Monthly Archives: March 2013

• Wednesday, March 20th, 2013

  Be Prepared with a First Aid Kit

  

  Vector the Marketing Sometimes the question is asked, should you use promotional products in your business?  Of course you should!  Your company has to use effective marketing to put your company in first place and these products score big. There is no logic in not taking advantage of one of the more popular and effective ways to make your business name expand. Making It Work When you have promotional products in the marketing mix it is fun as well as useful because everyone wants to get something free: Starting is simple! Choose from multitudes of items Customizing is the name of the game! All budgets can be satisfied When you decide to use these products you will be pleasantly surprised with the ease of use. …

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• Monday, March 18th, 2013

  It Is T-Shirt Weather Somewhere

  

  Marketing 101 Everyone in every business, be it internet or main street, is always thinking about the next great play to spread the business name.  Effective marketing requires good thought processes to keep it interesting and inspirational for your clients and target audience.  But amongst all your other efforts part of it will always include some type of promotional product push.  This is always the best way to reach out to those who utilize your company. No Question It Works As those who are responsible are wading through the opportunities available in promotional merchandising there will be some items which are always a winner.  It’s known by everyone that one of those will be the promotional T-Shirt; this is a hands down favorite.  One of …

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• Saturday, March 16th, 2013

  Organize With a Messina Keychain

  

  Everything’s on the Table You know as a business person in either an online business or a physical business forward movement has to keep happening, it’s a requirement for survival.  This means your marketing strategy has to be constantly updating in order for people to learn about you and then contact you again.  Knowing this you should be aware that one of the simplest methods of spreading the news is to use promotional products on a regular basis. Options Forever The best benefit when you use promotional product giveaways in your company is that they can cost as little or as much as you have available in your marketing budget.  There are thousands to choose from so there is great flexibility in how to use …

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• Saturday, March 16th, 2013

  Bring the View Closer with Binoculars

  

  Stretch It For the day to day and throughout all businesses the goal is to make your company known to your target market and beyond.  This takes a lot of marketing thought and decision making, not always an easy goal to accomplish.  But this goal becomes much simpler to reach when you choose to use promotional product giveaways as one of your techniques. Applications Whether you run an online business or a business on Main Street you will be pleased with the number of options promotional merchandise provides you: So many products, something to satisfy every client Every budget can find a soft spot Customization to expand your name recognition Sizes vary, small enough to go through the mail if needed There is no business …

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• Friday, March 15th, 2013

  Social Media Benefits for Business featuring BrandMe’s Social Channels

  Social media has become an essential part of businesses today. It is not just “a good idea” to have social channels, it is necessary to be able to connect with your customers in social media. Nowadays customers look for a company’s social media channels to verify that they are a legitimate business but also to know that they will have a way to get in touch with the company easily. If you are just getting started in social media, make a plan and pick the channels you want to showcase your brand and bring your company’s personality to life. It is not necessary to have a presence in all social channels, only the ones that you can keep up with. The worst thing is to …

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• Friday, March 15th, 2013

  Going Green for St. Patrick’s Day

  

  Going Green means a few things for us this month. St. Patrick’s Day is just around the corner and even though it originated back in Ireland, we celebrate the holiday here in Australia with quite a bit of fun. At BrandMe, we also take the time to reinforce our commitment to the environmentby revisiting our recycling and responsibility to the environment and our commitment to our customers to save green! Here are some great ways you can also Go Green this month with some energy saving tips for your office: Use recycled products in the work place. This not only includes the office supplies, but can also mean the products that your work purchases as well. Along those lines, we feature a variety of eco-friendly …

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• Friday, March 15th, 2013

  Cover Up with a Golf Umbrella

  Time to Move We all work hard every day and those in marketing are always facing multiple choices of how to best promote their company.  Over time some of those methods show themselves to be more effective than others, and using promotional products is one of those standouts. In the Know As the promotional products are used then the research has to focus on which of the thousands out there will give us the best bang for our buck.  A majority of the products are highly useful and effective but there are some that really shine, and one of those would be a Golf Umbrella. A golf umbrella is a product everyone will need and use, and this is the best criteria for choosing the …

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• Tuesday, March 12th, 2013

  New Facebook Timeline

  Facebook introduced their new Timeline to the news and media on March 7, 2013. We gave a preview of the new Facebook design on our blog last week. According to Facebook, the driving force behind the updated look is to “reduce clutter and focus more on stories from the people you care about”. They are accomplishing this with a more streamlined single column page set up with a focus on visual imaging, since photos are such a driving force behind Facebook. In orderto make sure you’re seeing all the stories you want to see,  they have introduced several new feeds to explore in addition to the same News Feed you have now:   All Friends – a feed that shows you everything your friends are …

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• Saturday, March 9th, 2013

  Feng Shui Part 3 – Air Purifying Plants that Help the Feng Shui in Your Office Space

  This is Part 3 in our Feng Shui Office series. Over the last few weeks, we have highlighted the different ways to utilize Feng Shui techniques to improve the flow of energy in your office space. Today, we are going to show you how plants can factor into the Feng Shui office equation and have an extra added benefit of purifying the air, as well as adding beauty and personality to your office design. Employees who bring plants to decorate their office space are happier and more satisfied with their job and their life in general, as reported by the Los Angeles Times.When it comes to promoting the chi and energy flow in your office, certified Feng Shui practitioner, Michelle Luongoadvises “Keep flowers or a …

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• Saturday, March 9th, 2013

  How Google Search Works

  

  Ever wonder what happens when you search for something? Google has released a very informative and interesting website that explains to us how exactly search works. Something that is done billions of times a day on Google alone, but is really hardly thought about; at least not in the way it is detailed by Google on their new website How Search Works. Google explains its search story in 3 parts: crawling and indexing, algorithms, and fighting spam. Crawling and Indexing When a search query is entered, Google crawls more than 30 trillion pages, as long as webmasters allow their site to be crawled. Google then sorts what they have indexed according to content and other factors to find the answers, categorizing the data and indexes …

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