Contributors on the Utah Valley Chamber of Commerce Blog at utahvalleychamber.blogspot.com discussed on Monday Namifiers Expansions in their European Office near Frankfurt, Germany.

To read and comment on their blog about the expansion please click this link > Namifiers Expands to European Office…

Namifiers serves hundreds of existing clients throughout Europe and the expansion will legitimize their position as a global leader for identification and branding products including custom lanyards, engraved name tags, badge holders and other swag promotional products at the lowest guaranteed rates and fastest shipping times.

Utah’s fastest growing companies gathered at the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City on October 23rd to learn their ranking on this year’s Utah 100 list.  Namifiers, LLC was honored for the third straight year at the event, coming in at #31.  The program ranks companies based on revenue growth for the last 4 years.

Congratulations to David Komp for being selected as our Employee of the Month for November.  David has been an Account Executive in our Sales Department for just over a month now.  Many of you know his wife Jennie on our Processing Team.  David is originally from Texas.  His favorite thing about Namifiers is the people he gets to work with.

Fun Facts:
Self-description in 3-5 words:  Funny, Closer, Charming
His favorite season is Summer.

In September 2009, Namifiers donated a lot of time and product to the Springville Chamber of Commerce to help raise scholarship funds for local students.  Our very own Chris Jensen served on the Springville Chamber Board of Directors through the end of 2008.
So, how can you get involved?
The best way is to be aware.  Take advantage of opportunities to contribute to worthy causes.  Talk about where you work and what makes it a great place.  And be sure to carry some of our Namifiers Pocket Brochures with you at all times.  These have awesome pass-along value and make it super easy to show others what we are all about.

Namifiers is co-sponsoring a fan appreciation item to promote BYU vs Utah and Deseret Duel.  On November 28th, 40,000 fans will take home one of these custom keepsakes lanyard. Great for ticket holding, keys etc.

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In support of the local business community, Namifiers teamed up with the Provo-Orem Chamber of Commerce to bring about the 2nd annual Utah Valley Executive Summit, hosted at Sundance Resort.  At the meeting, chamber officials held a regional press conference to unveil the conglomerate formation of the Utah Valley Chamber of Commerce, an effort to strengthen business ties across Utah County.  Namifiers contributed with several hundred dollars in identification products and graphic design for the event.

Springville, UT – 05 August 2009 – Last week, U.S. based Namifiers LLC reached an impressive small-business milestone of 100,000 clients served since its founding in 2001.

Led by acclaimed entrepreneur Bryan Welton, Jr., Namifiers offers direct services in digital printing, screen printing, engraving, embroidery, and custom assembly.  Annually, the company produces and ships nearly 18 million pieces to a customer base that spans 12 countries.  Their flagship products include name tags, ID systems, lanyards, vinyl signs, corporate apparel, and promotional giveaways.

Welton, only 32 years of age, is credited with several pioneering efforts in the identification industry, particularly in the areas of e-commerce and search engine optimization.

“We began this company in 2001,” said Welton, “but I came into the industry after working in the search engine optimization (SEO) field. Through a few family members and friends, I learned of a small engraving shop with good equipment doing mostly local business.  I approached them and offered my SEO services to take their business to the next level online,” he continued.

“At that time, people were still scared about doing business online in this industry.  The sense was that the customer wanted to touch and feel {the product}.  But we launched an agreement with them in 2001, and a few years later we ended up buying the company and acquired a few companies along the way.  In 2004 we came to what is now our current force.”

In addition to their online presence, word-of-mouth business has been a major contributing factor to their growing clientele.

“Our objective with every account is to make the customer feel that they have an inside, go-to team when it comes to personalizing their stuff,” says Nick Vance, Vice President of Sales.  “Buyers have enough stress as it is, so we consolidate their experience and save them up to 30% by doing it all right here in-house.  Those lifelong customers are our best sales people.”

North Babylon Union Free School District, out of New York State, was officially tallied as the 100,000th customer account.  In celebration, Namifiers presented them with a $500.00 in-store gift card.

Tips for Life:  The Fox and the Grapes By:  Tyler Kimball —- I recall the classic tale of the fox and the grapes… - A fox sees some juicy ripe grapes dangling from a vine and leaps to get them. After several unsuccessful attempts, the fox walks away, proclaiming the grapes were probably sour anyway. He chose to deceive himself into settling for something less without reaching his goal. How many times do we declare “sour grapes” because we don’t obtain a goal? — If we are honest with ourselves, we know that it will almost always take multiple approaches to reach these desires. Rather than give up, though, we could learn to make a ladder, or ask a friend for help. After all, our true desires are the ones we obtain.  Those grapes are all the sweeter, and the next time you want more, you will have more tools and experience to obtain them more easily.

Utah’s leading business magazine for entrepreneurs and private, growing companies will announce the selection of their Fastest Growing Companies. Their selection committee recently congratulated Namifiers for their 3rd consecutive appearance on their lists. Official rankings will be released to the public later this year.

Bryan L. Welton, Jr. built the business Namifiers from a cramped home office with minimal equipment to its current 80,000 square foot facility in Springville, UT.  There, the company rallies around the goal to not only put a name or logo on anything (aka namify), but to do it faster and better than anyone else in world.  Their clients range from small shops and soccer moms to some of the largest corporations in the world.

The Fast 50 selection adds to the growing number watch-lists with Namifiers on their radar.  Other recent honors include the Inc 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies in America, the UV50 Fastest in Utah Valley, the Mountain West Capital Network Utah 100 List.

