Tag Archives: brandme

• Monday, October 28th, 2013

  How to Be Seen: Outdoor Visibility Tricks for Businesses

  There are many different types of displays, signs, and techniques to attract people to your business. What really works? The answer is: it depends on your business. That means you should try a number of different things to see which works best for your business in your neighborhood and your community with your specific customers. Just because it works for one business, doesn’t necessarily mean it will work for yours, but you won’t know until you try it. The idea behind many of the different signs and flags are that motion attracts attention. What about the difference between a sign and hiring a sign spinner to stand out on the corner and get paid by the hour? A manager of a Dick’s Sporting Goods retail …

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• Saturday, October 26th, 2013

  New Facebook Ad Options that Help Small Businesses

  Facebook announced  an important advertising option update this week. The new change is that custom audiences are now available to all advertisers. This is especially important to small businesses because it makes it easier to target your own contacts in a Facebook ad platform. Previously this feature was only available through Facebook’s API and Power Editor Tool and was not widely known about. Getting started with Your Own Custom Audience Campaign Setting up a custom ad audience made up of your own email list subscribers is quite simple and intuitive. If you use MailChimp, it integrates directly with their system to upload your contacts or you can upload any email list. Once contacts are uploaded, Facebook matches the email addresses from your file to Facebook …

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• Saturday, October 26th, 2013

  Good Plastic Pens Promote Your Business

  Multitudes To promote your company there are an amazing number of promotional items available. There are those of you out there in the smaller organizations who might think this method of advertising is too expensive for their current budget. But you would be surprised to learn that promotional product advertising is all around you and that everyone from the smallest business to the biggest can take advantage of this super effective marketing machine. Tremendous Potential Whenever you investigate the cost of advertising you will find out how much cheaper this is than just about any other method. You can use these products in many different ways; they can be used by employees as they are running the business as well as given to customers. Because …

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• Thursday, October 24th, 2013

  A Keyboard Wrist Rest Can Do the Trick

  Don’t Be the One   Don’t be the business that is losing customers, fight for what you need to survive!  If you aren’t using promotional products then you need to, right away if not sooner!  We can get you moving down the better more productive path with all of our merchandise, and move your business into a better place.  We are always on the lookout for the best promotional items on the market and can help anyone find their way to a more dominant presence in their market.   You Know It   If you don’t know about promotional products then you are behind the marketing curve.  There are so many out there and we can recommend the best. One which is super beneficial is …

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• Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013

  Scare Up Some Fun in the Office This Halloween

  Halloween doesn’t have to be scary for your office. Sweeten up the office décor and plan some fun Halloween activities that won’t scare the human resources department. It will help usher in the beginning of the holiday season and can be a lot of fun and boost morale. Here are some sweet Halloween decoration ideas and some great seasonal projects for the office: Have a Pumpkin Carving Contest. Have a Costume Contest. Have a Candy Making Contest. Celebrate the Beginning of Summer with your favorite summer foods. Decorate the office with Halloween or Summer Décor. Have a pumpkin party and everyone makes or purchases a different pumpkin dish. Have an office Halloween party for breakfast or lunch. Trick or treat around the office. Play Halloween …

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• Saturday, October 19th, 2013

  Top Brandme Promotional Products for Trade Shows

  After all of the planning, time and effort your company spends in the planning and set up stages for a Trade Show, it is important to execute the right advertising plan that you execute during the actual exhibition or show.  An important part of that advertising plan is choosing the right promotional merchandise to display and give away during the trade show. Part of the idea of creating buzz and drawing buyers and attendees to your booth can be achieved through promotional products that are coveted by the attendees. When you provide the right promotional gift, the one that makes it home in the suitcase after the show, it is an excellent advertising tool because recipients of promotional gifts as a rule keep them for …

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• Saturday, October 19th, 2013

  Recycled Jotter Pads are Good for Business

  Try New Ways for Marketing The traditional techniques for advertising your business such as TV and radio ads, billboards, and direct mail pieces are not as impactful as in the past.  We are exposed to hundreds of ads of all kinds on a daily basis so the message becomes mute after a while.  But as a business owner or someone in charge of marketing you still need to find a way to make your business stand out from all the others in your field. A Fix What is really needed is to create more business connections in order to grow our business name recognition.  This always sounds easier than it is to do, however there are several effective methods for accomplishing this goal.  By far …

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• Thursday, October 17th, 2013

  Friendly Email Pointers

  When sending emails from a customer service perspective, it is very important to make sure that your emails are not misconstrued. It is hard to decipher tone and intent through emails and being short in an email can be interpreted incorrectly and being abrupt. Following these pointers can help ensure that you emails do not come off making you look rude: Include a greeting. In addition to addressing the email recipient by name, add a greeting. Identify your name and your company name. This can be done in the greeting or it can be an additional component. Thank the customer or client. Thank them for their email, if they emailed you first or thank them for being a loyal customer. If you are addressing a …

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• Thursday, October 17th, 2013

  Beach and Picnic Bags are the Best

  Your Best Shot Your business has to be in a continual marketing push because no company can thrive without effective marketing. It is the lifeblood of any business, keeping your business name fresh and moving forward in their industry.  We can help you maintain that momentum with our wide selection of promotional products. Even if you are using other methods of advertising you have to also have a promotional product giveaway component. Make Your Pick Amongst all the thousands of our products we know there are some which are always going to be super effective for spreading your brand recognition. One category of these super products is the promotional Beach and Picnic Bags.  Every bag in this category constitutes a wonderful giveaway, both great for …

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• Thursday, October 10th, 2013

  Start Cooking on the Barbie with New Accessories

  Find Your Path While you think about all your clients and then the target market your company would like to reach you understand 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. It’s a Fun Way to Go Keep in mind that 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 …

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