Hot Summer Promotional Products

Summer is in fun full swing but it's not too late to grab some promotional products to help keep your brand in front of your customers during summer events.

Here are a few of our top selling promotional products for your summer promotions, corporate picnics, and even client appreciation days.

Retro Sunglasses
You can't go wrong with these retro sunglasses to giveaway as swag at beach events, picnics, and even golf tournaments. The price is perfect and they come in a variety of fun colors sure to match up with your company logo.

Deluxe Folding Chair
With a large imprint area for your logo, this deluxe folding chair will work hard to promote your brand. If your company is sponsoring any summer outdoor concert events or hospitality events, put these chairs out for your guests to ensure that all concert goers see your logo. Then give a few away to VIP customers or valued employees. Four colors are available, so choose wisely.

Acrylic Mason Jar Tumblers
Mason jars are hot, hot, hot when it comes to promotional drinkware. Designed to look like the nostalgic preserving jars, these BPA free, colorful tumblers come with fun straws to make drinking even more fun. Your customers will hold on to these tumblers for a long time giving your brand some long-term exposure.

Beach Picnic Pack
This fun picnic pack includes everything you need for a fun summer outing. The insulated main compartment holds food, drinks or other beach essentials for four people. The Picnic Pack is designed to be water and sand resistant keeping your food and drinks safe until you are ready to eat. This is an impactful gift for valued customers and employees.

Jelli Mini Fan
Give your customers and prospects a way to beat the heat with this Jelli Mini Fan. The fun translucent colors and attractive price point make this promotional item a winner for outdoor and summer events.

Need more ideas for summer promotions? Give me a call at 847-398-5500 or email me at dona.blunt@newportpros.com and we'll get some creative ideas going for you.

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Versatile Reward Card to Incent your Customers

Here's a common problem I hear from customers. They want to give a high impact gift away in a trade show raffle to drive traffic to their booth, or they want an exciting door prize for their next event, or they want a nice incentive gift for their customers but they don't know what would be appealing to everyone. They don't want to just give cash but they don't want to guess wrong on what type of gift would motivate or appeal to the recipient. Well, here's a solution! Check out this new reward card that makes it easy to give a high impact gift where the customer chooses exactly what they want.

MyCompanyGiftCard is available for $100.00 each (and thereafter in increments of $50.00) and it entitles the recipient to go onto a website and select high-end, brand-name apparel of their choice.  The website has brand names such as Columbia, Brooks Brothers, LaCoste, Page and Tuttle, plus many other brands. They can choose from polos, jackets, woven shirts, hoodies, caps and fleece for both men and women. The minimum order is only 5 cards so your program can be up and running almost immediately. 

Contact me today for a demo code that enables you to check out the ordering site and the apparel available to choose from. Call 847-398-5500 or email me at dona.blunt@newportpros.com.

A Happy Ending for Obsolete Promotional T-Shirts

While many election year promotional products end up in trash cans at the end of campaign season, one group defied the easy route and is putting those old items to good use.

The Daily Caller reports that the Knox County Romney Campaign of Tennessee has donated its leftover Romney-Ryan 2012 promotional t-shirts to a needy school in Kenya.

The campaign managers donated the unused promotional shirts to The Orbit Village Project, a nonprofit organization that runs a school, medical clinic, orphanage and Baptist Church in Nairobi, Kenya. More than 200 of the school's students received their own t-shirt.

"We were thinking, 'What's the best use for these shirts?' And it was very organic in how it came together," said Alexander Waters, campaign director for the Knox Country Romney Campaign. He explained that he became aware of The Orbit Village Project through his aunt, Cyndy Waters, founder and director of the charity organization.

This was indeed a happy ending with promotional items being put to good use instead of ending up in a landfill. So, what else can you do with leftover promotional or logoed marketing products?

1. Give employees first pick. Your employees are your best salespeople and the living representation of your brand. Why not reward them for their hard work with some free promotional items? Everyone loves free stuff and sharing extra promotional items, especially if they are useful, creates a lot of goodwill.

2. Have a "garage sale" and donate the proceeds to charity. Set up a table in the lobby one day and tell your employees or other office workers that all donations for the items will go to a charity. Even if people only pay $1 for each item, you're supply closet will be empty and the charity will be grateful for any help you can give them. Some charity retail stores will take the promotional items, as well. Give them a call to see if they are interested.

3. Donate them to a local school. Kids love free stuff and school PTAs are always looking for prizes to give out to students for contests or motivation. As long as your promotional item is kid-friendly, let the kids take them home and show off their winnings.

What have you done with your leftover promotional items?

If you have the opposite problem and need to create some promotional products or get your logo printed on some trade show giveaways, give me a call at 847-398-5500 or email me at dona@newportpros.com.