We are a certified Smith and Warren badge reseller. Most of the work we have been doing is for the local fire departments. These great customers of ours have been purchasing service pins, and we are looking to help more of you. If interested call or leave a comment!

Now that you know who's running the show, it's time to do some dirty work. A budget is going to need to be developed and followed. A fine crafted budget takes a lot of stress out of the planning process and provides a roadmap to achievable objectives. The budget process is where you decide on entry fees, sponsorship fees, and where you will play. The location of the event, catering, and selection of awards and prizes all affect the budget. Also, you will want to take into account the amount you want to donate, rather than whatevers left at the end. Having a fundraising goal can help bring sponsors on board and create a buzz in print and online media. Another question that may get raised comes when you are trying to figure out the number of participants. On one hand you don't want to say no to someone who wants to play but you also don't want to be on the golf course for 6 or 7 hours. Printed materials cost money as well. Try to get a printer to subsidize part ...

The first thing you need to decide before you even begin is the roles and responsibilities. Who will be responsible for what? You are going to want to create a committee to keep focus on the tournaments goals and will bring the golf outing together. Typical Roles Needed Include: Tournament Chairman- the person with the vision. Expected to lead and provide guidance to the golf tournament. Honorary Chairman- Someone well known in the community to help draw golfers. Vice Chairman, Sponsors- someone who can focus on getting sponsors for the event. Vice Chairman, Event planning- Vice Chairman, Awards and Prizes- this person will be in charge of getting awards and giveaways to not only the golfers but to the sponsors as well. The committee chairman and the committee people will come from a variety of places, make sure they understand the objective and their place in the big picture. These people will be volunteering and should be recognized as such. Time is worth it's weight in...

We all know the golf tournament season is coming, and some of you might have already had your first meeting. Others may be thinking about starting up a golf tournament and not know where to start. While we don't think your first step should be planning the awards, we know that it shouldn't wait until the last meeting the night before your event either. Bux-Mont Awards is here to help. One of our promotional products suppliers has put together a golf giveaways and awards catalog in print and online to help you with your golf tournament needs. We will be publishing tips from the Tournament Planner here on this blog to help you with your golf tournament needs. Of course we hope that you will be thankful enough for the planning aid that you will want to try us for your tournaments awards and promotional products needs. And if you can't wait for these posts you can also read over the full version here .

We will be rolling out a great new service in the next couple of days. When we do a product feature on our blog, we will be putting it into a shopping gadget that will be embedded on our blog. This will show up in the post for the featured product as well as on the side of the blog. This will enable those of you with a google account to easily purchase products right from this page! Hopefully this helps make it easier for you to try Bux-Mont Awards for your trophy and recognition needs so you can see how great the products are this company has! The featured product shopping gadget!

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We can engrave stuff that wasn't purchased here (most of the time.) A lot of people are surprised to learn that we engrave stuff. Like our name isn't Bux-Mont Awards & Engraving Services or we are just a trophy shop. Thankfully we have a network of jewelers referring customers to us. Long time ago, the jewelers used to do their own engraving, but then it got to be too expensive and since we opened most have been referring peoples engraving needs to us. Most local trophy shops have the ability to do this. We offer a lot of the same products as a typical mall engraving store, but we do it at a more affordable cost with higher quality. The quality is higher because we take care of our machines and take our time. The more affordable cost comes from not having to pay high mall rents. Some other products we offer you probably didn't know we have include but are not limited to the following: Wedding Gifts Wedding Invitations Engraved Wine & Champagne glasses (also f...

Is it just me or is more attention being paid to local sports coverage in the papers. I heard on the news the other day that ESPN is going to start focusing on increasing it's local coverage with new channels to compete with comcast sportsnet among others. I wonder if local high school sports is where the newspapers are going to find their new niche to call home while figuring out how to make money on the web. There are two good sites covering local news in this area: phillyburbs Bucks Mont sports now site and Rally : The Daily News & Inquirers online offerings. Both are good, but neither of them have won awards made by Bux-Mont Award s so how good could they be right? But they have some great writers and coverage of the local sports today.

My wife and I were talking the other day about an employee that recently gave her two weeks, and I was saying how they needed an employee recognition program to help them retain their employees . She responded that being in a small dental office, they would just keep giving the same person an employee of the month plaque over and over. That got me thinking a lot about small business and what they do to recognize achievements and how it is a very underdeveloped part of our business. Some small businesses get it, but a lot don't realize that there is more to recognition incentive programs than employee of the month plaques. Even if you were to recognize someone monthly, you can easily create a plaque or recognition piece that sits in a prominent location in the office highlighting the persons achievements. Contests could be held between employees that would reward them for exemplary service or commitment to employee loyalty and this could be in the form of gift cards to their favo...

