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Computer Mice for Excellent Desktop Promotions

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

As promotional desktop items go, few are as popular and used as often as promotional computer mice.  These promotional items have taken on a whole new look in the past few years.  Many are manufactured to order while others have innovative designs that make people want to use them. It is important to get promotional products printed with your logo and contact details onto your customers’ desktops. Doing so will ensure your details are rarely out of site. In this article I would like to introduce you to 5 types of computer mice that could work wonders for your business.

Optical Mice

The best computer mice are optical mice. They perform the best especially when used together with a mouse mat that has been manufactured for an optical computer mouse.

Cordless Mice

Why would anyone want to be connected by a cord when they could have the freedom of the new cordless mice on the market? There are many so be sure to take some time while searching for the best cordless options.

Light up Mice

You will find that many computer mouse styles are now available with special light up options. These generally tend to light up as the user moves their mouse illuminating the logo printed on them.

Mini Mice

For those taking their mouse from appointment to appointment, the new mini options are very much in favour. They are easy to carry around in business bags or laptop bags because they are not as bulky.

Eco Friendly Computer Mice

A new range has just been introduced manufactured in eco friendly fast growing bamboo and also recycled plastic. A good promotional gifts supplier will be able to steer you in the right direction if the eco options appeal to you.

When gifting a computer mouse to your customers and/or employees, it is important to remember that not all people techies. Take some time to sit with them to ensure they know how to install the mouse. It is not difficult and usually only involves sticking the mouse into the mouse port but many people are still quite scared of all things technical.

Try asking your supplier to see a sample of the mouse that appeals to you most. Install it on your computer to ensure you like how it works and that you can confidently show your customers how to install and use these top promotional items.

Your promotional gift supplier should be able to help you with any product or technical questions you may have at the samples stage. If they cannot, then they do not know their products and you should look elsewhere.

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Attracting People to Your Internet Business

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Promotional gifts can make your internet business a cut above the rest. No matter how aesthetically pleasing your website is, it will not reach customers without an added personal touch. To make your internet business truly connect with customers, and gain their confidence, consider distributing promotional items to your customers. There are a variety of ways to make your customers trust your internet business with promotional gifts.

One major obstacle internet businesses face is building trust with customers. Often, older customers are wary about providing personal information over the internet due to crimes like identity theft. So, your business needs to create confidence with customers and build trust with them. Before customers purchase anything from your business, they need to feel assured that your internet business is legitimate.

If you need to add professionalism to your business, then try giving out promotional conference folders or elegant pen sets to customers. To intrigue your customers, maybe you can simply have them enter a contest for your internet business. The grand prize can be a complete gift set full of promotional items, such as leather conference folders, a pen set and mug. However, you can give a gift to every customer just for entering the contest. Promotional plastic pens make great gifts that can be given out in bulk to every customer you value.

You can even take promoting your business with promotional items one step further. Instead of just printing your company phone number, address, or fax number on promotional gifts, try printing your company website on the promotional gifts. Other creative ideas are to print a blog website address, Facebook Like page or Twitter username on promotional gifts. Utilize as much social media as you can, in addition to promotional products, and your internet business will increase traffic as soon as a few days.

If your company hosts a blog, you can also engage your audience on a blog with promotional gifts. Come up with creative contests in which your audience comes up with the best humorous Youtube commercial featuring your company. You can then award anything from a cool stress toy to a mouse mat for the winner with the best Youtube commercial.

When trying to increase traffic for your internet business, think outside of the box and consider some fresh ideas. Using promotional merchandise such as stress toys, mouse mats, or pen sets to promote your internet business can be just the marketing strategy your company needed to increase traffic.

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Promotional Glass Mugs for Building Your Brand

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Promotional glass mugs are all the rage these days. Visit your favourite coffee house and chances are they will be serving your coffee in stylish glass mugs or fancy earthenware mugs. Glass mugs are casual elegance. Let’s face it, when you are drinking your favourite hot or cold beverage you are often just chilling, trying to unwind for a moment of peace. Holding a elegant good quality mug in your hand makes the experience that much nicer. Imagine relaxing on a nice summer day with your favourite beverage, glass mug in hand and you will see why these promotional mugs are becoming so popular.

