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Promotional Stress Toys Can Colour More Profits In Your Painting/Decorating Business

Monday, February 28th, 2011

Home remodeling has not seen as much of a dip in business as other areas of construction, and if your decorating business is thriving that means you have been savvy with your business and perform the quality work that keeps you busy.

Here I would like to show you an excellent way to promote your business that is both inexpensive and attention grabbing.

Promotional stress balls are one of the newer introductions to the promotional product industry and also one of the most successful. These small, squishy toys come in over 1,000 stock shapes and can even be manufactured in the custom shape of your choice.

Hand someone a logo printed stress toy and it is likely you will see an immediate smile, followed by the curious kneading of this fascinating object. People love getting advertising stress toys and will keep it for months and even years.

Compared to most other promotional gifts, the logo printed stress ball has one of the highest retention and longevity rates, and with your company information brilliantly imprinted upon it your stress toy will continue to market your service long you give it away!

Stress toy shapes for the decorating industry can be the obvious, such as a stress ball in the shape of a paint tin- a brilliant colour dripping down the sides and your company information emblazoned on the side.

A promotional stress toy can be made to resemble a painters brush that has just been dipped in an attractive paint color. Maybe you would prefer a promotional stress reliever made to resemble a painters pallete.

To stress the fact that you have been in business for so long your promotional stress ball can be manufactured in the shape of a granite rock to represent your longevity and commitment to keep providing your excellent service for years to come.

Promotional stress toys have the ability to advertise your decorating business for a long time, but only if you are selective about the quality of the promotional stress toy that you choose.

This begins with the type of promotional product supplier you choose. Some suppliers are only concerned about being the cheapest, and this kind of attitude will result in an inferior product that will not get the same great results.

When choosing your supplier of promotional stress toys make sure that they will be able to explain to you the difference in quality and printing processes that separate the desireable stress toys from the rest. Insist on samples so you can see and feel the differences for yourself.

Get started with the process of marketing your decorating business with promotional stress toys by calling a few suppliers and asking basic questions. Once you have established your supplier of choice don’t hesitate to place your order- get the process going today and start seeing the results you want in the near future.

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Chilli Pepper Shaped Stress Balls for Promoting your Business, Organisation or Love of Hot Food

Thursday, February 10th, 2011

I love hot food.

I cook my own, frequent all the best curry houses and Mexican restaurants and actively seek out everything chilli.

I guess it’s down to my childhood in California where I was introduced to hot food very young.

Now in England, I have met many people who have my same love for the hot stuff. Many are restauranteurs looking to promote their business. Others are farmers offering their own hot peppers at farm shops and markets.

Promotional chilli pepper stress toys are very popular with a lot of these people. They offer an excellent way to get people thinking chilli. These top promotional gifts can be printed with a business logo, slogan and other details such as telephone number and web address.

Carlos is an old school friend of mine from my home town of Turlock, California. His family own and run two traditional Mexican restaurants in Sacramento and I convinced him to give these promotional gifts a try to promote his establishments.

At first he didn’t see the need. His restaurants were already popular but I convinced him all the same.

We printed 500 red chilli and 500 green chilli pepper shaped stress balls with his logo and contact details. When his customers went to pay their bill at the end of their meals, the waiter would give them a stress pepper to remember them by.

Carlos says it began to get a laugh. People who were already delighted with their dinner smiled and felt even better about the experience. ‘It’s incredible how a little stress toy worth pennies helps people who loved their meal into customers.’

Kids began to ask for the stress toys and as Carlos says, ‘ There is no way we could stop doing it now!’

Promotional chilli shaped stress toys are perfect for any restaurant offering quality hot food. From Mexican to Thai to Chinese, if you have the food and the restaurant, highlight your service with these low cost but fun gifts.

Chilli stress relievers are also great for promoting other businesses. There are so many strap lines that could be used with them such as;

We take the heat out of…
Spice up your life with…
The hottest place in town

I think you get the idea.

As with all promotional stress balls, they can be manufactured in the colours of your choice. Stress balls can also be printed in spot colour or even full colour.

