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December 28th, 2009
We have successfullly run the Discount Stickers offer twice and we hope to continue offering this price for a little while longer to show our appreciation for all of you. The stickers have ranged from business cards to family photos. We would love to print custom stickers for you at a price that is low enough for most start-up companies! The labels and stickers that we offer with this discount offer are of the highest quality and are both durable and waterproof. Let us know if you have any questions about the discount.
Also, let us know if you have received an order of the discount stickers or labels and how they are working for you!
Tags: Custom Labels, Custom Stickers, Discount Labels, Discount Stickers, Labels, Stickers
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November 25th, 2009
Its that time of year when everyone is reflecting on the good things in life and all of the wonderful blessings for which we are thankful. We want to thank God and all of our customers for making this year fantastic. We have been stretched and challenged to new limits from various order specifications and economic conditions. We are a better company because of this year. We love making custom labels and stickers for you and hope that this year has blessed you as well.
We are also in the stretch of year where business hours are in question, so we thought we would clarify. We will be printing and producing custom labels and stickers like normal from 9am-6pm Eastern time every Monday through Friday. The days we will be closed for business are Nov. 26 and 27 as well as Dec. 24 and 25. We are open for business on New Years Eve. You should take this information into account when planning your end of year purchases for timing purposes. We will do our best not to let the holidays slow down the production process from the standard 3 day (approximate) schedule.
Have a great Thanksgiving and travel safely if you venture out!
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November 17th, 2009
We have just launched a new page and product line for our site. We are offering our two most popular sticker sizes/shapes at a very low cost. You can check out all of the details here. You can now purchase 500 high quality custom stickers for just $50. This is a significant savings for anyone interested in buying something custom. These labels will be available for a limited time, since we are just testing them out. Let us know what you think!
Tags: Custom Lables, Custom Stickers, Discount Labels, Discount Stickers
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November 5th, 2009
We have seen a lot of really awesome wine labels come through our presses in the last couple of years and wanted to celebrate the industry a little. Here is a link to a great list of creative or beautiful wine labels. Our company is set up perfectly to help you with printing amazing wine labels. We can not only print very high quality labels and stickers, but we can also convert them onsite to any shape that fits on a bottle. We work with a fantastic company to get custom dies to cut out the labels and stickers to your specifications. Not only does our equipment help create well made labels, but because of the nature of our press and system, short runs on custom cuvees are no sweat. We have no minimum order size and can run as many designs as you would like. We don’t have plate fees for custom labels and stickers, so it is more affordable to print small runs of 250-1000 per design than traditional printing techniques. We also have two materials, called Estate 4 and Estate 9, which lend themselves well to wine labels because of their texture and heaviness of stock. Let us know if we can help you with your custom wine label needs!
Tags: Custom Labels, Custom Stickers, Paper Stock, Wine Labels
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October 23rd, 2009
Recently we went through our order history and looked at the most common label sizes and the most common uses of labels by our customers. We want to offer the best custom labels and stickers that we can as well as the best customer experience possible. We have room to improve, for sure, but the more we know about our customers, the better chance we have of providing the label solutions that they are looking for.
Some of our findings include the two most common sizes: 2″ x 2″ Circle label and 2″ x 3″ Rectangle label. These were by far the most common sizes ordered. Another of our findings includes the most common uses for the labels and stickers.
They include:
Beverage Labels
Food Product Packaging Labels
Business Contact information Labels
Cosmetic and Health Labels
Electronics and Software Labels
Candles and Aromatherapy Labels
Industrial or Construction Equipment Labels
The most common build of label was made with white plastic material, gloss laminate and printed with 4 color process.
Knowing this helps us not only be more attentive to the needs of the respective industries, but also to help the customer get what they need because we are familiar with other label construction and design in their market. Let us help you meet all of your custom label and sticker needs.
Tags: Custom Labels, Custom Stickers, Customer Expectations, Customer Service, Health Supplies, Small Business
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October 5th, 2009
It is commonly known that when an item is eye catching, it has a better chance of being purchased. Now the trick is to know what catches the eye of the customer. Custom labels and stickers are a great way to help catch the eye of your potential customers. Of course, not every customer will be drawn in by the same packagin or the same product category. In order to better market your product or service, you need to know your potential customer really well. A label that is designed really well and has high quality components will not be nearly as effective if it is aimed at people who are not looking to purchase your product or service. For instance, matte laminate on a custom label or sticker gives it a more artistic or elegant feel and would not be correctly matched with a product that is for something like deer urine hunting products. If you are trying to move products quickly in a liquidation scenario, gloss will be more appealing to the potential customer because it is supposed to appeal to a sense of urgency and whatever catches your eye first is what you buy. But, the best way to see if a label is going to be produced exactly the way you want and will have the look and feel that you are going for is to order a press proof. This is a print out of exactly what your custom labels or stickers would look like, except that they are not cut out of the material. They simply have a cut line printed on them so that you know where they will be cut during the conversion process.
