Archive for July, 2010

Promote Your Business with Promotional Conference Folders

Saturday, July 31st, 2010
Promotional Conference Bags

Check out the massive range of conference bags at CompuGift.

Promotional conference bags are a terrific way to promote your brand image at your next major conference. Nearly everyone who attends a professional conference eventually finds that they need an additional bag to carry the promotional materials and information that they pick up from various booths. Having a high quality conference bag to pass out to targeted clients is a sure fire way to make a lasting impression on your most important clients and target customers. Let’s take a look at the main reasons why promotional conference bags make a longer lasting impression than many other promotional materials that are passed out during professional conferences.

One mistake that many marketing professionals make when they are choosing promotional merchandise for their conferences is that they choose items that are designed to catch the attention of every person who wanders by their table at a conference. While passing out plastic toys and cheap gadgets can be a useful way to get the attention of a large number of conference attendants, these promotional items are quickly forgotten and often fail to make an impression on the handful of important clients that you are attending the conference to meet.

The key to using promotion conference bags effectively is to only offer them to individuals who show a serious level of interest in your business and what you have to offer. Although high quality promotional merchandise will make a lasting impression on just about everyone, it does not do much good to invest in marketing to people who do not show any interest or need for your products or services during the limited time you have to speak with them during a conference.

By having high quality conference bags to distribute on you booth at your next major industry conference, you will have a promotional item to offer your most important potential clients after they have shown interest in the goods or services that your business has to offer. Unlike the low quality promotional items that your competition is handing out to anyone who stops for a moment at their booth, you will be offering a valuable complementary product to highly focused group of potential customers. Most of these individuals will find themselves using their free conference bag for months or even years after the conference and will be guaranteed to remember the positive experience that they had with you and your brand for a long time to come.

So what are you waiting for. Ask for a couple samples so that you can pick the best conference bags for your company and get your logo printed on them.

Posted by Dan Toombs

The New Thing in Promotional Gifts is Logo Etched Mugs

Friday, July 30th, 2010
Etched logo promotional mugs

Ask for your samples of the amazing etched mugs today!

Promotional etched mugs are new on the marketplace. Whenever an advertising item is new, the public shows an extra interest in examining the product carefully. Etched mugs can be printed with any type of advertising message or logo that your business, organisation or online enterprise would like to display. High-quality promotional mugs are a fantastic way to keep your important information in the hands of the public.

Engraved promotional mugs have long been available as classy looking clear or frosted glass styles in crystal or tinted shades of glassware that are designed to be microwave safe. These pretty glass coffee mugs can become keepsake items when they are printed with meaningful words or souvenir information that appeals to the owner. Etched glass mugs are pretty enough to be inexpensive wedding reception mementos or retirement gifts.

The new and trendy etched mugs are ceramic styles that lend the feeling of sturdy longevity to any business emblem that is engraved into the surfaces of these coffee mugs. Engraved ceramic mugs are the perfect budget-friendly mug to choose for trade show giveaways, convention hand outs, or to use as resale items that feature your important business name or interesting saying. Since the etching technology is new, souvenir mugs may sell well.

Lots of inexpensive printed mugs are normally purchased online at reduced prices from internet based promotional gift suppliers. The independent online shops offer the best deals because they do not have the high overheads that the larger suppliers have. For businesses that participate in multiple giveaway events each year, it is always wise to purchase logo merchandise in orders that can accommodate more than one event at a time.

Printed coffee mugs, advertising tea mugs, and logo branded soup cups offer the advertiser an opportunity to have their important themes seen by many different types of people. While one person owns a mug, promotional coffee mugs are often sitting in plain sight inside of busy office buildings and at other locations where passersby notice the mug. The new etched coffee mugs could be very elegant eye-catchers on a desk.

Engraved ceramic mugs and the etched glass coffee mugs are both long-life ad items. Coffee mugs can last for many years in the hands of careful users. With these styles of coffee mugs being so elegant in appearance, it is very possible that the users will use extra care when handling these products. All types of promotional items are being used right now as inexpensive ways to place advertisements into the hands of the public.

