I’ve been working quite hard on these blogs as you could tell. Unfortunately my team members have been super busy helping out with enquiries. Oh if you need promotional gifts for Christmas I strongly urge you to start contacting us as we have begun closing off many custom made product lines to be delivered prior to Christmas so its best to be early to avoid dissapointment. Each year we do stock our warehouse to the max in anticipation of a massive rush. Every year though many stocked items for many lines of products run out leaving many dissapointed or unable to get the colour of their choice. If you had a large order I would really really recomend you to get in touch with us so we can indent (custom make) your order to save money and have something tailored for your needs. Many corporates have already finalised orders (which explains why my team members are quite exhausted in helping people with their Christmas and diary orders) So pleeeeease dont leave it till the last minute to get something really groovy and unforgettable for what has been a challenging year!!!

We always thought that many of our products are used as Event merchandise for product launches or promotions. Its until when we start talking with our customers that we realise that this sooo isnt just the case. Sure obviously we know that our products pop up in most orientation days in universities as well as nation wide advertising campaigns by companies and government departments to draw awareness. However some of our products we have known to be included in the instance of children where intervention by the government have been neccessary to relocate them from their home for whatever reason where some of our promotional toys have been supplied to cheer them up. We have supplied them with bags as well for them to collect their belongings. So its not just for conferences or tradeshow handouts, we aim for our products to be value for money and yes they have a multitude of uses.

I must admit we are a little slow on the take up. However we will soon be radically enhancing the way we communicate our products to you!! In the coming weeks we will not just be communicating by phone and email but we will be offering other forms of communication as an option for you to get in touch with us to discuss what promotional products you need!! We will soon be hooked online through Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, Skype and MSN Chat to start off with as additional channels for us to communicate. We hope to expand on our current blog and offer interaction and engagement with not just our merchandise but on areas on marketing and staff motivation techniques and observations. Basically an interactive platform to discuss all things to do with marketing as well as a channel to highlight some cool new products and marketing trends that we see day in day out.

This weekend I noticed one of our banks go very agressively in promoting one of their lending packages in my local shopping center (Chatswood Chase in Sydney). It was a well run well co-ordinated campaign which did attract a lot of attention. As well as having a pop up designated area as a kind of a base quarter they also hand quite a few roaming staff. These staff looked professional, clean and had corporate branded shirts with matching corporate branded bags and lanyards to match. They easily worked through the shopping crowd handing out fliers (I thought I saw lollypops too) with the usual interested and not interested people amongst the crowd. What struck me though was they obviously had a high success rate. You see quite a few people ended up talking about their product with this company. This is compared to others who hand out fliers who I regularly see in the Sydney CBD who have no uniform and look like they just got out of bed. You see having corporate merchandise like the items that we stock provide you with more than just a look. It provides the audience (ie. your potential customers) with confidence, trust and security. Why? Well despite what many say most of us judge a book by its cover. When it comes to marketing and having a total stranger approach you the visual aspect of your staff and team member becomes critical in creating and maintaining interest in passerbys. So if you do have an event coming up and are considering weather to pump out for some smart corporate products I do believe that would be amongst the most important investment decisions you can make for your marketing event.

Yep thats right. The mug you see below is my mug. No its not amongst our range of products that we offer (although I am very tempted to introduce it into our range)…. its actually a measuring cup… half litre cup… and can realistically accomodate 700mls. Why do I use this this mug? Well I like seeing peoples reaction for one and secondly normal mug sizes just isnt big enough. I know its not just me though…. when I used to work in a bank I would regularly notice that every 4th desk would have someone sipping coffee and having a big water bottle on their table. The fact is that working in a desk job we simply dont have the time or cannot be bothered with little mugs. This is precisely why we have introduced a branded mug that is super huge…. we call it the Hercules brandable mug. We also have another big printable mug called (unimaginatively) the Extra Big custom mugs. These mugs are quite bulky and some may think they dont look as cute…. but they are BIG and have a BIG branding area and maybe a good alternative to traditional brandable coffee mugs!!

The other night we were proud to be invited to an exclusive product launch dinner from BOA - or better known as Bottles of Australia. Promotional bottles by BOA as the name says are made in Australia. They have a huge range of bottles and colours and is the leading brand in our industry. They have also released a new range of custom brandable aluminium bottles too. What I thought was cool was that they had this really unique lid/lip which had a function that I never saw before (which is quite hard since we stare at promotional products everyday) We are one of their top suppliers and we have a wealth of experience regarding their product as well as their range of colours and print options. I’ll post up pictures shortly as were took take happy pics with the owner and several of their team too. The event was held in the Maritime Museum in Darling Harbour and we even got a free private tour at night!!!

Yep thats right. We will be slowly moving away from our range towards a range of promotional pens designed and produced exclusively from Spain. Why? Well they are super cool for 1. Reason 2? Well this is a good one…. the quality is extremely high…. Reason 3… and you’ll love this… they cost almost the same low price for the same item… + you get the cool cache of knowing that your corporate pen is designed and produced in Europe!!! I’ll be posting these ones new styles of pens shortly…. there are quite a few actually so I’m quite excited as these pens will be much much different to the usual ones you see on our website.

YAY!!!! We finally have things sorted. We have mcmug the coin bank now available as a stocked item. For those who dont regularly visit our posts Mcmug is a super cute piggy complete with shirt shorts and sneakers. He is the custom printed piggy bank that I wanted when I was a kid but never got. So if you are in the finance sector and want a fabulous branded piggy bank for your young customers (as opposed to a square one I got as a kid…. I’m not kidding here my coin bank was a cube with sharp angles) then this is the one for you!!! Actually you dont even need to be in finance. This fabulous promotional coin bank will appeal to all ages and dare I say across all work sectors as it is that cool!!!

Promotional sports towels, branded golf towels, even customised tea towels!!! These are products we normally carry however as of this week we are carrying an even larger range. With our towels as a simple indicator the pricier the personalised towel is the thicker and softer it is. So essentially its a better quality towel as pricing increases. (as well as size to consider of course). You may have noticed that its not just the quantity of towels available but also the branding methods. We now have tone on tone branding as well as full photographic finished towels which are simply amazing and gorgeous to look at. Please check out our new range of promotional towels today!!

White promotional products. It could be white promotional bottles, white corporate flashdrives, white stress balls, white branded bags or any one of our products in white are a massive massive eye catcher. More so than other colours white attracts attention big time which means they are perfect as conference handouts or to attract passer bys. The only down side with white though is that they look super appealing in being an attractive colour (i recently purchased a white hatch back car for that reason). However the unfortunate thing is that over time without proper care they do age and attract dirt very very easily. In the case of stressballs they will naturally change in colour over time (much like oxidsation in metals) and will turn a little yellow. Its not a big deal but it is something to consider when you select your next promotional product wheather to trade off upfront attractivness with longevity of the aesthetics of the item.