Category Archives: Barbed Elastic

Wow ‘Em with Trade Show Giveaways with Elastic Cord

Sweating over the trade show giveaways for your booth is a time honored tradition—but does it really need to be? With a little elastic and some research, you can generate excitement, gratitude and follow up contacts with smart swag: Inc. magazine recently polled young, up-and-coming, decision-making trade show attendees about their favorite trade show tchotchkes. The overwhelming response came down to this: Enough with the stress balls already! Make it useful! Usefulness generates positive associations with your brand and promotes follow-up responses. Here were some trade show give away favorites:

  1. Notebooks with elastic cord pen keepers—Pens are notorious for getting lost; you can never find one when you need one. Conversely, if you find the pen, then you have to dig around to find the paper. So trade show attendees loved customized notebooks with pockets and elastic cord pen keepers that kept the pens and the paper together and were ready when they needed them most.
  2. Bookmarks with tassels—People are so done with business cards. Bookmarks with attention-getting tassels, on the other hand, were quite popular. They give companies a chance to put their message on a useful item that attendees will see again and again and again.
  3. Care packages—Trade show goers often forget things in their rush to pack. So one of the most popular and useful swag items could be a branded, elastic-secured care bag with little things like lip balm, an individual packet of Ibuprofen, a peanut-free energy bar, juice box, mini flashlight, bandages, moist towelettes, etc.
  4. Convenient Snacks—Lunch can never come soon enough at trade shows where people are on their feet all day. Convenient, packable snacks that come with elastic cord to securely reseal them for later snacking are extremely popular and coveted!

Contact Elastic Connections at 847-426-6830 for the elastic cords that hold together your useful tradeshow swag and be the booth that generates the most excitement this year!

The Best Costume Ideas Need Barbed Elastic Strings for Masks

While most people haven’t even thought about their costume at this point, costume manufacturers are hard at work creating a fresh batch of costumes based on trendy happenings, the hottest celebrities and pop culture events. The best costumes allow people to be their favorite character for the night, but it’s no fun dressing up if the costume isn’t comfortable. Masks can be especially problematic, so it’s important that the barbed elastic mask strings are high quality so the mask stays comfortably in place.

When its time to buy elastic string for face masks, you may want to stock a variety of colors to complement the design of the costume. Black and white go with almost everything, but zombies look great with red barbed elastic mask strings.

Princesses Anna and Elsa from Disney’s Frozen franchise need special colors. Elsa needs blue mask elastic with barbs of silver to match her fabulous gown, while sister Anna may want a dark green or even gold. Expect that Katnis from the Hunger Games will be popular this fall as well when the excitement about the release of last movie in that series reaches a fever pitch.

Celebs like Beyonce or one of the Kardashians are popular characters for costumes and they require masks to complete the look. There are perennial costume favorites such as ghosts, witches, nurses and animals that are not complete without a mask.

There’s never a shortage of costume ideas, and the season will be here before we know it. Costume manufacturers should be planning their mask production schedules and ordering the necessary inventory of barbed elastic mask strings.

Regardless of the costume your customer selects, for safety as well as aesthetic reasons the barbed elastic cord for masks should complement the costume’s colors and be sturdy enough to hold the mask in place.