Posted by Dan Toombs

Promotional Gifts and Social Media are the Perfect Marketing Mix

Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Promotional Pens

Promotional plastic pens are low cost business gifts that work.

Most successful business owners will tell you that their businesses would be nowhere if it wasn’t for their use of marketing techniques to help boost business. Marketing is absolutely essential for anyone who is looking to grow their business, as without proper marketing it can be almost impossible to say whether or not a business will succeed. Marketing professionals agree that the best way to promote a business is to make use of a multitude of different marketing strategies, such as promotional gifts, social media and article marketing. By combing these three highly effective marketing techniques, you can boost the public’s awareness of your business to brand new heights that might otherwise be unreachable.

PROMOTIONAL GIFTS

Using promotional gifts is a great way to promote your business in a unique way. Unlike radio and television ads that only last for 15 or 30 seconds, promotional gifts will ideally last for a lifetime, disseminating themselves throughout society as time goes by. Since promotional items tend to be quite inexpensive to produce, the potential ROI is actually quite high. Some of the best promotional products to use are those that will likely end up in the hands of other people such as pens, stress balls and mini flashlights, as the more eyes that see these items, the better.

SOCIAL MEDIA

We’ve all heard that sites like Facebook and Twitter are all the rage on the internet, and there’s no reason why your business shouldn’t try to capitalize on these services. Using social media is a great way to keep people interested in what’s going on with your business and filling people in on potential news and new product launches. By taking advantage of social media, you may be able to increase your businesses significantly.

ARTICLE MARKETING

Many business owners have heard about article marketing, but don’t quite know how to make use of it. The fact is, using articles to market your website and increase Search Engine Optimization (or SEO) is the best way to drive more traffic to your website. Since the internet is truly the future of business, using article marketing to support your website is one of the smartest moves you can make as a business person. The best thing about article marketing is that it is both effective and highly inexpensive. Anyone who hasn’t looked into this type of marketing should spend some time exploring this exciting new type of marketing.

Check out the massive selection of top quality promotional items at compugift.co.uk. We ship worldwide.

Posted by Dan Toombs

Promotional Travel Mugs for Top Quality Promotions

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
Promotional Travel Mugs

Check out the massive selection of promotional travel mugs at CompuGift!

How many people do you know that drink coffee on their way to work? How many people do you know that like to have something to sip on while they are traveling, either for themselves, their family or both? How would you like to have your company recognised by these same people every time they take a drink? This is only one of the advantages you can get for your business by using promotional travel mugs.

Promotional items are an outstanding way to promote your business and get your brand name recognised. Business gifts not only provide exposure to consumers, but can also help expand your business by the way of joint ventures or partnerships. Let’s face it, the more people that know about your company, the more people that are going to be interested in your products or services. The more people that have knowledge about what you have to offer, the more revenue your company will bring in. Promotional items can be a huge key in giving your business the recognition you need to become as profitable as possible.

Promotional travel mugs come in a wide variety of choices and will come with your logo or message embedded on the mug. These promotional mugs will be used by many people who receive them on a daily basis. This means that not only will your brand name be instilled in the minds of those who are using the mug, but will also be noticed by anyone around them. You will get advertising for your company on a daily basis. Buying ads in newspapers or circulars will only last days, weeks, or months at a time. Promotional items present a long term advertising option with short term advertising costs.

Travel mugs are promotional gifts that are not only functional, but also very appealing to the eyes. They are available in a wide range of colours and are usually made from plastic or stainless steel, meaning they will last for a long time. These business gifts take away the worry of spilling coffee or other beverages on yourself on the way to work and are even able to be used in the home. No matter where these promotional mugs travel, your brand name and logo can accompany them wherever they go.

