Monthly Archives: June 2014

• Tuesday, June 17th, 2014

  Laptop Bags Will Make Your Clients Happy

  Have It All Covered All businesses have to compete for new business and that means the business with the most recognition is going to get the majority of their target clients. When you have to compete in your industry you want to be in control of as many tools in your marketing arsenal as you can have. However, the most popular and most effective method you can employ is to use promotional products. These items are always imprinted with your business name and are handed out as gifts which has a huge impact on your clients and your target audience. Make Good Product Choices Our inventory is extensive, it includes many different types of products for many types of industries. Of course there are universal …

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• Monday, June 16th, 2014

  Zoom In With Binoculars

  You Are In Control   Your business grows larger when there is more brand recognition, because great brand recognition means you are getting more customers. But accomplishing this requires a significant amount of marketing thought and decision making, these are not the easiest tasks. But getting these jobs done becomes much simpler when you make the positive choice to implement promotional product giveaways. With all the choices you have to make your marketing successful, our promotional products are the most effective.   What Do You Think?   Whether you are running an online business or a brick and mortar company we know you will find great results with promotional products due to all the choices available.   Variety of items is huge All budgets can …

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• Saturday, June 14th, 2014

  5 Expert Tips to Improving Your LinkedIn Networking

  Are you getting the most out of your LinkedIn connections? If you talk to anyone who is very active on LinkedIn they will tell you how valuable of a tool it is to them. The key is “active”. It is one of those things that you get back what you put into it. Fortunately, that does not necessarily mean that you have to spend hours a day on the business social network mining the data there. Instead, if you spend your time wisely optimising your profile and using expert tactics to make and meet connections, then you can capitalise on LinkedIn. Several months ago we wrote about 10 Tips for Optimising your LinkedIn Profile and now, we have 5 more tips, this time it’s more …

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• Friday, June 13th, 2014

  Trade Show Etiquette for Booth Staff

  Successful trade show exhibitors know how important staff training and booth etiquette is. The employees that are working in the booth are representing your company to the trade show attendees. Trade show attendees make up the most important buyers in your industry; they are the decision makers and the purchasing influencers. We have broken down this infographic into sections to highlight the details and tips on trade show booth etiquette. Trade Show Staff Appearance This may seem like common sense or second nature for most businesses and most sales people; however, it is something that still should be part of your training of trade show booth staff. Even in a busy and stressful trade show, maintaining appearance is very important. Booth staff should be easily …

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• Friday, June 13th, 2014

  Put a Yale Pen to Work

  You Will Be Successful Researching constantly to provide the very best methods of marketing to keep your business in front of your clients is can be difficult. But accomplishing this goal is essential to the success of your business, with no marketing there is no name recognition and without good brand recognition you won’t last long. So it’s important to use only the most effective and the most budget friendly methods available to you. We can help you reach this goal by using our amazing inventory of promotional products to generate and maintain your clients. It’s Yours to Give A promotional product which will work for you is also a free giveaway that your customers will love. However, it’s important for it to be a …

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• Thursday, June 12th, 2014

  Take Away an Eco Bag

  To the Trades Tradeshows and conferences are a great way to drum up valuable buzz about your business, but they also help companies meet customers and form new business contacts. We know that when you go to these shows you want to take some great promotional products to give away. Using promotional products is the only way to spread your name in a tradeshow, so you need to choose carefully. Making It the Best Giveaway The very best product to give out is one of our promotional Eco Bags. Giving these away will prompt customers to remember your company as they walk around and gather up the other giveaways at the tradeshow. Like anything else that has your company name on it you will want …

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• Wednesday, June 11th, 2014

  Magnetic Croc Clips are Tough

  Find Your Way Winding your way through all the choices for promoting your company can be quite a challenge. But we know that using promotional products should be a large part of your marketing plan because it is super effective and budget friendly. Giving away free items that are fun and useful is really effective because people love to get free stuff and they don’t even realize it is marketing. This is a really easy technique to expand your brand and name recognition to gain more of your market. Making the Decisions The whole purpose of using promotional products is choosing a highly visible and useful product which will be put to use on a daily basis. We think one of the items that meets …

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• Monday, June 9th, 2014

  Customer Service Lessons that Social Media can Learn from Traditional

  You might have heard the saying “customer service isn’t what it used to be”. Technological advances and social media allow us to put a personal spin on customer service today. When marketers and customer service professionals combine technological and take some queues from customer service, the result is a new and improved state of the art version of customer service. Here are some tips to combine the new with the old and make your customers happy over and over again. The easy fix for this is that the social media team should be empowered to make decisions and fix customer service issues without having to pass on the inquiry to another department. Social media happens in real time, so customers expect answers to their customer …

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• Saturday, June 7th, 2014

  How to Feng Shui Your Desk

  Last year we ran a blog series on Feng Shui and we are revisiting the topic with a new focus: your work desk. Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese practice in which objects in your home or office are arranged in a way to attract positive energy. When your environment is arranged in the right way for you, it allows the flow of chi, or life force, essential energy. Our previous blog posts included Feng Shui Do’s and Don’ts, Feng Shui Elements, Feng Shui Plants, Positive Effects of Feng Shui, and Feng Shui Colour Concepts. Does Feng Shui Really Work? Whether you believe in Feng Shui or not, there is something to say about a practice that has been along so long. However, now there …

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• Friday, June 6th, 2014

  What Logo Colours Say about Your Brand

  Since we help companies with branding, and logos on their promotional products, we are versed in logo design. One of the most important aspects of your logo is its colours. Selecting a logo without thinking about the colours first can be a huge mistake that ends up costing your business a great deal. When designing a logo and colour for your company think about the meaning and the feelings that the colours invoke. Many industries have similar colour logos for a reason, so look to the other companies in your industry and see if similar colours will fit in with your company philosophy and appeal to your target audience. Careful deliberation will help ensure that you make the right decision for the colours and design …

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