Idea of the Week: Four Color Process Coffee Mugs

Coffee Mugs. We all use them, either to drink from or to hold things. But it's time to think about the mugs as mini billboards.

Think about it, you can print your company's mug on these mugs with as many as four colors. 

Here are some other ways to rethink the great reusable and eco-friendly coffee mug:

• Stuffing candy or little gifts into the coffee mug.
• Giving everyone in your office a coffee mug as a way of saying thank you.
• Have a presentation? Why not put your client's name on the mug?
• Get prospective clients to pre-register for a tradeshow and give them a personalized coffee mug as a reward. 
• Print your marketing message on a coffee mug as a way to showcase a new product.

Tasty side note: Just remember - you don't just have to be a coffee drinker to enjoy a coffee mug.

Idea of the Week: Multi-Use Golf Towel

I know it might be early for some of us to talk golf, as we finally have some white stuff up in the great white north of Minnesota. But, every year, I keep getting asked what is new and different with golf accessories and products.

Here is a unique golf accessory for you, most definitely me and your customers - The Spotless Swing golf towel.

I am worse than the classic hacker. In fact, there is usually more dirt and grass on my golf clubs than whats left on the course.

This 3-in-1 towel is made of micro-fiber material on the outside and a micro-brush fabric on the inside. It will  keep your hands and grips clean, trap mud, dirt and sand on the inside of this towel and clean your club grooves, allowing you to get that distance and backspin that turns a mediocre day on the course into a great one. Okay, I'd be happy with mediocre. Just ask my father-in-law, friends and business associates who have witnessed my huge left-handed slice. Phil Mickelson, I am not. Or could ever hope to be.

Tasty Side Note: This may not cure your slice or hook, but you will definitely have the cleanest clubs on the course.

Idea of the Week: Slinky Stik-On

It's a Slinky...it's a sticky note...No wait, it's both. 


You remember the song. It's Slinky! It's Slinky, for fun, its a wonderful toy. It's fun for a girl and a boy. 


100 sheets of pure fun for writing your reminders, to-do lists and messages. Just don't drop them down the stairs. 


Tasty side note: For your viewing pleasure. The original Slinky commercial.
http://youtu.be/EZL6RGkPjws

Let me know how I can help get your marketing message across to the masses.

There is no Write or Wrong in Pens

I always have a pen on me. Why? Well, not only do I sell them for a living, but I'm also handing then out, especially to waiters and waitresses. if you remember from my first blog. I'm the difficult one in the restaurant.

Here's how the conversation usually goes: Server: You want a Cheeseburger with Bacon, but no cheese or vegetables and crispy fries. Well I better write that down with my...pen...if I can just find what I did with it...oh I'll be "write" back. Me. Why don't I just give you one of mine.


The "point" today is to tell you how valuable pens or writing instruments are in your marketing arsenal.


Here is a quick appetizer about pens:

• cost effective (with many starting under 50 cents)
• impressions you receive from a pen (they receive 437 impressions per month)
• you can’t use your finger to write on all those post-it notes around your office or home

There are so many pens to choose from whether you want a ballpoint, roller-ball or gel. Of course, let’s not forget color of ink, color of the pen, with or without a cap vs. click.

Pens are great giveaways for:existing and prospective clients

• tradeshows
• new product introductions 
• thank you's
• service awards
• employee incentives

It seems like I have a new favorite every day, but then again here is what my drawer looks like:

Does this look like your favorite drawer? Tell me, what is your favorite pen? Everyone seems to have one or at least an opinion. I would love to hear what makes a pen special to you.

Let me know how I can help you find your next favorite pen. 

Tasty side note: Here is a picture of my current favorite pen, specifically the blue one. 

The 12 days of Promotional Products (Christmas)

Ahh...the beautiful sight of snow falling outside, drinking a little hot cocoa with little marshmallows floating on top, a fire in the fireplace. All this can mean only one thing: The holidays and the music that goes along with it. One of my personal favorite songs has always been the 12 days of Christmas. With that in mind, please enjoy a new take on the 12 days of Christmas staring promotional products.

On the twelfth day of a Promotional Product Christmas, my true love gave to me...
12 Pens for writing
11 USB Flash Drives
10 Coffee tumblers
 9 Micro-fleece jackets
 8 Funky keychains
 7 Journal Notebooks
 6 Titleist Golf Ball
 5 Tumi Bags
 4 Ogio Backpacks
 3 Camelbak Water Bottles
 2 Apple iPads
 And a Built New York iPad Sleeve


Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah or Kwanzaa, may your tree not lose it needles, may your latkas (potato pancakes) stay extra crisp, may your candles burn extra long and most importantly, may you and your family enjoy the best of times and a prosperous 2012.

Idea of the Week: Going High Tech to Protect Your Technology

Just about everywhere you look these days, someone is using an iPad, Kindle, Nook, or some other tablet. Sure they feed our hunger to stay connected 24/7, and  help entertain kids with short attention spans. But they're also prone to get dropped, stepped on, or simply abused by our kids. With the holidays already upon us, why not use the latest technology to protect your new tablet, the Neoprene sleeve? Neoprene is actually a material used to make wetsuits, so if it can protect you from freezing cold water, surely it can protect your tablet.

Not only is it sleek, but you can also customize it with specific designs and logos to fit your business and marketing needs. And if you don't have a tablet yet, maybe this new sleeve will get you to dive into the tablet world.


Tasty Side Note: These sleeves are also checkpoint-friendly for ease of going through Airport security (if there is such thing).

Idea of the Week: Quotables

I've got a post-it note addiction. I use them for just about everything, from jotting down a phone number, to making grocery lists and bucket lists. My wife may also be addicted, given how many post-its she uses for my honey-do lists.

Now I just found a lot more uses for my note addiction with these cool new post-its called quotables. They come packaged together in neon colors and you can brand them with your logo in multiple colors. And for all of you concerned about the imprint size for your company's logo or marketing message it is the size of a business card (that's a lot of real estate if you ask me). What's not to love about that?

See, these quotables can even make honey-do lists seem a little cute, or at least not so much like work. Sorry, you'll have to draw your own images. Once you start using them, you may unearth your inner artist.

Tasty Side Note: For all you football fans. Don't forget that there are 3 football games on Thanksgiving. Just wanted to give you another reason to obstain from having to help in the kitchen with dishes or to call a penalty on the over-indulgence of tryptophan.