Promotional travel mugs can have a glossy or matte finish, which makes it easy for your brand to get noticed with a look that is in accordance with your corporate guidelines. These promotional mugs are easy to read and can give you long term advertising at an affordable price. For any business looking to establish their brand and have their business noticed, promotional items such as promotional travel mugs can be a great asset in getting your company the recognition it needs.

Check out the massive selection of top quality promotional travel mugs at compugift.co.uk. We offer the fastest service and lowest prices in the UK.

Posted by Dan Toombs

Local Small Business Promotion with Promotional Gifts

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Promotional Laptop Bags

Promotional laptop bags from the market leader - CompuGift.

Innovative marketing ideas are happening offline today in neighbourhoods and communities all around the world. During the late 1970′s, the fashion industry tried an advertising campaign that included putting their brand names and logo on the outside of clothing, in letters large enough for other members of the public to see. As consumers wore their ad marked goods around town, these logos became very popular brands for other consumers to own. It was discovered that brand popularity increases sales.

Today, there are very few choices left for a successful advertising campaign that can reach localised areas of the community. Television, radio, and internet ads are reaching a global audience, and then, only brief sections within these broadcast areas that choose to experience these styles of multi-sensory advertisements. To make matters worse, the traditional print advertisements in local newspapers and industry publications have begun to follow the dinosaurs into extinction.

Our modern technology is in the process of shaking up the advertising world. All sizes of industries everywhere are frantically searching for new innovative marketing ideas that can reach large segments of localised communities for the purpose of increasing brand recognition and sales. Unfortunately, many advertising executives are trained to look into the future for new ideas in marketing. These individuals are completely missing the fact that each one of their consumer products is wearing an advertising logo today.

Promotional advertising campaigns hold the power of placing inexpensive long-life ads into the hands of the public where they cannot be missed. When consumer products are printed or embroidered with logos, business names, organisation slogans or websites, these small ads are memorised while the products are in use. Further, when promotional products such as promotional t-shirts, executive laptop cases or logo branded sunglasses move about in public, other people begin to assume that the logo ads indicate a popular product sponsor.

When businesses choose to distribute their own branding on desirable consumer products, they often receive increased foot traffic and interest in their products, brands, or services. Promotional advertising items are the latest hot trend in innovative marketing ideas. Consumer products are ad-branded and then sold or given away to community members that will use these items around other people where the ads will be noticed by many of the potential customers who reside in the targeted community.

There are online stores such as compugift.co.uk that specialise in lots of high-quality promotional items that can be printed or embroidered with any type of logo or message. Many of these consumer products are inexpensive options that can be used in giveaway projects. Promotional office products, advertising toys, logo tools, and all types of printed t-shirts, caps, and designer inspired fashions can be distributed through stores or at trade shows and other community events were crowds gather. Some believe that the free promotional products and company gifts are among the best low-cost innovative marketing ideas to try today.

Posted by Dan Toombs

Promotional Mouse Mats and Computer Accessories

Monday, July 26th, 2010
Promotional Mouse Mats

CompuGift is the UK's leading independent supplier of promotional mouse mats.

Promotional mouse mats can be used to promote your business. Nicely designed promotional mouse mats are used interchangeably by businesses that choose to print advertising messages onto their surfaces. Promotional computer parts like a light-up mouse, usb hubs and the logo branded flashdrives are all items that many people use today that can display your advertising logo, designs and contact details.

Corporate mouse mats are normally printed and given away at trade shows, schools or community events. They are also given away with fancy ergo-friendly computer wrist rests and monitor-clip memo holders that are used as office gifts to important staff members or clients. Promotional computer parts and electronics are fun gifts for all levels of employees to receive from their department heads or bosses. Ad items for the office are very popular mementos.

When any size of business chooses to print their important logo or ad text onto items that many people use every day, these items will remain in use where other people can see them for the duration of their lifespan. Computer mouse mats and pads are used in the office and also carried from place-to-place with laptops. Decorative bluetooth computer mouse units are advertising items that can be seen by volumes of people while they are in use.

