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Personalized Journal Stamping for Nationwide Insurance at Black Enterprise Summit

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Personalized journal stamping was the most popular marketing activation in the Nationwide Insurance booth at the Black Enterprise Summit in Charlotte, North Carolina. We hot foil stamped guest’s initials on custom leather journals for two straight days, averaging 150 journals per day, a total of 300 journals.

personalized journal stamping

Nationwide booth guests love the personalized journal stamping and stood in line to wait their turn. It didn’t take very long, 5 to 10 minutes at most when the lines were the longest. (We stamped journals twenty times faster than the guy who had a laser machine across the convention center!) However it gave our salespeople in the booth a chance to give every attendee a survey and get them on their corporate email list. That’s gold at a conference!

personalized journal stamping

We average less than one minute per item when we emboss at events around the country. People don’t have to wait very long but they love watching the personalization done right in front of them with a very old-fashioned looking machine.

personalized journal stamping
What was really fun was to see attendees network with each other in line. There were a lot of business cards handed out and stories traded in the time they were waiting.

Our personalized journal stamping activation doesn’t take up much space. We fit into even the smallest booth with a 6 to 8 foot table and two chairs. Our embossing machine is a tabletop machine which can easily travel anywhere we go.

personalized journal stamping
Nationwide contacted us through their event marketing company to help them bring something different to their guests a few months ago. They loved the idea of custom leather journals.

personalized journal stamping

Guests loved seeing their monograms on the leather journals. Some even got a few for friends and family as well as other team members in their office who couldn’t make it to the event.


Nationwide also offered free headshots for all attendees which they received immediately on a USB after the photo shoot.

personalized journal stamping
The Black Enterprise Summit was a great event. We enjoyed seeing the city of Charlotte, NC for the first time. It was absolutely beautiful.

If you’re interested in having us personalize journals at your next event, please go to our event page to learn more about our services. We also offer on-site event engraving, hand painting and other personalization activations. For more details call us at 833 465 9311. We’d love to work with you at your next event!

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Blog, Corporate Gifts, Holiday Gifts, Liquor Bottle Engraving, Unique Gifts, Whiskey Bottle Engraving

Engraved Whiskey Bottles Popular Corporate Gifts

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Engraved whiskey bottles are very popular corporate gifts, especially during the holidays.  You know you’ve really been good when someone gives you a gift like that!

This season, we had two corporate clients work with us to create engraved whiskey bottles using our new sandblasting and hand engraving services.

One client, who works for Merrill Lynch, wanted to give her boss an amazing gift this holiday season. She contacted us and asked us to help her find a engraved whiskey bottle of Johnnie Walker Blue on which she wanted add his name.

She didn’t want calligraphy, she wanted an actual block font. We were able to find another company to partner with to sandblast the exact font she wanted on the bottle.

engraved whiskey bottles
The engraved whiskey bottles we create really impress clients. Sometimes they don’t even drink what is inside because they love the look of the bottle so much. A lot of our engraved whiskey bottles are still sitting on top of the bar in a prominent place, never opened.

engraved whiskey bottles
Another client wanted an engraved whiskey bottle for her father-in-law. Although the top was round, we were able to fit her message perfectly around the perimeter using our hand engraving techniques. We can engrave almost any glass surface with our dental drill and it doesn’t hurt the glass or, most importantly, contents inside!

engraved whiskey bottles

Another engraving technique we use is to completely remove the label and recreate it with sandblasting for a very unique look. We can really personalize these by adding the “name” of the person to the label itself. Here are some examples below.

engraved whiskey bottles
We engrave bottles all year long for birthdays, anniversaries as well as private and corporate events. (If you are looking for something other than whiskey, we engrave wine bottles too.) Contact us directly at 833 465 9311 to order your special gift today!

 

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Blog, Fragrance Bottle Engraving, Glass Engraving, Hand Engraving, Holiday Gifts, In-Store Engraving, Perfume Bottle Engraving, Unique Gifts

Holiday Gift Engraving at Hermés in New York Was A Great Honor

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Holiday gift engraving at Hermés was in full swing a few weeks ago when Desiree Colonna, our CEO, was flown from Atlanta to New York’s Hermés store on Madison Avenue to engrave fragrances for guests. It was a great honor for her because she was one of very few fragrance engravers in the world to be flown into the Hermés New York location. They only hire engravers two or three times a year.

Here is a video of our “office” at Hermés:

Engraving Fragrances for Hermes in New York City from Desiree Colonna on Vimeo.

