

The Top Ten Promotional Products
It’s that time of year again when you sit down with your advertising budget and decide what promotional items to order for the New Year. The best place to start is always with the most popular products available on the market. Here is a quick top 10 list to give you an idea of what the hottest promotional products are expected to be in 2010:...
Promotional Products: Create Advertising Tools that Sells
Unlike general advertising, the creative aspect of direct marketing usually is not intended to inform, entertain, or build awareness. The objective is to sell, to get an order or have the consumer take some other specific action. However, there’s a lot to the selling process than just combining nice-sounding words and pretty pictures. You have to develop a creative strategy and one area to explore is the use of effective promotional products as advertising tools....
A Second Look at the Benefits of Using Promotional Products
Go out on the street and ask people about a product or a service. Make up a yarn about “doing market research” or something. You’ll be surprised that people will stop and actually talk to you. Now, listen to what they are going to say, and very intently on how they’d know about the brand and what the brand is all about. In all probability, a promotional advertisement or promotional product conveyed the information....