a jewelry piece. When trying to start a cause, it should be noted that the rubber cancer bracelets you get are made from silicone. This material is quite as elastic as other kinds of rubber, but is sturdier compared to others.
A great sign of the success that rubber cancer bracelets have brought to causes is Livestrong, a cancer awareness brand spearheaded by Lance Armstrong. The multiple-time Tour de France winner was once a cancer patient himself, but showed the determination to get better and come back to the great sporting status that he once had. And now, he serves as the biggest endorser and inspiration through his Livestrong campaign.
For every sold colored rubber bracelets by the foundation, a cancer patient will get to live for another day. Every amount of money will be used on medicine, facilities and other relevant tools needed for curing cancer patients that do not have enough money for the treatments themselves. Its a great cause that has sold over 70 million bracelets worldwide, further elaborating on the marketability of these rubber bracelets.
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March 21st, 2011 Theresa
Rubber bracelets are a good fashion accessory. Whether for casual settings like grabbing a late breakfast after a long night out or even a black tie gala, they can work with any person’s ensemble, as long as the person wearing them will have the confidence to pull them off.
And by confidence it would mean sporting rubber bracelets without worrying what others think. As they are often considered informal, they would tend to attract the eye of everyone, especially if they clash with the whole look of your ensemble. These rubber bracelets started as trends when professional cyclist Lance Armstrong started sporting them during competitions. This was actually a campaign of Nike to support funding for cancer research. It became such a hit that people started to adopt the trend, with Nike and other sporting brands offering a rubber bracelet along with certain purchases like limited edition rubber shoes.
Athletes were also one of the major individuals who jumped into the bandwagon, thus helping the bracelet’s popularity increase even further. It even gave birth to an offspring, which is the silicone bracelet. It’s considered to be more durable, and less prone to damages. Because of their popularity, the promotion of these rubber bracelets has reached celebrities, with people from Hip-hop and R&B singer Usher and Sarah Jessica Parker sporting their favorite bracelets as fashion statements.
As a rubber bracelet would be easy and cheap to produce, it has become a popular fundraising item. It is even used as a way to show support for certain causes, allegiances in politics, and even self-promotion. This paved the way for custom rubber bracelets, which people availed for various uses. Support for a political party can be represented with just a simple bracelet, which you can go and get for free by the bunch and distribute to friends. Charities have utilized these bracelets as well for giveaways and as a simple way for attendees and supporters to show their support for each charity.
As your own fashion accessory, anyone can go and wear them with anything, provided that they would know how to carry one well. That means those who decide to wear a rubber bracelet must act as if they have put it on in an offhand manner to keep it from looking too contrived.
These bracelets also come in a range of colors. Those who want something less obtrusive can settle for plain ones like black, white, or gray. Others who want to have something that will pop can go and arm themselves with neon colors like lime green, electric blue, even bright yellow. It all depends on a person’s preference, and the way they will carry themselves.
As for support and promotion, these bracelets are important tools that can help bring to mind the cause each bracelet wearer is supporting. These come personalized with names, labels, even organizational groups, so each rubber bracelet would represent each discreetly. Rubber bracelets will help you to be identified by people who support the same causes, which would work well as an effective icebreaker and a starting point for a meaningful conversation.
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March 7th, 2011 Theresa
Nowadays, a lot of business people are looking for innovative ways of promoting their products. Consequently, a lot of consumers appreciate these innovative and efficient promotional tools and materials. This makes it a win-win situation for both parties. One of the most recognized promotional items that businesses use which people can’t get enough of are rubber bracelets or silicone bracelets.
These bracelets are known to be versatile and sporty accessories. This is one of the many reasons why a lot people patronize its use as fashion accessories. People choose to wear this type of bracelets since they exude simplicity yet do not fall short of style. Celebrities and athletes, among others, may be seen wearing one or two of these bracelets. Due to their popularity, these bracelets make for effective promotional items that represent services, ideas, brands, and products well. Rubber bracelets could also be a great messenger and carrier of meaningful messages and causes.