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Promotional Stress Balls for Promoting Exotic Food and Drinks

Tuesday, February 8th, 2011

Promotional food shaped stress balls are the ideal marketing tools for promoting great restaurants.

Yes, they are inexpensive and they probably are not the best choice for restaurants offering silver service, but they offer a memorable way to promote most eating and drinking establishments.

I recently visited a really fun restaurant in San Francisco. I don’t remember the name any more as I rather stupidly mislaid the details.

Anyway, the inside of the restaurant was designed like a big jungle and in the centre of the jungle was a crashed aeroplane. The owners had somehow got a real aeroplane in the building and it looked as though it had crashed in the centre of an overgrown jungle with tables for diners to sit at.

Rather unique to say the least.

Pre-dinner drinks were offered inside the aeroplane where tables had been fitted. From my window on the plane I could see the entry and a large glass case full of fun promotional gifts such as t-shirts, mugs and stress balls.

This restaurant also got the food right which being a foodie was actually the most important part for me, but the amazing atmosphere and promotional merchandise helped bring it all together in a fun and professional way.

As we left I refused to purchase my three begging kids aeroplane stress balls. I kind of wish I had now as I would still know the name of the restaurant. But somehow I just couldn’t do it due to the fact I had thousands back at the office because I sell them.

Seeing the excellent display it got me to thinking about how so many restaurants could do well by promoting their businesses with promotional stress toys.

Curry houses could offer chilli, cocoanut, garlic, and ginger shaped stress toys for example. Mexican restaurants could take advantage of the many Mexican food themed shapes such as tacos, chillies, limes and Corona shaped beer bottles.

To get the best results out of your promotion, it is a good idea to give the stress toys away rather than sell them. Purchased in quantity they can add to the atmosphere of a restaurant and the unit price will be much lower.

There are so many different fun food shapes that it would be impossible or rather boring to mention them all here. That said, if you have a special shape you think would work for your restaurant, why not key it in to Google or Bing?

Even if you cannot find it there, the good suppliers can make up special shapes to suit your requirements. It should not cost you much more than choosing a standard shape and the resulting shape will be all your own.

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Promote Your Business Ideas with Promotional LIghtbulb Stress Balls

Monday, February 7th, 2011

Promotional lightbulb stress toys are ideal for showing off your ideas. They have been used by many companies in some very successful and memorable campaigns.

Do you offer an ideas service? Perhaps your business sells ideas to businesses wanting to promote themselves? Maybe you can shine a light on a problem that business or people have and you can solve?

Promotional stress balls in the shape of lightbulbs can be manufactured and printed to order with your logo and special message.

Lightbulb stress toys can also me made in your company colours if you deal directly with a company that works together with the Far East manufacturers.

You do not have to order the same old yellow or white stock shapes. Some of the most memorable promotional lightbulb stress relievers are those that have been made to order in eye-catching colours.

Whatever your corporate colours may be, they can be matched so that you have stress toys that really look like they were made for you and you only. Not only that, they can be printed in spot or full colour in brilliant Pantone matched colours.

Stress toys are some of the most popular business gifts you can purchase. Do they really relieve stress? Why not try them out for yourself?

Ask for samples and place them on your desktop. Give it a week and see if you don’t begin to pick them up and give them a squeeze. You probably won’t even realise you are doing it at first but you will.

A good quality stress reliever can stay with your customer for months if not years. Each time your customers or target customers pick yours up, they will be seeing and familiarising themselves with your brand and what it is you do.

Looking for a few popular straplines? Why not try one of these?

Shining a light on…
Light up your life with…
Looking for ideas?

Of course you may have a few good lines of your own. Whatever you choose, these stress relievers are sure to go down a storm

The lead-time for specially made promotional stress balls is about four weeks but slightly longer waiting time is worth the end result.

So then… Why not order those samples and get your next great promotion underway?

It is important to compare prices and services before placing and order. If your supplier imports the products for you rather than acting as a middleman between importer and buyer, you could save up to 50%.

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Promotional Telephone Stress Balls Make Great Desktop Reminders

Friday, February 4th, 2011

Promotional telephone stress balls keep your business promoted!

