With over 10 years of experience creating custom awards for clients including Audi, Frito-Lay, Sony, Abbott Nutrition, Genentech, Century 21 and Anheuser Busch, Karen McCrea shares her perspective on the latest trends in custom award design as well as her personal favorite finishing techniques.

Here are 13 fun ideas of unique employee award ideas for your next recognition event - whether it’s held virtually or in person. These awards can be voted on by the entire team, with each person being recognized.

Inspired by this week’s premiere of the 2020 Emmy Awards, we’ve pulled together 5 of our favorite custom award statues designed by the Bennett Awards team.

According to a 2018 State of Workplace Empathy Study by Businessolver, 96% of employees believe showing empathy is an important way to advance employee retention. The following suggestions provide some innovative ideas to appreciate and inspire the people on your team who will pull us through these tough times.

On the Our Hero’s Heart website, you can now purchase recognition pins, awards, and complementary items that demonstrably show how much you appreciate and value your personal heroes. These pins have designated colors and can be given to any of your modern-day heroes, from healers and educators to providers and protectors.

The Non-Profit Organization client we would like to highlight for the month of April is the American Cancer Society. We have worked with the American Cancer Society on multiple projects, and are thrilled to be associated with such an outstanding organization.

We’ve created a new program - Bennett Gives Back - to recognize some of the incredible non-profit organizations we have worked with in the past. Each month, as chosen by one of employees, we will be posting a profile of one of these non-profit organizations on our website to highlight the amazing work they are doing, and making a small donation to their cause.

Almost all marketing plans now recognize the importance of integrated branding. While most of the major elements of a marketing mix are included in this, awards are often treated as an afterthought. As a physical, highly visible, long-lasting opportunity for promoting your brand, however, your awards should be viewed as an important compnent of your integrated branding campaign.

The post covers some of the options and choices involved in ordering custom crystal awards from Bennett Awards. Crystal awards can be a quick, affordable way to provide custom awards tailored for your event or recipient, and this post will help you create the perfect award.

Most organizations use their logo as a foundational element in the branding and identity programs. Strong logos can be visual short-hands for consumers to reinforce an organization's brand identity and attributes. Forward-thinking organizations look for every opportunity to use their logo to help build and perpetuate their brand logo. Custom awards provide yet another vehicle to promote a logo, only this time in an engaging, novel, 3D form. 

Interactive awards are a unique, effective approach to custom awards. These interactive awards reinforce the design and communication objectives of the award, add to the uniqueness and impact of the awards, and increase the recipient's connection to the award.

Creating individual add-on components is a great way to extend your custom recognition awards program across a broader audience, enhancing both the branding and motivational benefits of the program.

One of the most important aspects of presenting a recognition award is to ensure that it is personalized for the recipient, event or presenting organization (or some combination of all of these).  One simple and cost-effective way to personalize your awards and trophies is to incorporate a customized engraving on the base of your awards. This post outlines some of your options for incorporating personalized engravings on your awards.

This post explains how our pewter sculpture awards are produced (cast), and highlights some of the key differences from the bronze sculpture casting process.

Any marketing professional will tell you that people don’t just buy products, goods, and services—they buy a brand. And a brand is so much more than the sum of its parts; it’s your company culture, your employees and their attitude, your promises to your consumers, your “personality” as a company. Oftentimes your brand can be summed up in one or two words; Volvo is “safe”, Apple is “cool and simple”, Nike is “athletic” and so forth. Much of what goes into your company’s “brand” is rather intangible, so designing a custom corporate award that is an accurate reflection of that brand is often harder than you might think.