Are you looking for a creative way to help promote a new product? If so, our custom buttons may be the answer for you! In this post, we are showcasing an order of 2.25″ buttons that a customer used to help promote their fresh wraps.

Check out their “fresh” buttons below!

Do you know what the world’s longest snowmobile race is? It’s the Iron Dog, which is held in Alaska every year. The event started in 1984 and was originally called the “Iron Dog Iditarod”. However, the name was changed to the “Gold Rush Classic” the following year. The event is currently known as the “Tesoro Iron Dog”.

The race currently tracks over 2,000 miles, starting in Big Lake, Alaska and ending in Fairbanks. The track goes through some of Alaska’s roughest terrain and treacherous weather conditions, making the race the toughest in the world.

We recently had the chance to make custom button packs for this awesome event. Their button packs were our 2×1.25” button packs. Each custom button pack had two custom 1.25” buttons attached to our high quality cardstock. Each card measures at roughly 3.25”x4” wide.

These custom button packs make great promotional products to handout or sell at events. If you’re interested in placing an order, please call us at 1-800-710-2030.

Has your fraternity or sorority been looking for a new ideas for rush week? Are you sick of just handing out flyers to help promote your fraternity or sorority? If so, custom buttons could be the answer for you! Be the first on campus to hand out custom buttons during your rush week and order today!

Be sure to check out our custom button packaging as well.  We can easily attach your custom buttons onto our high quality cardstock with all of your recruitment information on the back of each card to create very high quality, appealing recruitment flyers. Why stick with doing the same thing everyone else is doing? Stand out by ordering our custom button packs and increase the number of new members to your fraternity or sorority.

Camarena Tequila did a promotion with our oval buttons showcasing 20,000 cases sold. What a great way to utilize buttons in an effective way. Let us manufacture your next promotional button ideas!

Keep the ideas flowing!

Button Size: 1.75″ x 2.75″ Oval Buttons

I know this post is a bit behind schedule however, I really wanted to showcase the custom button packs we did for GoMedia. It was for their “Weapons of Mass Creation” event back in May. We’ve worked closely with GoMedia over the past 4 years and were thrilled when we had the opportunity to help them create their custom button pack.

Below you’ll notice (2) of the buttons have a  metallic look to them. These are what we in the “button world” call acetate buttons.  We produced (5) collectable “Weapons of Mass Creation” 1.25″ buttons and did a matching limited edition PureButtons acetate button to go along with the pack.

Great work guys! The ideas are already flowing for next years event!!

1″ Round Custom Buttons for Standard Bike Co.

1″ Round Custom Buttons for Less Than Jake.

Above we’re showcasing some of our great printing abilities. Notice the bright vibrant colors along with the smooth silky finish over our Custom Buttons. This is one of the many reasons thats separates PureButtons from the competition.

The buttons above were just a few jobs we had at the beginning of ’09. We hope you enjoy. More colorful photos and great blog posts will be coming shortly! Stay tuned. Keep an eye out for some great how to’s!!

Sam Adams Love PureButtons!

For a recent promotion they ran, Sam Adams decided to use our 3″ Round Custom Buttons.

Notice how the button doesn’t have an overly glossy finish. Our new button finish we use helps our buttons stand out above the competition and Sam Adams would definitely agree!

At PureButtons we make you look good. We’re always helping you get noticed at your next promotional event.

Here are a few great examples of how to get the most effective use out of your promotional buttons. You’ll notice that the buttons pictured below have a great appeal to them. The designs are great and the copy is short. When designing your buttons always remember that “less is more”. Especially when you are using these for promotional use. You want to have your customers come to you and ask you about the promotion you are currently running.

Here is a great example of a 1 inch button being used to its fullest potential. Notice the clean bold font. This helps make this small 1 inch button stand out. This is a great example of making a small but, mighty button turn into a great promotional button.
 

First, I’d like to say I’ve seen a lot of great looking buttons over the years but, I’ve also seen some of the worst looking buttons over the course of time as well. Which is what struck me to create a post to help everyone create more successful buttons. Let’s face it, the better your buttons look the happier you will be and the more buttons you will sell!

4 TIPS to promotional button design success
 

- Less is more
I remember my art teacher back in high school always telling me that when you are working with small spaces “Less is always more”. I’ve included an example of a good promotional button below for you to see. 

- Keep things short and sweet. (when it comes to text) 
When using text, make sure the design flows. You wouldn’t want to have, on one line or even two lines ie. “ASK ME HOW TO GET FREE GAS” (Examples below). This would be using the space of the button poorly. Therefore, making your promotional button look undesirable. The idea of your promotional button is to spark conversation about the message you’d like to convey. (To draw in your customers and to ask a question about what message is on your pinback button).

 
Above, are a few poor examples of a promotional button 

Here is how I would have laid this pinback button out. Notice how much more legible this is. Also, the worth of this pinback button was improved by simply repositioning the text.
(see digital mock up below)
 

- Use colors that flow.
Sometimes colors look great together on your monitor but, let’s face it sometimes when they print it makes the button extremely difficult to read. A rule a thumb I always tell our customers (when they ask me how there button(s) will look) I have them print their artwork out of there home or office printer. That way they can see if things are legible and the colors are what they are looking for.

- When using a smaller button try to keep the design detail to a minimum. As you can see in the example below this is a highly detailed button design, but also notice there is no text. If there was text on this, it would make it extremely difficult to read.
 

- Be sure to have a full bleed for your design. I believe pinback buttons that have a full bleed look better and have higher quality value to them. I would highly suggest always designing your buttons with a full bleed. 

These simple tips will help your pinback buttons be more successful, and you will also be happier with your button order.