I would like to tell you the story of Ben – a long time customer who has been using promotional telephone stress balls to promote his small sandwich shop.

Ben targets local businesses to try to get as much of the sandwich delivery business as possible. Since starting to promote his business with phone stress balls he has seen his business increase substantially.

Phone shaped stress toys are excellent desktop gifts because they sit nicely on the desktop for all to see.  Ben chose the old phone shape but there are quite a few to choose from.

On the handle of the phone he printed his sandwich hotline and on the dial is his logo printed in full colour.  It’s a pictures of a sandwich stacked high and it  looks fantastic.  It is really attention grabbing.

Ben’s initial order was for 500 which he personally took to all the businesses within a mile of his business.  He ensured everyone who wanted one of his fun promotional products got one.  People placed the stress relievers on their desks so that his contact details were never far from site.

The fact that the sandwich picture printed so well across the dial must have made a lot of them hungry because the phones began to ring contantly.

In fact, within weeks he realised he need more staff and soon had seven full and part time workers helping him get the orders out.

With the success of the initial promotion behind him, Ben decided to venture further afield.  He purchase 1000 more and took them to as many local businesses as he could.

Again business increased substantially.

These attention grabbing gifts made people want to try his sandwich delivery service which was becoming famous.

Over the years we have supplied Ben with many other types of gifts such as promotional pens, full colour printed note pads and promotional printed mugs.

But it was the initial promotion that he still talks about to this day. Every time we speak he brings up how they helped make his business.

In his visits to his customers he has seen that many of the stress balls still have a happy home on many desktops. Why would anyone want to remove them?

Have you ever tried using promotional stress relievers to promote your large or small business? Promotional stress toys are ideal promotional tools for small businesses like Ben’s because the don’t cost much and people love them.

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Custom Made Promotional Stress Balls-The Google Android Stress Toy

Monday, August 30th, 2010
Android Stress Balls

We can manufacture special shapes for your too!

One thing that sets promotional stress balls apart from other types of promotional gifts is that they can so easily be custom made.

Unless you have been living in a cave for the past few years you have no doubt heard of the Google Android. Android is a mobile operating system that was created by our friends at Google. Android phones offer a nice touch screen interface with a host of Google applications from weather apps to headline news feeds to and assortment of free messaging systems.

Well I am not really in the telephone sales business so I will leave you to get more information about the Google Android. I will, however remind you of that now famous Android character.

People recognise the Google Android instantly so it was little wonder when a couple of months ago I received a phone call from a major mobile phone supplier wanting to order Android shaped promotional stress balls.

No problem! In fact, the Google Android loans itself very nicely to being manufactured as a stress reliever. It is quite pudgy with no long dangly bits.

Side view of our custom made stress ball

Call us today on 01642 782455 to discuss you custom requirments.

This is what you need to consider when having made to order stress balls created. The stressballs that work the best and last the longest are those that are roundish or square with no long antennas or other extensions such as arms and legs.

This is why most animal and people shaped stress relievers have proportionately fat legs and arms. If they were any thinner, they would soon fall off or be torn off. Often legs and arms are brought in to become part of the main body of the stress ball for this reason.

It is important to note that in order to have made to order stress balls manufactured there will normally be a 1000 unit minimum quantity. You may also need to purchase a new tool for the shape. This is a small cost to pay when you consider you are getting a product that is manufactured for you that no other company will have!

Promotional stress toys can also be manufactured in the colours of your choice. This offers you a chance to promote your brand in its own Pantone colours without the need to spend a large amount of money. Stress relievers are still considered to be low cost promotional items.

If you are considering having a character created into a stress ball that is not your own, be sure to get permission first. You do not want to purchase 5000 Mickey Mouse stress balls in your own company Pantone colours just to be told by Disney you cannot use them!

Do you have a company mascot or other shape you would like to use to promote your brand as a promotional stress toy? Perhaps you have already done so. It would be great to hear about your experiences or any questions you may have so leave a comment here.