America’s leading magazine for entrepreneurs and private, growing companies will host its acclaimed annual Inc. 500|5000 Conference, September 23-25, 2009. Selection committee recently congratulated Namifiers for their 3rd consecutive appearance on their lists. Official rankings will be released to the public later this year. The Inc 5000 is an annual list published by New York’s own Inc Magazine, ranking the fastest growing private companies in America.

As of August 1, 2009 Namifiers has sold and shipped over 49,000,000 pieces since the company was founded in 2001.
When Bryan and Jenny Welton started the business, it was largely a local, nametag-specific store.  After  two years, Bryan pioneered their efforts online with the company’s very first website http://www.nametagsource.com  Not only did this attract more regional and national attention, but it generated exponential feedback on customer needs, which led to other product lines such as lanyards, badge accessories, signs, and embroidery.
That tiny home-based business has burst into the leading manufacturer of identification and branding products in America.  And today, we have our sites on the 50-million-piece mark, and we are anxious to double that in the next few years.
Thank you for helping us continually set the standard in our industry.

Recognition Review, a leading magazine to the Awards and Recognition Association, highlighted Namifiers in a 4-page article for their August Addition.

STAT HIGHLIGHTS:

SPECIALITY: Namifying. We came up with that term because we had grown a little tired of the words “customization” and “personalization.” We decided that what we do is “namify.” If you have a logo or a name, we’ll put it on something.
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PHILOSOPHY: Our philosophy is to namify the world. Our goal is to provide outstanding customer service and be a leader in the industry, especially for efficiency in production.
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FIVE-YEAR BUSINESS GOAL: In 5 years, our current revenue will be seven times higher than what it is now. We’re expanding into a couple more industries; for example, we’ve recently gone into signage and billboards. We are offering more branding and advertising solution. A company with a $20,000 budget can get every single thing it needs for a year-long campaign done here.

RECOGNITION REVIEW SUPPLIER PROFILE BY CATHIE BECK.

‘Namify’ Your Product: Namfiers
Bryan Welton is the father of six children, a political science expert, and a businessman who plans to generate seven times his present gross revenue over the next 5 years. He’s also CEO and founder of Salt Lake City, Utah-based Namifiers, a company serving 78,000 clients and employing 85 workers-no small feat for a man who is just 31 years old.

Namifiers supplies products to the recognition industry that include a wide range of tags and accessories. The company offers competitive pricing and selection for name tag printers, cutters, magnetic clips and other backings, as well as laserable blanks, ID holders and lanyards, IPI Plastic, wholesale printing and embroidery fulfillment.

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Have you searched out your keywords at Bing.com?

If you like what you see then you will want to be a trend setter and tell your friends to “bing it.”

Remember don’t say the other lexicon icon’s name when you mean Web search. Say, “Bing it” instead. For Fun You’ll Want to Search Your Bing Results at Bingle- http://bingle.pwnij.com/
[Note: Bingle compares the two result sets side by side.]

Finally, Bing’s useful search features have been written extensively but little are known about optimization. I’d like to offer my two cents in three words, “Anchor Text Matters.”

If you don’t have a strategic anchor text inbound linking strategy in place then you’ll want to check out our SEO packages at http://SEO.namifiers.com

SEO.Namifiers starts you on the fast track of Bing Search Optimization*.

*Notice, I did not use an acronym BSO or many would be turned off by the first 2 initials. Also, I did not call it B.O. because again others might be turned off by the thought of stinky service. My promise to you is that there is NO BULL in the search engine marketing services we offer. Honestly, it seems like yesterday in 1999 when I was working as a SEO manager overseeing 100s of clients in the tourism industry when I went around the office for 6 months trying to convince the owners and my staff to focus more attention to Google instead of excite, altavista, infoseek. Back in the late 90s all anyone new about Google was that the name was very funny and alarmist calls were quickly forgotten and ignored. Don’t make the same mistake and sound the alarm, visit http://SEO.namifiers.com and give me a call 800-470-6970, Ext. 189 or email me back at seo@namifiers.com

Click if you haven’t read recently the Crisp County High School’s Security Environment Policy that makes everyone feel safe and was developed by the students?

Editor’s Opinion: “I’ve always loved the commercial by Progressive Insurance. Progressive’s television advertisements depict an insurance superstore (presumably a physical representation of the Progressive website) with an overly enthusiastic cashier, Flo, who explains the benefits of Progressive Insurance. In the first commercial Flo points out to a customer her really “Big Tricked Out Name Tag.”

Now I have a new favorite and I hope you’ll catch it on air or click here at Youtube - Take a Tour with Flo.

Here’s the note from our account executive who sent me the email for this update: So back in October I did some lanyards for progressive and was told they would be for a commercial.  This weekend I saw the commercial and thought I would let you know.  Flo is giving a tour to a bunch of people with visitor passes and the visitors all have our lanyards holding the visitor passes. Watch Now Take a Tour with Flo!

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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!

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.�

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.

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Mark Herre is the Senior Manager for the SEO division of Namifiers, LLC. Mark has over 13 years of SEO experience, and has consulted both large and small clients as a permanent member of the Namifiers team for the past 3 years.

Namifiers: The Most Integrated Name In Branding.  For affordable and personable SEO service, call 800.990.2492 x 189  or visit online at  http://seo.namifiers.com
Email. seo@namifiers.com
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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.”