Denise/Dan...have what may sound dumb, but....I think it's worth running past ya.
No one, especially traveling long distances wants to take up the bulk of bringing oodles of 5gal buckets. Chances are good they will bring the minimum of buckets...
they take up mucho cubic space. And if the digging is good, then everyone wants to take ore home plus cons home...I've even gotten good at throwing in a note so I can tell which bucket is which. :) Have you ever noticed all dirt looks the same when it's dry?
Since you all are closer to the rally location,
have you thought of making a circuit of the Dairy Queen stores, etc., for the 5gal green pickle buckets, etc., and
THEN IMPRINT THEM WITH THE Rally Logo/Banner, and then sell them or the blank ones for that matter...at the rally!!!Bet you'll go through a boxcar of them...
totally unique...I don't think anyone else is selling "RMMR logo" buckets.
Oh, and one other thing...I always appreciate the 1 gallon and 2.5 gal sizes, too...
thems fer the days when I'm so tired, I can only pick up a half a bucket, being
a member of the weaker sex and all, ya'know....<_<
If selling shovels, goldpans, and jeans to the miners made Levi Strauss rich, how'bout selling buckets to the rally attendees?
Then,
AT the rally sell raffle tickets for a logo bucket with genuine Colorado Ore (salted if you like)? I've been known to pay $20 a bucket for a salted pig-n-a-poke bucket like that from a specific gold area in California...
OKAY OKAY, so P.T. Barnum was right....
Sure is one way to spread the word about your website, your store and
raise funds, too....
can Geno or Jmann or someone help you out with this? I did the thinkin'...need someone else to help with the "doin'" :D :D :D