By Dan Toombs

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Promotional Gifts-How To Get the Best Results

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

I was just contacted by a woman who said she needed pens in a hurry. ‘When do you need them,’ I asked. ‘Tomorrow!’ she answered in a quite, pleading whisper.

I receive similar phone calls almost every day from people who have left things a bit late. Luckily for them, there are many different promotional gifts that can be express printed.

But think of what could have been if they had only left themselves a little more time.

Promotional gifts get results but properly planning your promotional gifts campaign will achieve sensational results.

Here I would like to offer you 3 tips that will get you the results you want from your promotional gifts.

Target Your Customers

Try to find gifts that your customers either need or will enjoy using. Useful gifts work best. Promotional items such as printed pens, notepads, photo mugs and highlighters are all examples of promotional items that your customers, regardless of their industry will use regularly. If you cater to a specific niche such as walking clubs, you may wish to offer your customers well thought out gifts they will use like sports water bottles, walking sticks and printed backpacks.

Allow yourself time to find what promotional products are best for your target customers.

Look for Better Ways to Present Your Gifts

A good quality promotional pen will promote your business just fine. A promotional pen presented in an attractive clear pen tube or full colour printed plastic case will do the job even better. Presentation is a key factor in the most successful promotional gifts campaigns. Why not present your customers with a t-shirt wrapped in a nice clear plastic sleeve or give them a photo mug in a personalise card and clear plastic box?

Get the presentation right and you are bound to make a big impression.

Take Time at the Design Stage

Don’t just jump in and buy. Look for promotional items that can be personalised to represent you as you want to be represented. If you have an attractive printed catalogue cover and brochures, why not have that design printed onto full colour printed pens or photo mugs. Many gifts such as promotional stress balls, mouse mats, trolley keyrings, pens and notepads can all be made to order in your company colours, Pantone matched to perfection.

The most important part of getting the most out of your promotional merchandise campaign is time. Time allows you to find the perfect design for your promotional items. Time is what you need to properly consider your customers’ needs. Time is what is required to look properly into the many ways of presenting your promotional gifts.

Have you ever left ordering your promotional merchandise to the last minute? What were the results? Have my recommendations given you any ideas for your next marketing campaign. Have I left out anything you feel I shouldn’t have. Be sure to leave a comment and let me know your thoughts.

By Dan Toombs

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Promotional Stress Balls are the Perfect Low Cost Gifts

Sunday, July 4th, 2010
promotional stress balls

CompuGift is the UK market leader for promotional stress balls

Are you looking for innovative ideas to promote your company? Promotional items have a long proven  record as being excellent inexpensive promotional tools for building your brand.  Promotional items such as promotional pens, mouse mats and coffee mugs are all brilliant promoters that your customers will look at and use regularly.  In doing so, these logo printed gift items build your brand. One of the most popular promotional items for office use is the de-stressing stress toy.

Keep logo printed stress balls in mind the next time you decide to send a new message to your customers. These low cost promotional products are excellent value for money.  Most feature a nice large print area for your logo and details and sit nicely on the desktop promoting your brand.

That is if they stay on the desktop!  Many people prefer to throw them around the office at dozing work colleagues or to take them with them to a meeting to squeeze. Wherever they travel the will be working as fun billboards for your business and its services.

Promotional stress toys are available from online stress toy shops. The best shops will feature hundreds of different shapes. As 99% of stress toys are manufactured in China, it really does not matter where your preferred supplier is. If they specialise in these promotional squeeze balls they will have no problem arranging for your printed shipment to be sent to you directly from the factory to your door.

You will not be short on choice.  There are stress balls available for almost every industry. If you do not find the shape you are looking for, however, ask your supplier to have the shape specially made for you. This can be slightly more expensive but the end product will be unique to your company!

CompuGift is the UK’s leading online supplier of promotional stress balls.  We import directly from our factories in the Far East.  All of our prices are trade prices and are backed by our special triple the difference guarantee. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you would like a quotation or if you would like to see a sample.

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5 Reasons Stress Balls Are a Great Way to Market Small Businesses

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Often, people make the mistake of thinking online advertising is all they need to market a small business. However, this form of advertising can actually cut out an important segment of the consumer population: the elderly and older people without technological expertise. To market to a wide audience, be sure to use promotional stress balls in your advertising. This article will outline 5 reasons promotional stress balls are one of the top ways to market your business.

