Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Jazz Up Those School Prizes

A school prize is special. To achieve a prize in school is a real achievement. The winner has proved themselves and thus stand out from the crowd.
Parents and relations love to see a prize coming home from school. The prize will be shown to every visitor and it will be put in a place of prominence.
Special effort should therefore be put in to choosing the correct prize. A visit is therefore necessary to http://www.mullingarcrystal.com/ where a wide variety of prizes to suit every budget is on offer. At Mullingar Crystal, the school logo can be incorporated on to the prize thus giving the winner a piece that can be cherished forever.

Monday, October 22, 2007

Get the most from your awards ceremony

Mullingar Crystal, producers of crystal trophies,prizes and awards share their experience of how to get the most out of your awards ceremony.
After all the hard work is done, be it on the field, course or even on the factory floor, the winners are announced. Now it's the time for the organisers . The prize giving ceremony, the event, the invitations and most importantly, the awards themselves.
It is pointless if you have a sponsor and do not give them the acknowledgement they deserve. Also, the event itself must be acknowledged and if it is an annual event, then the year is important.
All of the relevant details should be engraved on the award. If the award is on a mantle piece in years to come then it is nice for the winner to be able to point to the awards and say "I won that for ....whatever....in that year"
Engraving is therefore very important and thought should go into the process. A good quality logo, text of the actual event and a date or year. It is important also not to put too much text on a piece, thereby taking away from the actual beauty of the crystal.
http://www.mullingarcrystal.com/ finish every engraving in silver thus giving a quality feel not only to the engraving but adding to the crystal award as a whole.
Mullingar Crystal currently has an offer where they will engrave one logo and text free on any crystal trophy in their range.

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

House of Crystal Price Comparison

We must be mad.........
Look at the money we could be making! Here is a price comparision between a piece from Mullingar Crystal (pictured here, code: 8040) compared to the same piece from www.houseofcrystal.co.uk
House of Crystal............................Mullingar Crystal
Type: Optical Prism......................Type: Hexagon 8040
Unit Price: £73.95stg....................Unit Price: €40.00
Logo Engraving:£17.00stg...........Logo Engraving: FREE
Text Engraving: £1.20stg per.....Text Engraving: FREE
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VAT: additional 17.5%..................VAT: Included in price
Sample piece with one logo and text engraving of
"The great awards 2004"
House of Crystal Price: £112.50 stg (€169.00)
MULLINGAR CRYSTAL PRICE : €40.50

To see more of our fantasic prices visit www.mullingarcrystal.com


Monday, October 15, 2007

Free Draw For Round of Golf at New Forest

New Forest Golf club have kindly donated a round of golf for two people at their fabulous new course in Tyrellspass www.newforest.ie
I have not played this course myself as yet but some friends of mine have and say it is excellent. To win this great prize, simply add your name to the Mullingar Crystal newsletter www.mullingarcrystal.com . This newsletter will be a monthly edition and wont be jamming your inbox all the time. It promises to be interesting with a "whats on " section for sports fans .

I would welcome pieces for content including perhaps, charity golf opens, any club or company fundraiser and photos of same.

Bernard.

Quality prizes from €11.50 (16usd)


No more plastic please. I have just seen those awful plastic figurines on the marble bases presented to a local team. This team had put in a lot of time both training and then in games to win the competition and only received 1970's style plastic trophies.
If your club is on a tight budget you can still give a quality prize. Mullingar Crystal has a special on the "bridge" range with prices starting at €11.50 (16 USD).
This price includes the cost of engraving!
To view the bridge range click here: bridgeaward

Thursday, October 11, 2007

See how our Mullingar Crystal is made



This video clip shows you the process by which our hand made crystal trophies are cut and engraved.

Bernard

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Price Comparison


This morning, I took a peek at one of my competitors websites to get a price comparison.
The site I chose was www.crystalartusa.com
They have a piece they call sterling award which is very very similar to our vita award (item number 1049). vitaaward

Their Price : $161 plus up to $75 for logo and up to $75 for artwork. Total $311.
Our Price : €37.50 inclusive of logo,artwork, engraving,taxes etc.

Result: I think it is obvious, if you do not buy from Mullingar Crystal , you are wasting money.

Friday, October 5, 2007

Why we are the cheapest

One of the most regular questions I am asked is how come Mullingar Crystal is so much cheaper than our competitors. Well firstly, I am not greedy. I want to make a living, hopefully a good one, but not screw people in the process.
How we actually operate here is in a "no frills" kind of way. We get our crystal pieces cut by outsourcing. Most of the crystal prizes are cut in China and we buy in bulk thus making it very cost effective. If we were to cut the crystal here with high labour costs and insurance, we would be at a disadvantage straight away.

We have invested in good technology meaning that when we recieve a logo or text from a customer, we can engrave any piece in our range quite quickly.

I think that almost every customer who has purchased from us once has come back again for more.
We genuinely make life easy for our customer, no contracts or crap, just order, receive and pay.