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Bumper Stickers Get Attention for Our Children’s Library 5K Walk

// June 29th, 2011 // Comments Off // Bumper Stickers

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Building a new children’s library is expensive and we’ve done a variety of fundraisers. But I would have to say that our 5K walk was one of the most successful – and it wouldn’t have even made it if it wasn’t for the bumper stickers.

One of our volunteers said, “Let’s do a 5K walk.” And everyone agreed. They thought it was a great idea. The best thing about planning a walk is that the expenses are relatively low and many people like walks today as a special event. It’s something you can bring your kids to or get the entire family involved in. For a children’s library, that’s a very important factor. We didn’t want to do a stuffy black tie dinner – an event where children were involved truly fit with our mission.

But we were having trouble with sign ups. With the library under construction, less people are coming. The parking lot is a lot smaller so fewer cars can park there. So even though sign up sheets and flyers are in the main library, we weren’t seeing families sign up the way we hoped. We realized because the library was under construction was probably the challenge we were facing. I was out jogging one morning and noticed the bumper stickers on my daughter’s car. She had one that was particularly funny that always made me smile. Then it hit me…people notice bumper stickers, so why not create one to promote our children’s library 5k?

Our bumper stickers were created quickly and they had our Readie the Owl mascot on them. We asked neighboring libraries to put them at their desks too so people could pick them up there. We gave them to volunteers and board members. We gave them out at the children’s schools locally. Soon everyone knew about the walk and our sign ups soared. We had more than a thousand people signed up for our walk. We were not only excited but a little nervous. It was our first walk and we were almost beyond capacity. These bumper stickers had really worked like a charm.

The 5k walk went well and everyone had a good time. The kids did a shorter walk and there were activities for them. The funds raised went to help build the children’s library. But everyone had such a great time and we had such a positive turn out we are thinking about making this an annual event. With library budgets what they are today, raising money to help the library can be very useful to help add programs and special events for the children once the library has been completed.

Our bumper stickers worked better than sending out a press release, making flyers or simply getting the word out in another way. With a local community event people notice bumper stickers on people’s cars. Whether at the grocery store, waiting to pick up kids at school or simply running errands that car helps to promote our 5k walk for the library. I know we’ll be using funny bumper stickers in the future for other library programs and events.

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Bumper stickers: The Perfect Choice for Schools

// November 9th, 2010 // Comments Off // Bumper Stickers

Honor Student School Bumper StickerThere are many uses for bumper stickers. One of the most popular today is to create personalized bumper stickers for schools. Parents, family members and friends are proud to have bumper stickers that say something great about their child and the school they attend on their vehicle. It is an easy way to brag about their child and share their accomplishments and success.

Schools can also use bumper stickers as a way of letting the public know about the great programs they have and the achievements of their students. These bumper stickers as they are seen on the road, grocery store and other places let people know just how wonderful the school is. Whether it is a public or a private school, these bumper stickers can only serve to boost the morale and image of the school. It can also increase enrollment as parents want to learn more about this great school they’ve heard about from bumper stickers.

One of the reasons bumper stickers are so popular is they are easy to produce and are fairly inexpensive. It is something that is quite practical to give to parents and families as a small gift. There are other promotional items that are a lot of fun – like t-shirts – that can be much more costly. Best of all, with bumper stickers they are “worn” every day, rain or shine.

A popular bumper sticker for schools is proclaiming that “My Child is an Honor Student at (name of school).” This is something that any parent would be proud of – to have a child on the honor roll. A child who achieves getting on the honor roll is obviously smart. So the school is praised for encouraging and nurturing smart children and helping them to succeed with this bumper sticker.

There are many ideas for school bumper stickers. You aren’t limited to just an honor student bumper sticker. Remember there are many achievements in school and lots of student successes. Sometimes one of the best student successes is participating in a student event. Like a talent show or school fair. If your school has a talent show or a school fair, why not create a bumper sticker for this event? That would easily be a popular bumper sticker for parents and their children.

Another excellent choice is physical fitness. Many children excel at physical fitness. Or they like to participate in a particular sport. Create a bumper sticker for children who excel in gym or who participate in a health day at the school.

The best bumper stickers you can create are ones that make parents feel good about their children and children to feel good about themselves. Some ideas might be to give away less bumper stickers – say for example to all of the students in the school band. Not every student plays a band instrument. But playing an instrument is a great accomplishment and it says something nice about your school that you do have a band and instruments for the children to play.

Bumper stickers get an A+ from schools as an ideal choice to give to parents and families.

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