Best Lanyards Online

First off what is a lanyard?  It is the piece of fabric usually worn around the neck to carry anything from ID badges to security cards.  You also will see them a lot in sporting goods stores because a lot of people use them as key rings.  They can be purchased with team or corporate logos on them which makes them a great stocking stuffer.  Unless you are in the market for one you never really see them or notice them which is why the word lanyard seems so foreign to most people today.

The first time I used a lanyard was in a sales job I had.  In order to gain the confidence of those I worked with our talked to it was imperative they had something visual they could associate with trust.  The lanyard carried an ID badge incased in a plastic sleeve to protect it from the elements.  The sales job was basically cold calling in person and while the company I worked for carried all the proper licensing for the job it was not practical to dispense the licenses to all the sales force.  This meant that they needed to create something in place of an actual state issued license.

What the decided to do was manufacture ID badges and put security codes on them as well as security seals.  They ended up looking really officials but the actual numbering meant nothing.  I had people stop me all the time to write down the numbers on my badge.  Unfortunately for them those numbers meant absolutely nothing.

A few years later I started my own company and had employees who offered rock chip repairs to people with cracks or chips in their windshields.  Again there was a need to create an ID badge that looked official.  We used the numeric values for the three owners birthdays as the security codes on the actual badges themselves, added a bar code and a ‘seal of approval.’  They looked so official no one ever questioned what we were doing.

I guess in the end just because you use a lanyard or see that someone has one with an ID badge inside it doesn’t really mean that person is an official officer of that company or that they have passed any state or city approved inspection or background check.  So the next time you see someone using a lanyard in that way; make sure you get more information about their company before working with them.