How many team buttons needed for competition?

[Deeshoo]

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.

[Ari423]

More than you have

[cad321]

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.

[Jon Stratis]

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!

[MikLast]

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...

[anushad]

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.

[edong4273]

Our teams always finds that we didn't make enough each time we go to competition. The more you can make, the better.

[Ogehsim]

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.

[RoboChair]

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.

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by RoboChair

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.

Anything cool or unique gets eaten up pretty quickly by the masses. Word gets around the pits fast!

[CMBrandon]

Pro tip: Use those sticky address labels to put your website/social media stuff on the back.

[RoboChair]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

Anything cool or unique gets eaten up pretty quickly by the masses. Word gets around the pits fast!

The biggest benefit is push button, receive 800 keyfobs in 5 hours. Then I make the students peel the backings off. Still easier than buttons.

[frcguy]

Originally Posted by RoboChair

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.

11/10 best giveaway ever.

[Jardanium]

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.

[itsjustmrb]

We make 3,000 buttons per season...bunny ears are a completely different story!