With the election season coming candidates across the country are looking for ways to increase giving. Challenge your supporters to do more with a challenge coin. THE FUNDRAISING DINNER This common practice can be enhanced by adding a challenge coin at each place setting. Military coins have been used for decades… Read more »
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CHALLENGE COINS – THE ULTIMATE BUSINESS CARDS
OK, So let’s say that you have a few bucks to spend and that you are not papering the world with business cards by leaving them under the window of cars at Wal-Mart. (Or if you do let’s just say that you are wise enough to have two versions of your card….) What… Read more »
CHALLENGE COINS MAKING THE NEWS
I remember when we were one of the few companies making military coins. They were popular but really just catching on. One night I was watching a televised speech from the oval office by President Bill Clinton and there behind his desk were challenge coins. President Clinton had quite a collection of Challenge coins. … Read more »
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CHALLENGE COIN
THE MILITARY COIN/CHALLENGE COIN QUESTION I AM MOST FREQUENTLY ASKED Well I guess the most obvious answer would be the coins we did for Suze Orman upon the release of her book. It wins not only because she and her associate KT are two of the nicest and kindest people we have worked with… Read more »
CHALLENGE COINS FOR MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES
One area that has been growing lately is the use of military challenge coins for museum fundraisers. Challenge coins offer a unique way to promote a special event and increase participation. Ideally a museum would create one side of the custom coin that would be common to all of their coins. The other… Read more »
MORE CHALLENGE COIN MYTHS
ARE ALL MILITARY CHALLENGE COINS COMMANDER COINS? Absolutely not! We have made challenge coins for Senior Noncommissioned Officers, Staff Officers and even one gung-ho corporal. (That is one of my favorite coins. I carry it with one of my four-star coins and when someone coins me I haul out the corporal. It never hurts… Read more »
US MADE CHALLENGE COINS. AFFORDABLE?
US MADE CHALLENGE COINS VERSUS OVERSEAS MADE COINS So there is the deal. It is simply a matter of money and design. At D & R we are happy to make your military coins in either the US or overseas. As I said, it is mostly about budget. US MADE MILITARY COINS … Read more »
A POCKET FULL OF ATTABOYS
CHALLENGE COINS FOR EMPLOYEE PERKS To correctly call your coin a “Challenge Coin” there ought to be a challenge behind it. So how do you make that happen? The first step is to decide what you want the employee to do. As the old “One Minute Manager” used to say, “Catch people doing something… Read more »
THE SECRET MILITARY COIN BLOG
CHALLENGE COINS FROM “SECRET” GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS This is just a fun blog post to speak about these for a moment. As I previously posted, it is difficult to verify that a coin you have acquired is authentic. This is particularly difficult when it is from ‘secret’ organizations or secret military units. RARE MILITARY… Read more »
WEDDING COINS
I wonder if wedding coins can be called challenge coins? There must be a joke in there somewhere. Anyway. We do a fair number of wedding coins. When I was first asked to manufacture one I was surprised. After talking to that groom and many more since then I have become a true… Read more »