Contests/Raffles Made Easy; Use Numbered Wristbands with Numbered Tabs

A great way to promote your company or encourage people to attend your eventis to hold contests or raffles for fun and useable prizes. One of the most traditional ways to hold contests and raffles is to give out numbered tickets. One ticket goes into the "hat" for the drawing, while another ticket with the same number is given to the person who paid to enter the contest or raffle. The biggest challenge is that a small ticket is easy to lose. Contestants place the ticket in their pocket or wallet, only for it to fall out and become lost. This predicament does not happen with numbered wristbands.

Numbered wristbands feature single or multiple tear-off tabs for contests, raffles, redemption, pre-payment methods and more. Let's say you're hosting a raffle at an event to promote your business. You can distribute serial numbered wristbands with pull-off tabs to each participant. They're easy to use and fun! Each person who purchases an entry to your raffle gets a wristband to wear and removes the detachable stub, which serves as the ticket stub. The stub is entered into the raffle. When the winning numbers are announced, each person just checks the wristband worn around their wrist. No digging in pockets, wallets or purses for aticket.

There are a couple of different styles for numbered wristbands. Wrist-Rider® wristbands offer multiple tear-off tabs: three, four or five. This is ideal if you are hosting a raffle in which your guests can pick and choose which prizes they want a chance to win. As an example, let's say you have a total of ten fabulous prizes.One of the prizes is a $200 shopping spree at a local boutique, while another is a $100 gift card to a French restaurant. One of your guests is excited about the shopping spree, but not a fan of French food. She can take one of her five stubs and enter it into the drawing for the boutique and pass on the drawing for the French meal. The same guest can pick and choose which of the other remaining eight raffles she wants to enter with her other four numbered stubs.

You can also use numbered wristbands with multiple tear-off tabs as a pre-pay method for food, drink or rides redemption. Oftentimes breweries have tours to show how they create their special brew. Afterward, guests get a certain number of beer tastings. Numbered wristbands are ideal. Each tab can be numbered, 1 through 4, for example, and for each sample redeemed, the bartender tears off the appropriate numbered tab. Easy!

The Securband® Plus and SecurMatch® numbered wristbands have a single pull-off tab with a matching serial number. Not only are these great for raffles and contests, but also claim checks and even child/parent match-ups. The Securband® Plus numbered wristbands are economical, comfortable and tear resistant with a strong adhesive closure and unique tamper cuts that cause it to shred if tampered with—making it good for one time use only. So, it a great choice for a one-day event.

SecurMatch® numbered wristbands, on the other hand, are made for multi-day use. They are waterproof and durable with a locking, single-use, plastic snap to prevent transfer. This numbered wristband style is a great choice for resorts or camps where guests plan to stay a few nights and participate in outdoor activities during the day.

All of the numbered wristbands come in a variety of vibrant, solid colors to add a little fun to your contest or raffle. If you want to add some flair to your numbered wristbands—and perhaps even entice participants to take some sort of action—try custom printing.Maybe you can have a logo and invitation to your store imprinted on the numbered wristband itself, while a redemption valueor coupon is imprinted on the tab, such as "20% off!"

Whatever kind of contest or raffle you are holding, numbered wristbands make it easy because the redeeming stub is right on the winner's wrist.No missing out on prizes! To really make a strong impact with participants, it's a great idea to imprint the company and any sponsor's logos on the numbered wristbands—powerful branding indeed. In fact, it's just like a walking billboard. Their friends will ask questions and the answers will only be positive. Nothing is better than word of mouth advertising, and numbered wristbands used for raffles and contests make that easy.

Boost Security with Event Security Wristbands

If you want to give the next event you host or organize a real security boost, event security wristbands are the way to go. Event security wristbands with bar codes come in a variety of styles and offer nume

rous benefits:

•   Improve operational efficiencies, while preventing data entry and collection errors with VIP® Band bar code wristband
•  Unlike bar code ID cards and badges, PDC® event security wristbands are non-transferable.
• Scanband® direct thermal wristbands offer point of sale printing with your direct thermal printer. Bar code capable for concessions or other debit systems.
• TicketBand™ and SureImage® Adhesive feature pre-printed, bar codes for use with your bar code software system.

By bar coding event security wristbands, you can track the number of people who attend your event and where they spend their money. If you have inventory that you need to keep track of, such as food and alcohol, event security wristbands can help. When a transaction is made, the bar code on the guest's event security wristband is scanned along with the items purchased. The numbers go directly into your system preventing data entry errors.

You can easily make your event cashlesswith the use of event security wristbands. Custom printed bar codes can becreated for each guest, associatedwith their own credit card, and then entered into your data system. Every time your guests make a purchase, there is no cash exchanged, no credit card transaction. Instead, just two quick scans—one of the purchased items and one of the barcode on your guest's wrist. In addition to increasing employee efficiency and profits, these cashless transactions can add efficiency to operations, data tracking and analysis.

Event security wristbands with bar codes also prevent counterfeits. There was a time when party crashing was easy. People could sneak their pals into an event without purchasing an additional ticketby passing off and essentially reusing one ticket. When wristbands came into the picture, people did the same thing by just slipping a wristband off their wrist and passing it off to a friend to get them into the event. Another counterfeiting strategy was to go to a party store and purchase cheap Custom Wristbands to wear in an attempt to sneak in to an event. Using PDC's event security wristbands puts a quick stop to all of these ideas!

PDC's event security wristbandsare completely non-transferable. They feature a locking snap that makes them impossible to remove without a pair ofscissors. For even tighter security, it isn't a bad idea to have your event greeters put the wrist bands on your guests for them when they arrive. Doing so prevents guests from adjusting the size and making it too big to where they could slip it off easily to pass around.

For yet another layer of security, you can custom print event security wristbands. Why not multi-task? While heightening crowd control, imprint custom logos, taglines, promotions or dates tosimultaneouslypromote your business, sponsors and charities. Event security wristbands can essentially be a walking advertisement. When the night is over, it's most likely guests will continue to wear their wristband for a day or two—maybe even a week or two. Having a fun tagline or an eye-catching logo imprinted on a wristband is a sure-fire way to create intrigue amongst friends and acquaintances of your guests.

You may even considering imprinting either a website address, QR code or both onto event Security Wristbands. In this day of social media, it’s a great way to get people to "like" your business on Facebook and gainTwitter followers. You could even tie in a promotion. Perhaps the QR code could be an invitation to your next event: "Bring a friend, get in free!" Or, scanning the code might take your guest to a website to get an exclusive discount on their next store purchase. Imprinting QR codesengages your guests and encourages them to take action.

If you work with a sponsor—get them to imprint their logo or their own special promotion onto your event security wristbands—you may just cover the cost of the wristbands. In fact, you could even make a profit. It's like selling highly targeted advertising space—well worth the investment for any sponsor.

Event security wristbands are an economical way to boost security. By customizing your ID wristbands, you can also boost branding. Make the most out of your event and give your guests the time of their life!