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Holidays in China

I think this information is important for everyone in our market: importers, distributors, clients… There will be a lot of Holidays in China the next

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September 21, 2010

Promotional inflatable drawings

For many years children make drawings, putting their imagination on paper.
Wouldn’t it be even more fun if they could play with these colored drawings? To let these drawings really fly or drive?
Right now that’s possible with the inflatable drawing!

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September 20, 2010

Promotion through Beauty Salons and Barbershops

Posted by Bric McMann from www.campaigncapes.com

The Campaign Capes Advertising Network

capes advertisingCaptive audiences are attractive audiences to advertisers, especially when that captive audience is in a relaxed and happy setting.
You don’t get much more relaxed and happy than at a hair salon or barber shop, enjoying
a great haircut or service and the company of others.
Salons and barber shops and are a great place for advertisers to target consumers.

What’s the case for using a salon as a marketing tool?
More and more time being spent out of home and the salon customer demographics are perfect for active consumers because they offer a truly captive audience with lots of dwell time.
Salons are described as recession proof. Research has found that salons are open later hours than most businesses and the average customer spends 90 minutes in the salon and return as often as every 4 weeks.

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September 8, 2010

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