Hey guys, I have this idea, but I'm not sure the best way to go about it or if anyone would be down for it at all. Basically, now that I've got <a href="http://buttons.humanboy.com" title="HumanBoy's Button Press">HumanBoy's Button Press</a> going, I want to open a little button shop on there where people can pick out a 4 pack of buttons. These will mostly be random designs that I come up with. However, I was thinking it could be cool to do some special artist series sets or something. But I don't know if any of you would be down or the best way to go about paying the artists for them. The way I've got it in my head would be to sell a 4 pack at about $3.50. The artist would get 50¢ per button - $2.00 per pack sold. Then at the end of the month, tally how many of their pack sold and then send a payment for that amount. Does anyone have any ideas on that or think that it's the most ridiculous thing they've ever heard? Give it to me straight - I want to know your opinions. 2009-06-24T22:31:18-04:00 28 2009-06-23T15:03:43-04:00 true 0 44241 false false 473 473 1 2009-11-21T08:57:09-05:00 399 1 inch buttons? Try 1.5 or something cool. 44241 Post 2009-06-23T15:06:02-04:00 1299801 1992 2009-06-23T15:06:02-04:00 i think it sounds very cool! im sure loads of people would be up for it! also if the packaging is cool thats an added incentive to buy ;) 44241 Post 2009-06-23T15:06:20-04:00 1299831 11020 2009-06-23T15:07:01-04:00 I'd be very interested in this, sounds like a cool idea ! 44241 Post 2009-06-23T15:06:45-04:00 1299841 9211 2009-06-23T15:08:02-04:00 1 inch buttons are cool! :( I used to do 1.25 inch buttons a looong time ago but they didn't seem to be all that popular. 1 inch seem to be the going size from what I can tell. 44241 Post 2009-06-23T15:07:19-04:00 1299871 473 2009-06-23T15:07:19-04:00 i would definatley be interested in this. the more i think about it the more i think about how many buttons i own! 44241 Post 2009-06-23T15:08:30-04:00 1299911 11020 2009-06-23T15:08:30-04:00 <blockquote><cite>Craig Robson said:</cite> i think it sounds very cool! im sure loads of people would be up for it! also if the packaging is cool thats an added incentive to buy ;)</blockquote> Yeah, that's one thing I'm trying to think of. I'd want something of decent quality - almost something you'd want to hang on the wall when you took out your buttons. I'm just not sure how to go about doing that. If you have any suggestions, let me know. <blockquote><cite>adamvaudin said:</cite> I'd be interested in this.</blockquote> Great! I'm glad I'm not alone in thinking this would be a cool idea. 44241 Post 2009-06-23T15:09:38-04:00 1299951 473 2009-06-23T15:09:38-04:00 Sounds pretty cool. I'd be interested. 44241 Post 2009-06-23T15:20:08-04:00 1300121 6199 2009-06-23T15:20:08-04:00 Cool. I guess I'm going to start figuring stuff out then. 44241 Post 2009-06-23T15:25:01-04:00 1300211 473 2009-06-23T15:25:01-04:00 Anyone else have any opinions on this? 44241 Post 2009-06-23T18:28:24-04:00 1302581 473 2009-06-23T18:28:24-04:00 Great idea, I'm really interested :) 44241 Post 2009-06-23T18:32:58-04:00 1302601 12918 2009-06-23T18:32:58-04:00 Excellent. Anyone else? 44241 Post 2009-06-23T18:43:28-04:00 1302791 473 2009-06-23T18:43:28-04:00 I'd love to know how you plan on doing a pack. for example, with 1.5" buttons, the pin goes far enough back behind the backing that you can easily punch holes for them to stay in (there's even custom hole-punches designed to make life easy). However, 1" buttons' pins are almost flush with the back, making it nigh impossible to attach them to a flat backing board without bending it. Are you going to be doing a backing board, or just a sealed bag? 44241 Post 2009-06-23T20:17:59-04:00 1304141 7003 2009-06-23T20:17:59-04:00 <blockquote><cite>aleph13 said:</cite> I'd love to know how you plan on doing a pack. for example, with 1.5" buttons, the pin goes far enough back behind the backing that you can easily punch holes for them to stay in (there's even custom hole-punches designed to make life easy). However, 1" buttons' pins are almost flush with the back, making it nigh impossible to attach them to a flat backing board without bending it. Are you going to be doing a backing board, or just a sealed bag?