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We’ve teamed up with the Smart Energy Greater Lincolnshire to take steps towards making our business more energy-efficient. They are a fantastic team, dedicated as we are to sustainable solutions for energy sources and lowering the amount of energy that a business like ours consumes.

You may have noticed we had a brand new website back in October and we are still working on making it better, sleeker and more user-friendly! We include postage and VAT in the prices shown to avoid nasty surprises at the checkout and now we’ve overhauled the look of the home page to make sure you find the right labels you require: Quickly.

The laws on e liquid seem to be in a constant state of flux (just like the vaping technology!) and with the Brexit looming, there are probably lots more changes to come. As rules become more regulated in this growing industry, suppliers will need to ensure their e liquid labels are fully compliant with whatever the regulations may be at that time.

There are printed labels everywhere!

We’ve seen sticker producers come and go over the years and lots of new technology that means you can print from home. Indeed, we even supply Avery compatible labels so you can do so. But with the hassle, cost and degree of knowledge necessary to print labels yourself, it is often easier and more effective to order your sticky labels online… From Sticky Labels™!

Because we stock a huge range of coloured and shaped labels, you can always find the right ones for you and customise them. You may want to choose a simple plain white background and add full colour print to that or a pre-coloured, it’s entirely up to you!

We can help with that!

Trials at three large office buildings found that signs advertising how many calories could be burnt by climbing a staircase increased the number of people using them by 29%. Incredibly really when you consider that a simple label can be responsible for promoting workers to engage in a  better exercise regime.

There are a lot of places you can buy printed labels from but we’re confident in saying that we are right up there at the top! Yes, that does seem a bit cocky but there are some very good reasons why we are the best. Here are just a few of them:

With waterproof stickers you can promote your business in a way that suits your needs. The labeling and design process is yours to control. Stickylabels.com offer a professional design service that will enable you to personalise your vinyl stickers and labels. This customised approach will help your business to have an edge on your competitors.

Problems with the mislabelling of products within the UK have been identified in as many as a third of products tested, and some of you might believe this to be down to a lacking in DEFRA standards, so what exactly are the UK labelling requirements?

Imagine then, something that can be found everywhere from kitchens to government departments; from NASA to a teenager’s bedroom and from the world’s greatest multinationals to the world’s smallest store. Take, for example, the case of self-adhesive labels.

– Delivery of wrong items to clients

There are many basic stationery items that make life easier, either at home or work. Where would we be without a handful of elastic bands, a board full of drawing pins, or a drawer full of paper clips? There is one other item you can add to these instantly useful items – and that’s our small, but perfectly formed craft Sticky Labels.

Personalised sticky labels can be an invaluable part of your business branding strategy, and come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes and are useful in many different ways.

In a world of digital printers and flashy design software, do you really need to rely on a professional company to supply your stickers and labels?

Business labels can benefit your company in a number of different ways. As well as improving health and safety, getting your brand out there, and helping quality and stock control, business labels are also cost-effective, easy to design, and simple to order. What’s more, with our simple design system you are able to pick a template based on your particular trade, covering everything from florists to plumbers, or design your business label from scratch, saving you time and money in the process. Still not convinced? Here are three reasons why business labels could be important to your business.

Designing professional stickers is easy with our free label designer! In fact, we’ve just overhauled the way designer works to make it the most straight-forward label designer out there!

When you’re designing warning labels or stickers for your business or organisation, it’s important to convey a clear and unambiguous message. Warnings that are badly written or contain unfortunate turns of phrase can be confusing but also comical, presenting entirely the wrong image for your brand. Clear warning labels are now as important to the packaging as the contents within.

However, stickers and labels are far more versatile than you might think, with a huge number of different uses that you may not even have considered. Read on for a few of our favourites:

One way that many ‘green’ companies choose to improve their environmentally friendly credentials is through the use of eco-friendly packaging. This includes reducing the amount of packaging used, along with using biodegradable and recycled labels and materials. However, while such companies may feel they are making their offering more sustainable in this way, many go on to fall at another hurdle – by using standard stickers and labels. If all the packaging materials used aren’t environmentally friendly, then there’s little point in using them at all. The answer is to use eco-labels to complement your recycled boxes, bags, and envelopes.

Good quality letterhead and compliment slips give your business the golden opportunity to promote itself on all your correspondence. This repetition is critical to making an indelible impression on your customers. Therefore it is essential that you use a professional quality lithographic printing service rather than just your own printer. 100gsm paper should be the minimum quality to consider.

You can use them for address labels to give your mail a more professional look. They stick down easily without any tearing or ripping which is very important if you have large quantities of envelopes to address.