So what type of business uses promotional glass mugs to promote their products, services or facilities? The answer is all types of businesses do. The obvious answer would be classy coffee shops and tea rooms. This is a given. But what about all of the smart marketers out there who have decided to renew or reinvent their company image and are now using these elegant printed mugs in their boardrooms. Believe me, these professionals are some of the biggest consumers of the quality branded mugs.

Glass mugs also look fantastic printed with company logos at conferences and on the exhibition stand. Many businesses exhibiting like to have a little place off to the side of their tradeshow stand where they can sit down with their customers over a cup of coffee to discuss their services. Handing your customer a logo printed mug made out of glass will give the impression that you mean business. Don’t forget to give them a couple of gift boxed glass mugs to take with them to use after the show!

Promotional mugs of all types are excellent for promoting your brand. People use mugs daily in the office and at home. Many have a favourite mug that gets used daily and that is never far from their person. Ensuring that your top customers have promotional mug with your logo and details printed on the surface will no doubt offer you months if not years of prime advertising space.

There are many different styles to choose from. At CompuGift we can help you find the best promotional glass mugs for your next big promotion.

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Promotional Mobile Phone Holders for Promotion

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Promotional mobile phone holders are the must have item for the business desktop. Perhaps you have already noticed how popular these products are. So popular, that many new and innovative designs have hit the market that simply must be seen if you are looking for eye-catching ways to promote your business. In this article I will introduce you to five of the most popular cell phone holders from the least expensive to the top executive options, you will get the lowdown right here.

PVC Mobile Holders

Among the least expensive of these must have promotional items are those manufactured in PVC. Don’t let the fact that they are made from plastic scare you away! These PVC desktop promotional items look fantastic. They are supplied flat packed which makes it easy to hand them out at trade shows, exhibitions and to send in the post. The best quality versions can be printed in up to four spot colours. Don’t make a large purchase before checking these inexpensive options out first!

Recycled Card Mobile Holders

Most businesses now have eco policies in place and these top quality low cost recycled phone holders can help you promote your eco friendly message. LIke the PVC models, they are supplied flat packed for easy distribution and they have the added bonus of being able to be printed in full colour with eye-catching graphics.

Sockie Mobile Phone Pouches

Not all cell phone holder sit on the desktop. If you have customers who are out and about quite often, why not gift them logo printed phone sock-like phone pouches that they can wear around their neck. These pouches are inexpensive yet very useful.

Metal Desktop Holders

If you are looking for a nice executive gift that your customers and employees will keep for years, why not check out the massive selection of top quality desktop holders available. Logo printed they look great, engraved they look amazing. Many of these heavy desktop promotional items are low cost yet look and feel much more expensive than they really are.

USB Desktop Cell Holders

Add a few much needed USB ports to the standard cell phone holder and you have an excellent executive gift that your customers will love and use regularly. Many come with new high friction grips that make you phone stick to the holder. Chances are, your customers’ work colleagues and customers will be on the phone to you asking if they can have one of your logo branded desktop phone items. That is perfect brand building.

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Promotional Clothing for the Work Place

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

Promotional work clothing includes any type of uniform or gear that is branded with the company name, logo, or other form of advertisement. At many places of employment, all employees are required to wear company garments at all times. Defined business fashions can help to unify teams and increase production levels through the elimination of garment distractions and gear malfunctions.

Promotional Work Shirts: Company work shirts can be branded with printing or embroidery that depicts any message or image that can promote the company name or product-lines. Long-sleeve and short-sleeve advertising shirts can be made from the popular shirt brands that employees enjoy wearing during their leisure hours. Brand name promotional t-shirts, advertising sports shirts, logo denim shirts, classy turtlenecks, icon sweatshirts, and more are available for sale at the online promotional item stores.

Promotional Jackets and Fleece: Many companies use promotional jackets, advertising hoodies, or fleece pullovers as a part of their everyday business uniforms. Company sweaters, jackets, and hoodies help to eliminate the recurring higher heat costs that many businesses struggle with when employees dress inappropriately for winter. For all outside jobs, company jackets help to keep the uniform showing on the jobsites. Sturdy advertising jackets are sold in large or small lots at discount rates for printing.