About.com's article on employee recognition is a good one. This is the one area where Bux-Mont Awards sales has fallen off. With the financial meltdown came fear. A fear that halted the stock market and a fear that skittered through the banks so fast it brought lending to a halt. This fear cost many people their jobs, and it cost many people their businesses and livelihoods. While answers are waiting to be found a fear persists. People know that changes need to be made, and many are doing just that. Paying down credit cards, saving more, searching for greater and greater deals, peoples habits are changing. But that doesn't change the fact that people need to be recognized. When business go through massive layoffs, or even small layoffs it fuels this fear I was just telling you about. This is a reason, in downturns in the economy, why you need to utilize recognition to show your employees appreciation. Because it works. Lets face it, businesses don't have the budg...

Hello 2010! We have jumped right into it and are having ourselves a very busy start to this exciting new year. We have big plans ahead for this year and we are excited to share them all with you in the form of these blog posts. As January hits full stride, our production people are readying orders for year end soccer banquets. If you have a year end awards and recognition banquet upcoming and have been getting the same drab trophies every year, maybe it's time for a change. Bux-Mont Awards offers the widest selection of awards out there. Specializing in creating a unique custom award for you at a standard trophy cost.

Someone asked what trophy dudes were the other day, and while they are hard to explain, they are undoubtedly the coolest thing to hit the trophy market in sometime. There hasn't been a trophy this well received since the children wanted the second place tournament trophies because they were the bobble heads and first place was a bigger heavier trophy! So without further ado, check out our soccer trophy dudes! This trophy figure coupled with the new spinning riser is a great way to recognize childrens travel tournament winners, and also youth league champions. Give the children these and watch their eyes light up with joy! Plenty of moving parts to play with and enjoy for countless hours. They will truly appreciate the hard work they put into the season with these trophies! Leave questions and trophy dudes stories in the comments section! Call Bux-Mont Awards with any questions at 215.257.5432 or order now!

Soccer banquets are coming together. We have gotten a number of orders in for the year end banquets most soccer clubs have, and want to let everyone know now is the time to put your trophy orders in. We ask 2 weeks production time on our products and time is running out to get your orders in on time. We would like the opportunity to show you how good we can be, and how we are the right fit for you. So please visit our showroom, visit our website, or call to see exactly what we can do for you. We find solutions to those awards problems you have. We work with you to create a unique custom award that satisfies the needs of your club. Helping you recognize your childrens achievements to keep them motivated and working towards building a healthy future is our number one aim. Whether it's one team or a whole league, Bux-Mont Awards works with our customers to find the exact right product. We have the right colors, sizes, shapes and types of trophies to meet your needs. Please gi...

The 2009 People's Choice Awards will take place this Wednesday at 7:00 PM. The event will take place at the Nokia center in LA. Our competitor Waterford designed a new trophy for them this year. An elegant glass design with Waterford Flutes going to all the nominees. Hope everyone enjoys! People Choice trophy page of course we can do anything they can do better, and Bux-Mont Awards has many great glass suppliers that will argue against Waterford being second to none. They provide us the ability to offer you the very finest awards in genuine lead crystal!

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Bux-Mont Awards started as an awards and engraving store, but as the years have moved on we have expanded our services to be a full scale provider of recognition services. Many of you are wondering what that even means and this blog is here to help you with that somewhat. Recognition can be thought of as incentives, as promotions, and as an identification. We do all of that. We sell brand recognition aides, otherwise known as promotional products. We sell products that companies can put their names on to help bring their brand to the forefront of their customers mind. With these products we help create connections between brands and their customers that will help these brands grow and become worth more. We have a website specifically designed for this recognition niche: promopros.com. Promopros.com is here to give you a place to research imprintable promotional products for your business or brand. We have professionals here to help you create a plan for these promotional produc...

There is lots to be done with awards in January, and for those of you doing your awards ceremonies in January, we are looking forward to helping you. For those of you who need there orders for January, we need to hear from you soon, because our production schedule fills quickly at this time of the year, and while we don't say know, we reserve the right to publicly flog you. Alright no flogging but please give us as much time as you can for production. We are looking to help more of you this year, so if you are unsure of how your company can utilize awards for recognizing achievements, we are here to help you. From service to sales, and beyond recognition opportunities provide you with ways to show people they are appreciated and keep them motivated to get the job done. Happy Winter!

Happy 2010, we are looking forward to you being a productive year for many! Let's hope our hard work pays off. And if you find organization out there while your ringing in the new Years, please send it my way, you are one of my resolutions and I will be searching for you!!! Be safe and happy! Congratulations on your hard work, keep it up, it is something to take pride in!