</blockquote> That's one of the things I've been trying to figure out. I'm thinking that I'll probably go with a sealed bag with some backing or something like that. I'd love any ideas/suggestions though. 44241 Post 2009-06-23T20:19:53-04:00 1304221 473 2009-06-23T20:19:53-04:00 what facilities do you have access to? screen printed bags of a decent quality would turn them from throw away to collectable? 44241 Post 2009-06-23T20:22:10-04:00 1304261 11020 2009-06-23T20:22:19-04:00 holla 44241 Post 2009-06-23T20:22:33-04:00 1304271 2879 2009-06-23T20:22:33-04:00 I don't really have something like that at my fingertips. Something like that might also drive the price up a little bit too much too. Are there any examples of something like that though? I could at least look into it. 44241 Post 2009-06-23T20:23:39-04:00 1304301 473 2009-06-23T20:23:39-04:00 <blockquote><cite>gaunty said:</cite> holla</blockquote> I'm assuming you'd be down for this too then? 44241 Post 2009-06-23T20:55:22-04:00 1304721 473 2009-06-23T20:55:22-04:00 I saw this concept years ago at http://www.busybeaver.net/soandso/, always thought it was pretty cool. Maybe before you get started, ask around and see if buttons sell at all. I see a lot of people giving them away for free when they order other things, that makes me think people don't actually purchase them. 44241 Post 2009-06-23T21:28:41-04:00 1305091 3352 2009-06-23T21:28:41-04:00 That's a good point. Over at http://quixotic-clothing.com I have a page of just buttons people can buy and I get the occasional just button order. I don't know if that would increase or decrease if I promoted that site at all though. My opinion is that if I get some killer artist designed buttons, people would want them as collector pieces. Each artist would want them to sell, so they'd be promoting it, then I'd be promoting it as much as I can too. So I think that they'd do alright. I don't know if I see anyone making hundreds of dollars each month or anything but a couple extra bucks maybe. Would <em>you</em> buy a special artist series button pack? 44241 Post 2009-06-23T22:01:38-04:00 1305681 473 2009-06-23T22:01:38-04:00 Still interested if anyone's got any more opinions. Would this be something you would personally buy? 44241 Post 2009-06-24T11:36:56-04:00 1311691 473 2009-06-24T11:36:56-04:00 im not really into buttons, but im down for making some if you ever get this up and running! 44241 Post 2009-06-24T21:36:48-04:00 1319121 1876 2009-06-24T21:37:32-04:00 I'm super interested in this! Since my artshow I've been sooo lazy and something like this would deff give me the spark I need. I'll brainstorm about any opinion but I'm gonna say I would buy. 44241 Post 2009-06-24T21:42:57-04:00 1319191 4110 2009-06-24T21:42:57-04:00 id be down 44241 Post 2009-06-24T21:43:04-04:00 1319201 1249 2009-06-24T21:43:04-04:00 Well if Shantz is down, then it must happen. I'm going to look into packaging a bit more and work on putting up a little store on the site. After I get that taken care of, I'll be getting in touch with all of you. I still want more opinions/suggestions if you've got them. Do you think a 4 pack would suffice or do you think doing individuals or more than four would be better? 44241 Post 2009-06-24T22:10:17-04:00 1319411 473 2009-06-24T22:10:17-04:00 <blockquote><cite>theButtonPress said:</cite> 1 inch buttons are cool! :( I used to do 1.25 inch buttons a looong time ago but they didn't seem to be all that popular. 1 inch seem to be the going size from what I can tell.</blockquote> HAha, 1 inch are cool. I agree. I just like the extra .25 or .5 inches you get with the other two sizes, thus making the art bigger. I don't know? 44241 Post 2009-06-24T22:23:47-04:00 1319601 1992 2009-06-24T22:23:47-04:00 1 inch are the king of buttons 44241 Post 2009-06-24T22:24:12-04:00 1319631 67 2009-06-24T22:24:12-04:00 someone needs to do this, but with stickers. i would be all over that. 44241 Post 2009-06-24T22:29:28-04:00 1319731 1876 2009-06-24T22:29:37-04:00 Doing this with stickers would be awesome. I always wished I knew how to print stickers. I think it might be too fumy for me though... 44241 Post 2009-06-24T22:31:18-04:00 1319741 473 2009-06-24T22:31:18-04:00