Trophies2Go Blog

How do we as a company give back to our community?  Once a quarter, we choose a charity to support through our 'Awards for a Cause' program.  A portion of sales from specific trophies and awards goes to the chosen organization.

Northwest Harvest is the only non-profit food bank distributor operating statewide in Washington.

For the first quarter of 2014, our staff chose Northwest Harvest as Trophies2Go's 'Awards for a Cause' recipient.  Northwest Harvest is the only non-profit food bank distributor operating statewide in Washington with a network of more than 360 food banks, meal programs and high-need schools. They provide more than 1.9 million meals every month and 30 million pounds each year to this network of emergency food providers.  With distribution centers in western, eastern, coastal and central Washington, Northwest Harvest reaches rural communities where people in need have limited access to adequate and nutritious food.

Northwest Harvest requires that food be given freely to anyone that asks, respecting their dignity while serving their need.  They are committed to high nutritional standards and purchase a significant share of food to ensure a consistent supply of in-demand, nutritious products. 70 percent of the food they provide is highly nutritious fruits and vegetables.  To find out more, visit the Northwest Harvest web page.

Trophies2Go will make a donation to Northwest Harvest based on selected product purchases.  For more information on this program, go to our Awards for a Cause page.  Thank you customers for supporting our community by purchasing 'Awards for a Cause' products.

Cheers,
Jessica

We love our customers.  We love helping them choose the perfect award for their event, creating that award for them, and then hearing about the reaction of the winner.   We have special customers who make our jobs meaningful with their positive attitude and fun spirit.

Our 2013 'Customer of the Year' award!

We recognize our favorites with our "Customer of the Year" award.  This year's winner is Rachel Silvan at Cintas Corporation.

Rachel was nominated by our customer service team.  Qualities used to describe her include bubbly, sweet,  helpful and responsive.   Whenever our staff has a request for a Cintas order, Rachel is our go-to gal.  She gets us whatever we need right away. We are Cintas' place for recognition, including yearly awards, quarterly awards, and special events that happen occasionally through the year.  Our staff loves working with Rachel to help Cintas recognize excellence within their company!

Congrats Rachel and thank you customers for making our day.  We love working with you to deliver kudos throughout your organization!

Cheers,
Jessica

One of CIP's designer crystal awards, the Silver Blaze Award.

Since we don’t manufacturer our awards directly, but assemble and engrave pieces of awards, we rely heavily on our suppliers to provide excellent products at good prices in a quick time frame for our customers.

As part of our yearly recognition, we award an outstanding “Supplier of the Year” to recognize our vendors who have gone above and beyond to help our business during the past year.  For 2013, we are excited to be awarding CIP Creation Corp with this honor.  Based in Irvine, CA, CIP has been designing and manufacturing premium crystal awards since 1977.  Check out their website for more information about their company.

We Chose CIP For 2 Reasons:

1.  Quality.  They have beautiful, high quality awards with unique yet timeless designs.  All of their awards are gorgeous, and we are proud to sell them to our customers.

CIP Designer Crystal Awards on display in our showroom.

2.  Service. CIP provides us with great customer service.  When our Production Manager Tom places an order, their staff is polite, informative, and thorough.  This year they also provided us with engraved samples of their products to feature in our showroom, so our customers can touch and feel their designer awards first hand.

Located in California, we are able to receive their products within 2 days.  This helps us fulfill orders for our customers quickly, so they have the crystal awards in time for their event.

To see our full line of CIP Crystal Designer Awards, visit our CIP Crystal Designer Section of the Trophies2Go website.  Thank you CIP for your great products and service to Trophies2Go!

Cheers,
Jessica

The Honey Badger Trophy

This crazy nasty creature is our 2013 Product of the Year!

Eewww… what is that nasty thing? Why it’s the Honey Badger, the fiercest trophy on the Trophies2Go website! Honey Badger don’t care, he’ll just eat that cobra!

Pop culture icon, the Honey Badger was popularized by the YouTube video sensation. Click here to view the video (warning: contains profanity, not for young ears). This tenacious critter is a symbol for overcoming adversity and just going for what you want in life.

As part of our year-end recognition, we award a Product of the Year. This year our fierce honey badger wins the honor! Designed by our staff and created by JDS Industries, this little critter is full of color and personality.

Chosen by companies for a variety of office awards and by sports team for participation awards along with coaches’ gifts, the honey badger is an extremely popular and versatile trophy that can be used for any recognition. Funny and edgy, he brings smiles and laughter to any event. Made of resin, this spunky guy is hand painted in full color. Our customers give him 4.8 out of 5 stars – read the reviews to find out what others think.

We offer a honey badger alone, or as a perpetual trophy that can be passed around from person to person. Check them out!

Congrats Honey badger! You  rock!

Cheers,
Jessica

Check Out Our Team In Action!

Two weeks ago, I wrote a blog post about behind-the-scenes at our Renton Production facility.  This week I'd like to feature our Issaquah Showroom and Customer Service Team.

Come visit our showroom located 15 miles east of Seattle, WA.

Our Showroom

If you would like to see samples of our beautiful trophies and awards, our Issaquah Showroom is the perfect place to browse.  Our spacious 1200 sq foot showroom offers samples of both our sports trophies and our corporate awards.  We have been serving the communities of Issaquah, Sammamish, Bellevue, Renton, Newcastle, Snoqualmie and North Bend since 1987.

Meet Our Customer Service Team!

When you come to our showroom, you will be greeted by one of our knowledgeable and friendly customer service staff. Learn more about them below.

Margene has been with our company for 10 years!

Margene has been with Trophies2Go for 10 years.  Not only does she help customers both in person and on the phone, but she also researches and writes descriptions for many of the products we offer.  A woman of many talents, Margene also does bookkeeping, billing and HR tasks for our company.  She also follows up with many customers after ordering to see if she can help with anything else.

Janice, who has been with T2G for 6 years, is our Customer Service Lead and resident Canadian.  If a detail needs to be added or changed to your order, Janice is the one to see it gets done.  She also runs our 'Awards for A Cause Program', where we donate a portion of proceeds from featured awards to charity each quarter.

Mika on the phone helping a customer.

Mika works part time in customer service and has been with Trophies2Go for 3 years.  In addition to taking care of our customers, she also runs a successful real estate business.  She is passionate about giving great service and her customers love her!

Have an old trophy that needs the newest winner etched onto it? Mike is our go-to guy.  He engraves most of our perpetual trophies and plates.  He's also our "work husband" who does all of the odd-and-end chores we need done to the showroom.  He has been with us for 7 years.

Our President Jeff is the company's strategic thinker and resident goof ball.  He's a fun loving guy who works harder than anyone I know but doesn't take things too seriously (unless he’s in a competition, then he's pretty intense!)  If there’s a fire to be put out, Jeff's our man.

Janice & Jessica at the 2012 Seattle Komen 3-Day Walk.

I, Jessica, also work in Issaquah, as the Social Media and Marketing gal.  With Margene and Jeff's help, I also bless new products and ax old ones from the website and showroom.

That's the Issaquah Trophies2Go Team in action!  We love helping you create the perfect memory with an awesome award! Whether it's trophies for a team, a longest drive award a golf tournament, a fantasy football championship trophy, crystal awards for an annual Gala, or a plaque for an ongoing Employee of the Month program, our Issaquah staff can help you choose the perfect award in time for your event.  We are experts in our field, as you are in yours, and take great pride in creating meaningful awards customized just for you!

Cheers,
Jessica