The Button Blog - American Button Machines — Uses for Buttons

Another year of school starting means that teachers across the country are looking for new classroom activities that can not only hold students' attention but also teach them valuable lessons. For any teachers out there looking for an innovate way to teach math, teamwork, business concepts, and even simple economics, we have the perfect idea.

You asked for a better way to display your buttons, and we listened! Today, we are proud and excited to officially introduce to you the first of these six new products: Button Display Racks.

Suggestive selling and up-selling are two of the most effective tools that restaurant owners have in their tool belts for controlling costs, moving through inventory, and creating a branded experience. And few devices are better at achieving all of these objectives (and more!) than buttons.

If you love making buttons and have ever wondered whether it would be plausible for you to make money making buttons, we submit this post as proof positive that it is, in fact, very plausible. One of our customers sent us the following picture of a check with the following note: "I got my 2.25 button making machine. A week later a sale. About paid for me order. Thanks! Won't take long to be fully in the black. Good investment."   So if you have ever considered starting your own button making business - either full time to part time...

Everyone has heard of the phrases "thumbs up" and "thumbs down." When you agree with something, or when something is good, you give it a thumbs up to emphasize your agreement. When you disagree with something, or when something is not good, you give it a thumbs down to emphasize your disagreement. Well here at American Button Machines, we do this...but a little differently. And - surprise, surprise! - our version of it includes buttons. When something is good that we like, we say button ups! And when something doesn't meet our approval, we say, button downs. And yes, we...