A popular advertising method for distribution of promotional mouse mats to the public includes donating these printed items to schools and the community computer centres or hot spot locations around town. Printed advertising messages that are handed out to the public on useful items will often make it into areas of the community that are not being covered by the traditional advertising campaigns.

All sizes of businesses, community organisations and clubs can keep their important ad words before the public through the use of computer go-with advertising. Logo-embroidered laptop bags, CD/DVD storage cases and printed furniture protection pads will all be used by happy computer users whenever they are given as gifts. All types of consumer products can be branded with printing or graphics. People like mouse mats.

Internet based promotional items suppliers sell high-quality mouse mats or mats in various price ranges, thicknesses, shapes, and colours for use in all types of advertising projects. Restaurants can use them under drinks in giveaway campaigns and youth groups can place their picture on mouse mats to use in fundraising projects. All types of industries can benefit from having their website address printed onto a computer pad that is distributed to the public. Ads on mouse mats sit right beside the computer for daily business promotion.

Posted by Dan Toombs

Hit That Like Button and Join Our Facebook Group

Monday, July 26th, 2010
Special 10% offer for Facebook fans

Every week we offer a discount to all of our Facebook fans!

At CompuGift Promotional Gifts, we are actively trying to find new ways to get to know our customers better. It would be great if you could hit that ‘Like’ button and join us on Facebook for a bit of chat. There are many reasons to do so.

All of our Facebook fans that send us their address details will receive special offers and promotional gifts to try on a regular basis. We send out special promotional gifts regularly to those who hit that like button so that you can see the newest and most innovative gifts as an when they hit the market.

So what are you waiting for? It only takes a second and it would be great to hear from you!

Our Facebook home page is facebook.com/compugift.

By the way, you can follow me on Twitter at twitter.com/compugift.

Posted by Dan Toombs

Promotional Travel Mugs are Walking Advertisements

Sunday, July 25th, 2010
Double Walled Travel Mugs

Check out the massive selection of top quality travel mugs at CompuGift!

Why not try something different this year? Promotional mugs are very popular business gifts and some of the most loved are promotional travel mugs. These long lasting mugs make excellent gifts for your customers and employees and can take your logo and message wherever they are carried. Promotional travel mugs are a great addition to your promotional products inventory as they will never go out of fashion. They are portable, last for years and work as a walking billboard for your brand.

One important thing to consider is how long promotional travel mugs can be used by your employees and clients in relation to their cost. Most metal spill proof mugs can be purchased in small quantities and given to your top customers and employees relatively inexpensively. The fact that they work as a moving billboard for your business that will be seen by everyone they encounter for years they offer exceptional value for money. Travel mugs will be seen often by the user and those they see regularly building your brand all along the way. There are not many promotional items that last for so many years spreading your message as they travel.

Most promotional travel mugs offer nice large print areas for your logo and details. Use all of this printable space and print your logo nice and large along with your contact detail or strap-line so that they are easily read. Remember that these walking advertisements need to be seen to work to their full potential.

Promotional spill safe travel mugs are not only used by people on the go. Many popular coffee shops and now offering free or discounted cups of coffee to those who bring in their own reusable mug. Many people are taking advantage of this on their way to the office where they finish their logo printed drink. The mug then usually remains on their desk for their work colleagues and visitors to see.

Truth is, all promotional mugs are fantastic promotional tools! Almost everyone enjoy a few coffee or tea breaks during their work day or at home. Offering these people a good quality insulated travel mug to use during their break will ensure your logo is always close by. This means it will be much easier for them to quite literally put their hands on your details next time they require your products or services.

So what are you waiting for? Ask for samples today of the styles you like that are within your budget. We can even email you a  mock up computer proof showing your logo printed on the promotional travel mugs.

Posted by Dan Toombs

Client and Employee Gift Ideas

Saturday, July 24th, 2010
Promotional pedometers

Promotional pedometers are very popular this year.

