On June 19th, nearly 10,000 runners hit the road to conquer the Wasatch Back Relay, operated by Ragnar Events.  Among the masses of participants and volunteers were five of Namifiers very own:  Bryan Welton, Jenny Welton, Brad Gasaway, Lisa Hulse, and Tim Hulse.

Wasatch Back has quickly become a premier running event in Utah.  The course is a daunting 188 miles in length, starting in downtown Logan and winding its way to Park City.  Participants consist of 12-person teams that would take turns running 3-10 mile sections of the course.  Although there is a brief window scheduled for sleep, it is a rare accomplishment if you can sneak in a couple hours.

The challenge of taking on this event, however,  went much deeper than just the restless race and the sore muscles.  Many members of our Namifiers team worked around the clock prior to the race to produce and deliver the race shirts, hats, beanies and other Ragnar gear.  Once again, in the crunch of some very tight deadlines, we pulled together and came through.   We offer a big shout out to everyone who helped!  Thank you  for caring about the customers, and let’s continue to show how Namifiers has the best service anywhere!

Checkout the site, widwi.com - stands for “what I did with it” and is a site for people to post before/after pictures of their projects.  Namifiers printed the full color banner for a billboard in NJ area that reaches over 100,000 people drive by per day.

Testimonial:
Thanks again for your help.  Rachel was also very helpful in facilitating this unusual request and working with me to make sure the banner was produced exactly to spec.

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Namifiers will be exhibiting at this year’s Uniform Retailers Association trade show in Las Vegas, NV, taking place October 26-28.  The focal products will be custom nametags, printers, supplies, and badge accessories.

I recently read an interesting article about the differences between proactive and reactive people. The concepts are simple, yet insightful if we take an honest look at ourselves.
Proactivity- is more than “taking initiative” it also means that we take responsibility for our lives and our actions.
Proactive people do not blame circumstances or conditions for the way they behave. Their behavior is due to their own choices, based on their values-not the circumstances or conditions that surround them.
Reactive people are affected by their environment. I.e. if they do not like rain/snow, and it is raining/snowing, they chose to be negatively affected by that outside physical condition

To Change our situation, we need to first focus on US, not our outside situation. That is being Proactive (taking personal responsibility).  Like anything else, it just takes a conscious effort and …..practice.

By: Jamie Davies

Each of us brings a different personality and set of experiences to a team.  When combined, we can successfully perform better every day to reach our goals. When we’re happy at work, we will always do a better job, it just comes natural.

This is pointed out in the second sentence of our company mission statement:  We enjoy a high level of job satisfaction by seizing opportunities for growth and exceeding personal expectation. - To be frank, some days when things get crazy, we don’t always feel chipper and self-confident.  But even those days are part of the collective experience of working for a living.  If we understand that, and then support and respect each other daily, we will be setting ourselves up for success. - I believe there are 4 basic rules for supporting your teammates:  trust, communicate, commit to goals, and throw in a little fun. - The first two, trust and communication, are only effective if they are offered genuinely.  I choose to think of my team as extended family (Why not? Between home and work, it’s about the same :)  If they know that I am a real person too, then they feel more comfortable coming to me for help and more able to push through challenges.
It is important that this support and teamwork always be centered towards specific goals, which in our case, ultimately comes down to taking care of every customer.
Finally, throwing some fun in the day-to-day is a great refresher.  Whether it is coming up with the coolest nameplate design in the company (which we definitely have) or getting our families together after hours, these little extra experiences can contribute in big ways to overall job satisfaction.

Congratulations to McKenzie Palmer for being selected as our Employee of the Month for July 2009.  McKenzie is an Account Executive in our Sales Department.  She spent most of her growing up years in Farmington, UT.   Her longtime nickname is MAC and when asked to describe herself with 3 words, she chose “Spaz, Bubbly, and Smiles.”  Since starting with Namifiers 3 months ago, her favorite thing about working here is having such nice co-workers.

Fun Facts:

-McKenzie loves to dance, she has been doing it since she was 3 years old.

-She was once confined to a straight jacket, not for being crazy, but she had to get stitches when she was 18 months old, and she determined not to be touch by the doctors.

