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The Power Balance wristband!

Did you hear about the “Power Balance“ wristband? I am sure you did.

Everybody is talking about this miraculous wristband, that according to what they say, improve balance, strength, and flexibility…
May you believe it or not, the “Power Balance” wristband creates a lot of talk about it!

Let’s see, I would like to try to discover what is exactly the secret of this magic wristband. Let’s investigate a little.
Step one: What is the Power Balance wristband and how it works?

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March 24, 2010

What is the Atrapamovil?


It’s happening almost every day with women. Your mobile phone is ringing and you cannot find it in your bag.
This also happens to me almost every day, my friends always say that I should buy a smaller bag, but it still wouldn’t help in my opinion. Or you did find it finally, and in a hurry you grabbed the phone out of your bag… and then, the phone falls out of your hands, on the floor, and smashed into pieces.

Well there is now a solution for this. THE ATRAPAMOVIL!!
It’s a mobile phone catcher!!

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March 15, 2010

New 3D Sports Stickers

A couple of days ago I received an e-mail about a new promotional product. When I took a look at the website I saw that the company is from Latvia. That´s funny, because originally I am also from Latvia. This new product they are selling got my interest.

It’s now for 4 years on the market and they already sold over 5 million stickers!

This company, called SIA Globall Sports, invented a new kind of sports promotional product. It´s a 3D Sticker with a sports ball on it in 3D. There are different kinds of sport balls you can choose for your sticker. The minimum quantity is 50 units and takes 4 weeks for delivery.

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February 26, 2010

Custom guitar picks

In the PPIBlog, our objective is to present some new, original, effective promotional products…
Recently we have been talking a lot of sport promotional items, obviously, because of the World Cup coming!!

But, it would be a crime to neglect other products that do not imply Soccer discipline and company…

We almost never talk about MUSIC promotions!
Stroke of luck, i have here a funny and NEW MUSIC PROMOTION PRODUCT:

“Rick Rock” The CUSTOM GUITAR PICK! Invented by a Canadian company: Zoogee World.

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February 25, 2010

The new supporter wigs!

For a couple of years ago the mohawks were very popular, people were spraying all kind of colours in their hair, or they just bleached their hair for the soccer games.

A new product is the hair bandage. This is the newest hairstyle for the supporters and fans of the World Cup of soccer. The hair on the bandage is remarkable and it is available in a lot of crazy shapes.

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February 3, 2010

PPAI 2010 in Las Vegas

las vegasLast week we visited the PPAI show in Las Vegas, Surely the most important promotional product industry event in the USA, to be compared with the Düsseldorf PSI in Europe.

PPAI did not yet release information about the number of visitors or exhibitors yet, but according to information from the exibitors the attendee was down with at least 20% compared to last year, we could clearly see this at the show, there was for sure activity but it wasn’t hectic as it used to be other years. Same for the number of exibitors, estimated to be at least 10% less than last year, maybe more.

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January 20, 2010

CHINESE NEW YEAR 2010

Chinese new year 2010 celebrations will take place from the 11th to the 20th of February. We will be entering the Year of the Tiger,

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January 14, 2010

Temporary tattoos – lasting allergy

The temporary tattoo is a cheap promotional giveaway and very trendy, many big brands distribute temporary tattoos to apply in the skin, and mostly for children.

But few are those who really estimate the risk they are taking.
We must not forget that a temporary tattoos is applied directly on the children’s skin and are made to stay from 5 to 7 days, leaving time to the components tu spread up in the tissues. Therefore, a temporary tattoo must not be considered as a simple sticker but as a product which has to respond to the requirements of the cosmetic industry’s standards.

During the 20th world congress of dermatology that took place from the 1st to the 5th of July 2002 in Paris, Dr Martine Vigan, dermatologist at the CHU besançon, has sounded the alarm on this risk. In the composition of some temporary tattoos, we can find Paraphenylenediamine, which provoques late allergies. The result: the tattooed zone swells, turns red and itches. Even more serious, this allergy can lead to a long term hypersensitizing.

Some of the inks that are used to print some bad quality temporary tattoo, especially in Asia, contains CRM substances (carcinogenic).

How to be certain the temporary tattoos your company will distribute are 100% safe for children? That they won’t contain toxic componenents which could provoque allergies, eczema or worst…Cancer?

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January 5, 2010