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Trading Pin Highlights of the Week Jun 5 2009

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

More and more little league teams are wrapping up their trading pin designs and getting their baseball pins and softball pins underway! Make sure your team is not left out during pin trading day this season by getting your pins started soon!

Here are some teams that have finalized their custom trading pins during the last week.

The Ramblers Baseball Club uses classic red, white and blue colors for their team, which provides a great darker toned backdrop for their team name and ram mascot. This really allows the mascot to stand out as the focal point of the trading pin.

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The Baltimore Mustangs used a great mascot for a trading pin - strong, bold lines which provide a clean and clear image with a minimum of fine lines or small areas which are difficult to translate to the finished trading pins.

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The Keller Knights baseball team chose to use a polished silver metal pin base to accent the royal blue and black colors in their custom trading pin design. The white outline around the team name helps to accentuate this information and provide a buffer between the black text and blue state background.

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The Tampa Terminators wanted their trading pins to stand out from the crowd, so they opted to include blinker eyes in the terminator skull on their baseball trading pins. The black state of Florida and the gray and silver tones of the terminator itself really create a great focal point from the red blinkers.

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The Dallas Colts used a dangler to include the year on their trading pins, which allows the pins to gain value during pin trading sessions. Including this pin option also means that any remaining pins can have the dangler swapped out for a 2010 next year, potentially saving the team some hard-earned fundraiser money.

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Free Trading Pin Bags this Season

Friday, May 29th, 2009

Time is running out to get your custom trading pin order underway! If you have not gotten your design started, give our sales team a call at 888-279-7387 or just click on the “FREE QUOTE” button on our home page today!

This year, it seems many baseball and softball teams are understandably waiting until much later in the year to finalize their trading pin orders. This may cause a longer than usual wait time later into July, as everyone rushes to place their custom pin orders at the same time.

How does that benefit you and your team? By getting your trading pins underway early, you can significantly reduce the amount of time it will take for your baseball team or softball team to get their customized trading pins!

Our average time frame estimate is currently just 2 - 2.5 weeks, but we fully expect this to rise quickly once we enter June. Don’t let your team be the only ones without custom pins to trade this season. Let us help make the designing and ordering process quick and easy by getting your trading pin artwork ready and on order today!

And remember, just mention our trading pin bag special when finalizing your order, and we will even throw in free pin bags on all custom trading pin orders over 500 pieces!

Making Trading Pins Stand Out at Tournaments

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Making Trading Pins Stand Out at Tournaments - Trading Pin Factory
Over the years as a custom trading pin artist one of the questions I get
asked frequently is “How do I make my trading pin stand out from all the other pins at my baseball tournaments?”, or “How do I get my pin the most trading power?”.

The most obvious things you can do is add options. Danglers, spinners, sliders, bobble heads and glitter colors are all guaranteed to make your custom trading pin stand out.

Trading pin size is also a factor. It is hard to ignore the trading power of a 3 inch soft enamel baseball pin. Another added benefit to the larger pin is detail, which is also an important element to any custom trading pin. The larger pins will allow baseball player numbers to fit neatly and legibly within a strong design and add an even greater custom touch to your trading pin.

As always, our entire sales and art staff are glad to help with recommendations in any area of pin design. With our years of experience, you can rely on us to help make your team’s pin trading day an event to remember.