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Utah’s Department of Workforce Services released its list of honorees for the 2009 Work/Life Awards, for which Namifiers, LLC has been selected as one of 18 finalists.  The Work/Life program seeks to recognize and honor companies that create exceptional workplaces by effectively addressing various employee needs and striving to maintain a culture of equity and opportunity.

Results were taken from a 3-part application which included an extensive profile of Namifiers best business practices, completion of 40 anonymous employee surveys, and a final letter from the CEO.

This year’s ceremony will be held at the Sheraton City Centre Hotel in Salt Lake City on June 23, 2009.  Namifiers will find itself in the spotlight with other widely-known businesses such as Best Vinyl, Comcast, Mona Vie, Mountain America Credit Union, 1-800-CONTACTS, and Ralph L. Wadsworth Construction Company among others.

Congratulations to everyone here at Namifiers!  You make our team one of the absolute best in the state Utah.

Congratulations to Jen Larios for being selected as our Employee of the Month for June 2009.  Jen has been with Namifiers for 5 years and has performed in many important roles on our Production Team. 

She currently manages our Full Color Nametag line and fills in at Shipping and Laser Engraving when the need arises.  Jen says that one of her favorite things about working at Namifiers is that she is always learning things and meeting new challenges.

Fun Facts:

*Some of Jen’s favorite pastimes include drawing and poetry.

*One of her lifelong dreams is to learn how to do custom paint jobs on cars!

Tips For Life By Chris Jensen One of my favorite books is called, Eat That Frog, by Brian Tracy. The principle of the book is this: if you had to eat a frog every day, you should make that the first thing you do because, undoubtedly, the rest of your tasks for the day would be much, much easier. Likewise, we all run into tasks that are, by our standards, difficult or unpleasant, so our tendency is to put them off. Procrastination is an easy thing to fall victim to, and before we know it, we are justifying all of our actions to make up for not eating our frog.

How do we overcome procrastination? Plan, Plan, Plan.

Write your daily plan down and then at the end of each day, report back to yourself on how you did. Did you eat your frog first? Did you accomplish the other aspects of your plan?

If you didn’t, see what stopped you and make adjustments for the next day. You will be amazed at what you learn about yourself and how fast you can make changes in your life to accomplish more in less time.

Industry News:

As a presenting sponsor for the 2009 Reed Smoot Awards…

Namifiers honored Sean Collins of Fat Cats and Costa Vida, as the Entrepreneur of the Year in the Provo-Orem Chamber of Commerce. 

Namifiers has been a participating sponsor since 2007 when CEO Bryan L. Welton Jr. was named Businessman of the Year.

Industry News:

2009 Entrepreneur of the Year in the Provo-Orem Chamber of Commerce.�

Tips For Life: Improving From Yesterday by Bryan L. Welton, Jr.

Rather than add things to your life to do better, it is often more effective to subtract the things that stop your progress.  May I suggest 4 things to subtract that can dramatically open and expand our vision.

Fear of Failure:  Failing is not always bad; often, it forces us to be creative.  We know we have overcome before, so we keep a positive outlook.

Blaming:  If you feel you aren’t progressing, who do you blame?  Find that thing or person and figure out a way to stop the blaming.

Complaining:  Solutions or recommendations go a lot farther than complaints.  Complaining only frustrates the situation and expresses emotion, but avoids resolution.

Justification.  Too often we find ourselves comforted by simple words of justification from within.  The best way to succeed is to compete with ourselves each day, to be better than we were yesterday as an individual, a team and a company.

Industry News: Badge Boss, a wholesale division of Namifiers, will be among the 800 suppliers exhibiting at this Summer’s largest ASI Show in Chicago, IL.   The event, held July 21-23, draws 4,500 distributors to a marketplace of over 800,000 promotional products. This will be the third time Badge Boss will have exhibited at an ASI event.

Going the Extra Mile: One Incredible Story by Rachel Hair - In the long run, going the extra mile for customers will nearly always come back to benefit you.  Just this last month, I had a crazy but awesome experience with just that, something I don’t think I or my customer will soon forget.