1. Wider Audience of All Ages
Everyone loves promotional stress balls. Children, teens, adults, and the elderly find stress balls to be useful in their lives. Kids love playing games like catch with stress balls, while the elderly may find stress balls serve a vital purpose in easing illnesses like arthritis. Other adults in their 30s or 40s may find stress balls actually relieve stress! Because everyone of all ages loves stress balls, they are a great way of advertising a business to a wide audience. The same can not be said about the Internet, since there many people unaccustomed to all its intricacies.

2. Promotional Stress Balls of All Shapes and Sizes
Promotional stressballs are an incredibly fun way to market businesses. They come in all shapes and sizes! Whoever knew that you could order promotional stress balls in the shape of food, exotic sealife, medical themes, or sports shapes? This means your company is not limited to one or two designs. If your company wants, it can create a whole line of stress ball shapes that capture the true essence of your company’s services or products!

3. Cost-Efficiency
Stress toys are an affordable form of advertising, when compared to the cost of creating internet ads or television ads. Purchasing hundreds of stress balls is not an expensive endeavor. Considering stress balls last a long time, while commercials last only a few seconds, stressballs are one of the best forms of advertising that can promote your business.

4. Making Your Business Comfortable and Relatable for Customers
If you work in an industry that can be perceived as distant from customers, such as medicine or law, stress balls can be a great way to make your company more “down to earth.” Stress balls can make your business seem more human and even add a touch of humour. In high-stress environments like medicine, stress balls truly prove an important function in easing clients into what can be uncomfortable environments.

5. Adding Value to Service-Oriented Businesses
Service oriented businesses often face the problem of not having a “product” customers can take home. Promotional stress relievers solve this problem. They give customers a great “hands on” token of appreciation to take home and can help them remember your service-oriented business!

Stress relievers make small businesses more  approachable to audiences of all ages. Promotional stress balls are an effective form of promoting your business that is cost-effective and fun.

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5 Inventive Ways to Promote Your Hotel with Hotel Themed Stress Balls

Friday, May 14th, 2010


When business executives travel to hotels, they want comfort, relaxation, and great customer service. The relief of stress is something highly valued in highly busy executives that are traveling for meetings or in people simply taking some time off from work. Showing your devotion to a relaxing environment has never been easier than with hotel themed stress balls. This article will offer 5 great ways you can promote your hotel with hotel themed stress balls.

1. Hotel Themed Stress Balls as Nightly Gifts on Pillows
A charming way to make guests value your hotel is by placing chocolates and hotel themed stress balls on their pillow after their first night. Guests will appreciate the relaxing gift after their first night and will remember the nice gesture in years to come!

2. Nightly Cocktail Hours
A fun way to get your guests socializing in a hotel is by hosting a cocktail hour every night with free cheese and drinks. At a cocktail hour, be sure to place baskets of hotel themed stress balls on tables. These toys charm guests and can even be great conversational starters about the amazing qualities of your hotel!

3. Hotel Gift Stores
Another great idea is to give hotel themed stress balls for free with the purchase of any item in a hotel gift store. Guests will feel like they are getting more for their money and will be pleased when they go to relieve stress later with the stress toys!

4. Hotel Casino Gifts
If your hotel contains a casino, then stress balls can be great for casinos. Sometimes stress balls can be a great way for winners to feel even better about their winnings, and can ease the sorrow of those who perhaps lost a bit of money. Other great promotional gifts for hotel casinos are decks of cards, pens, and note pads.

5. Gifts Upon Arriving
A wonderful way for hotels to greet guests upon their arrival is through gift bags in their hotel room. Creating gift bags with promotional mugs, hotel themed stress balls, pens, note pads, and a map of the surrounding city is a great way to make guests feel welcome.

Hotel themed stressballs are an important way that hotels can communicate their relaxing environment to guests. With these 5 ways to promote your hotel with stress balls, guests will become loyal customers at your hotel!

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