[Eenc-board] promotional items--input asap!

Sat Jul 12 11:51:33 EDT 2008

I agree with the others, I am up to my neck in tee shirts (pun intended) and I rarely wear a tee  shirts.  I also have lots of water bottles and note pads.  

I have not heard any feedback concerning my earlier recommendations of a collared polo shirt or a nice lanyard. Embroidered lanyards are fairly inexpensive to obtain and are quite popular for wear at most schools and government facilities.

Pat Curley

-----Original Message-----
From: eenc-board-bounces at rtpnet.org on behalf of Mickey Jo Sorrell
Sent: Sat 7/12/2008 9:06 AM
To: Diane Silver
Cc: EENC Board
Subject: Re: [Eenc-board] promotional items--input asap!

I'm with Diane on this. I rarely add anything on to my registration 
because I'm already laying out so much money.
But I might be inclined to buy something at the conference when I can 
see it and I'm having a good time that I'd like a souvenir of.

That being said there are so many water bottles around my house and I 
swear I didn't buy any of them - and I rarely use them.
Same is true of note pads. There's so much scrap paper around. That's 
where my note pads come from.

The t-shirt would have to be extra-ordinary for me to buy one - like 
organic, women's cut, my favorite color, really good design.
That might work if I could get our logo on the shirt of my choice from 
Land's End or similar company.

Boy, do I sound like a stick-in-the-mud today.

I guess my bottom line is that we should have one of these options 
available - both for purchase at registration and at the conference.
Pick one. We'll see how it goes and either try something different next 
year or reorder if it's popular.

Great work, Dee.
Thank you for your dedication and persistence.
I'm really excited about the conference.

Mickey

Diane Silver wrote:
> My first choice:  water bottle of some kind.  Shelby did a bunch of 
> research on this recently.  What happened to the stainless steel idea, 
> rather than aluminum?
>
> I am not a big fan of T-shirts because I tend not to wear them.  I also 
> have a concern about having them in inventory for a long time.  I think 
> they are harder to get rid of in future years.  Here's a little 
> brainstorm:  companies like Lands' End or LL Bean have programs where 
> you pay an initial set-up fee for your logo, and then your members can 
> have it put on anything from their catalog, for their regular 
> monogramming fee, which I think is $5.  That way, people could order 
> whatever style shirt they want.  I wonder if an outfitter like LL Bean 
> or REI would sponsor us and waive the set-up fee AND offer a discount of 
> selected items, like a couple different styles of shirts. I wonder if we 
> could work it out where folks could place their order, but all orders 
> would be shipped together to the conference, and then we'd hand them out 
> when they register.  Shelby is away for a while, so we'd need someone to 
> step up and research this for us.  Anyone?
>
> I agree with Kelly, I don't think people will pay $18 for a note pad.  I 
> am actually concerned that any of these items may not sell well.  I 
> think they are great ideas and we should do at least one of them, but 
> when I'm paying a bunch of money for a conference, I tend to go bare 
> bones and avoid all these add-ons.  I think something we could sell over 
> time, like the water-bottles, would be a good idea, or something where 
> there's no minimum order, like the catalog program.
>
>
> - Diane
>
>
> Dee Thonnard Rudolph wrote:
>   
>> Me again.
>>
>> For a couple of years we have talked about offering products with our 
>> logo to members.  I would like to offer three items that can be 
>> purchased during online registration.  Items would be given to members 
>> when they register at the conference.  Please take a look at the three 
>> items and let me know your opinions.
>>
>> Aluminum water bottle 
>> <http://www.positivepromotions.com/engraved-aluminum-water-bottle-22-oz./p/OS60975/c2p/bc/>
>> I definitely want to offer these to encourage folks to get their water 
>> from the fountains in the classrooms. 
>> (with links to calm any aluminum concerns) They would blue or green 
>> with our logo in white, sold at $10.  I want at least two 
>> myself--cheaper than anywhere else.  Minimum order is 72.
>>
>> Recycled Writing Pad 
>> <http://www.positivepromotions.com/os-5554/p/OS-5554/cn/4165/>
>> Something I would like to have at conference, and at work.  They are 
>> professional, would have our logo on it, and are made of recycled 
>> materials.  These would be sold for $18, minimum order is 36.
>>
>> Organic Tee-shirt 
>> <http://www.accinfo.com/catalog/search/?query=anvil+organic&x=0&y=0>
>> We have a great screen printing place in Wilmington.  We can get 
>> women's-cut organic tee-shirt for around $7.50 and unisex tees printed 
>> for less than $7.  1 color screen set-up is only $50.  Our logo would 
>> be a bit ackward on a tee--I drew a stretched out version of our logo 
>> in color last weekend, then realized it had to be in black and white.  
>> Have attached a picture--would we be interested in this?  I think the 
>> design in yellow with brown shirts would look good. 
>>
>> Other possibilities:  We could do a three screens (three colors) and 
>> mimic our logo even more.  Don't want to put more work into it this 
>> weekend without knowing what everyone's opinions are.  This increases 
>> both the set-up fee, three screens would be $150 set up, and the 
>> minimum order number (I think the mininum would be a little over 100). 
>>
>> *Up front costs: * $30 to get a proof of the writing pad and water 
>> bottle with our logo to put on the web site.  Don't know how I'll get 
>> a picture of the organic tee shirts.  Wouldn't have to pay for the 
>> shirts until I pick them up.  Other costs would be if we don't make 
>> our minimum and have to purchase more than are ordered--though I would 
>> think we would want to do that anyway to sell at the conference itself.
>>
>> Dee
>>
>>
>>
>>
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