The Provo City ½ marathon was scheduled for Saturday, April 4th.  A few weeks prior, I had worked closely with the race director, Jeff Gehring, to close an order for multiple banners and a total of 1800 race shirts. Under the tight timeframe, our first challenge was to find a supplier with enough inventory for that exact shirt style. With Tifany’s help, we got the shirts here in two shipments, the second of which arrived three days before the race.  By this time, I was somewhat stressed over producing the order on time, and I had actually committed to run in this race, but I didn’t feel as prepared as I would have liked to.  Well, Jose and his team at Press A quickly eased the first of my stresses, knocking out the entire order in one day’s worth of production. The shirts were picked up April 2nd, and I could finally rest easy over on the matter.  Our production team rocks!

That peace-of-mind, however, was short lived; Jeff called me at 8:30 the next morning.  Somehow the supplier had failed to ship us 90 of the shirts. Since the race was less than 24 hours away, it was determined that we would fly Tyler Kimball out to California that very night to personally pick up the remaining shirts, bring them back to our warehouse, print them on zero sleep, and then deliver them in the early morning hours (which, thankfully, all worked out smoothly).

When they fired the gun for the race to begin the next morning, I thought of all the work that went into those shirts, and how the other 1500 runners would never know the intense details.  Everyone just had a great time, and we have another satisfied and loyal customer.

Congratulations to Lisa Hulse for being selected as our Employee of the Month for May 2009. 

Lisa is an Account Executive in our Nametags.com division and has worked here for 9 months. Originally she is from Orlando, FL. 

She moved to Provo in 2008 and was married last December to our very own Tim Hulse (at Laser Engraving). 

The thing that Lisa enjoys most about Namifiers is getting to work with her friends every day.  After work hours, Lisa and Tim love to compete at Guitar Hero on their Nintendo Wii.

Fun Facts: Lisa studied opera for 5 years, including 2 years at the University of Central Florida. Her nickname in high school was “L3 ”  (L-Cubed), since her initials were L L L .

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2009 TOP 25 Fastest-Growing Companies

The Fastest-Growing Companies list is selected from a group of applicants and ranked based on their percentage growth over a three-year period. The 2006 and 2008 gross revenue figures have been verified by BusinessQ and are accurate as of February 2009.

NO. 22 NAMIFIERS Three-Year Growth 66% Revenue in 2008 $7,961,070 Founded 2001 City Springville Employees 82 Industry Manufacturing Web site www.namifiers.com Founder Bryan L. Welton Jr., 31 The Company A manufacturer of identification and branding products to businesses and consumers.

The Growth Speedy, same-day service (along with viewing “no” as a swear word), has led to more than 80,000 clients, including more than half of the Fortune 500 companies. The Growing Pains “Getting new employees up to speed with our culture here at Namifiers. Ours is one of fast-paced, detail-oriented individuals that consider the customer at every step. We never take ‘culture’ off our agenda — you are either building it or losing it.”

The Advice “Execute. Break down your big idea into actual tasks and do them now. Don’t waste time trying to remind yourself later when you can do it now.”

The Milestone Moment “We haven’t achieved it yet. Our past is strung with some neat awards, but the ‘milestone moment’ is still dangling.”

More than ever, we need miracles today that will save America’s Manufacturing Industries and Jobs and Freedom.

America was built and became great based on freedom. So, to state it in an academic setting: our generation will either create an aristocracy (ruler’s law) or freedom (people’s law). If it is to become great again, two things must happen. “OWNERS must continue to lead, and a significant number of the CITIZENS must again become owners.” This is a matter of their entrepreneurial spirit and classical education as the founding father’s received. Without education and learning we will pass on to our children a ruler’s law aristocracy, where no one is free.

Note: The above notes were taken last night from blogger Mark’s inspired thoughts from a webinar @ tjeduonline.com titled, “Freedom vs. Aristocracy.”

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SEO stands for “search engine optimization” and if you stop and think about it, it’s an odd phrase because we don’t optimize search engines, we optimize web pages for search engines.

The most important thing to learn is that search engines look at on-page and off-page factors. Compare our SEO plans to find one best suited for your business.

Tinkering endlessly with your site won’t help you at all if no one is linking to your site. You need lots of high quality, relevant links to your site if you want to rank well.

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