Branded merchandise for corporate events

Posted on 2007.10.23
Categories: Charitable causes, Clubs; Tagged with: , , , , , , ,

I was recently made aware of a site called “Gimmees” that offers a number of promotional items such as badges, T-shirts, mugs, magnets, keychains, and more.

You might know that I am a member (supposedly an executive member) of RASA, also known as the Space Club. RASA is planning on fundraising sometime within the next little while. Interestingly, Gimmees offers some of the things that can help us raise cash.

RASA could do one of the following things:

  • Order custom badges, and distribute them to club members; sell badges to students;
  • Order custom pens/pencils, and sell them at a price CHEAPER than the “little shop in the wall”, thus encouraging competition for the monopoly that the “little shop” is;
  • Order frisbees with the logo, and sell them for profitable prices;

There are all sorts of things that we could do with the products offered by this business. Might I add that Gimmees offers a lot of things that you don’t find elsewhere?

Interestingly, this sponsor offered something that I could actually benefit from buying, unlike some of Geekie.org’s previous advertisers. I am being honest when I say that I will try to promote Gimmees over the course of a few months, as well as increase its awareness within our fundraising operations at RASA. It’s one of the first times that I’ve found an advertiser that I would buy from.

Unfortunately, some of the minimum purchase quantities make it a bit less feasible for RASA to buy — Student Council / the school Administration are unlikely to approve a $250+ purchase for 200 frisbees. It’s not the individual unit prices driving the cost up — those are quite good — but rather the setup prices.

Fortunately, Gimmees’ prices (including setup costs) are lower than their competitors, and we will give some thought to this provider. Larger companies, school-approved events, will have no problems getting what they want at a suitable price from Gimmees.

Now, if you’re a student at Richmond Hill High School, be sure not to leak out the low, low prices that Gimmees offers; a few weeks from now, you might see us selling them at largely inflated prices!

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1 comment.

Comment on October 23rd, 2007.

By the way, this article fits into “Charitable causes” in that it can help fundraising.

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