Post #797862 by tikiskip on Fri, Oct 4, 2019 5:06 PM

"I suggest somewhere around half of them be donated to bars or whoever hosts official anniversary events so they could stick them in drinks for the patrons"

This sounds problematic to me for a few reasons.
I would if I were in a local bar that was giving these away in drinks, just buy a few drinks and get the swizzles free, Heck most people only want a few.

Second, you know some enterprising person that works at one of the "here are your free swizzle sticks bars" will take some give them to friends and even sell them wherever.
That's how I got a ton of Trader Vic's swizzles, "hey bartender here's a big tip can I get a few swizzles"

They gave me so many Kahiki swizzles that I would put them in with my light sales for free. I still have a ton of them!

It might be much better to have some kind of donation for the promo package that a place holding an event or other to at least become a sponsor so then TC gets a few bucks and the bar gets free advertising everybody happy.

You give these away and you will be competing trying to sell swizzles to people that can get them for free at their local bar, and from friends that work at bars, and for sale online.

Just sayin, think about how far that could dig into your sales.

The pins are so cool, great job on those!
And the swizzles too!