What We've Been Working On: Pucker Up

While embroidering is our bread and butter, we also enjoying providing people with screen printed apparel and imprinted promotional products.  We've been fortunate enough to be providing one of our favorite local customers with their branded lip balms for nearly two years now.  Do you have a promotional item you'd like to order for your business?  Contact us today and let us help!

What We've Been Working on: Cover up!

We've been a bunch of busy little beavers here lately!  Not only have we been enjoying a rush of embroidery orders but we've also been quite busy with our promotional products as well.  Recently, we were pleased to be able to provide this 8 foot screen printed tablecloth to a client of ours heading to a trade show in Las Vegas.  We turned the whole job around in record time and even shipped it out to Vegas so that it was waiting for our client when she arrived at her hotel.  Do you have a need for logo-ed merchandise?  Contact us and let us know how we can help you! 

Brand your Business: Bubblicious!

While you should certainly invest in a few "practical"  promotional items for your business, you should also consider keeping a few "fun" items on hand.  Unusual promotional items help you stand out from the crowd and bring some joy and frivolity to your customers.  These bubbles are great for customer giveaways for any business that comes in contact with children: restaurants, inns and hotels, amusement parks, and so on.  Also, this is another great promotional product which can also serve as a terrific wedding favor.  Instead of branding the bottles with your business name, simply label them with your wedding date or dates of the bride and groom and viola! - you have a perfect favor for your guests.  For more ideas for different ways to utilize promotional products, contact us today!

Brand Your Business: Back to School

Promotional Products can be an amazing asset to give away to promote a business, but they can also be a smart investment for any organization to utilize for resale.  With school starting up in a few more weeks, it's a great time to look at stocking school stores with logoed merchandise.  Just about anything you can think of can be printed with your school's name and logo.  We think these Academic Planners would be a great asset to any student's back to school shopping list. Best of all,re-selling it means you can profit and promote at the same time. For more ideas on how to use promotional products to increase your bottom line, contact us today.

Brand Your Business: Get your Message Moving

In the ever changing world of social marketing and instant media access, a lot of importance is being placed on the latest and greatest way to advertise.  While social marketing and connecting with your audience is important, you can't discount the tried and true methods for marketing  that have worked - and continue to work - to put your business in front of new customers.  Advertising with bumper stickers is a great way to reach countless people you might never come in contact with otherwise.  In addition to your car and your staff's cars, you can give away bumper stickers to customers to exponentially increase exposure for your message.  For more ideas on how to utilize promotional items to increase your exposure, contact us today.

Brand Your Business: Have a Ball

When considering the best way to utilize promotional items for your organization, never forget the most important aspect is that you want them to be something people will use repeatedly, thus increasing the exposure for your business.  A lot of people thing there should be a direct link between what your company does and the promo you offer, for instance a branded corkscrew for a winery or a branded key chain for a car dealership.  While these can be effective promotions, don't be afraid to think outside of the box.  Summer offers endless opportunities to give away fun items like beach balls, frisbees, pedometers, water bottels and jump ropes.  It seems like every weekend there are sidewalk sales, parades, tournaments, festivals, and fairs - all of which are perfect chances to increase your exposure and attract new customers.  The name of the game is get yourself out there - by any means necessary.  The more visibility your organization has, the more customers you will inevitably have. For more ideas on how promotional products can enhance your marketing efforts, contact us today.

Brand Your Business: Keep swinging

It is Summer and the courses are calling! Why not promote your business with branded golf balls?   Of course, if you're a private golf instructor, a school with a golf team, or country club, it only makes sense for you to invest in a logoed golf ball, but it can be beneficial for almost any business or organization. Perhaps you hand them out as a gift to some of your best clients?  Or perhaps you sponsor a local charity golf tournament and give branded ball out to all the participants?  Any which way you choose to utilize them golf balls are a fun way to get your name out there. For more ideas on how to increase your organization's exposure, contact us today/

Brand Your Business: Fair Trade

Promotional Products can be used in many different, but equally effective ways.  You can use them strictly as a  giveaway, distributing them to current and potential customers to be used as a way to increase awareness of your business or organization.  You can use them as an added value enticement for when your customers make a specific purchase - think of it like getting the "free" wine glass when you pay for a tasting.  You can even use them as point of sale merchandise- selling branded products at your salon, inn, bar or school.  One of the smartest ways you can use promos, however is as a lure to gain information about potential customers, or to get them to accept information from you as to your services and products.  Many people would be happy to fill out a survey, accept a pamphlet, or even supply you with an email address if it is exchange for a free water bottle, jump rope, frisbee or other promotional item.  Now you are gaining experience for your organization as well as developing a stronger database of potential customers.  No matter which way you decide to use them, promotional products are always as effective way of branding your business and increasing your exposure.  Find the right promo for your business in our online catalog or contact us for more information today.

