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15 11, 2009

Promotional Products With Forte Promotions

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You feel like time is running faster and faster until you just cannot control it anymore. Moreover, in all that rush, you remember that your shopping list needs to be reviewed and “honored”, that your significant one ran out of pens again, your children are still bugging you about that new electronic gadget that they saw in a magazine, or your boss will yell at you again that there are not enough mugs in the conference room. Make all your worries disappear. Visit us now and live life to the fullest again!

Three important features characterize our high-quality online shop: price guarantee, on-time guarantee and great selection of all our popular promotional products and of our special promotional items. We literally have everything that you need and want to buy. Every day we have a super deal, so that you can save some money and still buy what you need. For us, our promotional items stand for more than just a marketing strategy; they are an easy and efficient way of keeping you, our customers, close to us and satisfied with your choice.

Founded in 1989, and having the previous company name Super Softees, Forte Promotions has now reached a number of 18 years of experience providing embroidered and high quality screen-printed apparel, as well as promotional products, all destined to increase our clients’ visibility and enhance their identities. Forte Promotions is a business a 100% woman owned, certified with WBENC (Women’s Business Enterprise Certificate) and it provides all sorts of creative ideas and promotional products to help you in supporting your business.

We are proud to say that we have a wide range of clients, from Best Buy to Edina Realty, from Animal Humane Society to Minnesota Historical Society. Having business relationships with large and small organizations, for-profit or ONG type demands us to keep a dynamic profile and to be responsive to each and other client’s individual needs and demands.

Our company guarantees you full quality of promotional items and offers you event date guarantees because we have never missed an event date in all those 18 years of existence. Therefore, our job is to offer all our customers a worry-free experience, combined with the highest quality promotional products and the most creative ideas.

15 11, 2009

Promotional Products See Growth in Online Sales

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Ever increasing numbers of Promotional products companies have begun to use the internet as a shop window for promoting and selling their products. This enables them to offer cheaper prices and quicker lead times, as well as meeting customers’ demands for convenience and immediate gratification. The best promotional products websites take customers step by step through the entire sourcing and selection process.

This trend was confirmed by PPAI’s latest survey* which found that online sales of promotional products in the US have continued to grow slowly but steadily, increasing from $1.6 billion in 2003 to $2.7 billion in 2006. (Online sales are defined as those that result from orders placed through a website or online store.) What is equally interesting to note is that this rise was reflected across the board, irrespective of the size of firm.

The Internet is set to become an increasingly important factor in distributor sales due to the fact that a large proportion of Promotional products buyers now belong to Generation Y, which encompasses anyone born after 1982. This generation is most at ease when establishing and developing relationships – both on a professional and personal level – online rather than face to face.

Although Internet marketing is finally gaining pace amongst Promotional products distributors, the industry as a whole still depends primarily on personal selling which remains the major sales channel. However, what we are likely to see happening more often is a complementary blending of channels, with the Internet used for business transactions and the sales force employed to provide consultation services for promotional products.

15 11, 2009

Celebrating the Child in Us All With Fun Promotional Products

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Your company’s promotional products don’t always have to be practical and conservative. Sometimes the client or occasion calls for something fun, out of the ordinary and that will make your customers and prospective clients really notice your company name.

But your image is key in the business world, so to be taken seriously while still seeing the lighter side of client relations relies on high quality products which have been considered and will be a pleasure to receive and a source of cheer for office workers. And a fun promotional product is not just for your client; a toy could be taken home to their loved ones, where your brand name and colors will be seen in leisure time and by families and friends, and more importantly, that promotional bear could become a faithful friend – invaluable marketing.

There are many promotional items which will appeal both to clients in the office and to their children too, and picking one of the following options means you double your chances of the gift being used.

Promotional piggy banks or money boxes are great for that loose change after the sandwich run, and picking one in trendy translucent fuchsia will mean it stands proud in the office and might even be used as a charity or other collection point. And parents will also want to take them home for their children as a means of encouraging sensible saving. Either way your brand is on display in association with saving money while also being a fun item – you really cannot lose!

