Knife of the Year Award From Logo-Knives.com

For the year 2017, the award goes to the most popular pocket knife. This knife got the most orders, and sold the highest quantity. Factors that did not enter into the contest were price and country of origin. The winner is:

Maxam® Lockback Knife rsk274

This Maxam knife has a stainless steel blade and a synthetic handle. The handle is smooth so it can support your full color logo. The basic lockback mechanism keeps you safe when you are using it.

Why is this knife so popular? Its low cost, basically. But the sale price of $1.99 is not near the real price of $3.44 each. And the perceived value is probably between $5 and $10. This knife is an outstanding winner this year!

Logo Knives is proud to make this announcement for 2017.

The Most Popular Engraved Gerber Knives for Christmas Gifts

Have a Very Gerber Christmas!

Engraved Gerber Knives As Gifts

Some of the biggest corporations give engraved Gerber knives at Christmas time. They have their corporate logo laser engraved on them. Then they give them to their employees and customers. Why?

They are good advertising.
Gerber knives show how thoughtful the company owners are.
This type of advertising lasts a lifetime, as long as the knives.
They are made of high quality stainless steel.
The new tactical design is in demand among knife-lovers.

Here are the 2 most popular Gerber knives in our experience.

Gerber Mini Paraframe Knife 8485

Gerber® Paraframe I -8445

Logo Knives Are the Best Corporate Christmas Gifts

Why give logo knives for Christmas?

Logo Knives for Christmas

If the knife lasts forever, so will your logo. What other kind of advertising lasts forever?
Pocket logo knives are useful tools. How many times has a Leatherman tool saved the day?
Logo knives are appreciated by your employees and your customers. What other kind of advertising is “appreciated”?
USA-made logo knives show that you care about the American work force.

New Case Knives For 2017 For Christmas Gifts

Just in Time to Order for Christmas

A Case Knife Gift For You

These new Case knives with your corporate logo will last forever with your customers and employees. This is a cost effective way to make your advertising last forever, or until you retire. Each customer will love to own a USA-made Case knife.

Case has come up with new handle colors and designs. Some are synthetic, bone, and buffalo horn. Some are orange, gray, navy blue, patriotic colors, yellow, black, and white. Most of the blades are high quality stainless steel. One new knife is chrome vanadium (item 031), a material that you can get real sharp, and keep real sharp. Case does the decorating right there in their Pennsylvania factory. They do laser engraving, electro etching, Tech Printing (durable screen printing) up to 2 colors, and engraving with color fill.

These are my new favorites:

Case BoneStag® Trapper 3573

Case Slimline Trapper 80031

Case Orange Synthetic Medium Stockman 80509

Case Kodiak Hunter® (KODIAK SS) 90395

Do Your Company Logo Knives Increase Business?

Dave Navoyosky & Vince Deissroth With a Gift Knife

Do you give pocket knives with your logo to your clients?
Do your clients appreciate your gift?
Does this form of advertising help?
How do you know that company logo knives pay off?

The first 2 questions are easy to answer, but the last 2 can leave you scratching your head. Any form of advertising has to address these questions:

Will it be cost effective?
How will I know the advertising campaign worked?
Will the campaign have long-lasting rewards?
Will the campaign show my company in the image that I want it to show?
Is the success of the advertising campaign “measurable”?

A $50 pocket stainless steel pocket knife with your corporate logo laser engraved will be a good investment. But only if it is cost effective. If that knife brings you an order worth $5,000 or $1,000,000, it is well worth its cost. So quality company logo knives aren’t for a business that gets a lot of small orders.

How will you know it worked? How does Procter and Gamble know that their 30 second commercial last Tuesday worked? You can only guess that all advertising has a cumulative effect on your customer base. There are ways to track effectiveness. We can explore these methods in another post.

Will a gift knife have long-lasting rewards? You bet! So do it now, and not just before you retire.

Image: Choose the style of knife that reflects your company’s image.

Measurable results of this type of advertising: A great topic for next time.

500 Reasons To Give Personalized Pocket Knives

Personalized Pocket Knives laser engraved with your company logo are great business gifts for these 500 reasons. They are

made of high quality stainless steel
useful instruments for cutting and slicing
made to last for a very long time
considered to be gifts of high perceived value
designed to show off your company logo for many years, and to many people

But here are the other 495 reasons to give personalized pocket knives with your corporate logo laser engraved on the blades….495 very happy customers.

495 (approximately) Happy Customers

The Best Engraved Pocket Knives For Hurricane Survival

Hurricane-Harvey

In 2017 so far, the United States has struggled through 2 major hurricanes. Harvey hit Houston Texas the end of August, and flooded many square miles of land. Then hurricane Irma devastated most of Florida on September 10 and 11. How do you prepare your home and your family from these disasters? Does your survival kit contain a survival knife? Do you have a survival kit in your house, and another one in your car?

Here are my favorite engraved pocket knives for survival and rescue. Engraved, because they were laser engraved with a company logo. It’s the logos of companies who generously gave them to their customers and employees. What is a greater advertising gift, than one that can save your life?

Starline Elemental Survival/Rescue Knife MK110

“Defense” Rescue Pocket Knife 2625

Camo Survival/Rescue Knife MK117

5 Secrets of Engraved Buck Knives

Secrets of Engraved Buck Knives

Why are Buck Knives so popular and successful? Why do corporate managers choose to give engraved Buck knives with their company logo to the employees as business gifts? Whey are Buck knives a favorite business gift to customers and clients? Here are 5 secrets to Buck’s popularity.

1. Buck’s long history of success. Since 1902, Buck has been in the knife business.

Buck_Knives_Logo

Making new designs based on the public’s needs. They went from a hunting knife, to pocket knives, and cool looking tactical knives.
A focus on basic and new camouflage designs. Green and brown camo is good. Then they developed the orange camo design. I’ts still camo, but you can find it in a pile of leaves.
Keeping old favorite designs, like the Buck Folding Hunter Lockback 110 knife. Why fix it, if it isn’t broken? That’s good advice.
High quality stainless steel and handle materials. Without fail, you can always depend on the best quality from a Buck knife.

Will Walmart Sell Engraved Kershaw Knives?

Kershaw Chive 1600

According to the Walmart website, they already sell Kershaw Knives. According to “Promogram”, an ASI newsletter, Walmart announced in mid August 2017 its Walmart PromoShop, an online way to sell imprinted items such as T shirts for family reunions. They also reported to have pens, mugs, and bags.

Will they include Engraved Kershaw Knives also?
Will they be proficient in handling the detailed art problems in engraving business gifts? Screen printing T shirts is easy. Every town has 3 or 4 screen printers that do T shirts. Laser engraving expensive stainless steel items is an art and science. The imprinters that do those items, specialize in them. They don’t do shirts and pencils.
Will they be able to assist customers in designing a layout that is easy to read, and attractive? The current Kershaw Knives distributors are experienced in these details.

How To Search For the Most Engravable Knives

Searching for Engravable Knives

Fortunately, you don’t have to do the searching yourself. The people that do the engraving look for knife materials that will engrave well. Not all stainless steel is suitable for laser engraving. Some steel is not consistent enough to give good results when you laser engrave it. It may be a great blade or handle component of a knife, as far as durability and appearance. But it might not be suitable for laser engraving.

Here are engravable knives, pocket knives that have been tested for engraving. They all have passed the test for beautiful laser engraving.

Starline Pocket Knives With Your Logo