Requesting assistance!

[shadesong]

By request, I'm running the Backup Project table at Boskone! But we ran out of buttons by 4pm Saturday at Arisia. So. I need more buttons. I paid out of pocket for the Arisia buttons, but that is not sustainable, as we're managing a household on one salary in an expensive city and all of that. Arisia was good for us professionally and bad for us financially.

So I am asking you for help!

All money collected through this PayPal button will be used to buy Backup Project buttons. They're $100 per 100 buttons at the official store - if you know where I can get them cheaper and in mass quantities, let me know. If by some miracle I get enough buttons to last through Boskone, I'll bring 'em to my next con, and so on. I will keep distributing buttons as long as there are buttons to distribute, and I will keep talking everyone's ear off about bystander action.

Help me do this, please!

Comments

[cbpotts.livejournal.com]

At work, we've used these guys for trade show buttons; quality was OK, you have to buy 500, but they're like .35 cents apiece which should save you some monies:

http://www.4imprint.com/search/buttons/product/39214L/Button-2-14

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Hey, if we get enough money...

[annaoj.livejournal.com]

Is Boskone a badge ribbon con? I can probably mail you 50 Backup! ribbons that I had made for ConFusion last year. Ribbons may also be a cheaper option than buttons, though they are less visually prominent.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

'tis, but I want to standardize; I feel like either all ribbons or all buttons is probably the best way to go...

[lordlnyc.livejournal.com]

Hi Song.
Just Sent you something for the Backup Project in memory of Badger.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I know Badger would've worn one of the buttons with pride.

[featheredfrog.livejournal.com]

Can you provide the artwork? I have a Badge-a-minite button squoosher...

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

I'd love same artwork as on the page, but with BACKUP as all one word...

[featheredfrog.livejournal.com]

How about:

[featheredfrog.livejournal.com]

Although "Back Up" as in the original improves the messages, IMO

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Well, the message is more "I'm your backup" than "I want you to physically back up."

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Sure!

[featheredfrog.livejournal.com]

http://www.rockbuttons.com/prices.html

$35/100

[ron_newman]

Would chanaleh be able to make them for you for less? She was a dealer at Arisia.

(Ignore this if she was the person who made your original run of buttons)

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

She only makes 1" buttons, which aren't visible across the room; we really need 2.25".

[p-m-cryan.livejournal.com]

Sent and noted.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[p-m-cryan.livejournal.com]

Glad to be able to help.