Puzzles, for example a promotional rubik cube, are appealing for all. Whether it’s to occupy twitching fingers in the office or to be a classic children’s toy, it will be used time and time again until it is solved and this means constant brand presence whenever it is played with. Games and puzzles are timeless, and whether it’s battleships or a promotional snafooz puzzle, imprinted with your company name, they are sure to provide your client or their families with hours of entertainment.

So far from being the soft option, choosing a promotional item that is fun and appeals to the child in us all is a wise business decision that means great promotion for your company.

14 11, 2009

Why your Company Needs to Consider Promotional Products

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You may think that promotional products are just an optional extra for a business, but this is a mistake too often made.
Every company can benefit from their brand being advertised on the right products and the resulting sales and exposure that your business will receive will be invaluable. But if you’re new to the world of promotional products it might help to see when in particular they are crucial tools for your advertising.Conferences and exhibitions: the best stands have eye-catching displays offering quality products. Whether practical clip-pens with your company logo help you to attract interest in your business or something bold and fun such as promotional Frisbees reflect your ethos best, they will act as a great tool to draw interested parties to your stand. Holidays and festivals: when it comes to Christmas and Easter, promotional items come into their own as a goodwill way to spread your company slogan and name. Customers will love to receive free seasonal products from you, whether indulgent, branded Easter eggs or a 3D snow globe with a cheerful scene, they send the message that you value their custom and this means a product that will be kept and enjoyed and best of all, is associated with your name.Meetings: promotional products can be crucial for you to make the right impression to customers during meetings. If you make their refreshment in your company’s promotional mugs, which might depict your logo loud and proud on a high-quality item, it shows you mean business and have the confidence in your brand. And add to this promotional folders and notepads and you’ll be sure to impress when it counts, that is during face-to-face appointments with clients and potential customers.

14 11, 2009

Brand Building: How to Use Promotional Products

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If you are embarking on a marketing campaign the first thing you need to concentrate on is building brand awareness: making your product visible to everyone who might want to buy it.

An excellent way to filter your brand into the lives of your target audience is to use promotional products that are embellished in some way with your logo. Useful branded accessories are seen in the workplace and home every day. Promotional products put your brand at the forefront of your customers’ minds.

Once you’ve studied the profile of your target audience and have chosen some useful, well-made promotional products, you can use them in a multitude of ways to help build and uplift brand awareness. Here are just a few examples:• Direct Mail: post a gift to show you care and promote your brand at the same time. Back up a sales letter with a branded keyring or a questionnaire with a printed pen.• The corporate effect: send your sales team and other key staff to conferences, seminars, networking events and business meetings with branded folders, pens, notepads and calculators to make your business appear professional and promote your brand at the same time.• Parties and events: don’t let your guests leave empty handed! Send them away with a goody bag filled with gifts that they’ll take back home or to the office. They’ll remember you every day and your brand will be seen by even more people.Promotional products are an important part of any marketing campaign, helping to build brand awareness and support any media or direct mail drive. Used wisely, they will really enhance a promotional push.

14 11, 2009

Reaching New Horizon With Promotional Products

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Any business school teaching marketing strategy to its students will stress on the importance of promotional products. A promotional product is a mean by which an organization can launch and advertise its products in the market. Therefore, a promotional product has to be well chosen so as to make a lasting impact on the clients.

They should be small in size and decently priced, not very costly, as it will put a huge burden on the economy of the company, neither too cheap as it will put the company in a poor light. It should not be too loud; neither should it be completely transparent. It should just be a nice mixture of subtlety and what is called fashionable. And of course, it has to be decent, attractive and it should make a lasting impact on the minds of the recipient.

If you are looking for promotional products that fulfill all the requirements and still be quite decently priced then the website is the perfect place for you. This website belongs to the UK based suppliers Argon Promotions which specially specializes in promotional products.

