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Promotional Gifts that will Boost Your Brand

While the economy is still in a delicate state, companies are being more careful when it comes to spending money on marketing and advertising. While cutbacks have to be made, it seems odd that businesses will be looking to cut hardest in the very area tha... Read >

Functionality and Visibility are the Secret to Business Gift Success

Business gifts are an established marketing resource and might be an effective way of promoting an organization. To be able to be successful there are several variables but among the most important are visibility and practicality.   These two factors wi... Read >

Summer Promotional Gifts

The United Kingdom emerged from its wintertime hibernation last week as clear skies and warmer temperatures made a timely come back. Summer is a great time for exhibitions and promotions, and promotional gifts can help to enhance your message. The Unit... Read >

Corporate Gifts for the Summer

The nation finally came out of its annual hibernation last week, and with blue skies and temperatures nudging the high teens it is only natural for attentions to start drifting towards the summer. There's always the rest of the year for meteorological ... Read >

Promotional Gifts That Offer Longevity

When companies look to promotional gifts to enhance their marketing campaign it can be with a wide variety of motives in mind. It can be to get some quick attention for a brand launch, to spread the word about a new offer or deal or to help build public r... Read >

Is A Successful Marketing Campaign More Down To Luck Than Judgement?

Go online and you will see thousands of guides instructing you on how to guarantee marketing success, and in most of these guides the costs are low and the rewards are huge! Back in the real world of marketing we all realise it is often hard and expensive... Read >

Is It Really the End for the Workplace Suit?

If recent reports are to be believed, we are all getting scruffier in the workplace. According to research by First Direct only one in ten of us wears a suit to work, with the same number of us strolling through the doors with tattoos on show. Jeans are n... Read >

Do Bosses Still Do Business on the Golf Course?

Along with smoky board rooms, directors sipping vintage brandy at their desk and the ever popular liquid lunch, meetings on the golf course are an old vision of the way the world used to do business. While the smoking ban did away with Cuban cigars in ... Read >

A Complete Guide To Branded Flash Drives

Branded flash drives are increasingly being seen as an effective way of promoting and marketing a company by businesses that are looking to raise their brand awareness. Branded flash drives can be an effective way of promoting a business due to their prac... Read >

What Will Your Message Say on Valentine's Day?

Valentine's Day is almost upon us and for the lucky ones that will mean flowers, chocolates, cards and engraved gifts as people shower their loved ones with tokens of affection. It is an occasion when the pressure is on to say something meaningful and ... Read >

Where Do Promotional Gifts Sit In Your Marketing Plan?

However big or small your marketing budget is, every company will have a marketing plan to help keep the funds in check and direct their promotional direction for the year. Among your options are advertising through television, radio or newspapers, onl... Read >

Use Business Gifts In Your Marketing Pack to Sweeten the Deal

Junk, junk, bills, junk, rubbish, trash. Sound familiar? That's the usual sound of the morning post delivery as busy office workers sift through the pile of junk mail to find something that will really interest them. Trying to grab the attention of eve... Read >

Do We Have An Advertising Event in the UK To Rival The Superbowl?

For years the UK has looked at the US with envious eyes, with American popular culture, politics and sport securing prime time slots here in Britain. Whether it's TV shows such as Friends and Glee, or round the clock coverage of Presidential elections, Br... Read >

Transfer Deadline Day – Do You Always Have To Pay a Premium at the Last Minute?

Financial crisis? What financial crisis?! Anyone who took an interest in yesterday's transactions on the last day of the football transfer window will be wondering what all the economic fuss is about as tens of millions of pounds were spent on players. ... Read >

Focus On Promotional Gifts To Enhance Your Marketing Effort

With the frivolities of Christmas over with, it is time to look forward to the New Year. While there are still difficult times ahead for marketing departments amidst a gloomy economic forecast and further budget cutbacks, there is still plenty to be plann... Read >