I recently posted a question on Linkedin.com asking; What is the best Promotional Product you have received? It was very interesting to learn what got some people very excited, while others claim to get some off the wall stuff, like a Remote Control car – in 18 years of selling promotional items, I’ve never heard of that one. Here are the comments: I received a great multi purpose tape measure, with a bubble level, a pencil and a little pad of post-it notes. I got it at the … [Read more...]

Building a brand for your company is not easy; using leeds world promotional items can increase your company’s image in the eyes of your costumers and prospects.  Cheap promotional products do not necessarily have to be a physical product. You can build your brand by displaying your logo in the least likely places.  If you ship goods a sticker on each and every box styling your logo is a very cheap and inexpensive way to exposure your logo, be sure to include your website url. Make … [Read more...]

A US Operator of hospitals and clinics has decided that pharmaceutical companies can no longer give promotional items such as custom imprinted clocks, custom mouse pads and custom printed pens to the 17 SMDC Health System clinics in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Doctors have been used to getting promotional products with a custom imprint featuring drugs like Nexium, Vytorin and Lipitor for years, but the SMDS has put a stop to the practice.  Giveaways have been a longstanding practice for the big … [Read more...]

Promotional products are used mostly as Give-A-Way's, but the real marketers get it and use promotional products to create a promotion. Here is a great example of an effective promotion that generated new business. Marketer: A construction company that specializes in Cement and Asphalt Driveways and Parking Lots. Goal: Generate new business as cost effectively as possible. Promotional Item Used: Rubber Duck, imprinted with "Call Right Now To Solve Your Puddle Problems" ABC … [Read more...]

Memory prices have dropped to very affordable prices over the last few years, making Custom USB Drives a great and very popular promotional product.  Some Flash Drives have the option to pre-load your information, like a catalog or sales page or link to your website. Prices range based on the various different storage capacities available, from 256mb all the way up to 2 Gigabytes.  Other pricing factors are the style, a basic Thumb Drive is the most cost effective, however currently the … [Read more...]