All the goods available on this website have been put up for display on it after a lot of market research. This website especially takes pride in its very approachable staff that is there to help you out in all your specific requirements. And you are sure to get the best deal in the market money wise. You can also imprint your company’s name in any format that you like and in any sort of engraving to make the name look really memorable.

The options are engraving, screen-printing, embossing, gold blocking and embroidery. With so many different types of encrypting available your company can choose the one that suits the products perfectly.

14 11, 2009

Confused or Lost at a Promotional Products Website? Move On!

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Sometimes a good way to understand the sensation of smacking your head against a brick wall is trying to shop for a specific promotional product. The industry is always looking for and discovering new products to stamp a corporate logo on, which means more things to choose from every day. The catalogs you need to sort out get bigger almost every day because of the constant growth in our industry.

Inarguably, your best bet is to find a seller with a website and not trying to track down manufacturers directly. The manufacturers that create the promotional giveaways you’re looking for won’t be selling to the general public, but through distributors that are equipped to complete a sale. What this means is that companies that sell promotional items to you are far more interested in giving you pricing and information than the manufacturers will be! These distributors can be so free with information it can actually feel a little like information overload sometimes. This is because, as you will discover, that there are many different things to decide on besides price. Some companies will offer a million products for you to choose from separated into a hundred different categories, which can seem worse than flipping through a catalog.

Millions of promotional products out are out there, making easy to navigate sites absolutely critical to you. Don’t settle for the first company you find, shop around. Online retailers are a dime a dozen, and a significant amount of those web sites are members of various networks that provide catalog information. What you will frequently find are online stores that are, more or less, an uninspired random catalog of tons of items and a shopping cart area to purchase them with. Some online “stores” will even make it difficult to find phone numbers or customer service e-mail addresses!

The good promotional websites will have easy to understand categories that anyone can understand, and not wording that only people in the industry would. When you find what you’re looking for or trying to pick from several different items, prices should be up front and the materials and sizes should be readily available. The words used should understandable and help you find what you’re looking for fairly quickly, and not force you to try to decipher marketing lingo about the product you’re considering.

You should note that a company that puts effort into making an easy to navigate website is also probably putting some time and effort into good customer service, which is the most important aspect of your purchase. Not to mention if the website has more than just things to purchase, like blogs, informative articles, etc. Your promotional product order can seem like a simple thing at first, but if you’re planning to see your logo on a promotional product you need the customer service a good company will provide. There are several steps between placing an order and getting it shipped, and each step means potential mistakes that can happen. Most of the steps are behind the scenes and won’t involve you directly, so even someone who has placed orders before might not realize the minefield an order taker has to navigate an order through. Don’t make the mistake of dealing with a second-rate company where you can expect less care taken during potential trouble spots.

Compared to a heavy paper catalog, the Internet is definitely the way to go. Not only will you find the promotional product you want more quickly, you’ll find it at the price you want and the shape or style you want.

13 11, 2009

Kick Off This School Year With Great Promotional Products

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Over 4,000 colleges and universities in the United States will open their doors to students this September. With a long enjoyable summer coming to an end, students will want more then just the cafeteria food to welcome them back. Freshmen piling into dorms unsure of what will come and upperclassmen just getting back into the swing of things will both appreciate a well-thought-out promotional giveaway.

 

Back to school promotional products are the perfect way to welcome in students and encourage school sprit. When looking for that perfect promotional item there is no need to stress. There’s a great product for everyone whether it’s a basketball player or a computer wiz. When choosing that perfect giveaway it’s important to stay focused on what you want to achieve. The best back to school promotional products will keep students organized, promote safe fun and support your school.  

 

Promotional calendars are essential for every student. It’s the perfect place to display scenic photos of campus and fun dorm life to remind students of why they chose their school. And it’s the best way to keep school, work, and party time organized. When it comes to class time, back packs are necessary for lugging books back and forth. An eco-friendly drawstring back pack with your school’s logo printed on it will come in handy for day to day college life.

