Are Fundraising Wrist Bands Overdone?

So you can’t go somewhere without seeing people wearing the wristbands. Granted they are pretty cool and it seems everyone has the yellow ones and they are more trendy and people forget that they support a cause. I was curious if there is going to be something that will take its place as the new thing.

It seems that if you want to raise the capital for your charity you will have to bring in a lot of funds and if you are giving someone something for their donation you will have to keep it to a certain cost to your organization. That is why the wristbands work so well is because they are so cheap to produce and the overhead of them is easy to manage.

Before the wristbands there were the lapels and little flags that you could wear with your outfits. That is still a good idea and it is rather cheap to produce. But with the world moving to be online, why not try to integrate something people could use on their social profiles? Why wouldn’t it be a good idea to have a designer and coder make a neat little widget that could be placed on peoples Facebook profiles when they make donations to a cause. This would by far be the cheapest alternative and it is has the ability to spread even faster than the wristbands.

It is true that this is just one option, but you will have to consider your target donators. People will be more than likely to spread things online and get the word out faster than if it was done in the real world. However this is just an opinion and it might not be the best option for everyone.