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Smart Phone Screen Cleaner

Ultra fine micro fiber cleaning cloth safely removes makeup & fingerprints from cell phones to iPads, any LCD screen and it's always handy it stores right on the device just peel, wipe & re-stick 1000s of times, plus it's washable & re-useable.
Have you ever wanted you company info on one of the most used item in the world a cell phone? This product is so popular at trade shows people bring their friends back to the booth to show their friends where they got the screen cleaner!

Want more information about this product go to http://ow.ly/6Ya1f

National Hot Dog Day!

Wouldn't it be a good day to treat a customer to a hot dog?

What you should do with this day is make some hot dogs and take them to the customers office and give them hot dogs for lunch, leave the hot dog shaped stress reliever with them to remind them of the event that is imprinted with your company logo and Stress Free Day.

Polyurethane Hot Dog shaped stress reliever. 4" L x 2" W x 1 7/8" H 150 pc at $2.40

Brand New Website

This customer wanted us to create them a eCommerce website that is user friendly, have a blog, custom pages. It is fun because they are always looking for ways they can make it better for their customer and have it be fun for the customer to be on the site.

The customer sells hunting and fishing products like, Udap pepper spray, Emmrod® Rods, Pepper Spray, Cameras, GPS, Knives, Decoys, has a blog that you can tell your story, sell your used product for free, with more new products to come every week, be sure to check them out at www.hunaventure.com

Face Book Welcome Page

It is very cool what you can do with face book pages nowadays, welcome page, product pages, promotional pages. It is a great way to be different from your competition and give you some advantages, if you have a business fan page it is almost a must to have a welcome page that they will see when they go to your fan page.
We are in the middle of changing our face book page and going totally custom, which will be a lot better then what we have now.
This is the sample of what it will look like, if you want to see what your page could look like let us know and we can create you a custom face book welcome page

Cell Phone Screen Cleaners

Do you want one of the hots thing on the market promoting your logo?
I'm sure without a doubt that if you have these printed with your logo and run a promotion with them as a prize or gift, the screen cleaners will not let you down.

One idea is run a campaign promoting your website being mobile friendly and giving the cleaner to remind them about your website.
Send them with your invoices, give them out at the office or with each order they place from your business.

Features.
Sticks to flat surface, cell phone, computer, ext.
Special designed sticky pad doesn't leave residue.
Available in an assortment of shapes and sizes.
Full color imprint with a bleed.
Cleans screens on electronics.

Great prices at 500 pieces $1.25 per

Link to product

Postcard Marketing Tip

Want to know how to get better results on your postcards? When you get your mail which side of the postcard do you read first? Most people see the back side of the postcard first, so would it not make sense to have the most important information on the back of the card?

So when you design your next postcard, put the information that you want them to see first on the back of the card and the secondary information on the front of the card just incase they never turn over the card to see the other side.
You will have a much better return on your investment.

Deal of the Day

If you are a person that likes a Deal, you should checkout this FaceBook page Deal of the Day or you can checkout this site

10 Ways to Test and Measure Your Advertising

#1 Ask.

Find out from each client/new customer how they heard about you.

#2 Codes.

Put a code on each advertisement that will be regard to recieve the special.

#3 Phone #.

Use a different phone number to track the results of your advertisements.

#4 Different promotions per marketing avenue.

Create a different promotion for the different advertising methods, this may help you to key in on which advertising avenue works the best for you.

#5 Have a Deal of the Day and run it over several marketing avenues just not on the same day.

This will help you determine which advertising avenue works the best to reach your target audience.

#6 Email address for a promotion.

Have them respond by email with your internet advertising and use different email addresses per advertising avenue.

#7 Do a survey on how they heard.

Have a few questions about why a prospect came to you, what they like about you, how do they know about you.

#8 Study your website to see if you get more hits after a promotion.

How many people are going to your site, how long do they stay, what pages are getting the most traffic.

#9 On your email blast see who opens them .

Track which promotions work the best with email blasts, did they go to your website.

#10 Same promotion different sales people.

Run a promotion with you sales staff and find out who is the most effective at getting results, you may find some people would do a lot job doing something different in your company.

5 Things To Help You Trade Shows Be A Success

We all can have a booth at a trade show and not get great results, so its very important to plan how and why this show is going to be different.

#1 Make sure your business fits with the attendance, what percentage of the attendee could do business with you.
#2 Plan on whats going to happen at the show, have a detailed plan on how you are going handle every aspect
#3 Are you going to have a promotion to give people a incentive to do business with you.
#4 Have a list of question on how you are going to qualify the person coming to your booth, if the don't qualify how are you going to get them away from your booth, if its a busy day you only have so many minutes in a day and its important you don't waste them.
#5 Book a meeting with the prospect at the show to followup with that person to get the best results. The once you don't book a meeting with plan to followup in 48 hrs.

If you want to go the extra mile and do what most companies don't do, email them a thank note thanking them for coming to the show and stopping by your booth.

Tradeshow Idea

Check this out...what if you had floor graphics to put on the floor at your next trade show. There is a lot of cool things you could do with those, tell them where you are at the show, promote your booth, let them know what you are promoting at the show to list a few.

You would have to make sure you have the right floor graphic and adhesive for the floor you are applying it to and ask the show producer if it's ok to apply them to the floor.

Call if you want to know where to get these floor graphics.

Valentine's Promotion

What would happen if you created a 3 week promotion around valentines for you customers? Lets say you sent them a card and heart shaped magnet on week 1...on week 2 send them a pen with heart shaped top and on week 2 a bag of logoed M&M's.

Ok you get the idea, the goal would be to let your customers know have much you love their business, by doing something 3 weeks in a row just before Valentines day it would prove to them it was a planned event and there is a good chance you would out do your competitors.

Get Attention At Tradeshows

There was a company that had a booth in Vegas and they where giving out yoyo's at the event. The yoyo was the most popular item at the event, they said that people where asking (which booth is giving those away)
Be creative and put together a great promotion for your next tradeshow, you will be glad you did on the day of the event.

Montana Outdoor Connection

Want to promote a Non-Profit that is related to hunting, fishing or the outdoors for free? We are sending 50,000 copies to one of the biggest sportsman's show on the east coast. Checkout http://www.easternsportshow.com/ it is a great outdoors expo.
What we are doing for the non-profits is they can have a article or a ad of their choice in the magazine.