Tags: Custom Labels, Custom Stickers, Labels, Packaging, Product Design, Product Placement, Stickers
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September 18th, 2009
In the current economic climate, it would be foolish to frivolously spend your hard earned money. It would be equally foolish to just hold on to it as well. The reason being, in order for things to get better they have to start somewhere. If no one spends money because we are waiting in case things get worse, then they will. It takes buying, selling and trading to make a business work, which is just common sense. It would be against common sense to think that by not selling and purchasing, businesses around you can stay alive. It’s not easy to spend money right now because there is no guarantee that things will turn around in the near future for your business or for any others. There is also no guarantee that the dollars we spend will be replaced in a timely fashion. We need to make every dollar count, and get its full value (and then some) every time we spend it.
When looking into what kind of labels and stickers to purchase, there are several considerations to make concerning saving money. The first is what size do you need. If your packaging can afford it, let your desired label or sticker size be flexible when starting your search. There will be times when you have an exact size that your product or scenario requires, but if not, you can save money by getting quotes on labels and stickers that are within 0.25″ of your desired size. On the other hand, you may be able to afford a slightly larger label or sticker for just a little more than what you are looking to purchase. You never want to buy a label that makes your text or images feel cramped. If you can afford to give your design some breathing room, you may have just purchased a more appealing label or sticker for your customers. The second way to save money is to see how many colors you need in to convey your artwork appropriately. Going with one color (usually black) can give your label or sticker a simple and classy look for less money. This may not be as eye catching as a day-glo orange sticker, but it may be the right fit for the customer or crowd you are trying to appeal to. The third and final way to save money on your labels and stickers is to have the design done professionally. This may not seem like it will save you money, but if you are a do-it-yourself kind of person and you are not talented with graphic design, you may end up having to purchase replacement labels and pay for design help if they turn out poorly in the market. And we all know that attractiveness sells. If your product is not attrative or legitimate looking because of poor packaging, you may have some useless labels or stickers on your hands.
Do you have any other suggestions or thoughts? Feel free to share them with us!
Tags: Budget, Custom Labels, Custom Stickers, Design, Economy, Graphics, Marketing, Product Design, Recession
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September 15th, 2009
Like any other business, we at Frontier Label have to be careful where and when we spend our money, but we also know that without risk there is no growth. We have to spend money to stay in business. We have to spend money to pay our staff. We have to spend money to advertise. We have to spend money on utilities and consumables in-house to produce custom labels and stickers. But, we also know that when we spend, we are helping another business stay alive. We are providing kindling for the furnace of the American economy.
Right now, it seems like the fire is just about out and the Government wants to fix the problem by throwing lighter fluid on the biggest embers that used to be the hottest. If you have ever dealt with starting a camp fire without fancy tools and lighter fluid, you know that you have to get lots of small sticks and flammable objects to start with. You start with the smallest possible item to burn and try to catch that. Once you have several burning objects, you start to get a heated center. There is a base of heat that you can use to add larger and larger objects to in order to get the fire going stronger. If you start by trying to light the biggest log first you will never get the fire going and you will waste all of your matches and sparks. When relighting embers, if you just throw lots of lighter fluid on them you can smother them instead of reigniting them. You have to start small again and get something new buring to reignite the old.
The analogy is consistent with business in America and the World. If you are a small business that sells, say, custom labels and stickers, you need other businesses to have enough faith in you to purchase from you to keep you in business. The label company then keeps someone else in business and so on and so forth until there is stability starting to form. The candle company that needs the custom labels from the label maker must invest in their own future sales by buying supplies for their candles and in doing so they give money to another small business. The small businesses that purchase from each other help to get a small scale reviving of the flame of commerce. If there is stability and success there, then it can transfer to larger and larger entities.
We firmly believe in the integral part that American small businesses will and are playing in the turning around of the economy. When you spend money you are investing in the entire economy and the turn-around, not just your own future.
Tags: Bail-out, Campfire, Custom Labels, Custom Stickers, Down-Turn, Economy, Lighter Fluid, Small Business, Stability
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September 10th, 2009
We are still working on the new opportunity to provide quality custom labels in a more affordable option. We have run some queries recently with our order history and found that there are a couple of very common label and sticker sizes and materials and styles that we would like to help people more easily access. The label and sticker options that we want to provide would be limited in terms of how the labels are built, but would be common enough to be sufficient in most applications. We will be releasing more information in the coming days as to what you can expect from the new offerings.
What would you like to see offered that would most often meet your custom label and sticker needs?
Tags: Custom Labels, Custom Stickers, Economic, Value
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September 2nd, 2009
Yesterday we had a meeting to discuss some new options for custom labels and stickers that we want to provide you with. We often talk about trying to push the limit of what the digital label and sticker market can do, and we are definitely headed in that direction. Without going into too much detail, we are trying to see how we can better serve our customers who are very value conscious. We continue to seek ways to utilize the equipment we own and the processes that we currently have in place to not only offer more, but offer better labels and stickers for your Dollar (Yen, Peso, Lyra or whatever you use).
What are some things that you think we can do to better serve your needs for custom labels and stickers?
Tags: Custom Labels, Custom Stickers, Customer Service, Value Added Service
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