Custom Ribbons and What You Should Know About Them

There are several ways businesses can be creative in their marketing tactics. You can come out with products with varieties of colors. You can upgrade your photography to be more suitable for your audience. Develop creative marketing campaigns that make your company stand out against the competition. One way that you can be creative within your business is through ribbons. From ribbon rolls to custom top ribbons, they’re an underrated tool that not every company takes advantage of. However, you can use ribbons to make your business stand out in creative ways.

A ribbon is a narrow strip or band of fabric, especially a delicate fabric such as satin or organza, finished at the edges and used for trimming, tying or finishing. They’re attention grabbers because they are colorful and bright. They bring happiness and recognition to those who have them.

At Personalized Ribbons, we have several kinds of ribbons available to order today:

Ribbon Rolls
Badge Ribbons
Rosette Ribbons
Prize Ribbons
Custom Top Ribbons
Blank Ribbons

Here are what each of these ribbons is and how you can use them in your business ventures.

Ribbon Rolls

Ribbon rolls are perfect for decorating. You can wrap presents, tie up gift baskets or even decorate an event. They’re customizable in that you can choose the color, text and logo you put on them.

You can choose what material you’d like your ribbon rolls to be. There’s single face satin, double face satin, DYNA satin, grosgrain, organza and satin acetate. They each have their texture, appearance and toughness.

You can also order full color ribbons. They are made out of satin acetate. These are perfect for when you want a vibrant ribbon that shows off your logo and whatever text you’d like.

Badge Ribbons

Badge ribbons are used in workplaces, events and conferences. With our stock badge ribbons, you can attach them to your name tags to indicate more about yourself.

Our custom ribbons are for when you want to indicate more than what the stock ribbons provide, such as custom titles unavailable on stock ribbons. Whether it’s vertical or horizontal text, you can be creative and say whatever you like. You can also include custom graphics, such as your logo, to draw attention.

Like the ribbon rolls, we have full color badge ribbons that are the most customizable. You can add whatever background, text and graphics you would like. These are the most colorful badge ribbons, as you have total control over how you want your ribbons.

You can create your blank badge ribbon if no other badge ribbon available suits your fancy. You can add whatever text you like, vertical or horizontal.

Award Ribbons

These are what you’d typically think about when you think of ribbons. We have stock rosette ribbons that indicate award winners, from honorable mention to grand prize winners. They come with different center buttons that display victory torches, places, stars, gymnastics or swimming.

Custom rosette ribbons are for any occasion where you want to show appreciation to winners and participants. They’re the perfect ribbon for awards and recognition. You can customize your rosette ribbons from the streamers, rosettes, center designs, center styles and text.

There are also prize ribbons that you can give out to winners at events like school or sports. Like the stock rosette ribbons, different designs come with victory torches, swim, track and place graphics. You can also choose from our colorful ribbons to recognize and award outstanding achievements.

Custom Top Ribbons

Our custom top ribbons are creative in that they can be used for sales, promotions, brand identity building and special events. You can customize each ribbon with edge to edge printing, including graphics, logos, text and photographic images. In addition, they come in several top types, such as squared, pointed, hemmed and pinked.

You now know about all the different types of ribbons you can use to make your business more successful. When your business is creative in its marketing efforts, it shatters expectations and gives your customers no choice but to go with your company.

You can use our ribbons in various events such as parties, conferences, schools, sports, etc. You can decorate your gifts and events with our ribbon rolls. Recognize the efforts of others with rosette ribbons. You become more personable to your audience when you implement creative actions. With ribbons, you can provide a sense of recognition and accomplishment for customers and clients that they usually wouldn’t have had before.

You can rely on us at Personalized Ribbons for all your ribbon needs. You can find all of these ribbons on at www.personalized-ribbons.com.

How We Show Gratitude & Appreciation

These are big words: gratitude, appreciation, community. And their meanings are even more significant!