Guerrilla marketing campaigns are generally highly creative and are designed to get people talking and sharing the brand’s ideas, creating a positive buzz about the company or its products and services via word of mouth.

If you are labelling chemicals or potentially hazardous substances, you should be aware of the change from the CHIP to CLP symbols or pictograms. Currently, the two symbologies are running side by side, although the CLP regulations came into force in January 2009. This has allowed a gradual progression to full adoption from the 1st June 2015. This means that the old “CHIP” symbols are being phased out and will cease to be valid after June 2015.

Since April 2011 there has been numerous high-quality stickers and labels appearing on trains using London’s Central Line on the Tube. They are humorous and satirical in nature and range from the sublime to the ridiculous!

We’ve provided printed labels for over 40 years and in doing so we have seen pretty much every “fail” you could imagine – though gladly not due to our efforts! It’s not just short runs of stickers either, it can be huge companies who are responsible for having large volumes of labels or even documents printed that have glaring errors – and you have to wonder: how it was ever approved in the first place?

If you make and sell hobby and craft products you will probably have used sticky labels before, but have you used them to their greatest effect? Here we’ve put together a list of five creative ways to make sticky labels work better for you.

Large corporations often insist on green packaging now and, even if they don’t, it is certainly an advantage when competing for a supply deal.

The reason being that they are cost-effective and very versatile. You can buy them in a range of shapes and colours and we print them with single colour or multiple colours…

… Entrepreneurs are the backbone of Britain.

One would need to have had their head well and truly in the sand not to have seen the furore over food labelling of late. With many supermarkets, not least Tesco, under fire for a range of misdemeanours, the topic has rarely been far from the public eye. Now, experts have even gone as far to indicate that substandard levels of food labelling could be responsible for the growing obesity problem. It’s more than simply a case of including a barcode label: All the correct information about the product must be included.

Annie Ives of the Trust contacted us as follows… “I work for Bumblebee Conservation Trust – a national charity working to protect our 24 native species of bumblebee through education, engagement and science-led practical conservation. My project, Pollinating the Peak, are holding a free family event on Saturday 5th May and would be using these stickers to label the plants that we give away to all families attending, creating a bumblebee friendly plant network across the county of Derbyshire. We are keen to use your stickers on our biodegradable, compostable pots but need to keep our costs to a minimum and also need guaranteed delivery before the event date.”

Christmas is fast approaching and for many, that means time with the family, time away from work, lots of excess eating and maybe a drink or two!

We’ve studied our market and noticed that many of our competitors can only offer a turn-around of 4 to 7 days. What this means is, you place an order with them and have to wait nearly a week for the labels to be with you. We don’t think this is good enough.

When Coke launched ‘Share a Coke’ in 2013, it was considered a cute and quirky campaign, but maybe not even Coke themselves realised what heights their marketing would reach.

Postage Print Impressions Labels or PPI labels are perfect for when you are sending large quantities of mail. PPIs are the simple alternative to time intensive postage stamps and franking machines. Discounts are offered to users of PPIs, similar to that of franking machine users, and you can use PPIs on UK and international postage. StickyLabels.com can take away the chore of printing, by printing the labels for you. What could be easier? Welcome to the new way of mailing.

Printed labels serve a variety of purposes in our daily lives, from identifying products and packages to providing important information and warnings. Whether they are applied to products in a manufacturing setting or used in the organisation of personal belongings, printed labels play a crucial role in helping us to identify and keep track of the things we use and depend on.

Customers can create their own specially designed labels that are company, individual or industry specific and can tie in with existing branding. It is, however, necessary to obtain a license for a PPI label to be able to use them.

Whatever line of business you are in, custom stickers are a versatile solution to many of your professional needs. Plain labels, suitable for inkjet printers and photocopiers, are a powerful marketing tool that can also help you to speedily organise the busiest workplace so that your business runs efficiently.

Better yet, designing your very own personalised sticky labels online is so easy!

Waterproof labels are hugely underrated in our honest opinion. They have a wide range of uses, from highly practical to entirely pointless (but fun), which we’d like to share with you.

The internet is saturated with lots guides (or “life hacks” as they seem to be called these days) that encourage you to create things, make stuff and generally have a crack at doing things yourself. Well, that is fine and dandy, but we can tell you that when we’ve tried a lot of these things, it’s just not turned out right.

Did you know: The stickers that we print are created by exactly the same processes as the stickers and decals that you see on vans and cars for companies. You know that if they work on a vehicle and stand up to the English weather then they’ll pretty much survive any abuse!