Fundraising has become an important part of modern schooling.  Many private schools and after-school programs rely on fundraising to keep things going.  It can be very frustrating to come up with innovative ways to raise money, especially in a tight economy.  Now more than ever, it’s vital that non profit fundraising and school fundraising ideas be cost-effective, sustainable, and effective.

A great way to raise funds and also promote healthy eating habits is to use private label bottled water.  Bottled water is a healthy alternative to sugary soda or fruit drinks, and it’s easy to hand out and carry around school events.

Even with the cost of FedEx Ground shipping accounted for, you can buy custom label bottled water for less than $1 per bottle.  This means you virtually guarantee a return on your investment by charging even as little $1 per bottle.  At such a low price, it’s easy to sell bottled water at lunchtime, sporting events, and school fairs and carnivals. 

The great thing about buying personalized bottled water is that it spread awareness about your school and program to anyone who sees the bottle.  We’ve designed labels for programs promoting clean water drilling in Malawi, school building groundbreakings, and sponsoring indivdual athletes.

Our graphic designers can work with you to create a label that will showcase your program or school.  If you have an idea in mind, we’re happy to help you bring your ideas to life.  We’ll work with you to make sure the labels look exactly the way to want.

As always, if you’d like to see a sample of our labels or taste our bottled water, we’re happy to send you a sample, all you have to do is ask.

Custom bottled water is one of the most versatile products in the world.  You can use personalized bottled water for weddings, birthday parties, baby showers, promotions, marketing, and fundraisers.  Customized water bottles are portable, practical, and a great way to add a personal touch to any event.

One of the biggest challenges that comes with using custom label bottled water is its weight: water is very heavy!  Heavy things cost more to ship, so this can raise challenges for anyone planning an event at a specific location at a set time.

Many people are intimidated by the prospect of paying to ship water to their home or office, and then paying to have them re-located to their venue at the right time.  This trepidation makes sense, because moving water can be a pain, especially if you already have other things to take care of that day.

An easy to way to work around this issue is to have us ship directly to your venue.  We use the most reliable shipping services in the world, FedEx and UPS, who guarantee that your shipments will arrive on time.  If you have an event at a hotel, or a convention center, we’re happy to ship your custom label bottled water directly to the venue.

We can even ship your water internationally.  If you’re planning a destination wedding or foreign conference, we’re happy to ship your purified spring water directly to your hotel or resort.

Just let us know when you place your order that it needs to be delivered on a specific date and we’ll work with FedEx and UPS to make sure it arrives on time!  It’s always important to check with your venue to find out how far in advance of an event they’ll hold your shipments, though, in order to avoid any last-minute problems.

Planning any kind of event can be stressful and full of last-minute challenges, let us help take shipping worries off your mind.  Our shipping team is extremely thorough and knowledgeable about shipping, so if you ever have any questions about shipping charges or options we’re happy to help.

Every day at Bottle Your Brand, we are fortunate to get to work with some of the most creative people around.  Every single one of our customers has an idea they’re bringing to life with our labels, and it’s a pleasure to help bring those ideas to fruition.

Whether it’s a bride who is crafting a custom wine label to match her wedding invitations or a small business owner using custom logo water bottles to market his company, everyone who orders from us has a creative idea they’re excited to share.  We love working with our customers to create labels they’ll love, and it’s even more fun for us to see how they end up using our products at their events.

That’s why we started our Gallery.  We’re proud of the labels we help our customers create and we want to show off their talent and showcase their creativity.  Our Gallery features pictures, submitted by our customers, of how they used our products in real life.

This is a great resource for anyone who’s looking for ideas for baby or bridal showers, celebrations, weddings, marketing opportunities, and more.  Flip through our photos and you’re bound to get inspired by these great ideas!

There’s something more than just inspiration in it for you as well.  If you’ve used our products in your event, you can email us your photos and automatically be entered in our monthly drawing for a $25 Amazon gift card!  All you have to do is send us an email with photos attached and a short note about how you used our products in your event and we’ll enter your name into the drawing and showcase your photos on our gallery.

For contest rules and details, please visit this page.

Unfortunately for many of us, the economy is still an issue that threatens to make holiday shopping an altogether grim experience this year.  Not to worry, though, because we’re always on the lookout for ways to help you give personalized gifts while sacrificing neither quality nor your bank account.  Regardless of the economic situation, personalized wine and custom beer continue to be our favorite gift ideas.

Even though alcohol can get really expensive, there are ways to find it cheap and at a discount.  A great site that delivers wine at a steep discount is The Accidental Wine Company.  This company finds wines with labels that have been stained or with outdated labels and sells those wines to the public for as much as 40% off.

