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Lapel Pins for Employee Recognition

lapelpinsplus — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:55:17 +0000

Employee recognition is an important way for companies to increase morale, loyalty and boost production and sales. Whether you represent a fortune 500 company or a small family owned business, employee recognition is an affective and affordable way of letting employees know they are important.

A popular employee recognition item is an employee recognition lapel pin. We can take your company logo and incorporate it into a custom employee recognition lapel pin that everyone in your company will be proud to wear.

Employees will wear their employee recognition lapel pins with great pride since their achievements will be recognized by their peers, families and friends.

Employee recognitions pins can be used for:

- Years of service
- Employee of the month/quarter/year
- Opening events
- Trade shows
- VIP gatherings
- Meeting
- Team building
- Special certifications
- Safety
- Customer Service
And many other employee recognition events that are unique to your company.

The custom employee recognition pins we create will have a high quality look and feel along with long lasting appeal that will compliment both business attire and uniformed employees alike. Our design team will work with you to create the perfect employee recognition pin.

We look forward to working with your design or idea and creating your employee recognition lapel pins.
Lapel Pins PLUS

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Sports Teams Show Their Pride with Lapel Pins

lapelpinsplus — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:16:19 +0000

Sports Teams Show Their Pride with Lapel Pins

One element that is vital to the success of every sports team is pride. Spirit can make or break a high school, college or professional team. In order to instill team spirit in players as well as fans, it’s important to keep everyone feeling valued. Lapel pins are an excellent and inexpensive way to quickly boost pride.

Fans and players will agree that size and style of lapel pins makes them easy to wear. The shape, design and colors make lapel pins attractive – thus they get noticed.

There are several ways you can incorporate lapel pins into your team plan.

Lapel Pins Are A Great Award Idea

Whether for basketball, football, baseball, soccer, hockey or any other sport, players love (and need) to be recognized for their achievements. Lapel pins make excellent awards for players at every level. Many teams give lapel pins to players when they become a member of a team, when they make junior varsity or varsity teams, when they are voted MVP of a game, or when they show great displays of team spirit.

Each of these – and others – are excellent opportunities to make players feel valued and encourage continued top performance.

Lapel Pins Increase Team Exposure

The rage these days among sports fans is to trade lapel pins. Some have developed quite a collection of unique and attractive lapel pins. The more unusual the lapel pins are, the more valued. Many teams choose to order lapel pins specifically for the purpose of trading in order to gain more exposure for their team.

Lapel Pins Create Fan Loyalty

Along with t-shirts, caps, and foam hands that signify “We’re #1,” include lapel pins in with your fan offerings. You’ll find that lapel pins will be worn during the game, but they’ll also be worn with business and casual attire… practically everywhere your fans go. The flexibility durability of lapel pins makes them the fan’s choice for showing support.

Sell Lapel Pins To Cover Operating Costs

Need some additional funds to purchase new equipment or uniforms? Sell your team lapel pins! Lapel pins generally cost less than $2.00 each. However, since they are custom-designed, and since they display your team’s logo or mascot, they will be much more valuable to fans.

You could easily sell your team’s lapel pins for between $5.00 – $10.00 each and quickly earn the money to buy team necessities.

However you choose to use them, lapel pins make an exceptional addition to your team’s booster program. Contact us today and we’ll gladly create a full-color proof of a lapel pin design that will help your team stand out in the crowd. You’ll also receive free UPS shipping, free color, free design, and free mold fees. In a hurry? No problem! We deliver lapel pin orders in 10 days or less!

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Custom Lapel Pins for Club Members

lapelpinsplus — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:46:59 +0000

Custom Lapel Pins for Club Members

The fact that you are a club member says a lot about your character. Membership in any organization denotes strength, commitment, and stability. Most club members are very loyal and are true evangelists about their organization and its causes.

However, with so many clubs in existence these days, it is often difficult to set yourself apart from the rest. One way to show your dedication while also carving out your niche is with the use of customized lapel pins.

By creating custom lapel pins, you have the opportunity to show your pride every day. These attractive pieces of high-quality jewelry can be worn by men or women, and in a variety of ways.

And the cost? Lapel pins are extremely affordable… even for newly founded organizations. The average cost is under $2.00 each.

Ordering Lapel Pins

When looking for a lapel pin company, you’ll want to keep a few things in mind. There are several ways you can reduce your costs and still receive attractive lapel pins.

1. Lapel Pin Quantity – Generally speaking, the more lapel pins you order, the less expensive each pin will be. Check into where the price breaks for quantity fall to be sure you’re getting the best deal possible.

