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3 Ways Ribbons Promote Your Brand

Promoting your brand successfully takes time, strategy and involves many different aspects of business technique. Why not make it a bit easier with custom and personalized ribbons?

These ribbons are printed with your custom message and company logo. All of our high quality ribbons come in a variety of color choices and can be customized to meet your needs. Your company details or specific messages will be printed on ribbons of your choice. Promote your business with these innovative and decorative ribbons in a number of uses.

A popular way of promoting your brand is to give away promotional products and gifts. This can help you to build your brand recognition and increase sales. Don’t limit yourself on the types of gifts you give away. It can be something as simple as a homemade treat to an actual product sample. Just remember to brand it with your logo, company slogan or something that makes it truly yours. Use ribbon rolls with your slogan to wrap around boxes or gift bags.

Use ribbons for all occasions and needs!

Are you attending a trade show or convention in the near future? Ribbon rolls are a great way to brand your booth or table at these events. From simple table wraps to bows and ribbon walls, make sure your design stands out to those who are walking by. Rosette ribbons are also a great way to decorate your booth. Brand your company as “First Place” with a place rosette ribbon or choose something a little grander to get your message across.

What about the upcoming holidays? Thinking about corporate gifting yet? Don’t forget that one of the easiest ways to get your brand out there is by word of mouth. And what better way than to let your employees help you? Choose your holiday gifts and then wrap them in pretty ribbons with your logo all over them. Or choose a simple badge ribbon as a gift tag to do the trick.

Whatever your choice, custom ribbon is a fantastic marketing tool. And you can use it to increase your brand awareness.

Creative Ribbons: School Is In Session!

School is back in session and kids are excited to start learning again!

Parents and teachers are equally as excited that school is back in session. So, how can personalized ribbons help out with this process? Use these wonderfully versatile ribbons in just about any school setting you can think up!

Achievement Ribbons

Create a special bookmark for all of the students in your home or classroom. These achievement ribbons can be customized with special quotes, other text and graphics to match the uniqueness of each of your kids. Choose from their favorite colors as well. Not only will this keep the kid’s attention, but it will help keep their place in their favorite novel or in their text book while they are studying.

Rosette Ribbons

Reward your students when the accomplish something great! Choose from a variety of stock rosette ribbons that will reward that special achievement. Or customize your own. Choose special colors, graphics and text and make sure your child knows just how much pride you take in them!

Rosette ribbons are also great for rewarding athletes and superstars in your classroom. From track and field to spelling champs, these ribbons provide that special recognition to those who succeed in their endeavors. Don’t limit yourself to just using these ribbons as awards. Use them to decorate your classroom or home to celebrate the start of the school year. Or frame each one or a collection to really show how proud you are of a child’s accomplishments.

Ribbon Rolls

There are so many things you can do with our personalized ribbon rolls! From decorations with your school motto and colors to special welcome back gifts for your special students, these ribbons are truly the most versatile.

Use personalized ribbon rolls in your classroom to help with learning as well! These can be wrapped around pencils with a special message or tacked onto student homework marking them as a job well done.

No matter what you use your personalized ribbons for, school is a great place to be!

Product Highlight: Blank Badge Ribbons

Decorate your own blank badge ribbons to meet any need!

Sometimes you just need a plain, flat, colored ribbon. This is where custom blank badge ribbons come in handy. These ribbons can be used in most any way, and here are a few suggestions.

With the abundance in color variety, these badge ribbons can be used to differentiate between attendees at a convention or students in a classroom. Give orange ribbons to volunteers at a conference and purple to attendees. Use the different colors for different assignments in a classroom. Or stack the colors for different achievements in any setting.

Blank badge ribbons are perfect for crafts and scrapbooks. DIY projects may need a little extra color and these ribbons are a great way to add it in! Use the adhesive to attach the ribbon to a scrapbook page. And then write on them with a permanent marker to personalize it in any way. Attach ribbons to picture frames for a bright embellishment. Use your imagination and get as creative as you need to!

One of the most obvious use for badge ribbons is name badges and badge holders.