Brand Your Business: Sit On It

 

Summer is almost here!  Time for picnics, baseball games, camping, and lounging on the beach.  In anticipation of the general public sitting in unusual and uncomfortable locations over the next 3 or 4 months, this may be the perfect time to brand your business with a logoed Stadium Seat.  They are easily portable, wholly convenient and sure to be kept for years - all of which adds up to countless possible opportunities for your business to be seen by potential customers.  To order these stadium seats, or to get more ideas on how best to showcase your organization through promotional products, contact us today.

  

Brand Your Business: Promote your Eco-Friendly Business in Kind

It may be Earth Week, but businesses and individuals are showing more environmental consciousness and responsibility every week of the year these days.  If you have a environmentally-friendly bend to your group or organization - or just want to generally promote your business while also promoting a message of eco-responsibility, there are literally hundreds of promo options available to you.  We think that this bookmark pen is pretty cool.  Not only is it useful and memorable (always a plus when choosing a promotional product) but the pen is made from cornstarch and both items are  made from over 65% biodegradable materials.   To order this, or any other eco-promo products, contact us today.

Brand Your Business: Clear Advantages

With more and more customers becoming environmentally aware, eco-products are a wonderful resource to promote a business.  Say you're a heating company that focuses on bio-diesel, a geothermal installer, a local food co-op retailer, or even a beauty supplier who specializes in organic and natural products.  You still need to be promoting your business and spreading awareness for your products, but wouldn't you prefer to do that with a product which reinforces your message of environmental responsibility?  Take these awesome pens, they're 80%  made of  recycled plastic water bottles. What's more, there are endless options for earth-freindly promotionals: rulers, mugs, awards, notebooks, key tags... the options are endless.  Contact us today to find the right eco promo for your business and your budget.

Brand Your Business: Natural Growth

When it comes to promotions, you need to be thinking at least a month in advance.  Event planning, production times, and proper marketing and advertising all take more time than most people realize.  Regular promotions can be an important tool in keeping your business top of mind with your customer base, as well as a tool to grow awareness of your business with those out there who have not yet discovered your business.  Now that we're in mid-March and the temps are rising, people's minds naturally turn to Spring.  But don't focus on coming up with a St. Patrick's day promotion, or March Madness tie-in.   Instead, focus more on what you can be doing in April or May.  Maybe an Earth day promotion is right for your business? If your business is involved with the exploding Green movement in this country, or even utilizes or sells green materials in their day-to-day operations, a green promotion is right up your alley!  There are literally thousands of earth-friendly promotional products out there. Pens, rulers, magnets and more are available in corn-plastic, a naturally derived plastic that's 100% biodegradable.  Notebooks, post-its, journals and more are available from recycled paper.  There are-usable cloth shopping bags available, as well as solar powered flashlights.  Almost anything you can think about comes in an eco-friendly version, making it easy for you to promote your business in the most environmentally friendly way.  Call us for more information on eco promotional items today.

Brand Your Business: The Whole World in Your Hands

There are truly a world of possibilities out there when it comes to promotional products, from the very silly, to the very practical.  We love how this World-shaped stress reliever combines both the practical as well as the fun.  Who doesn't have a little extra stress in their lives from time to time?  And who doesn't feel like squishing the world in their fists when that happens?  Not to mention that "giving someone the world" opens up a whole host of marketing possibilities with memorable slogans.  So why not make your next promotion something that will stick in your customer's minds?  Tor order your Earth stress relievers, or for more ideas, contact us today.