Promotional gift incentives can motivate employees to give 101% back to their employers. High-quality promotional gift items are always appreciated by executives, staff, and hourly employees that help your business to succeed. Everybody loves to receive free promotional items from their employers that can help to make their lives more enjoyable.

Presentation gifts do not need to be high-priced items to be meaningful to your employees. Safety award gift presentations often happen two or three times each year in some of the larger operations. Excellent safety gifts can be simple things like promotional travel mugs, advertising sunglasses or a new logo printed sports bag that can help to keep all forms of work gear organised.

Today, promotional pedometers are often given away by companies before a formal gift presentation ceremony takes place. These pedometers are worn by employees around the job sites and the employee who takes the most steps wins a company prize. Advertising pedometers act to make the workforce interested in taking extra quick steps on company time each day. Grand prize awards are often nice items like logo branded tool kits, roll-around food and beverage coolers, emboidered fleeces or nice executive travel backpacks.

In many organisations, each employee must receive a company gift at every awards ceremony. Printed coffee mugs, promotional LED torch keyrings and all types of printed or embroidered company t-shirts, jackets, and caps are often used within the larger company handout campaigns. These items are designed to delight the employees while giving the employees promotional item that may be seen by others around town.

Food service industries can offer their workers who interact with the public a special corporate badge to wear when they have accomplished specific goals. Inexpensive colourful logo badges and name tags are great employee incentive gifts that explain to the customers how special the employee is to the company.

Every type of large or small consumer product can be printed with a company logo, product-line image or other type of advertisement that will highlight your important company name. Employee incentive gifts come in all types of styles, shapes, and price ranges that can meet every type of budget concern.

At CompuGift, we would be happy to send you samples to assist you with your decision. 

Posted by Dan Toombs

An in Depth Look at the Popular Senator Super Soft Pen

Friday, July 23rd, 2010
The Senator Super Soft Pens

The Senator Super Soft is available in many solid and translucent colours.

You may have heard about the Senator Super-Hit promotional pens range. Super-Hit promotional plastic pens look fantastic and have played key rolls in many successful marketing campaigns. But did you know that they are also available with a soft grip section? That’s right, just when you thought these popular promotional pens could not get any better, Senator went and added a comfort grip. These ‘soft’ versions of the Super-Hit are only pennies more than the original versions and simply must be seen. Don’t just take my word for it though. Ask for a few samples and experience these top quality promotional pens for yourself.

Print Area

Do not be scared off by the slightly smaller print area on these pens. Due to the grip sections, the print areas on the barrel are slightly smaller than the Super-Hit. The clip print area of 35mm x 6mm provides ample space to print a telephone number or most web addresses.

There are two possible print areas on the barrel. You can print 35mm x 20mm in line with the clip which is the most common place to print. Depending on your print design, however, you may choose to print on the back and side of the barrel in a print area of 60mm x 13mm

Ask for a few printed samples and see for yourself how good these promotional pens can look printed!

Ink Refills

All Super Soft pens come with a good quality ink refill. You can choose from blue or black ink, however in the UK black ink is standard

Possible Colours

There is a white or black barrel version of the Senator Super Soft and also a translucent barrel option. You may be trying to find pens that are close to your own corporate colours so I have listed the exact colour Pantones here.

The white barrel pen comes with a choice of;

yellow (PMS 116c) trim
red (PMS 485c) trim
blue (PMS 288c) trim
green (PMS 341c) trim
black trim

The translucent Super Softs are available in;

yellow (PMS 1225c)
orange (PMS 1505c)
red (PMS 201c)
green (PMS 347c)
blue (PMS 286c)
black

Epress Printing
Most popular plastic pens are available on express services these days and the Super Soft is no exception. You can have your pens printed one colour in just two days! How is that for service?

So then, what are you waiting for? Ask us for a few samples and email your design. These popular promotional pens could just play a significant roll in your next big promotion.

Posted by Dan Toombs

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