Promotional Caps and Visors: Promotional caps and visors can display an advertising message or logo on any part of the hat. Traditionally, the front panels of caps are used to display printed or embroidered information. Cap styles come in low, medium, and tall styles that can allow the right amount of space for branding. Hatbands can come in options that can wick moisture away from the head, and there are many different types of closure systems. Inexpensive promo caps are used in all types of industries.

Promotional Office Gear, Safety Equipment, and Tools: Everything on the jobsite can wear your important company logo. Today’s huge promotional advertising stores carry full lines of office products, safety equipment, and work tools that can benefit all types of industries. Branded business accessories and workplace tools are high-quality items that can help to enhance your important company image. It is possible to get items such as tool promotional lanyards, advertising laptop cases, or elegant safety awards printed with any type of message that will benefit the hosting company or corporation.

Company work clothing and gear is sold in large and small lot sizes at wholesale prices. The unit prices become lower as order sizes go up.

At CompuGift we offer more choices in workplace goods than the traditional uniform supply houses. Our range includes most of the name brands as well as some quite impressive generic brands.

For more information about promotional workwear, please contact us on 01642 782455.

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5 Ideas For Hosting Social Media Contests With Logo Printed Promotional Gifts As Prizes

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

Whether you are using YouTube, Twitter, or Facebook, there are plenty of ways to connect with your customers. If you want to be more engaged with customers and give them a greater incentive for being interested in your company, why not try hosting a fun contest? One of the most popular ways to use social media is by hosting a contest. This article will provide you with 5 contest ideas that will get people excited and motivated about your business and the products and services it has to offer.

1. Host a Photo Contest with Flickr

Do you have an interesting product that can be photographed well? Do you sell rare books or the best burgers in town? Have your customers capture the experience and post their photos on your company’s blog or Facebook page. Pick out the funniest one and award them with a promotional t-shirt with your company logo! Using Flickr can be the best route for this type of contest, since it is a form of social media catered to sharing photographs.

2. Best “Personal Experience” Contest

Have customers gush about your products or services. Whether you want a 140 character tweet or 2,000 word blogpost, give customers an incentive to start typing away with this type of contest. Provide customers with a cash prize and promotional products featuring your company logo. You can decide to give everyone who participated a pen or magnet, and then give the best stories something more substantial like a fully lined leather folder or promotional crystal glassware. You can take this type of contest to the next level by requiring that certain keywords appear a certain number of times in an article. With this requirement, the positive reviews may appear at the top of any search engine feed!

3. YouTube Video Contest

Have your customers write and rehearse a song or dramatic poetry reading about your business’s products or services. Often, the results are hilarious and can be spread quickly online! The more creative the video entries, the more likely a large audience will tune in to see the hilariousness. Don’t be afraid to take fun risks like this for your business!

4. Create a Funky Trivia Contest

Did your grandfather create your business with only a nickel in his pocket? Does your business help out with a great charity? Many businesses have a fascinating history that is not well-known amongst customers. So, host a trivia contest and get customers on a hunt to find out more about your company! This is a great way to create a more established online presence and make your brand more known amongst customers.

5. New Product Ideas

Challenge your customers and see if they have what it takes to create your next product. If you own a shoe company, have customers send in the design of your next shoe line. Whatever product your business sells, engage your customers and get their minds competing for the best product idea. Often, the sketches you can receive in this type of contest are high-quality and will get you the next winning product for your company! Plus, customers enjoy receiving prizes in the form of promotional sports bags, promotional golf balls, promotional mugs, or whatever you choose to give!

Be creative and have fun while creating social media contests with the use of promotional products. No matter what type of contest you choose, if you use promotional products as prizes it is sure to be a hit!

Have you used promotional gifts to promote your business?  Perhaps you have an idea you can add to the above listed ideas. Have you used promotional items for a contest?   Let’s get some ideas rolling!