2. Quality in Lapel Pins – Not all lapel pins are created equal. Ask questions about the quality of your lapel pins before you order. Your club certainly would not be well represented with lapel pins that are flimsy and bend or break. Lapel Pins PLUS offers a wide variety of top-quality lapel pins to choose from.

3. Color in Lapel Pins – While colored lapel pins are extremely attractive, the more colors you include, the more the cost increases (generally speaking). Lapel Pins PLUS includes up to 7 colors at no additional charge.

4. Lapel Pin Artwork – The fees for design and artwork can get quite expensive. Before using another vendor, specifically ask what charges will apply for artwork and design. Lapel Pins PLUS offers artwork and design absolutely free-of-charge with every lapel pin order.

5. Revisions – This is another area that could lead to hidden charges when having custom lapel pins made. Some companies tack on additional fees for more than “X” revisions to your design. Again… be sure to ask before placing your order. Lapel Pins PLUS gives you unlimited revisions at no charge.

6. Mold Fees for Lapel Pins – Before any lapel pins are produced, a mold has to be made of the lapel pin design. The “mold fee” can range from $50 to $100, and can add quite a bit to your bottom line. Ask about mold fee charges before ordering. Lapel Pins PLUS does not charge a mold fee.

7. Lapel Pins Shipping – You’ve probably seen many companies that not only charge shipping, but also charge a “handling” fee. These handling fees can often double the cost of your shipping charges. At Lapel Pins PLUS, we don’t believe in handling charges. In fact, we don’t believe in shipping charges! As we offer free FedEx overnight shipping with every order of lapel pins.

Comparison between lapel pin companies can make a big difference in your bottom line cost. Be sure to comparison shop and ask questions before placing any orders. It’s always better to be prepared than to have unpleasant surprises show up on your invoice.

We’d be delighted to talk with you about producing custom lapel pins for your club or organization. Simply contact us for a free quote and we’ll get started right away!

www.LapelPinsPLUS.com

1-800-252-0904

Lapel Pins for Product Branding

lapelpinsplus — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:01:27 +0000

Lapel Pins

According to a press release issued over PRNewswire recently, top branding executives have projected some findings that are quite interesting. The insights they offer can have a profound impact on your branding strategy.

Lapel Pins Communicate Trust, Reputability and Environmental Concern

Denis Riney, Executive Vice President of FutureBrand states, “We are seeing a rise in informed consumers who are demanding to know about the company behind the brand. Is it trustworthy, reputable, environmentally friendly? We are seeing companies bringing their corporate brand forward.”

Lapel pins can easily help you communicate a positive image about the issues at hand. For example, you can create lapel pins that display hands shaking and offer the slogan of “Full Disclosure – Complete Trust.” Perhaps lapel pins that show a tree and stream with a statement that reads “Working To Keep Our World Clean” or “95% Recyclable Materials Used” would work well to convey a message about environmental friendliness.

Lapel Pins Help Employees “Live” Your Brand

Scott Davis, Managing Partner of Prophet offers these words on the role of employees and branding: “Employees must understand the common themes of their brand and how they fit into it. There are three phases to engaging employees in branding: hearing it, believing it and living it. It’s getting employees jazzed. They must be involved at the very beginning of the process so they understand the voice of the brand and can translate it to their own area.”

In order to get your employees “jazzed,” create lapel pins for specific departments. Make the lapel pins applicable to how each department within your organization fits into the branding strategy.

By offering an attractive lapel pin that employees can wear with pride you accomplish two goals. First, you execute the first two of Mr. Davis’ three-phase employee branding outline – hearing it and believing it. Lastly, the lapel pins help employees to visualize their role within the company in order to “live” the brand.

Lapel Pins Boost Customer Service Efforts

Cayce Blanchard, Director of Corporate Communications, Mitsubishi Electric & Electronics USA, Inc., makes this statement with regard to the importance of customer service: “We get all of the Web inquiries and complaints and respond personally and track them. It’s so important to remember that we are talking to people here who want to hear a voice. That personal touch is so important.”

When you are working with a customer on service issues, nothing makes the statement of “We’re here to help” more than offering a tangible gift. By sending a lapel pin designed specifically for customer service purposes to the client, you’re offering something that shows you’ve heard their complaint, you’ve overcome their complaint, and you’d like to offer them something for their trouble.

In today’s world of emails and faxes, a personal effort to package and ship a gift makes a tremendous statement!

While lapel pins have always held a vital role in traditional branding, they are now becoming more important with issues customers are now bringing to light. In addition to creating lapel pins for product launches, new rollouts, movie premiers, grand openings, and new and improved products; consider creating lapel pins to address the current issues of the day. Your branding campaign will be much more fruitful for your efforts.

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