Beacon Promotions, Inc., President Gary Haley states, “The Imagery Group is a very high-quality name badge supplier with the unique Badgewarehouse© release program web site. We are proud to add this company to our family of product lines. This addition brings another “New” category into the Beacon Promotions product mix.” Beacon’s field and inside rep teams will handle The Imagery Group products effective immediately.

Brett Olsen, Director of Manufacturing says, “The transition is going smoothly and we are currently answering the phones, sending samples and producing orders.”  He goes on to say, “We are thrilled with our customer’s ongoing support as we make the transition to our new location and we want them to know that we are happy to be their main Badge Resource in the future.”

The Imagery Group’s 2012 catalog and pricing will remain in place thru the end of the year and Beacon will distribute the “New” 2013 Imagery Group catalog by the beginning of next year with the rest of our Beacon Product line catalogs.

About Beacon Promotions, Inc.

Beacon Promotions is a multiple Star Supplier Winner with a great reputation for service with an ESP rating of 5 out of 5 and SAGE overall “A” rating.   Beacon offers a wide selection of products, such as:  calendars, table covers, drinkware, bags, housewares, tools, auto accessories, writing instruments, premium leather and over 50 Name Brand product lines for executive gifts and incentives.    For more information on Beacon Promotions, visit our website at  www.beaconpromotions.com or call customer service at 800-628-9979.

However, once the sale is made, what are the next steps in preparing the list to be sent containing the names to be personalized?  We have created easy to follow instructions that you may find very helpful.

Name List Formatting

• Lesson 1: The basics
• Lesson 2: Splitting one column into two
• Lesson 3: Combining two columns into one
• Lesson 4: The final cleanup

Please click here to request the four instructional lessons!

If you have any questions,  please feel free to call us at 800-628-9979!

Our Badgewarehouse program allows you to purchase a stock of name badges up front that we go ahead and imprint with the logo and then store in our warehouse. We setup an online program with a unique login and password for you to use to then go and “release” badges one at a time (or more at a time) as you need them. We receive the information the following business day and then work to personalize and put the finishing touches on your name tags before shipping them out. We normally send them via first class mail but there are other options, such as FedEx and UPS, that you can choose with your shipper number.

That’s the easy explanation.

As for why we often suggest it to folks looking to buy badges, it’s a great and easy way to save money. As you’re probably aware, it’s often cheaper to purchase almost anything in larger quantities. When you get down to buying just one at a time you often find yourself paying much more to the badge manufacturer than you really wanted to, but if you truly need it then you buy it. With Badgewarehouse, you purchase a larger quantity up front and as long as you release at least one badge per year, your program stays active. So if you buy 25 badges and store them in the program, you could theoretically have an active program for 25 years if you only needed one new name badge a year.

Badgewarehouse also offers flexibility on the ship to address. So if you need a badge to ship to a different location than the default address you have the option to change that before you finalize the order. Another function that comes in handy is an option to upload an entire spreadsheet of names at once to ship to one location. So if you have a large batch of 25 names that need to go to a single address you can download the custom excel template for your program, paste in the personalizations, upload the sheet and preview the names before submitting them.

The process of releasing the badges is pretty darn easy and we provide an instruction sheet when we send out the program number and password so that you can have a guide for your initial times working with the program. We’ve also put together a demo video that walks you through the steps in releasing a badge.

Have you used the program before? What do you think of it? We’d love to hear your opinions!