The strength of rubber bracelets as promotional materials is efficiently exhibited through the LiveStrong campaign. Who could possibly forget the popularity of those yellow silicone bracelets made famous by the popular cancer survivor cyclist Lance Armstrong? The campaign has proven to have been a successful fund raising effort through the use of the yellow LiveStrong silicone bracelets. The campaign’s popularity and success may be attributed to three things. One, the cause of the campaign itself is good. Proceeds from the sales of the bracelets were used to fund cancer research. Second, celebrities and known personalities supported the campaign by wearing the bracelets themselves. Finally, the appeal of the rubber bracelets is unquestionable.
This is just one proof that a simple rubber bracelet could go a long way in spreading the word and promoting various ideas, services, campaigns, products, and brands. This is the reason why more and more companies opt to include customized rubber and silicone bracelets in their roster of promotional tools and materials.
A lot of companies and organizations realize the effectiveness of rubber and silicone bracelets when it comes to marketing and promotion. If you have a business of your own and are looking for a cost-efficient way to promote your company, services and brands, then getting good sets of silicone bracelets could do you well. They’re relatively cheaper than other promotional tools such as tumblers, bags, and caps. These bracelets are also effective since consumers appreciate being given these items rather than accepting pieces of papers disguised as flyers.
Custom rubber bracelets can come out embossed or debossed. Printed designs can also be put on each one. You can also choose to have them laser-engraved. They also come in various colors and styles, thus, you could choose the design or theme appropriate for your business. Definitely, you would also have a say on what should appear in the bracelet, from the message, text, and even its font color.
Choosing rubber bracelets and including them in your list of promotional tools would be of great help in boosting your company’s popularity. Clearly, they are one of the several ways that you can promote your brand effectively at a minimum cost.
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February 9th, 2011 Theresa
Trendy and versatile for a plethora of purposes, rubber wristbands are today’s trendy fashion pieces for teens and adults alike. Created with 100% silicone, these wristbands are today’s preferred tool for showing support, promoting a business, spreading an idea, or even just for accessorizing. Whatever made these bracelets so popular? Apart from their striking colors that catch attention, rubber wristbands have been used in the recent years to provide support for a variety of ongoing programs. From promoting AIDS and cancer awareness, to supporting the non-smoking, alcoholism, anti-drugs, and obesity campaigns, rubber wristbands are timeless and efficient in spreading ideologies. The people who wear them are instantly turned into walking promotional materials. They are spreading an idea without them even knowing.
Hailed as one of this decades most powerful promotional material, rubber wristbands are ubiquitous in their nature. Silicone is a very strong material that lasts, which makes it a very good promotional piece. You’re bound to see someone with a silicone wristband while walking down the street or visiting a mall. In the recent years, these bracelets have been used to symbolize a variety of causes, designed by the fundraiser and sold to wiling supporters. The color of a rubber wristband pertains to what it signifies. Popular causes have owned these colors and through time have successfully made them their own. Here are a couple of the most famous causes with their preferred colors.
Orange
Orange is used by the American Cancer Society and the Multiple Sclerosis Organization. Orange wristbands are used by these organizations to promote a smoke-free lifestyle and encourage the awareness of multiple sclerosis a very debilitating disorder that deserves to be known.
Red
Red is used for Heart Disease Prevention and the AIDS Awareness group. AIDS is an incurable STD that has claimed the lives of thousands of people on earth. The AIDS Awareness group has utilized wristbands to make the society more aware about the rising number of people with AIDS.
Yellow
Yellow is used by Lance Armstrong’s LiveStrong campaign. LiveStrong is the very first group to ever use rubber wristbands to raise funds for cancer research.
Green
Green is used by a number of renowned environmental groups all over the world. You can see a variety of messages imprinted on these green wristbands, such as Save the Earth or Practice Green Living. Green wristbands are worn to make people more aware of imminent danger of global warming and dangerously high carbon footprints.
