4 Ways to Get the Best Name Tag

Having the right tools to identify your team helps build better communication with customers. Name tags and badges help with these challenges by building trust and improving workplace security. They also increase employee networking opportunities. Explore this product gallery to discover the best name tag or badge for your needs.

Establishing Brand Awareness

While there are many ways to establish your brand, one of the simplest is to use name tags that feature your logo. Having your employees wear Logo Name Tags boosts brand awareness and builds communication between employees and customers. This vital step will pave the way for future business growth.

UV Color: We add your logo to your material choice using ultraviolet (UV) technology. This innovative process cures the ink as it is printed, creating vibrant colors that enhance visibility and appeal.

Medical staff member with a UV color tag. — Caring with Style

Community Center employee with a UV tag. — Caring with Style

Digital (Full Color): Experience high resolution logos, sharp text and intricate graphics on thin plastic name tags, available through advanced digital printing technology.

Recruiting manager at a university and a full color name tag. — Campus Connections

Engraved: The text and logo are laser engraved onto the material’s surface, resulting in two color name tags. Choose from a variety of plastic and metal color combinations.

Store manager with an engraved tag. — Crafting Innovation

Simple Design with a Professional Touch

Create a personal touch with Classic Name Tags to help promote communication. They also help to make customers feel more at ease when they need assistance. A well designed name tag with legible text showing the employee’s name and title can make a big difference. This simple strategy can significantly boost customer engagement and satisfaction.

Name Tags with a Custom Design give you the freedom to express your style. Choose from various colors, unique designs and classic frames to create a name tag that reflects your business needs. Plus, we keep all custom orders on file, making reordering simple.

Teacher with a classic custom designed name tag. — Guiding Future Stars

Banquet server with a classic custom tag. — Guiding Future Stars

Name Tags Using Stock Templates are the perfect solution for anyone needing to balance budget with professionalism. You benefit from no set-up fees and 13 template styles in various materials, colors and sizes. Customize a classic name tag by choosing the color, finish styles and upgrades.

Store associate with an engraved tag. — Meet Your Team

Waitress with a stock template tag. — Meet Your Team

Smart and Sustainable Identification

Save time and money with Reusable Name Badges. These reusable options allow you to add or change the names on your badge as you need to. Use an office printer to create paper or transparent inserts or write names directly on the badges with erasable chalk markers. Choose from various styles to find the ideal badge for your needs.

Mighty Badges – Professional metal badges with a clear lens cover and printable transparent inserts (with or without a UV color logo).
Logo Only Badges – Badges with a logo (UV color or engraved), room may be left for adding names and information as needed.
Chalkboard Badges – Write on these black badges using erasable chalk markers. You can choose to add an optional UV color logo.
Speedy Badges – Plastic badges available in multiple colors with a clear protective cover. Use the printable paper inserts to add any names or information you need.
Dry Erase Badges – Available in black and white materials and with or without a UV color logo. Use a marker to write names and information.
Clear Badges – Acrylic badges featuring a slide out design for quickly replacing paper inserts. All you need is your design, then print inserts as you need them.
Adhesive Badges – Self adhesive paper labels allow for easy writing or printing. These single use badges are quickly attached at any event, party or meeting.

Baking Up Magic

Blooming with Pride

Stand out with Style

Pet Care with Flair

Conference meeting with a gray Speedy 2.0 badge. — Start Networking

Leading with Clarity

Restaurant server with a clear reusable name badge. — Service with a Smile

Daycare workers with children and adhesive name badges in mulitple colors. — Creating Memories

Your Best Name Tag, Your Way.

These other available professional identification solutions serve specific purposes, giving you more choices for your team. Using alternative tags will help you enhance security, build networking opportunities at social gatherings and improve customer communication.

Photo ID Badges: Including a photo on a name tag enhances security and helps associate individuals with their name tags. Personalize them by adding a person’s photo, name, title, organization or business logo.

Nurse practitioner working on a computer with a photo ID badge. — Badge of Compassion

Teacher helping a student wearing a photo ID badge. — Badge of Compassion

Custom Shaped Name Tags: Whether enhancing business meetings, celebrating holiday promotions or creating a warm and inviting atmosphere, unleash your creativity with an exciting custom shape. These playful tags will make your events, office or products stand out.

