Keep Your Brand on Everyone’s Lips With Lip Balm

Your clients are sure to give you extra lip service when you give them a lip balm with your corporate imprint! With a wide variety of formulas and over 100 fun flavors, lip balm is the perfect item to complement your business and marketing promotions, providing effective word-of-mouth promotion at a low cost.

Lip balm fits all the criteria on your wish list! With an ample print area that can accommodate full-color logos, this is an item that is small enough to transport to trade shows – and small enough to fit into a purse or pocket for maximum use and portability. Lip balm is used by every demographic, including men and women of all ages and across industries and job positions. And with a usefulness that lasts, your brand will be seen over and over again. Add in an attractive price point to fit every budget and you can’t lose!

7 Portable Speakers to Make Your Brand Stand Out

Portable speakers are the perfect item for both personal and business use, making them the perfect promotional item for your company. Portable speakers can be used for anything from streaming music by the pool to producing the sound for business presentations and conference calls.

However, you don't want to give your valued customers and employees the same old portable speakers they can get anywhere. Make your brand stand out with new and unique choices like waterproof speakers, speakers with a built-in power bank, and even speakers built right into a portable cooler. And with price points to fit a variety of budgets, you are sure to find the best giveaway to make people take note and listen to your message!

Bluetooth Speaker w/ Camera Control (silicone lanyard & watch)

How cool is this? One of the world's smallest Bluetooth speakers is available as a lightweight silicone watch or a lanyard! It has another useful feature, as it has a built-in camera control function, so you can take photos from your wrist! You can now listen to music or talk on your phone with ease and comfort, even when you're going for a morning jog, biking to work or a enjoying a full day hike up that mountain! Your one color logo will be printed on the band. 

Unique Program Idea to Drive Employee Engagement and Results

When it comes to encouraging your employees to achieve important goals, motivation is the name of the game. In fact it is one of the most important pieces of the goal setting puzzle, playing a role in both establishing and attaining goals. According to an article by Ronald E. Riggio, PhD, in Psychology Today, “Research has suggested that the best way to drive continuous levels of motivation is to allow the person to experience “small wins”—breaking down a large task into smaller, measurable steps and celebrating the attainment of each step or level.”

Sounds easy, right? But how can leaders effectively accomplish this in the workplace? Create a structured program that outlines specific goals, measures results, and rewards successful performance.

One fun and effective way to not only measure results but reward performance is through the use of small gifts. This is where branded promotional products can help you motivate and reward your team in creative and fun ways. By choosing the right promotional product, one that your employees love or find fun, you can provide a reward that doesn’t break the bank. Once your motivational program goals have been established, it is important to provide a means to recognize the achievements of your team.

7 Trade Show Marketing Mistakes To Avoid

Companies spend a lot of time and money on their trade show marketing. Unfortunately, we see so many of these companies make mistakes that prohibit them from seeing a solid return on investment.

Maximize your trade show efforts by avoiding these six trade show marketing mistakes that I unfortunately see all too often.

1. Don’t Block People From Entering your Booth
There are many ways you can block your booth space. Avoid placing tables across the entrance to your area by planning ahead and creating a welcoming and attractive space. In addition, make sure you don’t offer a negative presence in your booth. Welcome people in with a smile. Don’t stand out in the aisle. The booths that look the busiest attract the most attention. Get people in your booth to not only hear your story but also to make your booth look like a hot destination.

Hottest New Promotional Products for 2016

Earlier this week I shared the most unique technology promotional products for 2016 that I saw at the PPAChicago New Product Ideas show this month. However, there were a lot of really unique, impactful promotional products that were non-tech that could really help you promote your brand.

Here are my favorite hot, new promotional products for 2016.

Workplace Promotional Products

Portable Water Bottle Humidifier

Everyone at the show was stopping to look at this Portable Humidifier that works from a standard water bottle. Perfect item for the office or while traveling. This item is great for moisturizing the skin, increasing humidity, reducing dust and bacteria or removing odors/smells. Works with any size water bottle. It’s powered by a USB cable and features an auto shut-off after 8 hours. Just keep refilling the water bottle! This is bound to get used and bound to be brand impactful!

Most Unique New Technology Promotional Products for 2016

I recently attended PPAChicago’s New Product Ideas show and wanted to share some of the unique new promotional products out this year to help you market your organization or event. Technology continues to be a hot category for promotional products your clients will hang on to and use, giving you long-term brand exposure. Fortunately this year there were some really unique, new promotional items that would be very impactful for your brand.

Here are my picks for the most unique, new technology promotional items for 2016.

Cobra Virtual Reality Viewer

To create a truly cutting edge impact, the Cobra VR Viewer allows the user to experience virtual reality with any smart phone. Download one of many virtual reality Apps from Google Play or the App Store to a smart phone then look through the Cobra VR Viewer to experience a virtual world, right in your hands. You can print your logo in 4-color on the front of the viewer for maximum brand exposure. This would be perfect to drive traffic to your trade show booth. Hand out the viewers with your logo to trade show visitors, help them download a fun virtual reality app onto their smart phone and let them enjoy an incredible experience. Your booth will be the hit of the show!

Promotional Products that Personalize your Office and Promote your Brand

In our last post we talked about how for most of us our office becomes our home away from home. It's a place that we can personalize. Showcase our unique personality. With a little bit of effort, we can turn our bleak workplace into a happy, inviting place!

Knowing that people have the need to personalize their work space, why not help your customers, prospect, and employees out with some really cool promotional items? The more useful and unique, the better the chance they will display it proudly on their desks. The'll love what you gave them, you'll love that your brand is visible, and everyone wins.

There are an endless number of products available to personalize a work space, but I’ve delved through the masses and found some of the essentials for you. To help you decide what would be valued most, we divided them into categories of what everyone needs in their office to create a comfortable space.

Check out this list of the top five categories of office essentials to make a work space feel like home:

1. PLANTS

Office Turf

Adding greenery to your office is the number one way to make it feel more like home. Research has even proven that plants lower workplace stress and enhance productivity! This live miniature grass garden will promote a sense of calm in a hectic office environment, and is a great idea for a "grow with us" theme. Use for your next healthy living or relaxation promotion!