This wine is perfect to give for the holidays, because the wine labels are already damaged and will be easy to remove.  Just order your wine, remove the damaged labels, apply our completely self-adhesive labels, and you’re done.  You have a personalized bottle of wine that you can give to friends and family as a custom holiday gift!

Another great place to find cheap beer and wine is at your grocery store or Costco.  Oftentimes, these stores will give you a discount on wine if you buy multiple mismatched bottles.

Even if the economy has made it necessary for you to slap a budget on your holiday shopping, don’t let that stop you from giving out personalized bottles of beer and wine.  These gifts are thoughtful, tasteful, and sure to be appreciated.

As an added bonus, we’re offering free shipping on all labels only orders.  Simply enter Labels08 as your promo code and your holiday gifts just got a lot cheaper!

Congratulations gifts are a lot of fun to pick out because there are so many to choose from.  One of the best congratulations gifts is a bottle of wine.  Wine means a lot of things to a lot of people, but one of the most popular meanings of wine is “celebration.”  Here are our top five favorite ways to use personalized wine labels to turn any bottle of congratulatory wine into a unique and personal gift:

1. Housewarming. Give the proud new homeowners a bottle of wine personalized with their closing date and new address and they’ll be sure to treasure it forever.  This is a housewarming gift they’ll enjoy and remember!
2. Retirement. If someone in your family or team is retiring, use a personalized bottle of wine to send them off with your gratitude.  Buy a nice bottle of wine (or non-alcoholic cider, if he or she doesn’t drink alcohol) and customize it with a wine label that thanks them for all their hard work and includes their years of service.  This is a warm, thoughtful way to congratulate someone on their retirement.
3. Engagement. Toast the happy couple with a bottle of personalized wine that includes their names and the date they got engaged.  You can even suggest to them that they wait to enjoy the wine until their wedding day!
4. New baby. You can still use personalized wine labels to congratulate the new parents, but you might want to put the label on a bottle of non-alcoholic cider instead.  You can customize the label with the baby’s name, birthdate, and measurements and give the new parents a gift they’ll cherish.
5. Milestone birthday. If someone you know and love is celebrating a milestone birthday, give them a personalized gift to mark the special occasion.  Our birthday wine labels are a fun way to commemorate any birthday!

If you can think of any other ideas for congratulations gifts please let us know in the comments!

If you and your betrothed do decide to get married in an exotic place, make sure you plan ahead for your wedding favors.  Destination weddings can make planning ahead for favors a bit tricky, especially now that airlines are charging for extra luggage, but a little forethought will save you headaches later on.

One of the easiest, and most memorable, destination wedding favors is personalized beverage labels.  Our labels are small, light, and easy to pack into a suitcase.  You can order wine, beer, or water labels ahead of time, take them with you, and then purchase local beverages to serve to your guests with your personalized labels on them.

These labels are a beautiful memento of your special day and will remind you of the unique location of your wedding for years to come.  We offer a wide range of templates to choose from, many of which are tropical-themed, and you can change all the wording on these labels to commemorate your names, wedding date, and wedding location.

If you have time before your wedding, please feel free to request a sample of the template you’re interested in.  We are happy to supply samples of our products so that you can see for yourself our completely self-adhesive, high-quality labels and photo-quality digital printing.

As always, if you have any questions please contact us and we’ll be happy to answer your questions.

For some people, though, coming up with gift ideas that won’t break the bank can be stressful enough to cast a shadow over the whole holiday.  Don’t worry, though, we put our heads together to come up with our top 10 cheap Christmas gift ideas.  Hopefully these ideas will inspire you and help get you into the holiday mood!

1. Create a home-made gift and give it a touch of class with a personalized label.  One of our favorite gifts is a mason jar of hot cocoa mix, complete with marshmallows.  Simply put the preparation instructions, and your family’s name, on one of our personalized wine labels and adhere to the jar.  It’s an instant thoughtful gift that costs less than $5 to prepare!
2. Give your favorite beer lover a gift they’ll remember!  Find out what his/her favorite kind of beer is, and then personalize the beer with personalized beer labels.  It’s a thoughtful gift you know they’ll enjoy, and they are sure to appreciate your gift’s personalized touch.
3. If you are attending any holiday parties this year, bring along a bottle of personalized wine to give the hostess.  The hostess will appreciate the wine and have no trouble figuring out where it came from.
4. Those of you who are crafty will have a lot of fun with personalized labels this year.  Our labels come in a variety of sizes that look great on many container sizes.  Our customers have put our labels on their homemade soap, cider, olive oil, and honey.  You can easily turn your hobby into a Christmas gift with a personalized label and tasteful packaging.
5. Personalized bottles of cider, beer, and soda make great stocking stuffers.  Kids will love a personalized bottle of Jones Soda, while grown-ups will get a kick out of personalized beer or hard cider.
6. Assembling a gift basket is a fun way to turn lots of small gifts into one amazing gift.  Our favorite gift basket is wine themed, simply place a personalized bottle of wine, a corkscrew, two wine glasses, and a bar of chocolate into a basket, tie it up with ribbon, and voila!  Instant romantic gift basket!
7. If you have a wine or beer brewer in your family, consider giving him or her personalized labels for the next batch.  Your home brewer will appreciate your supportive and thoughtful gift.
8. What do you get for the oenophile (wine lover) who has everything?  Wine, of course!  A great gift for the wine lover who has it all is a personalized bottle of their favorite wine.  With a little sleuthing beforehand, you can give them a gift that will make their day.
9. Many families distribute family photos every Christmas.  A new twist on this is to put your family photo on a personalized label.  We can help you turn your family portrait into a custom water, beer, or wine label that your friends and family will love.
10. Share your home brew with friends and loved ones!  Your home vintage makes a great gift, simply personalize it with a custom label and you’re good to go.  We offer a wide range of templates and can also help you create a new label from scratch.