Book store employee with a custom shaped oval name tag. — Where Books Come Alive

Veterinarian with a custom shaped dog's head name tag. — Where Books Come Alive

Conference Name Tags: Lamination makes these tags durable enough for multi day events. They can be printed in full color with almost any desired information. Use them for social gatherings, meetings, events and more.

Oktoberfest fall festival and multiple conference name tags. — Festival Fun Awaits

A small group at an outdoor concert two sizes of conference name tags. — Festival Fun Awaits

Invest in Your Brand Identity with the Best Name Tag

Choosing the right name tags is essential for building connections and growing your business. Whether you prefer the vibrant look of UV color printing or the flexibility of reusable badges, investing in high quality name tags will enhance your business. These identification solutions will also help build a sense of belonging among your employees and create better communication with your customers.

Getting Your Brand Noticed

A company’s brand represents its past (what it did to obtain devoted consumers), present (what it is now) and future (what it wants to become). It can also be stated that a brand represents its values (past), mission (present) and vision (future). Define your brand to establish your company as an industry leader and key influencer.

The American Marketing Association defines a brand as, “A name, term, design, symbol or any other feature that identifies one seller’s goods or services as distinct from those of other sellers.”

A brand helps develop a strong feeling of trust between those involved and plays a big part in raising a company’s standing. Properly branding a company allows it to stand out from competitors and realize its business potential. It also lets the consumer know what they can expect from that company. After all, when it comes to a brand, standing out is the primary goal.

Logos and Branding

Entrepreneur Magazine defines branding as, “The marketing practice of creating a name, symbol or design that identifies and differentiates a product from other products.” The goal of branding is to differentiate the product or company in the marketplace to attract and retain loyal customers.

Branding can be a promise of quality, trust or service. It can be quite the process to get a logo that is easily recognized and brings your brand to the top of the market. By using name tags with logos, your business can make itself more visible to others and open the door to better opportunities and experiences.

The foundation of your brand is your logo. Your website, packaging and promotional materials–all of which should integrate your logo–communicate your brand.

Using name tags reflects who you are and humanizes your business to others. Most people tend to judge on first impressions, especially when everyone involved is a stranger. But, if you can make yourself stand out, your business will become recognizable. And it helps to make others around you more at ease.

Name Tags that Will Get Your Brand Noticed

Consistency is key to developing business recognition because the more frequently people see your brand, the more likely they are to remember it. So, branding only works when you use name tags and other identification correctly. Adding your business logo and employee names and titles is essential to establishing consumer trust.

Choose a material and color that best suits your brand. Then, add your logo (engraved or printed) to set your business apart from the competition. Lastly add pertinent information such as employee first and last names. If you choose a style that supports it, you can also add in titles and credentials.

Get your brand noticed and design your perfect name tags.

ADD YOUR LOGO

Ordering A Predefined Stock Template

Our website has changed! We have now made it easier to order a predefined stock template name tag.

Select a template and material type from one of our available options. Each option has been set up with predefined text lines and a name tag size. No proof is required for these name tags, and there is no required set-up fee. Provide your name and title list when placing your order for possible next day shipping. Keep in mind that quantity, material and other options selected on the order page will affect the pricing and production time.

Stock templates are available as both metal and plastic name tags. All name tags ordered on these pages will only have text. (If you want to add a logo, they are still available on the other order pages.)

Plastic

All text is laser engraved into the top layer or core of the plastic to reveal the second color to create a two color plastic name tag. Solid colors have a matte finish, metallic colors have either a brushed or smooth finish, and wood grains have a slight gloss finish.

Metal

Laser engraving creates a two color name tag. Each colored metal has a lacquer finish or a reflective mirror-like finish. The engraved color will be the silver or bronze of the underlying metal. On gold and silver tags the laser oxidizes to a dark gray or black.

All of these predefined templates have the option of adding at least a first name. As you browse these templates, notice that each option has different features. Such as Styles A and B only have one line for a first name, while styles J and M both have three lines for names, titles and company name.

