Custom Pin-Back Buttons for Glen Cove, New York

An order for Glen Cove is identified and routed by the street address you type at checkout, because we hold no ZIP code for it in our records. That reads like a filing technicality, and it is, right up until a carton of buttons for a trade show table has to land on a named person at a named door. This page is written for exhibitors, the people ordering handouts for a booth or a conference table, and it is built around that one addressing detail: how to write the delivery line, what the five button sizes cost, and where the flat shipping tiers turn over.

Writing the delivery line so it lands

Start with a person, not a department. A booth order that arrives addressed to

"Marketing" sits at a loading dock until somebody claims it, and nobody claims mail addressed to a job function. Put a full name on the first line and a mobile number in the phone field, because that number is what a driver calls when a building has two entrances and no signage.

The second line is where the booth information goes. If the buttons are going to a hotel, a convention hall or an event centre, add the event name and the booth or table number there. Venues run mail rooms that sort by event before they sort by recipient, and an event name on the label is the difference between a box that reaches your table and a box that sits in a back room.

The street line itself is the part doing the real work here. Write the number and the street exactly as the venue or your office publishes it, including any suite or floor. Because the routing leans on that line rather than on a postal code we have stored, an abbreviation that would normally be forgiven is worth spelling out in full.

Five sizes, and what each one costs

We make round pin-back buttons in five sizes and nothing else. The 1.5 inch is $1.89 each. The 2.25 inch is $1.99 each. The 3 inch is $2.49 each. All five are full colour, printed from artwork you upload. Two smaller diameters round out the range, the 1 inch at $1.49 and the 1.25 inch at $1.69.

Count each size on its own, because that count is what sets the rate for it. Ten of the 2.25 inch cost $1.99 each, 999 of them cost $1.39 each, and a thousand of one size goes to a quote. Three counts are worth a second look before you commit: 100, 250 and 500 of a single size. Everywhere else, order what you need. If you are building a budget for a show, take the rate for the band your count lands in, multiply once, and that is the number you pay for buttons.

Size tends to be decided by the table rather than the budget. The 1.5 inch reads as a lapel pin and works when the design is a mark and a word. The 2.25 inch is the general purpose size and holds a logo with a short line under it. The 3 inch gives you room for a logo, a line of copy and still some breathing space, which is why it turns up most often as a giveaway people are meant to read across a crowded aisle.

A five hundred piece order, priced out

Here is the arithmetic on a typical booth order. Five hundred of the 3 inch button at $1.74 each, the 500 to 999 band rate, is $870.00 in buttons. Flat shipping for an order of that size is $19.99. The order comes to $889.99 before tax.

Nothing in that total is negotiated by volume. The breaks in the rate are published rather than negotiated. The only line that moved because the order is large is the shipping line, and it moved to a fixed figure rather than a calculated one.

Where the shipping tier turns over

Shipping is flat and it is set by the total number of buttons on the order, not by weight and not by how far the box travels. Up to 100 buttons is $9.99. Up to 250 is $14.99. Up to 500 is $19.99. Up to 1000 is $24.99.

Those boundaries are worth a glance before you submit. Five hundred buttons is the last quantity inside the $19.99 tier. Five hundred and one buttons sits in the tier above it, so a single extra button moves the shipping line from $19.99 to $24.99 while the per button price stays exactly where it was. The same thing happens at 100 and at 250.

This cuts both ways, and the second direction is the useful one. If you were planning on 480 buttons, the run up to 500 costs you the unit price on twenty more buttons and not a cent more in shipping. Exhibitors who know they will be short on the second afternoon of a show tend to buy up to the boundary rather than down from it.

Addresses near yours that we cover too

Glen Cove is 12.4 miles west of us, measured as a straight line. That figure is a distance on a map and nothing more, so read it as a sense of proximity rather than as anything you would see on a clock or an odometer.

Several nearby addresses fall inside the same coverage, and we get booth orders from all of them. Sea Cliff is 1.3 miles away. Glen Head is 1.5 miles away.

Glenwood Landing is 2.5 miles away. Locust Valley is 3.2 miles away. Port

Washington is 3.8 miles away. If your office is in one of those and your booth is somewhere else, order to whichever address will actually have a person standing next to it when the box arrives.

Preparing artwork for a handout people take

Upload the artwork and we print it in full colour. The thing worth knowing about a round button is that the printed sheet wraps around the edge of the shell, so the outer ring of your design curves away from the viewer. Keep any text or logo you need read flat inside the middle of the circle and let background colour, pattern or a solid field take the outer band.

Booth artwork also has to survive being seen from a distance. A URL set small on a 1.5 inch button is legible in the hand and invisible across an aisle. If the point of the giveaway is that a stranger reads it while walking past your table, the 3 inch with two or three words on it does more work than the 1.5 inch with a paragraph. Contrast matters more than detail at that size.

Four kinds of exhibitor who order these

If you run a single booth at one show a year, the 2.25 inch in a quantity that clears your badge scan target is the straightforward order. Buy to a shipping tier boundary rather than just past one.

If you split a booth with a partner company, order two designs as two separate quantities rather than trying to merge them. Both designs pay the same published band rate, and the shipping tier counts the total across the order.

If you are a speaker handing buttons out after a session, the audience is captive and already close, so the 1.5 inch is enough. Ship to wherever you are staying rather than to an office you will not visit.

If you order for several teams at once, collect the artwork first and place one order. The unit prices do not change by combining, but one order sits in one shipping tier instead of two.

Questions exhibitors ask

Glen Cove has no ZIP code on file with you, so what do I enter at checkout? Enter the full street address, including suite, floor or booth, exactly as it is published. The address line is what identifies and routes the order.

Can I have a Glen Cove order sent to the venue hosting my booth instead of my own office? Yes. Put the event name and your booth number on the second line and a named person with a mobile number on the order so the venue mail room can hand it over.

Does ordering more buttons for a Glen Cove show lower the price per button? No. Twenty prices itself at the listed rate, and a thousand of one size goes to a quote instead of an automatic price.

What does 500 of the 3 inch button come to shipped to a Glen Cove address? $870.00 in buttons at $1.74 each, the 500 to 999 band rate, plus $19.99 flat shipping, for $889.99 before tax.

My office is near Glen Cove but not in it, do you still cover that address? Yes. Sea Cliff, Glen Head, Glenwood Landing, Locust Valley and Port Washington are all within a few miles and all covered on the same terms.