Promotional Product International

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By Laurent Olivier from Pixika gifts and technology.

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We are entering the PERFECT season for Promotional Rain Ponchos!

Automn coming with its lot of rain and greyness...

The perfect item for street marketing, sport or outdoor events...

Example: A big outside event: festival, concert or meeting is planed. Organizers and especially sponsors pushing their brand, anticipating a possible shower, buy customized rain ponchos with their logo on it: they just have to hand them out if it starts raining.

Let's imagine the impact of this communication!
It has a double positive effect: on one hand, participants are offered a rain poncho which shows how well organised the event is..
On the other hand, the communication impact will be very strong if thousands of people all wear your promotional rain poncho at the same time! And if the event is broadcast on TV, Success is guaranted!

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If your company is importing goods from China, be careful, next week, from 1st till 7th October 2007.

Most companies and forwarders won't work. Alike the Chinese new year, it means congestions of goods in airports and harbors, so potential delay.

Let the children express their creativity while you promote your brand!

Water color paint sheets allow children to express their creativity by using water color paint in a unique and fun way.

How it works – 6 paint blocks are printed onto the water color sheets. The rest of the sheet is customized with a line drawing.
You simply wet your finger or a cotton bud, dip into the paint and then paint the picture.

The colour blocks can be printed on the sides, top or bottom, leaving the rest of the page to insert information or pictures to be colored.

Uses:

- Awesome restaurant place mats, you could even print the children’s menu onto it.
- Competitions, print the entry onto the sheet and allow them to paint and enter a competition.
- Hospital, Doctors' or Dentists' waiting rooms

To see more information on this products visit: www.temptattoos.co.za

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What is fascinating in Europe is that each country has its own market for promotional products.
Some products will sell very well in Germany and not at all in Spain or Italy.
It’s nearly true that the European taste for premiums and promotional products is divides between the north and the south.
But one particular market has strong specificities: The UK.

It’s an Island, this explains already a lot, its also one of the last countries to resist to the Euro currency.

Let’s see what Gordon Glenister, Director General of the BPMA (British Promotional Merchandise Association) can tell us about this market:

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There is something you need to know about me: I am the kind of person you'd better not invite to take the aperitif!!
Because for me, the concept of the aperitif is closely bound to the possiblity of making a pig of peanuts!!
A big lot of peanuts... I just love it and I won't stop untill suffocation!

And now, you're going to understand why I want to move to Japan!

A Japanese invention which allows you to have your business card imprinted on a peanut!!

I found this product on a funny website: www.pinktentacle.com

I am not convinced the product is efficient to have new business partners! (your business card can disappear in someone's stomach!!)

But let's see what we can learn about this product:
Article from www.pinktentacle.com

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Are you sure you have never bought or sold any illegal promotional products?


The risk is real and becomes higher each day.

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Here is an article from Michael Merrick Crooks, a veteran advertising copywriter, creative problem-solver and promotional marketer in the US.

He's also a faithful writer of our blog, and we're most grateful he takes time to share his experience with us...

Learn more and sign up for his CrooksView Creative Digest newsletter at www.CrooksAdvertising.com...

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something as simple as changing the color of the sand in this hourglass makes all the difference of this Red Cross promo.

The sand plays a double role, representing both time and blood supply and serves as a great visual metaphor. Could your business or non-profit organization do something similar? Probably, but as obvious as this hourglass seems to be to the user, it probably took some real creative thought to come up with it.

Start by considering what your message is, think out of the box when it comes to product and customization, and I bet there will be a striking creative solution to your promotional challenges, no matter what you produce.

Info from Mark at www.blog.epromos.com

« Take your time or time will take you. » said painter Balthus.

Yes, well nowadays we don't have time to take our time; this is why we need to measure it and this is what watches are made for!
Watches are successful promotional products, mostly as corporate gifts. Sales of promotional watches represent about 2.20% of total sales in our market.

This product is a great communication tool when customized and a nice promotional product!

When you offer a watch imprint with your company logo, you will reinforce your brand image and spread your company's culture.
Its impact is strong, as it is a product you will obviously be looking at many times a day!

Be sure to make your communication successful with customized watches!

To have more information on this product, visit www.photomontre.fr

I'm sure you do the same as I do - when you have a piece of bubble wrap, you MUST pop the bubbles out of it. I like the feeling... haha!
But not easy to walk around with a large piece of bubble wrap.


So, a Japanese company invented this small bubble wrap keychain, you can pop the bubbles as many times as you want !
Easy to convert to an anti-stress promotional product once you print a logo there.

Who can say that he never found himself with a half-full soda can, without knowing what to do with it, desperately looking for a trash can to get rid of it.

A young French company found the solution with its Bubbleclik®, a stopper for cans, which was a laureate for the 2006 Innovation Award.

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The most viewed entries for August 2007 on this blog are :

• The power of promotional products on branding and sales
• The Urban Guide...Visit wise
• September 2007 tradefair list
• Wuppie
• Promotional Products and Business Growth
• Why should you use a distributor of promotional products?

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