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Promotional Mouse Mats are Top Promotional Gifts

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
Promotional Mouse Mats

CompuGift Specialises in all types of Promotional Mouse Mats

I was recently at a promotional gifts industry convention where one of my competitors asked a somewhat silly question. In a packed room of his contemporaries he asked if anyone actually uses mouse mats any more.  You could have heard a pen drop. Everyone looked around at their neighbours trying to get a glimpse of their expressions. Obviously this person did not know the promotional mouse mat industry as well as he probably should have.  Promotional mouse mats are still one of the most sought after promotional gifts available worldwide.

My questioning competitor went on to explain his question stating that many people now prefer to use laptops, handheld computers and ipads. He simply thought that perhaps other products may be better for promoting one’s products, services and/or facilities.

The truth of the matter is, however, that many people work with PCs and Macs on the desktop.  Using a computer mouse is something they do day in and day out and the experience simply would not be the same without a good quality promotional mouse mat. Even those who use other types of computers still prefer to use a computer mouse and mouse mat when they are sitting at their desks.

Promotional mouse mats are available in a wide range of styles and materials.  Most can be digitally printed with beautiful full colour designs while others at the higher end of the market such as leather mousemats can be embossed or printed.

Mouse mats are still one of the most popular promotional gifts because the are useful and they offer such a large print area for your logo, contact details and design. This large print area is prime advertising space that will be seen often by your customers and everyone around them.

In fact, a selection of promotional desktop items including mousemats, mugs, clocks, calendars and pen pots are the way to go if you really want to keep your information in front of your favourite customer every business day.

At CompuGift, we can send you samples of work we have done for our many customers.  We specialise in promotional mouse mats and will help you find the best mouse pads for your next promotion.

Have you used promotional mouse mats in a creative way to promote your business?  If so, please let  us know about it.

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Promotional Stress Balls and Twitter are the Perfect Low Cost Marketing Match

Monday, June 21st, 2010

 

What do stress balls and Twitter have in common? The truth is, much more than meets the eye! Twitter and stress relievers are a dynamic duo when paired as a form of marketing for a business. If you want to make your business more appealing for your customers inexpensively, then consider using Twitter and promotional stress toys together. This article will provide you with a few ideas to use Twitter and promotional stress balls in fun ways that will get people connecting with your business!

Everyone loves stress toys. It seems to have become a universal fact in the world. It’s true that if a stressball is anywhere near a person, usually that person has an urge to squeeze it.

So where does Twitter come into play? Well, one great idea is to print the best tweet from a customer on a bunch of stress toys and hand them out to the rest of your customers. Host a Twitter contest, in which your customers have 140 characters or less to say why they absolutely love your business’s products or services. It can be funny, serious, poetic, or even conversational in tone. Or, you may want to host a Twitter contest in which customers create a new motto for your business. Whatever it is, if you as the business owner like what a customer has to say, simply designate that customer as the winner. Then, print the short message on a bunch of stress toys and mail them to everyone that participated!

Social media and low cost promotional gifts work well hand-in-hand. As a match made in heaven, both Twitter and stresstoys are fun and promote a positive way of viewing your company. Twitter is a form of social media that shows your business can keep up with the times, while stress toys give your company a personalized vibe that is quite appealing to customers.

The great thing about stress balls is they are usually kept on an office desk. This means if you print your company’s Twitter account information on a bunch of them, then they can actually advertise your business to other executives and CEO’s without them even realizing it!

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Stress balls come in any shape for any industry, which makes them flexible for any use when paired with your company’s Twitter account. Even if a business does not sell the shape you want, you can typically create the shape you want by yourself! Stress toys can be just as customizable as the words in your Twitter posts.

The next time you are looking for fresh, innovative ways to market your business, consider using promotional stressballs and Twitter. Together, they make the perfect marketing match!

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Efficient Marketing Strategies Make Profitable Businesses

Saturday, June 19th, 2010

Did you know that making your business more efficient can be fun and inexpensive? Rather than focusing on immediate profitability, the best businesses sit down and figure out how to increase efficiency first in their marketing department.  Promotional products offer just the solution your business needs for being part of incredible marketing strategies.  In an instant, promotional items convey important information to an array of audiences.

This article will explain how to increase the efficiency of your business by focusing on a marketing strategy that fully utilizes promotional gifts.  The more efficient your business becomes in its marketing strategies, the more likely it is to be highly profitable.

