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3 promotional items trends you should follow

How do you get the best returns from a promotional advertise?
This is the main question that all marketers are wondering about. Where do you start and what should you look for?
We selected three trends this fall which are essential in the purchase of a gift or promotional product.

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September 7, 2010

2010 bpma Student Design Competition winner announced.

The first ‘bpma Design Innovation Award’, sponsored by 3M, has been won by Andrea Pisa, a design student at Brunel University.
bpmaThe Competition challenges UK based undergraduate design students to create a new product idea for the promotional merchandise industry. Launched by the bpma, the annual competition seeks to create new British designed products for the promotional market, and to focus UK design students on the large and thriving UK promotional industry that will be largely unknown to them.

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September 3, 2010

Paper Identification wristbands

Wristbands for Fairs and Festivals

When you’re bringing in hundreds, or thousands of visitors to events like fairs and festivals, you need an efficient, inexpensive way for you to track admission and identify customers. Medtech wristbands provide you with a highly effective visitor identification wristband solution, and they will hardly break the budget! With a huge variety of colors and designs, and fantastic customization capabilities, your wristband options are limitless which allow you to maintain a secure environment for you and your guests, of all ages!

paper wristbands The anti-counterfeit (Supertek) Tyvek wristbands are strong, waterproof, tear resistant, tamper resistant wristbands that ensure the patrons visiting you have been prescreened for payment, age and group restrictions, and special access to different areas of your venue. Easy to see and comfortable to wear, these wristbands are perfect for events, tour groups, schools, teams and parties. Add sequential numbering, or bar coding to track attendance rates, or customize your wristbands with your festival or venue promotions and upcoming special events, in combination with sponsor information for great exposure 24-7 exposure!

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August 26, 2010

Minimum Wage by Province in China, 2010

Posted by Conor O Donovan from the ODM Group in Hong Kong

With China’s growing economy, worker’s expectations on salary are rising all the time. So too is their cost of living.
The government periodically adjusts the minimum wages to cope with these changes. Minimum wages in China are decided at the provincial level. The Department of Labor and Social Security tracks a large number of economic development indicators: the local cost of living, the CPI, the housing funds, the unemployment rate as well as the area’s level of economic development and many others before issuing locally a minimum wage. China’s level of development and cost of living varies widely across the mainland. See Graph for breakdown by province for 2009 & 2010.

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August 26, 2010

Promotional ashtrays

Promotional ashtrays are very popular now ! With more and more strict smoking bans coming out recent years, a pocket ashtray seems necessary for a

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August 25, 2010

Tips For Buying Promotional Products From China

Posted by David Dawson PromoGifts Uk

Top on the list of those who export things world-wide, China is known for selling anything to anybody.
chinese factory From Promotional products to fishing gear; if you look at the label, it most likely says made in China. In this article, I’m going to cover some tips you might want to remember when you’re dealing with this country that has risen to the spot of economic giant. If you are able to overcome the drawbacks, than it’s likely that you can make some money dealing with China.

26 tips so far… feel free to add any of your own after you have read through, if you have had experience in dealing with China or any other far east countries then please do add your comments below. We would love to hear from you.

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August 9, 2010

MAIL BOX FLOWERS

Article from Patrick Paul from BeGlobal in the Netherlands.

What is nicer than giving someone some flowers? And even nicer to receive some roses from someone you love !


It is now possible to send a friend, brother, sister or “whoever” some flowers that fit through any standard mailbox. The MailBoxFlowers are ordered on-line and sent by mail, so they are on the doormat at the moment the recipient gets home.

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August 6, 2010

Promotional head buffs

Samantha from MSI Promotions, LLC in the USA comes and tell us about the success of the headbuffs on the US market.

” The reality television craze could not have been kickstarted without the introduction of Survivor, a reality tv game show that tested contestants’ ability to compete and survive in the wilderness. Survivor became extremely successful right from its first season in 2000 and has had multiple seasons since, as well as many international adaptations of the show. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you could not have helped but either seen at least one episode of the addicting show or at least know the concept of the show. The contestants are initially divided into two teams, who each identify with their team by wearing a certain survivor head buff.

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August 5, 2010