The Button Blog - American Button Machines — Button Makers

ABM Year In Review As 2014 comes to a close we'd like to leave you with the ABM Year in Review. In January our new website launched. Exciting as it was, come February, we did not rest. Check out all the cool stuff we did this year: February saw the start of our Customer Rewards program. What a huge success it has been. To date, your fellow buttoneers have redeemed thousands of dollars in discounts. Several new products were added throughout the year. 1” French wire earrings, 1.75” Keychains, purse jewelry, 1.75” necklace sets and upgraded flashing LEDs have all...

Who wants a FREE Button Maker?   Goooooood Mooorrrrnnnning Button Makers!!! (that was my best Robin Williams impersonation) I want to give you a quick update on our current Free Button Maker Giveaway. As of 12/23 we’ve received and posted 60+ qualified reviews. I’m happy to report they are all 4 or 5 stars with the vast majority of them being 5-star! You want to get in on this FREE Button Machine give away, right? Please don't wait any longer to submit your verified review. If you have purchased a product from us, review it on our website and be...

A Free Button Maker Contest Update We've had several requests for a "Free Button Maker Contest Update". First, let me say thank you one and all who have submitted reviews so far. ABM truly appreciates your comments. To date we have received close to 50 verified reviews. That is super! At this rate we’ll meet the quota and then some. We are so fortunate to have such great customers as yourselves. Here are a few snippets of some of the reviews we’ve received thus far. Of the 2.25” Professional Kit, Heather had this to say, “I purchased the kit and...

What do I need to know about making 2.25" Photo Buttons? ABM, as you well know, has button makers to suit any project. We offer the traditional round button makers. As well as square, rectangle and oval. ABM has button making machines for paper buttons, fabric buttons and, yes, photo buttons! Today our focus is on photo buttons. Specifically 2.25” photo buttons and how they differ from 2.25” buttons made with regular printer paper. While our larger photo button makers (3” & 3.5”) are designed to accommodate photo paper easily, our 2.25" button machine is a slightly different story. Technically,...

Do I really need ABM's Ultimate Extended Warranty? AKA - The cat ate my button maker.  Is that covered? With the launch of our new website earlier this year, we added features and products not previously available. These include the very popular Reward Program, the ability to calculate air shipping charges online and the Ultimate Extended Warranty.  You might wonder why you’d need extended coverage for a machine built as sturdily as ours; and rightly so. While these button machines come with a lifetime warranty against manufacturer defects, that warranty does not cover issues resulting from user error, normal wear...