Use these colorful ribbons to help your brand stand out from your competitors. Use the adhesive strip to attach them to the bottom of your name tag at a conference or convention. Or just use around the office. Each ribbon is useful for handing out to employees or customers. Use these ribbons in contests or give-a-ways that your company might have.

From family reunions to summer work parties, another great use for these blank badge ribbons is party games. Use the different colors for different games or organization during the festivities. Design your own game using badge ribbons and either focus on the colors or write on them with a permanent marker.

Whatever your use, blank badge ribbons are the perfect solution. And the best part is that you can order yours today! Choose from over 30 colors and 2 orientations at Personalized Ribbons.

Creative Ribbons: Around Your Home

Ever wonder what people really do with all those ribbon rolls?
Here’s an idea to get your creative juices flowing: use them around your home!

When most people think of ribbon rolls, they consider wrapping presents or decorating for a party or some other function. Some people, however, think “what can I do with this that will really make it quirky?”

Here’s a few ideas to use up all those little strips you might have laying around. While most of these don’t require a personalized ribbon roll, each project is even more personal when they are used. So, grab whatever you can and let’s get started.

One of the easiest ideas is to simply find groups of things to tie together. From flowers and vases to other decorations around your house, there are plenty of things to tie a pretty bow around! Tie a small stack of books together with your ribbon rolls and leave it as a decorative piece on a coffee or side table.

Most people have unsightly cords hanging from their electronics. Simply wrap these cords with a colorful piece of ribbon or even label them with personalized ribbon strips to make them fit in better with your decor.

Another great idea is to use personalized ribbon as trimming around your home. Use them to trim your favorite throw pillow. Wrap a ribbon roll around a decorated shoe box or other organizer. Or use them in your scrapbooks and journals. Don’t forget to use personalized ribbon rolls with names, dates or favorite quotes.

Other great ideas for your home!

Weave a small blanket from ribbons. Try a lap blanket or something more child-sized for an easy craft project. And how cute would that blanket be with custom ribbon rolls with special messages or dates and names! Don’t just settle on ribbon rolls for this project. Custom rosette ribbons and badge ribbons are also great to use.

We’ve given you this idea before, but use the ribbon rolls for bookmarks. Use two colors to weave a special bookmark for your favorite reading spot in the house. Or use a longer one for your best cookbook.

Whatever your choice, personalized ribbons are great when you use them around your house! From names and dates to a special message, each ribbon roll can be custom made to meet all your needs.

How To: Creating Custom Ribbon Ends

Printing on ribbon ends is great for awareness ribbons, wrapping gifts and using at most events.

Use these instructions if you would prefer your imprint to only appear at the ribbon ends of your project, rather than repeating over and over the entire length of your project (example: awareness ribbons).

DETERMINE YOUR LENGTH
The best way to ensure correct placement of the imprint is to create a “mock-up” using ribbon similar to the width that you will be ordering. Create the loop or bow the size that you want. If you will be tying a bow around an object, make sure you use a similarly sized object to create the mock-up. Longer words or logos will require a longer imprint area; you may need to lengthen the “tails” of your ribbon. Trim or mark the ribbon ends.

MEASURE THE GAPS
Mark where you would like the imprints to begin and end on the ribbon ends. Please note that if you are tying a bow it is harder to get the tails to hang with both imprints showing; one side tends to flip over and show the back of the ribbon instead. Once marked, untie your ribbon piece and lay it out flat. See diagrams below and left for measuring details.

LONG GAP – This is the area of ribbon where your bow or loop happens, above the tails.

SHORT GAP – This is the area of ribbon at the tip of the tail, below the imprint. If you will be cutting the ribbons at an angle (recommended to minimize fraying in most ribbons) measure from the longest point. You will then have to double that measurement to create the same distance on either side of your cut (see below).

HOW WILL IT LOOK?
We will be imprinting one length of ribbon with the long and short gaps that you specify. It can be difficult to visualize how the measurements you’ve requested will look end-to-end.

View entire infographic by clicking on the image. (Infographic and text courtesy of: Melanie Bunch, Graphic Artist, Coller Industries Incorporated.)