If you have any other ideas for cheap holiday gifts, please feel free to share in the comments section!

Baby shower games are fun, sometimes hilarious, and always sure to bring a smile to the mom-to-be’s face.  There is a huge range of games to play at baby showers, ranging from silly to sweet to shocking.  The best way to prepare games for a shower is to keep in mind the people you’re inviting and the mom-to-be’s personality.

For example, if you’re planning a shower for a lady who’s suffered morning sickness for the last eight months, playing the “dirty diaper game” (wherein the hostess melts a chocolate bar in a diaper and then asks the guests to guess what brand of candy it is) may not go over well.  Likewise, if the invitees are mostly older family members, like grandparents, you may want to plan on games that aren’t very physically challenging.  If you’d like more ideas for baby shower games, you might find this site helpful.

Whichever games you choose, always make sure to prepare favors for your guests to take home.  Baby shower favors are a vital part of planning a successful shower and a great way to thank your guests for making the day special.

We highly recommend handing out personalized baby shower favors that will help your guests remember they were part of a very special event for a loved one.  Our personalized water bottle labels are ideal, easy to make baby shower favors that won’t explode your budget.

Our label templates range from gender-specific to gender-neutral and display bottles, bears, butterflies, and even dragonflies!  All the wording on our labels is completely customizable, which means that you can showcase the mom and dad-to-be’s name, the baby’s name, and even the date of the shower.  We offer a quick turnaround time, so even if you’re planning a last-minute shower you’re good to go.

Our labels are waterproof, tear resistant, and feature photo-quality printing and completely self-adhesive backing.  Creating personalized baby shower favors has never been so easy or cute!

It’s extremely important to exercise control over how your brand is communicated to the world. How and where you choose to market your brand has a strong correlation to how your company is perceived. This perception will influence whether customers or other companies choose to do business with you.

An easy and cost-effective way to expand your brand’s influence is to use custom label bottled water as a promotional item. When you put your logo or company information on a bottle of spring water, you’ve transformed that bottle of water into a walking billboard that will associate your brand with something refreshing.

Our personalized water bottle labels enable you to showcase your logo and information with style and professional graphics. This is the perfect way to provide potential clients with a promotional item they’ll actually use and appreciate. Our top-quality labels, fast turnaround time, and competitive pricing make harnessing the power of private label bottled water easy and cost-effective.

If you have any questions, or would like to request a sample, please don’t hesitate to give us a call.  We look forward to helping you learn how to make custom label bottled water work for you and your company.

An important part of any wedding, regardless of season, is wedding favors.  Winter wedding favors are a personal favorite of ours because there are so many unique options available during this time of year.  Whether you give your guests candy canes or peppermint hot chocolate kits, your guests are sure to appreciate how thoughtfully you blended the season with your wedding celebration.

A great way to thank your guests for celebrating with you and your brand-new spouse is to provide bottles of wine, cider, or champagne with personalized wine labels that include details of your special day.  We have a wide selection of beautiful wedding wine labels, many of which are perfect for winter weddings.

Personalized wedding wine labels have the amazing ability to turn simple beverages into beautiful decorations and can even serve as winter wedding centerpieces.  Simply arrange three bottles of different beverages (e.g. red wine, non-alcoholic cider, champagne) in the middle of the table with some color-coordinated ribbon to tie them all together and voila!  A beautiful wedding centerpiece!

If you have custom label ideas, we are happy to help you design a completely custom label.  For a $50 fee, we will design your label from scratch and keep working with you to make sure it’s exactly how you’ve always imagined it.  If you would like to see a sample of our products, feel free to submit a request using our website and we’ll have a sample label to you within a week.