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How many team buttons needed for competition?
I am a new marketing mentor for our Team. I am trying to find out how many Team buttons we need at a competition to give away. TIA.
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More than you have
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We try and plan for 250 for each day of competion. So for a standard Thursday - Saturday event, about 750. As Ari said however, you can never have enough. That 250 per day will usually run out by late Friday to early Saturday at most events we attend.
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Plan for 25 per team attending your event. Toss in another 10-20 for judges, another 100 for spectators. That should leave you with some leftover for the next event! So long as you don't change your button design often, leftover is just fine, you'll use them later!
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We made about 750 for our smaller district event that was Week one.
We ran out by mid Friday. Since we have about 5 designs though, its a lot more understandable. I agree with what Jon said, if you plan on having more than one button though make sure to make the same amount for each, as people are going to want every design... |
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We make 3000 buttons a year for two events (FLR and the Championships). We keep buttons in the stands with the team. In the pits and we used to in the Hall of Fame when we had to tend to our spot but now that FIRST has taken over the running of the Hall of Fame I'm not so sure if that's allowed.
We have had extra the last few years. |
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We usually try to make about a thousand per competition (and bring materials to make more). We usually run out of buttons by halfway through the second day, but our buttons are also pretty popular because we put memes on our buttons.
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Our teams always finds that we didn't make enough each time we go to competition. The more you can make, the better.
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When I was in charge of marketing as a student we made 1000-1500 buttons per regional, my successor made 2500 buttons per regional, and in both cases we'd give nearly all of them away. [Not district events]
However, you do not technically *need* buttons. Depending on how many people help make buttons, it is worth thinking about making as many as you can make in X time and then stop. Selling your freshmen into button slavery for an extended period of time (days... weeks...) will only encourage engineer vs marketing hostilities. |
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I laser cut keychain fobs for Citrus Circuits at work and have been for a few years. Ends up at around $0.08 each in plastic, so much more usable than buttons in my opinion. But I will second the never having enough sentiment.
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Pro tip: Use those sticky address labels to put your website/social media stuff on the back.
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We usually press about 500 buttons per regional event, and it has gotten us through every time with a few left over. However our double events in MN result in needing to over-prepare since we have 120+ teams in close proximity.
I guess it's better to over-prepare than under-prepare with giveaway items from experience. If some items are left over, you can use them for outreach events or save them for the next season. |
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We make 3,000 buttons per season...bunny ears are a completely different story!
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I've never seen many team buttons actually worn by anyone besides that team's members and supporters. Similarly, I haven't seen any other team buttons (other than memorable alliance partners and teams displaying true gracious professionalism) worn or displayed by our team.
I suspect most buttons collected at competitions end up as landfill within a very few months... So I wouldn't sweat it too much. |
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Buttons, oh yes. This my zone man.
So last year for the San Diego regional I believe we made at least one tote full. I mean FULL, that thing was heavy too. I believe we had 3 separate designs, which was challenging, this year we have like 7 so :/ that should be fun. If you don't already I really do recommend making your own buttons. It keeps freshman involved and its a solid way to honestly just have fun. But for numbers...I don't think there's ever too many. I typically shoot about 3000 for the season, we made 1500 for champs last year, it's a really great form of outreach not just at regionals but for school and community events too.. I think we had close to 1500 for champs. ~Good luck. |
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It all really depends on the size of the event you're attending. If you're attending a district competition (around 30 teams) I'd say roughly 600 buttons; if it's a larger regional (around 60 teams), go with around 1400.
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Another fun thing you can do for giveaways is bring your button maker to the competition. Next to our bowl of buttons, we put a clipboard where people could commission custom buttons. We had a few artists on our team last year who weren't a part of the drive or pit crew, so they sat in the stands drawing custom buttons. In the end, they probably made hundreds of them (10+ of them for me). It's a great way to keep team members busy at competitions and to give out cool personalized items to other teams.
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Generally you will make less buttons then you need, but at least 1000 buttons.
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We make a few thousand pairs of these:
At least 1 tote (the only time I like Recycle Rush) full of antennae are packed for each event which are produced by the Killer Bee sweatshop of parents, friends, NewBees and freshmen. We give away 2000+ buttons each year. Making antennae is a team-building activity and it doesn't take long. Julia |
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We make two designs, one for the season's game, the other a generic name button ("Walpole Robotics 1153" etc). We bring X number of buttons of the game, less of the generic, per competition, no more. Usually enough for (District event) load-in night, first day, and some for second day. We try to run out of the game buttons for the season, but we have several after season town events to give them away too. The generic name buttons can last for a year or more, but they don't become useless after the season is over. Plus, for the local events, kids don't really care what year the button is anyway.
I stopped collecting buttons, but still collect items to hang on my hats (if I'm able). This collection I keep in several FTC Cascade Effect rolling goals on a shelf at work. I remember one competition the EMTs were near the field queue, and had a table full of team buttons. |
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