The Button Blog - American Button Machines — Review of American Button Machines

Hey Button Makers! I have exciting news to report about our new website. Did you know you can now post a product review directly to the website? To get you started, everyone can earn 250 free ABM Reward Points until the end of the month! Reviews are helpful for a number of reasons. The most obvious being they can help a newcomer determine what will best fit their needs. We’d love for you to share your thoughts and opinions for those new to button making and who need help choosing the right product. Simply choose one of our products and...

Hey Button Makers! The big day is finally here so please congratulate fellow button maker Bill Manning - the winner of our first ever Free Button Machine give-away. We can’t thank you enough for helping to promote our FaceBook page and all the wonderful website & Google+ reviews. We’ve had so much fun with this contest that we’d like to do it again but we need your insights to keep it fresh. Please share with us your ideas for future contests and tell us what you’d like the criteria to be and which product(s) you’d like to win. We’re all ears!...

Continuing our March Magnets theme this week I’m sharing with you a few of the differences between American Button Machines (ABM) magnet sets and those of Badge-a-Minit (BAM). March Magnets Title Fight:  ABM vs BAM Round One: Size Options ABM (us) has magnet sets available in 1”, 1.25”, 1.5”, 1.75”, 2.25”, 3” and 3.5” BAM (them) magnet sets are limited to 2.25” & 3” Winner: ABM     Round Two: Appearance ABM’s (Us) peel & stick magnets cover the entire surface of the button back providing a professional looking button. BAM (Them) have a small square magnet covering a tiny portion...

If you have been following our button machine giveaway here on our Button Blog and our Facebook Page, then you know we are very close to reaching our goal of 1,500 Facebook  likes. There is just about a week to go until the big giveaway and we still need 115 likes to make our goal of 1500. We truly want someone to win and so we're going to make it even easier. A few weeks ago we launched our new website, which is not only easier to use, but has some great new features. Did you know you can now review products...

We find ourselves with an unusual situation today in that we have come into possession of a slightly used 2.25” button machine.  As you know, our button machines are beyond sturdy. We even replaced some parts to make sure it is in tip-top shape. We’ve been throwing around ideas of what to do with said machine and decided to have a contest to GIVE IT AWAY – FOR FREE!   All you have to do is like us on Facebook.  If we reach 1500 Facebook likes within the next 60 days, we’ll pick a name at random from our “likers”,...