Of course Facebook, Twitter, and iPhone applications are all the rage for marketing your business.  At this point in time, using social media for marketing seems to be common knowledge amongst business owners. However, many business owners are struggling in finding ways to get people to these sites in the first place.  What good is a Facebook or Twitter account if few of your customers know how to access your social media sites?  What good is an iPhone application if no one knows it exists? The truth is, a Facebook or Twitter account is ineffective if your customers have no idea about them.  So, what you need to do is create what is often called a “viral” online marketing plan.

Promotional gifts offer the space for you to print the name of a Facebook or Twitter account upon them. Advertising a new iPhone application is also very possible with promotional merchandise.  Try printing the name of your company’s Twitter account on promotional items  that are visible to large groups of people at a time.  This way, your marketing is maximized at a low cost.  Products like promotional shopper bags are the way to go, if you especially want to appeal to consumers over and over again.  Many people shop at a mall, supermarket, chemist or boutique at any given time and will be able to access your Twitter account by seeing it printed on another shopper’s bag.

Umbrellas are also great promotional items that can play a major part in an efficient marketing plan.  Communicating the fact that your company has adapted to technology with a new Facebook account be visible to many with a promotional umbrella including the relevant information!  Perhaps you own an older or more traditional business that has recently decided to adapt to technology.  Your loyal customers will be impressed to see on a rainy day that your company has gone  above and beyond to appeal to a wide range of customers!

Golf bags and promotional sports bags are also great items for communicating the social media savviness of your company.  Typically, many business executives go golfing in order to do effective networking.  You never know if a business executive may be see your company’s new Facebook or Twitter account being advertised on a golf bag or set of golf balls. That same business executive may be the one who decided to place a large order with your company!

As you can see, an efficient marketing strategy directly effects the profitability of one’s business.  It really is worth business owners’ time to consider making promotional products a part of one’s marketing campaign or strategy. The company profits may one day far exceed a day or two spent on developing such a great marketing strategy!

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5 Low Cost Ways To Promote Your Business

Friday, June 18th, 2010


The value of carefully building your brand is tremendous. Customers respect businesses that focus on quality brand building, rather than a rush to be profitable. In fact, those businesses that care more about brand building ultimately become more profitable than other businesses. If you are looking to build your brand in a high-quality fashion without the extra costs, simply tune in to these 5  ideas. In no time, your brand awareness will thrive online!
1. Get the Edge on New Social Media

You probably already use Facebook or Twitter to market your business. However, always be on the lookout for new forms of social media from which your business can benefit. Try subscribing to blogs and commenting when you feel you have something to add. Write your own industry blog and  stay in  touch with what is happening online.!

2. Specialized Link Directories
When you have a catchy domain name, the marketing doesn’t stop there. Be sure to actively market your company’s domain name in specialized link directories. Directories allow customers to search a plethora of specific businesses. For example, if you own an online women’s clothing store, then customers could find it in a directory that features only women’s fashion. By placing your link in these directories, you increase the chances of customers visiting your site!

3. Great Customer Service
Be sure to provide customers with great customer service. Customers respect the companies that go out of their way to make customer service hassle-free. If you have an online company, be sure to have an active phone line or email system for your company. Customers love to be able to have human contact with a business beyond an impersonal computer screen. If a customer has had trouble with a product or service, then make their hassle easier with a nice promotional gift set. A nice set of golfballs with your company logo can make customers appreciate the wonderful customer service of your online company!

4. Shopper Bags: The New Trend

Shopper bags are becoming a trend everywhere, as the world becomes more environmentally friendly. Customers take these bags everywhere to do all kinds of shopping. Print your logo or company information on one, and people in cities around the country could  see your company logo and web address!  Shopper bags are a great way to build your brand in an inexpensive way.

5. Create Your Own Online Commercials
Create your own online commercials for free with services like YouTube. Then, have your customers vote for the winning ad! Give customers a nice pen with your company’s imprinted logo for their time.

Building your brand inexpensively takes creativity, energy, and passion. If you are passionate about always making your company better than it was yesterday, then you will find great success with your customers! Inventive marketing through promotional products like shopping bags can also be the inexpensive key to success for your company.

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