Desiree spent the day engraving at no charge for all guests who purchased fragrance gifts. The engraving was very popular and clients were very happy to have their fragrance purchases personalized in such a unique way.

holiday gift engraving

Desiree took a selfie from the street her first night. New York is the most beautiful city during the holidays!

holiday gift engraving

The Hermés store does not disappoint in sheer size. It is literally five floors of amazing luxury items including china, footwear, jewelry and their elusive Birkin and Kelly bags. They even have a section devoted to their signature equestrian goods.

holiday gift engraving

The highlight of the trip was when Brian, one of the top salesmen, allowed her to experience a Birkin bag presentation on a break from the holiday gift engraving. Not many people are even allowed to see the $10,000 and up Birkin bags without first being vetted by the salespeople. These bags go as high at$89,000 and are very hard to find. The salesman, Brian, took her behind the scenes to see the bag in real life.

holiday gift engraving

The Birkin bag didn’t disappoint with its supple Italian leather and unique style. This was below is in a color called Tomato Red.

holiday gift engraving

After the presentation, it was back to work. Desiree engraved many bottles for guests including the ones below.

holiday gift engraving
Twilly d’Hermés is their newest and most popular fragrance. It even has their signature scarf around the top of the bottle for extra style and perfect branding!

holiday gift engraving
The holiday gift engraving event was very successful. The store management couldn’t believe how quickly Desiree engraved the bottles without layout or lines stating she was the “fastest engraver they ever had in the store!” They loved the beautiful calligraphy engraving on the bottles and are looking forward to inviting her back again for future holiday gift engraving events.

holiday gift engraving

To top it all off, Mother Nature decided to throw some snow on the scene for a few hours making it the perfect holiday gift engraving experience for all the shoppers.

Desiree flew back to Atlanta that same night enjoying the view from the plane.

holiday gift engraving

If you are looking for on-site gift engraving, we’d love to work with you. Please contact us directly at 833 465 9311 for your next fragrance engraving event. Our engravers travel all over the world and are ready to make your client’s engraving experience extra special!

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Blog, Fragrance Bottle Engraving, Unique Gifts

Fragrance Engraving Events are Our Specialty Worldwide

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Fragrance engraving events are popular around major holidays like Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Christmas and seasonal fragrance events. Engraved fragrances are a beautiful keepsake for any occasion and people love to get creative with their engraving. We recently engraved fragrances for a Derby Day themed event for Dillard’s Perimeter Mall in Atlanta, Georgia and Dillard’s in Tallahassee, Florida.

 

fragrance engraving events

We sit in the store at the fragrance engraving events and engrave fragrance and perfume bottles right in front of the customer. We’ve engraved hundreds of fragrance bottles for companies such as Macy’s, Dillards, Coty International, Saks Fifth Avenue and Kilian Fragrances.

fragrance engraving events

Our fragrance engraving events have been known to help the store sell thousands of dollars of fragrances beyond their normal numbers. People tend to buy in bulk on that date. Some even wait to buy their fragrances on the days we engrave so they can get their engraving FREE from the store. Plus those fragrances we engrave are non-returnable which helps the store manage inventory and cut down on returns.

fragrance engraving events

Customers love the animation events in stores and will pre-order dozens of fragrance bottles to be engraved. To see our schedule, click on our events schedule page.

We even offer our Fragrance Engraving Service to clients who want to order single bottles to be engraved and sent to a loved one. We’ll buy the fragrance, engrave it and send it where it needs to go! We make gift buying easy for our clients.

 

fragrance engraving events

To hire us for your next fragrance engraving event, contact us directly at 833 465 9311. You can also check out our fragrance engraving event schedule here. We’d love to help your customers make their holiday gifts even more special!

 

 

 

 

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Blog, Unique Gifts

Unique Mother’s Day Gifts for the Special Women in your Life

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Looking for unique Mother’s Day Gifts? Here are a few ideas to ponder for the special women in your life!

Leather Monogramming and Embossing

We can monogram and emboss any leather item including passport holders, bibles, books, wallets, handbags, briefcases and so much more. Take a look at our leather monogramming and embossing Leather Engraving, Monogramming, Debossing and Embossingpage for even more unique Mother’s Day gift ideas!

Unique Mother's Day Gifts

Wood Recipe Card Artwork

We created these wood recipe cards to hang in a kitchen for a client who wanted us to replicate their original handwriting. She loved them so much, she ordered a few more. These are handcut and handwritten on chalkboard paint. We love creating unique gift items that use the original handwriting of a family member. Mother’s Day is just around the corner!

Her review, “Desiree’s company put a couple of family recipes on wood so I could display them. Meg copied the original handwriting from the recipes. Love them. I ordered several and am using them for Mother’s Day and birthdays. I highly recommend. Thanks, Desiree and Meg.”

Engraved Wine Bottles

We can engrave any wine bottle for the wine lover in your life and add any message you choose. These are unique Mother’s Day gifts for any wine enthusiast. We’ll even buy and ship the wine bottles for you! We’ll be engraving wine bottles FREE at Whole Foods in Buckhead this year. Click here for our schedule.

perfume bottle engraving

Painted and Engraved Fragrance Bottles

Our hand painted and hand engraved fragrance bottles are completely unique. We can paint flowers and designs which reflect your mom’s taste. We can engrave any message you wish. These make lasting gifts that will remind her of you every time she uses it!

These are just a few of the many unique Mother’s Day gifts we’d love to create for you.

Call us at 833 465 9311 to get started!

 

 

 

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