Pink
Pink is used by the Breast Cancer Awareness Organization for their fundraising exploits. You’ll often see women wear these bracelets, with the iconic pink ribbon engraved on one side. The selling of pink bracelets is to support breast cancer research.
Apart from being used to support a variety of causes, rubber wristbands have been used to by a number of businesses as well for promotion purposes. Events are advertised through wristbands, as well as new products or new services. If you’re looking forward to using silicone wristbands for your business exploits, there are a number of sites offering rubber wristband making services online. Research the Internet for more information.
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January 10th, 2011 Theresa
Silicone rubber bracelets, as the name suggests, are bracelets made out of silicone. While a popular accessory among many teens these days, these bracelets have actually come to mean more than just something to wrap around your wrist. These bracelets have provided a venue for people to express their support for particular causes, people, and to promote awareness about certain conditions. Rubber bracelets are often used as awareness bracelets because it provides a cost-efficient way of showing support for a particular health condition.
Silicone bracelets are used in the same manner as awareness ribbons. You would often see people wearing a pink wristband to promote awareness and concern for breast cancer; yellow for cancer; blue for diabetes, and red for aids. Aside from being a useful tool when it comes to raising people’s awareness, it also serves a fundraising tool for those raising money for causes. White silicone bracelets are often used for the “Make Poverty History” movement. If you are looking for a cost-effective way of promoting something, silicone rubber bracelets are definitely the best option.
In a lot of countries, you can see politicians giving away silicone bracelets to promote their campaign. People all over the world use silicone bracelets to show their support for politicians, sports teams and other such important advocacies.
Silicone rubber bracelets can also be used by companies to give to their employees and schools to give to their students. These simple accessories have certainly gone a long way from being just a regular accessory to wear around your hand. The best thing about these bracelets is that they are very cheap and you even get a better deal if you order them by bulk. Since people are open to wearing them to show their support for whatever the bracelet represents, they often end up as best sellers during fund raisers.
The beauty in silicone rubber bracelets when they are used as awareness bracelets is that they have universal meanings. Wherever you are in the world, if you see someone wearing a yellow awareness bracelet, you know immediately that the person is supporting cancer awareness. They may be known by different names in different countries but they all essentially symbolize the same thing. These bracelets have become such a huge part of awareness campaigns that almost all campaigns these days utilize these bracelets to spread the word. Whether you want to give away souvenirs or you are looking for something to sell during a fundraiser, silicone bracelets will always be a good choice.
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November 22nd, 2010 Admin
Cancer awareness bracelets are purchased by people every day. If cancer research is close to your heart, then you can easily host a fundraiser using these fashion accessories as one of the main products you sell. You can host your fundraiser at school, through another charitable organization, or through your business office using these custom bracelets.
Colors
Cancer awareness bracelets are typically pink for breast cancer, yellow for childhood cancer, and lavender for general cancer awareness. There are also many other colors that are used for specific types of cancers, so if you are supporting research for one main type then you can customize your colors to represent the research you are funding. Men and women from around the world recognize these colors as cancer awareness symbols.
If you are using the cancer awareness bracelets for a fundraiser then you may want to buy silicone bracelets in both child and adult sizes. Most families who support cancer funding will purchase a bracelet for every member of their family, especially when one person within the family had been through cancer treatment. You may also customize the words on the bracelet, as well, so that everyone knows that your foundation or fundraiser is working to support cancer research.
Ordering
Cancer awareness bracelets made from rubber silicon are very inexpensive. If your foundation wants to raise money, but simply doesn’t have a lot to invest in products to sell then rubber bracelets are a great choice. Nearly everyone loves these fashionable accessories, and almost all teens wear them as a daily addition to their wardrobe.
You can easily purchase enough bracelets to provide your cancer research team of choice with a nice fund for continuing their work to find a cure, and to provide hope for cancer survivors and patients everywhere.
