Have you ever been to a tradeshow before? To paint a picture think of a buffet except instead of food, you get an endless supply of information and products from some of your favorite companies. As an added bonus, most tradeshows are free. If you find yourself unmotivated to go to work or just waiting for the day when you can finally fulfill your dream of becoming a secret spy then wait no more, sort of. The keyword is tradeshows. Booths of the less exciting type are likely to hand out educational brochures and pamphlets detailing the company and its products. These are good booths to start out with so you don’t get too excited to quickly or overwhelmed with all the information being suddenly thrusted at you by product representatives that are eager and just as excited as you. A trade show is not exactly rocket science to participate in. Typical flashy materials are the common make-up of an exciting booth. These booths will include all ploys of all types to get your attention and your business. Such ploys include 3D banners and displays, short slideshows, and even product giveaways. Tradeshows bring competitors and consumers all in one place for one big free for all event. Consumers have the chance to hustle rookie salesmen of their favorite products out of discounted or even free products. Veteran salesman have the chance to haggle, barter, work their salesman savvy charisma on unsuspecting consumers, convincing them to switch to companies they’ve never heard of and sample or buy products they don’t need or don’t even apply to them.
For obvious reasons, identification is the number one reason name badges are needed in a business. Some thing as simple and small as a name badge can help anyone remember names, not by knowing the name but by simply seeing the name. Amazing isn’t it? Its easy to forget a face. Slap on a plastic name badge and now you’re memorable, and the little rectangle with your name ends up telling your customers a little something about you. There are many situations that people take for granted or just don’t think about that can be instantly improved by name badges. These days, you barely need a name. Have you ever been called by something other than your name, like ‘hey you’, or ‘that guy’, or even worse ‘the stranger over there’. I’m sure you may have infinite list of nick names that you’ve been called, that most likely weren’t your name. The point is, a bad nick name is the sickness and a name badge is the cure. Every where you go and where name badge, people will have no choice to call you by your name or the name written on your name badge. It’s as simple as that, problem solved. Sure name badges are good for giving businesses that clean, polished, professional look, but that’s not what’s important. It’s the name that says it all. Wearing a creative name badge or name tag can make all the difference when you’re at work.
In the fulfillment world, pick and pack refers to the process of picking a promotional or fulfillment item, packing and prepping it for delivery, and shipping it odd to your client. Simple enough right? It may not seem like it, but the pick and pack process can get very complicated yet exciting at the same time. Let’s say your client needs a 1,000 individually wrapped bobble heads shipped over night to Austria and it just so happens the bobble heads they are requesting are the same exact ones that have constantly been moved to every kind of location in your very large and spacious warehouse. This is where your well skilled pick and pack team comes in. A pick and pack team usually consist of a warehouse and/or inventory manager, pickers, packers, counters, and movers. The names are fairly self explanatory. The warehouse or inventory manager makes sure you have the item in stock, pickers gather the items, and counters make sure you have the right quantity, packers pack the items and prep them for delivery, and movers are the final step in the process, moving and loading ordered items and sometimes delivering them. If your pick and pack team is in fact skilled and efficient in completing any sudden task thrown at them like overnight shipments of bobble heads to Austria, then they will have no problems and should work like a well oiled machine. If not, then good luck to you. Pick and pack teams are obviously very important.