16 September 2018

The Functions Of Name Tags For Employees

By Dorothy Myers


Name tags are very important marketing tools in the modern world. Many companies have their employees wearing these badges in order to attract potential customers. Networking in most corporate events highly relies on the ability of the parties in attendance to identify each other and converse. Name tags help a lot with this issue. They were once simple items, but now their level of sophistication has gone up a lot.

Normally, name tags do contain the name of the wearer. However, name tags for employees might also bear additional information regarding the wearer, the company that is represented, and the event. Information included may depend on the audience in attendance and the kind of event. Job position, responsibility of the wearer, and company being represented are some of the other pieces of information included. By including this information, anybody who wants to converse with a wearer can have an easier time because they can read all the information they need to know from the badge.

For these badges to be effective, they need to be designed in the right way. One the ways of achieving good design is by using an appropriate font type and font size. Some font types are easily readable while others require the reader to put in some effort in order to read them. Similarly, font sizes that are too small may be troublesome to read to some people.

Even though monochrome badges are trouble free to draft and economical to purchase, they are relatively ineffective when compared to multi-colored ones. Multi-colored badges display better information such as corporate logos, event description and job title. Using multiple colors enables the use of solid colors thus eases identification.

To protect badges against wear and tear during conferences, they are usually enclosed in plastic pouches. Furthermore, such cards are conventionally fit with QR codes or barcodes for granting users entry to varied amenities among other reasons. For this purpose, it is critical to make sure that plastic sleeves used to enclose the cards can allow barcodes or QR codes to be scanned easily. This capability should always be tested first before the material is used to make the badge.

It is very critical to gauge durability of the material to be used to make the badge. Badges are meant to be used over and over again in numerous occasions. For this reason, it must be ascertained that they can last long enough to serve their purpose. Furthermore, some events take days or even weeks. This makes it necessary that the cards be made of high quality vinyl. Light vinyl can be used if the event in which the card is to used only lasts a single day.

To save more on badges, it is advisable to always buy in bulk. For instance, instead of buying just 50 cards or lanyards, one can go ahead and buy 500. The remaining cards or lanyards can be kept for use in the future. The purpose of this is that there are a lot of savings obtained from bulk purchases.

Generally, measurements for a badge are usually 4 inches by 3 inches. Others usually produce badges that are too big or too small. Big size renders cards awkward while small sizes render them ineffective at their work.




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