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October 11th, 2010 Admin
Rubber wristbands, besides being a bold fashion statement one should never forget the value and role of these popular wrist bands that has touched millions of lives. It is one of the sole pride at distributing messages and sentimental values of one’s life to the other. It has left a high mark of its own wherein many communities, companies and individuals have turned their life around. Most popular rubber wristbands are made of pure silicone however we can find tainted rubber bands in the market today as well.
Rubber wristbands are the perfect means of spreading awareness to the world as they are used by a massive number of organizations. It is popularly used nowadays for any kind of approaching meetings or events. A huge amount of advertising can be done through rubber wristbands. These rubber wristbands are quite cheap and readily available online, so are used commonly to promote our day to day life activities. It helps us to erase our bad habits like obesity, drugs, alcoholism etc. It enlightens awareness for the natural calamities such as tsunami, hurricane Katrina, earthquakes etc., and commonly 20% of its profit goes for the welfare of the given charity or organization, for e.g. red cross to help Haiti and the Haiti disaster relief fund. It is highly recommended for charitable and sporting events, festivals, AIDS awareness etc.
Among the various rubber wristbands uses, there are three that highlight the basic focus of its work.
- Wrist Strong: The wrist strong bracelets are a strong example wherein the companies have made huge profit using the wristbands in terms of the fashion world. With the different colors and messages, wristbands are now the modern accessory for the people of all ages and hence it has worked well for the corporate world. It helps them to advertise their business and expand their corporate logos.
- Live Strong: Live Strong is the mother of all rubber silicone bracelets. Those yellow rubber bracelets were popularized by the famous cyclist Lance Armstrong. They are still being used today and we can support the foundation by getting a Live Strong bracelet of our own.
- Avon walk for breast cancer: pink color signifies breast cancer and we have seen and known millions of women ailing from breast cancer. Avon represents strong and beautiful women and we can be a part of it by purchasing Avon breast cancer pink wristband through websites and through Avon representatives.
Thus we know the benefits of the rubber wristbands and its impact to the living world. We can all buy a wristband and support all the different issues that is prevailing in our world.
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October 6th, 2010 Admin
There are many ways to promote different issues of the world. If we take a look at our world today, we see different communities, organizations, and individuals looking for a chance to heal cancer. How are we ever going to find a cure for cancer if the researchers don’t have the funding to continue their pursuit? One of the simplest ways to broaden the support and understanding of cancer, and help in fundraising for patients and research are through awareness bracelets, i.e. cancer awareness bracelets. Bracelets because it can be worn by anyone at all, not matter their gender. The most significant feature of these awareness bracelets is that they are cheap, yet very helpful.
While there has been wide speculation as to the spread of occurrences of cancer, there is no answers to what the cause may be, thus making it very difficult for us to find a cure. Physicians say that it is a depressing factor that cancer is becoming more epidemic to a level where it is still unknown to human kind as to how the spread and cause of cancer still can’t be controlled.
Even though time will take to bring a complete halt to this epidemic, we can still strive to provide information and knowledge through the simple means of wearing cancer awareness bracelets. These bracelets can be pretty helpful because the can be obtained in bulk and can be sent to people through various means. High profile celebrities can have a huge impact in encouraging the peoples’ support. Celebrities like Lance Armstrong, Sheryl crow, Christina Applegate have all undergone cancer treatments and thus with their help during cancer campaigns can promote cancer awareness bracelets. From rubber bracelets to silicone bracelets, precious metal bracelets to beaded bracelets, cancer awareness bracelets have come to the point wherein millions of people are embracing it everyday. The different colors the awareness bracelets use will signify different types of cancer such as, yellow which is commonly linked to Armstrong’s foundation and pink rubber bracelets representing breast cancer. There are other colors such as blue, orange used for other cancers. It not only helps the patients but motivates the family members as well with bracelets like ‘Be Strong’ ‘Fear Nothing’ etc.
With the above mentioned points we do come to the conclusion that cancer awareness bracelets can play a significant role not only for the cancer patients but also for the whole human kind of this world.
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