Promotional Buttons, Custom Pinback Buttons | The Button Post

I do apologize for the lack of updates. Things have been busy with our move to the new office. None the less here are a few recent packaging jobs/proofs we’ve been working on.

Hi Jeff-

The buttons just arrived, and they look fantastic.  Thanks so much, no worries after all.  SWEET.

Cheers,
Chris

PAX ‘08 is over, and we appreciate the opportunity to supply the buttons for all you buttoneers.  From the emails and messages we have been receiving, the button trading game was larger than anyone had anticipated, with about 175 different button designs. Some of the amazing button designs are on the penny-arcade forum.  They also took these buttons and made this display case:

And a group shot of all the buttoneers:

And before we leave you with the video of the presentation of the button case, we would like to once again that all of you for allowing us to be apart of this event.  And you should stay tuned, we got some ideas in the works that just might make PAX ’09s button trading game more EPIC than ’08s.  We will not let you down.

I just thought I’d let everyone know that we are now a 7 day a week operation. Production runs 7 days a week while our customer service is available from 9am - 6pm est. Monday - Friday.

We’ve seen huge growth this year and we couldn’t have done it without you.

I also wanted to share that this week I hired on an additional (6) new production employees to the PureButtons staff.

Thanks!
PureButtons Staff 

Another great email received today: 

Hi Jeff,

We received the buttons this morning (just in time for the student council election this afternoon) and my daughter was absolutely thrilled with them. I am very impressed with the print quality and pricing on your products. Thank you so much for placing a rush on our order-we really appreciate the personalized service and will definitely be ordering again from you in the future.

P.S. My daughter won the election! I suspect you will be getting business from other parents at our school at election time next year.

Thanks again,

Karen

This campaign is already the most historic campaign ever.  We will either have our first African American president in Barack Obama, or the first woman Vice President in Sarah Palin.  Being such a historic election, political memorabilia collectors are out in search of political memorabilia and novelty buttons that will have a high worth.  At the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, there was plenty of street vendors with political memorabilia.

Political memorabilia that collectors are most attracted to are state-specific buttons, or buttons from special interest groups.  Due to their limited quantity, these button are most desired.  At the Democratic National Convention (DNC), political campaign buttons featuring Obama alone, buttons featuring Denver the home of the DNC, and slogans from silly to serious were among the most popular for collectors.  With the Republican National Convention around the corner, campaign buttons featuring John McCain, Sarah Palin, or both of them have become very popular. The key to buttons that will have high value for political memorabilia is buttons that are in limited quantity.

At an art festival in St. Joseph called Trails West!, which features arts from around the St. Joseph area, they sell buttons to help raise money for the local arts.  This year they are expecting to sell close to 15,000 art buttons, up from 10,000 the year previous.  We also have noticed an increase in orders from graphic designers and artists.  From our discussions with some of these artists and designers, they are selling a lot of them.  They told us the key to selling a lot of art buttons is first and foremost, creativity.

Be creative with the button or art button packaging. And the other is visibility.  People and fans need to know your selling buttons, and they also need to know where to find them.  We will post some examples of some good art buttons in a latter post.

In the news, Air Canada management and the union for aircraft mechanics, grounds crews, and baggage handlers banned a button the employees were wearing from public view.  The bright red union button is very pro-strike saying “Prepare to walk the line in ‘09”.  With a catchy slogan and being big and bright red, it grabbed a lot of attention from customers.  The customers concerned that Air Canada’s operations might stop if the union goes on strike, started asking questions.  Which could turn to customers not flying with Air Canada, just because of the union buttons threatening a strike.

Time will tell if this will help the Union settle their disputes.  Buttons are a very powerful tool to unions.  Around Cleveland, Ohio, their were many times that teachers’ union contracts were up for renewal.  However, the union does not ever want to strike, because that would only hurt the children’s education.  So, instead they would wear buttons to school and all school activities.  It did not take long before concerned parents began flocking to the school board meetings completely on the teachers side, and urging them to settle with the union if they wanted to keep their jobs.  All because they continued to do the right thing and work, just wore a button to let everyone know they hadn’t had a raise in 6 years.

I do apologize for not updating the blog in almost 3 weeks. We’ve been extremely busy. I can promise more unique posts will be showing up quickly. I’ll also be posting up some new photos this week for some of our recent orders. Stay tuned! 

Thanks for staying patient.
- PureButtons