What is the Relative Value of Promotional Items?

What is the Relative Value of Promotional Items?

The Most Effective, Most Appreciated Ad Vehicles: Part 6 of 6 Today we complete our series on promotional items. A recent study by the Promotional Products International Association (PPIA) shows the importance of having them as a part of your marketing mix. It...
How Do Consumers React to Promotional Items?

How Do Consumers React to Promotional Items?

Promotional Items Build Loyalty: Part 5 of 6 This week, we’ll wrap up our series on the benefits of advertising with promotional items, A recent Promotional Product Association International (PPIA) consumer survey looked at how promotional items impact your target...
Will Promotional Items Resonate with Your Customers and Prospects?

Will Promotional Items Resonate with Your Customers and Prospects?

Are Promotional Products a Beneficial Way to Connect Your Brand with Consumers? Part 4 of 6 Welcome back to our series on the benefits of advertising with promotional items. It is based on the results of a survey by the Promotional Product Association International...
What Is The Reach of Promotional Items?

What Is The Reach of Promotional Items?

It’s no reach to think that promotional items with a company logo or brand on it is one of the best ways to reach your target audience with the longest staying power of any marketing buy. Find out all the reasons why promotional products should be part of your strategy.

Does Advertising With Promotional Items Work?

Survey: Consumers Say Promotional Items Are the BEST Advertising: Part 1 of 6 I’ve just come across some survey results that support something I’ve known for a long time and I am excited to share it with every CEO, marketing executive, business owner and sales person...
3 Promotional Items That Will Make You Feel Like a Kid Again

3 Promotional Items That Will Make You Feel Like a Kid Again

Three of the Hottest Promotional Items That Will Make You Feel Like a Kid Again! I talk a lot about the value of using promotional items as a part of your marketing program. I usually focus on functional, business-oriented items. But promotional items can be a lot of...
Get 20% Off The Hottest Promotional Items for Summer

Get 20% Off The Hottest Promotional Items for Summer

Save 20% on The Hottest Promotional Items for Summer! Some businesses think of summer as a time when things slow down a bit. After all, employees and clients are coming and going on vacations, and many are working trimmed “summer hours.” But this season is a great...
Do Millennials Respond to Direct Mail Campaigns?

Do Millennials Respond to Direct Mail Campaigns?

When Millennials Spend Time With Your Direct Mail Campaign, They Spend Money, Too I came across an interesting article in MediaPost a couple weeks back. The USPS reported results of a study that showed millennials (yes, that oh-so-wired generation) respond to direct...
How to Easily Create a Google Maps QR Code for Your Business

How to Easily Create a Google Maps QR Code for Your Business

QR Codes Are a Great Sales Enablement Tool for Your Business How many times have you heard that old “location, location, location” mantra? Well, one of the reasons for that is easy: it’s true! For a business, your location is critical. Finding you is a pretty...
Levelwear Promotional Apparel Will Get Your Brand Noticed

Levelwear Promotional Apparel Will Get Your Brand Noticed

It’s Time to Take Your Promotional Apparel to a Whole New Level with Levelwear Promotional apparel is always popular but let’s face it, it is usually pretty run-of-the-mill stuff. Now there is nothing wrong with the great, quality promotional apparel we...
Turning Consumer Trends Into Sales Tips. Part 5 of 6: Parenting

Turning Consumer Trends Into Sales Tips. Part 5 of 6: Parenting

Sales Tips: Dealing With Prospects’ Parenting and Life Challenges Welcome to the fifth installment in a series in which I am taking a closer look at the findings in a report recently released by Sheryl Connelly, Global Consumer Trends and Futurist at Ford Motor...
The Power of Print is Back for Marketing

The Power of Print is Back for Marketing

Marketing Departments Counter Digital Dismay With Print I caught a very interesting article the other day on a website that celebrates print media over in the U.K. It talked about how marketers are re-evaluating the benefits of print, and shifting money from digital...
IRC Labels Increase Sales and Reduce Retail Losses

IRC Labels Increase Sales and Reduce Retail Losses

Want to Increase Sales and Reduce Retail Losses? IRC Labels Do It All! IRC labels have been a pretty popular topic in marketing and sales circles lately. One big reason, as I mentioned last week, is that they have the highest redemption rate of all types of coupons....
What Corporate Gifts Will You Give Key Customers This Holiday Season?

What Corporate Gifts Will You Give Key Customers This Holiday Season?

Want to Get Noticed with Corporate Gifts this Holiday Season? Better Get Busy! Most of us love to complain about how early retail stores start their seasonal promotions. It seems like Halloween candy replaces school supplies on about September 1, and the decorations...
Custom IRC Labels and These Three Ideas Will Increase Sales

Custom IRC Labels and These Three Ideas Will Increase Sales

Custom IRC Labels and These Three Ideas Will Increase Sales In several recent posts, I’ve mentioned the success businesses are enjoying with instant redeemable coupon labels, also called IRC labels. Basically, these are coupons in the form of adhesive labels that can...

How to Increase Sales with IRC Labels 

What Are The Benefits To Using IRC Labels? Last week, I gave you some basic information about Instant Redeemable Coupon (IRC) labels. There’s a reason you see more and more of them today while shopping, or even browsing your favorite newspaper or magazine.  Actually,...

Go On Vacation With Your Customers This Summer

Promotional Items Let Your Brand “Tag” Along! I’m just kidding in the headline, of course. No matter how well you get along with your clients and customers, they’d probably prefer to vacation separately! Still, chances are that a well-chosen promotional item...

3 Business Takeaways From New Print On Demand Paris Bookstore

Efficiency Gives Customers the Print-On-Demand Experience They Want Wait, what’s this?  A new bookstore opening?  You’ve all heard the pronouncements that print is dead in one way or another. Well, the opening – or re-opening – of this print-on-demand...