Each template option comes in plastic or metal and has the same color choices! Choose from 29 plastic color combinations and 18 metal colors. Plastic options come in a combination as the engraving process requires that one color will show through the other. Metal is a bit different as it just reveals the underlying color of the metal instead of a two layer plastic.

Whatever your choice, these new stock template pages are easy-to-use and will give you a professional looking name tag. And, they’re sure to meet any need!

10 Logo Tips for Name Tags

What makes a good logo? And how do you use it in your company branding? Many customers struggle with their company’s branding when making their name tags. A logo designed for use on the internet or printed media doesn’t typically look as well when you try to fit it onto a name tag.

Consider these few things assuming you already decided to use your company logo on your name tags.

What process will you be using to create them? A full color printed name tag can hold more colors and detail than a hot stamped one. Laser Engraving will limit possibilities even further.

Keep the size of the tag in mind. In most cases, logos will be much smaller than what you usually see, and little details won’t be as visible.

Remember that you may have to be flexible in the colors associated with logos. If you choose a yellow tag and your logo is yellow, consider changing it to black, so it shows up. If you select a hot stamped logo, colors are very limited. You may have to compromise with a basic shade of your colors.

When placing a logo to fill the allowable area on a name tag, the smaller the logo, the larger it can be. Consider using one or the other for logos that incorporate an image and text.

Remember that a name tag’s primary purpose is to convey a person’s name. So don’t make the names harder to read in favor of a bigger, fancier logo.

There are additional ways you can help logos look their best on name tags:

Try to limit the amount of detail in logos. Smaller sizes will not be visible. And many processes will have a hard time duplicating it. But, on the other hand, you only need enough detail to make logos recognizable.

Even if you generally use logos on the internet or printed materials, single color logos are best for name tags. Laser engraving and one color hot stamping need an image that is black and white. You can convert most logos into a single color image. But some will require extra effort to maintain the visibility of all logo elements.

Short and wide logos, such as a company name spelled out in fancy lettering, generally look best at the top or bottom center of the tag. Logos that are square or taller than they are wide will occasionally look good on the left or right side.

Another option you can consider to make your logo look its best on your name tag is to try a custom shape. Design your name tag with a shape that follows your logo, with an extra area to hold names and titles. Custom shapes are only available for laser engraved or hot stamped logos, but they can make any name tag stand out!

Hopefully, these tips can help you design your company name tags. In addition, they should give you a big forward step on the road to brand recognition!

These tips and graphics are provided by guest author Melanie Bunch, Graphic Artist at Coller Industries.

3 Practical Reasons for Corporate Gifting

Corporate gifting is one of the best ways to grow and maintain your business. There are many reasons for corporate gifting that range from thanking consumers for their business to recognizing employees for outstanding work. But, the primary reason seems always to be the same. It is to sustain relationships and deepen the personal connection between the giver and the recipient.

using name tags for your corporate gifting this year is just as important as picking out the right wrapping and ribbons

Most companies agree that this fundamental reason is an opportunity to share your holiday cheer, connect with your clients and strengthen employee ties. Recruiting, retention and development are three other great reasons to give a corporate gift.

Getting Your Corporate Gifting Right

Giving

The holidays are built on the premise of giving and volunteering in your community. No matter the reason for giving anything, you should only expect one thing back: a friendly smile, a “please” or “thank you,” or maybe even a hug. But no matter what you give, it is the thought that counts.

Wrapping

Some people just possess the talent to wrap gifts perfectly, some don’t. But, no matter if you are one of these wonderful people or not, everyone loves to get a wrapped present. Don’t sell your gifts short with bland packaging or by not even wrapping them. Choose bright, happy and seasonal gift wrap for your corporate gifting.

Name Tags

Last is the most important, right? Well, we sure think so! Name tags and other personal identification products are great ideas for corporate gifts. Whether it is a new name badge for your employees or an executive desk wedge for your best customer, we are sure to have the right gift for your needs.

Spend the time and money on the wrapping to reflect the value of your client and employee relationships. But remember, choosing the right gift for your associates is just as important as the packaging.

Give new name tags to all of your employees.

Give top quality name plates to your office.

Be unique and give everyone a fun lanyard.

Add your personal flair with custom ribbons today! See Ribbon Impressions for all our best ideas!