Welcome to Lapel Pins Portal

Your online source for everything related to the use,
manufacture and design of lapel pins.

Why Lapel Pins?

Lapel Pins are one of the most versatile promotional products that exist today. Lapel pins are usually low cost yet have a high perceived value. They can be beautiful, elegant, or whimiscal. They can serve many purposes such as recognition, patriotism, awareness, membership, or promotion just to name a few.

This website contains short articles describing the multiple uses of lapel pins. You can find some great ideas on how to design your lapel pins and how to get the best product for your money. These articles are written by leaders in the lapel pin industry with many years of experience in helping their clients develop successful lapel pin programs.

Common uses for Custom Lapel Pins

Corporate Pride

Lapel pins are an integral element of corporate identity. Whether you are a big company or a small business, corporate spirit is important to the success of your business. Use them to show the corporate colors, at trade shows, conventions, sales meetings or just to build corporate image. With an attractive, high quality lapel pin, employees, and executives alike, will be able to show off their corporate logo in style. You don’t have a logo? No problem, simply order a custom lapel pin that is simply the company name, or use a motto, slogan or icon to convey your message.

Commitment and Identification

Lapel pins inform and provide recognition to others. You can use them to show commitment to an ideal, association or organization. Lapel pins can promote or encourage membership. A beautiful custom lapel pin can reward volunteers, donors or board members. They are great for fund raising, or just to promote general goodwill. Lapel pins are often used to promote awareness of causes such as breast cancer. Associations of all kinds, churches and charitable foundations are just some of the kinds of organizations that use custom lapel pins to promote their message.

More Custom Lapel Pins uses

Recent Lapel Pins news and articles

Show Your Patriotism with American Flag Lapel Pins!

With all of the media buzz over which politicians are wearing a lapel pin or are not wearing a lapel pin, it is interesting to take a closer look at the classic American Flag pin. Though some Americans choose to wear flag pins from his or her home state, the American Flag pin is the most popular style of lapel pin worn in the United States.

Lapel Pins: A Great Tool for Low Cost Advertising

Everyone has seen someone wearing a lapel pin, but have you ever stopped to ask about the story behind it? Most lapel pins are worn because they have a special meaning to the person wearing them, maybe where the pin was bought or the person the pin was given by. What most people don’t realize or mention is that their favorite lapel pin is a great example of low cost advertising.

Coca Cola Brazil advertises Coke Zero with tongue pins!

Where to wear your pins? How about on your tongue!

In Brazil it has become trendy to say that you like the taste of the new Coke Zero, and most people have proven it buy branding their taste buds with the trademark.

The Espalhe Marketing de Guerrilha Advertising Agency has begun a massive marketing campaign by paying for free tongue piercings for anyone willing to be photographed with a Coke Zero-branded tongue stud.

Obama Won't Wear American Flag Lapel Pin

IOWA CITY - Presidential candidate Barack Obama created a bit of a controversy when he stated he is choosing not to wear his American flag lapel pin during his run for the 2008 presidency. He gave a speech in Iowa City Wednesday, October 3rd and he wasn't wearing an American flag pin.

Common uses for Custom Lapel Pins

In today’s marketplace, lapel pins make sense as a low cost, high perceived value promotional items. They can serve many purposes such as recognition, patriotism, awareness, membership, promotion, etc.