Every year around this time, Coller Industries receives a special package. Inside this package are not only handwritten thank you Valentines, but also lots and lots of love. We receive these cards every year due to our annual donations to the Granite Education Foundation. And every year, our hearts are filled with gratitude and appreciation for those in our community.

Enclosed in the package is also a letter from the board of Granite Education Foundation:

Hey, Valentine!

Exchanging heartfelt messages on Valentine’s Day is a well-loved tradition. While the earliest Valentines were little more than hastily scribbled notes, today we can choose from thousands of varieties, each designed for a specific relationship in our lives. A hundred years ago, only sweethearts exchanged Valentine’s Day cards, but the practice has spread to encompass friends, family, colleagues and supporters.

This year, Granite Education Foundation and students from throughout Granite School District want to express our heartfelt thanks for your continued generosity and support. Enclosed you will find hand-made Valentine’s Day cards that our students created with YOU in mind.

Each board member signs this letter as a token of their gratitude and appreciation for all our donation does for teachers, students and the school district.

Granite Education Foundation (GEF)

Federal and state funds do not meet the immense needs of our students, teachers and schools. The Granite Education Foundation provides access to resources that improve educational outcomes.

We provide educational opportunities for students of Granite School District.

We educate students, teachers and members of our community on ways to impact our community. Together, we CAN make a difference! We gather and give resources the GRANITE way. We impact children and teachers in public education. We advocate, inform and promote learning for students and their families.

The lessons we learn from helping in our community teaches us how to be grateful for what we have. And when we realize what we have, we give even more back to those around us.

Coller Industries is known for their impact in the community through product donations. But the annual contribution to GEF is the one donation that we deem the most poignant. We are giving to the schools, the children, and most importantly, we are providing for our future.

These actions we make each year fill our hearts with gratitude and appreciation for those around us. Those who strive every day to make a difference in the world. So, yes, we receive thank you cards, but we feel that we are the ones who should be the most grateful. And that, in essence, is why we give donations.

Fun in the Sun with Coller Industries

Summer is always a wonderful time here at Coller Industries!

We’re busy getting out orders and making sure we stay on task so that our customers get what they ordered. But, we also know how to have fun! Every year, Coller Industries throws a Summer BBQ Bash for the employees. And every year it seems just to get better.

The party is held at Germania Park (a local park here in Utah) every year. It’s a great place with plenty of space for all the employees to come and enjoy the food and company. There is always fun for all ages, and the employees were encouraged to bring their families.

This year included a bounce house for the kids and water guns for anyone who wanted to play. We also had fantastic food provided by Joe Morley’s BBQ. The spread they brought was fabulous and fed everyone till they couldn’t eat anymore.

playing at the park with coller industries at the summer bbq and party

As employees, we would like to give a special thank you to Coller Industries and especially the Coller family for providing such an enjoyable activity for their employees.

And here’s how we do that:

Mathew, Web Design and Development, said, “Being with family and friends was the best part. I love being with people that I can socialize with and be comfortable around.”

Lydia, Customer Service, said, “The food was my favorite part because it was all really good and there was nothing I didn’t enjoy.”

Charles, Sample Requests, said, “The ribs were delicious!” He also said, “I think we have an exceptional staff. I work for a very special company who really cares about its employees. And the result is that the employees have developed long lasting relationships.”

Amanda, Solutions Manager, said, “It was really HOT! But, my favorite part would have to be the BBQ. Coller Industries always tries out new and exciting BBQ places every year.”

3 Top Lessons Learned from Donating

There are many lessons to be learned from providing donations to our clients.

For almost eight years, Clyde and Gary Coller, the CEO and President of Coller Industries Incorporated have generously donated to Granite Education Foundation. The Collers give time and money to those in need, and each year they strive to give back to our local community.

We started donating to Granite Education Foundation in 2009 and to date we have given over $37,000. As employees here at Coller Industries, it is a delight knowing that our employer is so generous and giving to our community. And, each of these individual donations makes its mark on both the givers and the receivers. And each teaches valuable lessons.

Lesson No. 1:

“(Donations make) us more responsible in the community,” said Gary Coller. “Hopefully our customers appreciate when they see that we give back to our community.”