Brand Your Business: Up, Up and Away

Whether it's for a grand opening, sidewalk sale, fundraiser or community event, balloons should be first on your list of necessities for any function you plan to hold.  Because of their colorfulness, their height and their movement, balloons are an incredibly inexpensive and yet effective way to gather a lot of visual attention for you activity. Best of all, unlike many promotional products, many balloons can be printed with your logo or message in one business day and shipped out to you! No need to wait weeks before receiving your promotional items!  Balloons are available from a great number of vendors, in many assorted styles, shapes, colors and finishes.  Let us help you find the perfect balloon for your next event.  Contact us today!

Brand Your Business: Keep 'em Coming Back

One of the best advances for small businesses in the past 20 years is the ability for any shop to have it's own reloadable rewards card. Why should you have to be a corporate giant like Starbucks of Barnes and Noble to offer a magnetic strip gift card or loyalty rewards card?  Show your customers you value your their business - and impress them with your professional marketing - by offering them a personal customer card for your store. They can be magnetically encoded to make sure it works with your current credit card swiping system and each card can be reloaded indefinitely so today's customer can continue to be tomorrow's. Find out more information here.  For more ideas how promotional items can help you keep and grow your customer base, contact us today.

Brand Your Business: Show us your skin!

Is there anyone out there who doesn't have a smart phone?  (OK - I don't.  But I don't even have a cell phone. ) Let's face it.  most Americans have a least one cell phone, and more and more of them are smart phones.  In fact, if you've ever gone to dinner with, or had a smart phone owner over to your home, you know that most people have a little... shall we say... separation anxiety when it comes to their phones.  So what better way to ensure maximum amounts of repeated exposures than to use a phone skin as your next promotional product?  They come designed for a variety of phone brands and styles and in loads of fun colors, too!  Contact us today and we'll help you get your logo on the best and most interesting promotional products out there.

Brand Your Business: Reflect Your Sales

Another terrifically usable promotional item is a compact mirror.  It's the perfect giveaway for a salon, bath or lotion shop,  or a cosmetics or skin care distributor, but as it is so useful, truly any business could give it out and be assured of years of keeping your name in front of your customers.   Promotional products are a tried and true way of keeping your established customers coming back to you as well as gaining exposure to new customers.  Dollar for dollar, promotionals are one of the smartest and best ways to invest your marketing dollars.  Contact us today for how promotional products can help you expand your business.

Brand Your Business: Turn the Page

Happy New Year, everybody!  We can't thank you enough for all your support this past year.  You've made our first year in our Cottage Street location a great one.  As one year comes to a close and another begins, it's a terrific time to reach out to your customers.  You might have even noticed some of your favorite suppliers and vendors sending a promotional item your way as a way of thanking you.  Don't you love getting that new calendar from the bank or oil company?  It's amazing how we almost rely on these annual gifts, but as times get tighter, you're seeing fewer and fewer given out.  Why not set yourself apart from the crowds by establishing your own annual tradition.  Your customers will love (and remember) you for it.  Need some more ideas of how promotional items can figure into this year's marketing plan?  Contact us today!

Brand Your Business: How do you measure up?

As discussed previously, sometimes the best promotional products aren't even the ones which directly tie into the type of service you offer, but are the ones most likely to be used by the customers you give them to.  How do you make such a choice?  Well, take a look around your house and see which promos you've been given over the years which you have hung onto.  Rulers, magnets, pens, and calendars are definitely tried and true options. One of my favorite giveaways is always a measuring tape. You always need them, and yet who wants to carry around the giant, heavy metal one from the tool box?  Imprint the front with your business logo and contact information, and you have a business card that is going to be looked at and handled time and time again, keeping your business in front of its customers for years to come.  For this and other promotional product ideas, contact us today.

Brand Your Business: Fly Your Flag

In this "every sale matters" economy you have to explore any option you can to attract new customers.  Truth is, you can do all the social marketing, emailing and advertising you like, but if you're a brick and mortar store, there's no greater investment than your visibility.  Sometimes it's a sign, lighting, a sandwich board or a flag that grabs the attention of passers by... Sometimes it's all of the above.  Drawing people to your business is crucial to staying afloat.  Promotional products to the rescue!  We love these custom printed large lawn-flags.  They are attention-getting while still being attractive - and are completely customizable to deliver just the visual message you need to draw the eye of your potential customers.  For more ways promotional items can help you grow your business, check out our online catalog or contact us today.