Monthly Archives: February 2013

  • FengShui Your Office: Do’s and Don’ts

    What is FengShui? FengShui translates to mean “wind” and “water”. It is a traditional art of living based on a philosophy strongly rooted in spirituality and Chinese history and ancient cultures. A more simple and modern definition ofFengShui, is the idea and practice of living in harmony with the natural world. Even though this practice is quite ancient, dating back to 4000 BC, it is widely used today and can be quite helpful when setting up your office architecture, design and arrangements. Skeptical About FengShui? If you are unsure about the possible benefits of practicing FengShui , try some of these techniques in your office and test out if they have a positive effect on the environment, staff, employees, guests, customers, sales, and productivity. Did …

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  • Create a Breeze with a Mini Fan

    Keep It Real Everyone loves to receive gifts and goodies, and most people view promotional products as a gift; they have no realization of all the good marketing that those products produce.  Promotional products are the easiest, simplest item to give out in order to promote your company, they are ambassadors of smiles! Keep It Simple As you start to figure out the posse of products you want to keep for giveaways you need to have a range from low dollar to high dollar gifts.  This way you always have the right item to grab at a moment’s notice if a situation arises where you need a product.  Another thought to contemplate is to make the merchandise really applicable to your customers and target market.  …

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  • Brand Me Social Media

    Connect with BrandMe on our other social channels in addition to our blog. We are growing our social media network and would love to have you come and chat with us on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. Be a fan of BrandMe on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/brandmeau and share with us ideas for the best uses of our promotional merchandise. When you choose your promotional products, you can share them with your friends and followers through our Facebook page. BrandMe is also on Twitter. Please come and follow us: https://twitter.com/brandmeau and get social with us, talking and tweeting about #promotionalproducts #BrandMe and #corporategifts.  We also like to talk about business best practices and marketing tactics to help our customers in addition to promotional items. Pinterest may be the …

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  • Save Your Change in a Piggy Bank

    Marketing Please? As you consider all your clients and then the target market your company would like to reach you have to be creative in your approach.  One of the best and easiest plans to implement is to give out promotional products.  They are simple to begin with and there are thousands so you never run out of good ideas. Have Some Fun with It Promotional products don’t always have to be serious but they do need to always be a useful item for your target audience.  Consider how your clients work and what they do within their business and then you can come up with some original ideas.  Generally the budget is going to be very happy with most promotional products because they are …

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  • Count the Minutes with a Handsome Wall Clock

    Essential Marketing Every company has to figure out what they are going to do to make themselves known to their prospective customers.  Marketing is crucial to the survival of any business and there are a number of ways to get that done. Amongst all the ad campaigns and social media blitzes there is an additional method which is pretty simple and easy. Here’s the Secret! A very easy and budget friendly approach to spreading the word about your business or service is to use one or more promotional products.  There are thousands to choose from so there are sure to be quite a few which will do a good job of letting people know about your company and what you do. Find It The best …

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  • Bucket Hats Protect Your Head

    Forever Marketing How will you make sure your company name is known?  A simple, very popular marketing method is to use promotional products.  By picking a good, useful item, customizing it to what your clients would like, and then giving it away free to your customers and prospective customers will do big things for your company.  You really have nothing to lose because the costs can be really reasonable. Begin Again If you haven’t used promotional products before then what you need to know is it is the easiest way to market you’ve ever seen.  To start you look at all the hundreds of products and find several things your clients will want because it doesn’t work very well if they throw it in a …

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  • The Harlem Shake is Rocking the World

    The latest in internet fad videos is called the Harlem Shake. It is being billed as this year’s Gangnam Style, but is taking the internet by storm and very quickly, inspiring others to do their own Harlem Shake videos. Oddly enough, the originator of the Harlem Shake video does not come from the city in New York, but from right here in Australia. When researching the origins of the video that inspired this post, we found out that the original video comes, in fact, from a skateboard business on the Sunshine Coast of Australia: The Sunny Coast Skate. Millions of Views, Thousands of Copycats As of 15 February 2013, over 40,000 spinoffs of the TheSunny Coast Skate meme have been uploaded to YouTube, generating a …

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  • Look Sporty With a Great Sports Bag

    Moving With Marketing Even though the economic numbers are getting better it seems like marketing just keeps getting more expensive.  But you always have to keep spreading the word about your company to keep growing and promotional products should definitely stay in the mix. However, there is free stuff and there is really good free stuff, and you know you have to make smart choices for you company. Give It Away! If you’ve been using promotional merchandise to grow name recognition about your business then you know all the benefits.  But repetition is never a bad thing when it comes to making your company more prominent in the economy: This stuff is free for your customers and potential customers Everyone enjoys getting free stuff! Being …

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  • Zombie Promotional Pens, Anyone?

    Using Fads to Increase the Value of Your Promotional Materials Fads come and go, but there are still some fads that are strong enough and last long enough that there is time to act on them and incorporate them into your promotions. A good, fun example is the zombie phenomenon.  Zombies are taking over the world – at least in pop culture. When you are thinking of promotional items for your business thinking of popular fads is a great way to get the attention of customers. A safety company could brand their name on our promotional mugs – with steps to stay safe during a zombie apocalypse.   Zombies may not go with your brand, but they might appeal to customers or potential consumers and …

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  • Beach Balls Provide All the Fun You Need

    Marketing 101 Lots of companies are constantly reevaluating what it is they are doing to attract new customers and keep current ones.  It is an always moving process that requires lots of thought and monitoring by those who are in touch with the marketing realities.  A tried and true way of marketing is to use promotional products, giving away free items to your target audience is a budget friendly and super effective method of spreading the word. What You Need The really important part of promotional product marketing is reviewing and monitoring the products you give away.  You always want to try and use fun but useful items that will stay in the forefront of people’s lives every day.  This is not difficult but it …

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