 

Computers are also a staple in the lives of college students Course work is most accessible on the internet and assignments are most easily completed on a computer. A great tool for every computer user is the promotional USB flash drive. This tool makes file transfers quick and easy. They’re great for running files to the library for last minute printing and for sharing tunes and last nights pictures with friends. Students and faculty alike will love USB flash drives in their traditional form or attached to a lanyard or a pen for a fun and handy edge.   

 

There are also many promotional products that work well out of the classroom. Sports events call for school spirit so mascot imprinted apparel is a must. Giving out college logo tees is a great way to promote your school on and off the field.

 

No matter what item is chosen, promotional products are a great way to kick off the new school year. Students will feel welcomed with a handy giveaway. And a great Back to School Giveaways back to school promotional item can help them out all throughout the school year.

13 11, 2009

A Primer on Packaging Promotional Products

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One way to further improve the impact of your promotional product is with the right packaging. As with any other trade, presentation is the first step to making a sale. Package it right and you can sell it to any market, do it wrong and disaster ensues.Promotional products cannot always be personally distributed, as such it is important to find the right way to deliver it to your client as effectively as if you handed it to them yourself. Here are the top three ways to package your promotional products:The Gift It starts with a feeling of excitement and anticipation. Gift wrapping the item or placing it in a beautiful gift box creates the impression that the giver has taken the trouble to conceal a special item. Next, the recipient would feel honored. After all, what he or she received is a gift and not a promotional item. Finally, your client would have a sense of appreciation for your company. Gift recipient have a tendency to feel more valued than promotional products recipients.Dimensiona lsIn a typical direct mail campaign, companies get a response rate of 1.8 percent. One way to double this figure is to send out dimensional. According to Promotional Products Association International, sales letters and brochures, when used in conjunction with promotional products, can increase the response rate by as much as 2.7% . Meanwhile, Baylor University research shows that dimensional generate positive feedback from recipients by as much as 80%. While it may cost more than flat mailers, a three-dimensional direct mail has a better chance of making a lasting impression on the recipient. The trick to a successful dimensional campaign is to find a promotional product that complements your sales pitch.

12 11, 2009

Promotional Products Work as an Effective Advertising Strategy for Business

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The excitement in going to a trade show is coming home with interesting giveaways. Since being at a trade show means being close to your prospective customers, it’s important that you offer unique items they will remember you by. Research proves that promotional gift items work. Several market researches have been conducted, to track the response to various promotional strategies. The results prove people who received promotional gifts and printed items: 1. Were able to remember the name of the brand or the organization that gifted them with promotional products, as compared to those that just handed them promotional product literature. 2. Were a lot more likely to report positive feelings about organizations that had gifted them promotional items, as compared to those that had sent them a direct mail minus a gift. 3. Felt more inclined to respond positively to a call from a company that had gifted them with a promotional product than those that didn’t.Aside from giving the trade show go-ers the gift they’ve come to expect, promotional products can work some other wonders for you as well: Drive traffic to your booth. You can draw a huge crowd in front of your booth (as well as connect with lots of prospects) just by having an interesting gift. Everyone will want to know what’s going on and who you are. While they wait in line, you’ll have the perfect opportunity to explain your services and collect leads to follow-up on after the show. When people are in other locations of the convention center and see your name on a bag or a cool item, they’ll seek you out. Leave behind a good feeling about your company. While any gift is appreciated, a special one can create a connection between what you do and your prospect’s needs. What are the best promotional products to give out? Be creative! Try to pick a gift that will not only incite your prospects’ curiosity but also tie in with your business. For example, a beauty website or fashion magazine might give out a lip-gloss or a compact. An investment bank might think about a translucent calculator. Pens, while they may seem like a naturally inexpensive choice, are an effective way to establish your brand. Experts say that pens have a high “pass-along” value and can actually promote your company up to 8 times longer than any other giveaway. Once given to a prospect, the pen will be used at work, could be lent to a colleague, or left behind in an office. As a result, your company name will travel and inspire brand recognition.

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