Well said, Gary! These donations not only make us more responsible, but they also make us more aware of the needs of our neighbors and communities. From needing name tags in school and other places of business to needing a helping hand to members of our community, one will always find Coller Industries in the act of giving.

Lesson No. 2:

We received the following letter and valentines from Granite Education Foundation:

Hey, Valentine!
Exchanging heartfelt messages on Valentine’s Day is a well-loved tradition. While the earliest Valentines were little more than hastily scribbled notes, today we can choose from thousands of varieties, each designed for a specific relationship in our lives. A hundred years ago, only sweethearts exchanged Valentine’s Day cards, but the practice has spread to encompass friends, family, colleagues and supporters.
This year, Granite Education Foundation and students from throughout Granite School District want to express our heart-felt thanks for your continued generosity and support. Enclosed you will find hand-made Valentine’s Day cards that our students created with YOU in mind. Additionally, please find enclosed a small edible token as an expression of Granite Education Foundation’s appreciation for your continued support and boundless goodwill.
In our opinion, YOU’RE AWESOME SAUCE, Valentine! Thanks for believing in our mission and for the extra boost you give kids and educators. We couldn’t accomplish what we do without YOU.
Thank you with all our heart!
Brent Severe, Chief Executive Officer
JeAnna Ellis, Office Coordinator / Donor Relations
Audrey Price, Finance / Operations
Erin Woodlief, Giving / Events Coordinator

Donating means that not only have we impacted the lives of Coller Industries employees, but also the lives of the children and teachers in our neighborhoods. So, no matter what we do, we are always aware that people are watching and wondering what we do. It’s never about the name tag, it’s always about the person!

And, last but not least, Lesson No. 3:

By believing in the mission of other organizations and helping them in their directives, we end up helping ourselves. Now, while this may sound a bit selfish, here are the reasons that isn’t the case.

By helping Granite Education Foundation with their needs, we benefit the lives of countless children. Which, in turn, helps their families. And that’s only the beginning of the chain! By paying our efforts forward, we are in fact returning to our community. And just look at the wonderful thank you’s we have received thus far!

We’ve learned from these lessons and we just want to say thank you right back! So, not only to Granite Education Foundation but to all those who receive our donations, THANK YOU FOR BEING YOU! We cherish all of our customers and their communities!

4 Ways Coller Industries Says Thank You

We’ve had another great year here at Coller Industries. 2016 brought a few changes, but they were all needed, and we have benefited from them greatly!

To start with, 2016 has seen our website www.personalized-ribbons.com go mobile and provide access to so many others that may have not seen it before. We are still working on getting our order pages live, but those are very short in coming!

Not only have we seen growth in our name tag inventory, but we’ve also seen it with our ribbon product line. These additions include some necessary ribbon color changes that seem to take place every year. We have also introduced a new stock badge ribbon with INTERN as the title. This is available in both horizontal and vertical formats. We had specific requests for this title, and we have been pleased with the results. We hope you are too!

As with previous years, we have also seen growth inside of our company. We have a new Customer Service Manger and a Senior Account Manager. Hannah and Aimee (respectively) are here to serve our customer’s every need. Of course, we still have the best customer service around to help anyone with their personal identification needs.

Due to some of our new products, our production and shipping department has seen an increase in our machinery. This includes a laminator as well as a new, fancy printer for our name tags. Production and shipping also do a fantastic job with making sure all customer orders are produced and shipped appropriately and promptly.

It was also recently announced at our annual employee Christmas party that our error rate is still under 1%! Here’s a quick review of our current year-to-date statistics:

Since January 1, 2016, Coller Industries has had a total of 122 errors coming from 31,694 orders total. Our overall error rate is 0.393%. This means that 1 in about every 255 orders may contain a mistake; great news for our customers!

Coller Industries would like to thank all of our wonderful customers for an outstanding year! You are the reason we are in business, and we want to acknowledge that. And with that thank you, we also wish you a wonderful and happy New Year!