I have been to countless conferences and conventions and am just one of many people that collect the name badges at each event. I do this to remember all of the great times I had and the people I met. In the past, like others who collect badges, I displayed them on the wall to look over the years of experience, but I stopped doing this because the wall looked dull and boring. There was nothing exciting, eye catching or creative about the name tags to look at. It was just a wall of white plastic with a printed image the size of a business card. So now they live in a box. Unfortunately, I have yet to attend an event that had a badge I wanted to show off or display…one worth posting about just because it is so different and unique. However, I have been lucky enough to make these types of badges for other conferences and conventions. I guess I will have to live vicariously through them for now.
If you are an event organizer you know the importance of ensuring that your event is memorable and generates tons of positive posts and comments. While badges are just one aspect of this experience it is one of the few pieces of memorabilia that lasts years…after all, how many people keep the flyers from their bag of “goodies”? If your badge is cool enough people will not only talk and post about them during the event, they will continue talking about them months and years later. It will be the thing that catches people’s attention when they see the wall of badges.
Depending on your theme there are a lot of ways in which you can make your badge unique. Not only can the images on your badge draw attention, but even the shape, colors and materials you use to create them can be eye catching. How often do you see a neon acrylic badge that looks like an old floppy disk (old school 80’s flash back) or a metallic badge that looks like it came from the future? What about a badge in the shape of a dragon or a tree? Almost anything is possible so why go for generic and bland?
If you want your conference or convention to be one that people truly never forget and draws attention for years to come, make the badge a fun collectible that no one will want to leave behind in their hotel room.
Reach out to us at The LaserGeek and let us help you make your event memorable and social media worthy.