Post #218700 by TikiMaxton on 03/03/2006

On 2006-02-27 21:20, caerthe wrote:

Question for event hosts: Are commemorative mugs really worth all the trouble? I haven't had a tiki mug made and it seems like a considerable amount of time, energy and money to have one created. I'm asking because I'm wondering if a tiki mug is a good source for a secondary revenue to help offset other event expenses.

We provided event mugs for both NW Tiki Crawl 2 and NW Tiki Crawl 3. The #2 mug was an off the shelf mug with a custom decal fired on. The #3 mug was custom designed by our own Tiki Tronic, and we basically learned how to cast, fire and glaze them ourselves. Yes, it was a lot of trouble, but it was definitely worth it. The mugs were beautiful, we got a huge number of compliments on them, they were another source of pride in an event that we were already proud of, they paid for themselves, and they made us enough extra revenue to help seed this year's event. This year's expanded NW Tiki Kon will have a signature mug, and we'll never do another NW event without a signature mug. Worth whatever it takes to make it happen.