Thank you for the BuddyBate buttons!

Submitted by JOBudRJ

Hey Brad,

Just wanted to tell you that I received my BuddyBate buttons yesterday, thank you.

The design is even better than I expected. They look so nondescript that no one would ever suspect anything. However, we FINALLY have something that we all will recognize straight away!

We’re in every community, we just don’t know one another yet. That’s why the BuddyBate logo merch is such a great tool. I’m looking forward to stickers, I can see how they will be advantageous and applicable in so many ways, not just bumper stickers.

Brad, thank you for taking a simple idea and bringing it to the world!

RJ

Hi RJ!

Glad you’ve got them. It’s has taken a little while to get into the swing of things, this being our first attempt at offering merch of any kind, but I think we’ve got a good system down now so customers should be getting theirs with a much shorter wait.

The design is something we struggled with for a few weeks. As you say, we wanted it to be meaningless to anyone who doesn’t get it, but obvious to everyone who does, and while looking attractive and innocuous enough that you could make up anything about its meaning if someone asked.

I think we achieved that with this design, but it also allows us to develop variations of the design in the future if we decide to update them next year or the year after etc.

We’re going to be working on the stickers this month, we want to clear the slight backlog of button orders first and continue processing them daily, which should be done in the next week. It was all quite a bit more popular than we had expected, as you can see from the BuddyBate map!

Thanks again, and if you have any other ideas for small merch we can ship to readers we’d love to hear it 🙂