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Testimonial about the Model 100 Button Machine and making one-inch buttons by Dave Gillespie I live in a small town, (19,000 people). I started making and printing designs on my computer the day I mailed off the money order for the Model 100 1-inch kit as well as working on a design for a display. I wish I would have started a few days EARLIER! I only had 120 patterns to pick from! My kit arrived by UPS at 8PM. I was up until 3AM making buttons and experimenting with different things. The next day, I went around to a couple local owned shops, and was able to sell 2 displays. One was a convenience store and the other is an adult book store. The book store is having a grand re-opening, and placed a SEPARATE order for 75 buttons that they can throw in the bags with the merchandise people purchase. It turns out the guy owns 14 stores across the nation, so if they sell well (yeah, like they won't) i'll have the account for ALL OF THEM! While in the bookstore, I talked with a young man who inquired about making up some for his band! He's interested in an order for 100! I went next door to the bar afterwards to drink a beer while I filled another display up, and sold 18 while I was sitting there! An old man sitting there watching me rake in the money, asked for the address for Dr. Don, (i didn't have it on me) so I gave the guy a pin, so he can call me when he gets to his home state and he can buy a kit. He had many great slogan ideas, and we're going to swap them by email as we think of them. One person inquired about a personalized button for a wedding anniversary. Thank God you supply the free stickers in the kit! They both have my business number now! (I even changed my answering machine message to reflect the new business!). I was smart enough to make 2 more separate pin parts orders even before I got the kit in my hands, and thank God I did! I'm down to 90 pins, and I still need to fill the order for 75 plus our county fair will be here in about 12 days! Some tips for the users that I've learned from my long one-day-so-far illustrious career in buttons are: 1) Buy a receipt book. Stores want a receipt for merchandise from a vendor. It looked pretty unproffesional when I handwrote it on a peice of cash register tape. He wouldn't have accepted it, but I shop there and he knew me. Buy it in any office supply store. 2) Order the free stickers, and trim them down to fit in the one-inchers. Best advertising yet! 3) For the best use of one-inch button space on your printer paper, download the Sure Thing office labeler software (www.mvd.com), that someone else mentioned in a tip. You can fit 24 one-inch patterns on a page. I already own the CD Stomper software made by the same company, which uses the same type file that you save to. I made a set of 24 blanks in the shareware, saved it, and now I open the design with my REGISTERED software so I have no restrictions on what I do . 4) For a cheap display, (see photo to the left) I use the REGISTERED CD Stomper software and print 2 of the small sticky rectangular labels with my company name and info. I take the smallest size wood dowel (buy in Walmart or any craft store for 20 cents) and put a sticker on each side, so they stick to each other and enable someone to see your company name on each side. Then I take the wood dowel, with the 2 stickers and push it down into a Silk Flower Vase Insert available also at Walmart or a craft store. The vase inserts are styrofoam, and easy to push a pin into. I sell them with 30 pins and the display (i give and maintain the free display to the retailer) for $17.50 to the stores. The store gets the pins for 50 cents, and retails them for 99 cents. 5) Get on the internet and type in "Bumper Sticker Slogans". I have a stack of ideas already that is 1/4 inch thick, and i've only gone through a few pages of what i've downloaded! 6) Don't print a bunch of designs until you get the kit and get the circle cutter set correctly, as I wasted several pages. Just get them ready, that way you can edit them. 7) CARRY A PEN AND SMALL NOTEPAD EVERYWHERE YOU GO! I have at least 20 new slogans just from talking to people, hearing people talk in grocery stores, bars, etc. 8) Buy a parts bin to keep the pin parts seperate. Less aggravation, believe me. 9) I found that sometimes 2 or more parts will stick together when you pull them out of the bag or container you keep them in, and you have to pull them apart. Instead, just drop the "cluster" of parts on your worktable, and they will all "spring" apart! For the actual "pin" that goes through the shirt, hold the cluster above the table and shake back and forth sideways.They will spill apart! 10) Build a website. I have a website, but haven't added the buttons yet. You can put your website on a button with your company name and scans of your product. (before making into a button) I would buy 10-20 buttons, every time I drove to the big city. Not any more. You need to hire a psychic, so you can find all of us "button weirdos"!!! Thank God I live in an isolated area! I'm gonna have a monopoly for the surrounding 200 miles! (or more....hehehehe) Dave Gillespie   To return to the Model 100 page. click here. If you'd like to place an online order for the Model 100, you can use our SECURE ONLINE ORDER PAGE by clicking here.   If you have questions or if you would like to place an order by phone, just give us a call at: (800) 243-8293 or (623) 869-8233 Our street address is: Dr. Don's Buttons 3906 W. Morrow Drive Glendale, Arizona 85308 USA