Every now & then I’ll open an image from a supplier and be genuinely surprised by the promotional product presented – this was one of those moments! You can imagine with the width of promotional product available to be decorated just how many times I might be sent a mug, a pen or a … [Read more...]
David Smith, an economist and columnist in the Sunday Times has what he calls his ‘skip index’ - the number of skips on his residential road being a good barometer for the economy, the more skips the more positive people are in the economy and spending money on their houses. I have a similar … [Read more...]
Sussex Promotions are delighted to announce that two more of its team has passed the British Promotional Merchandise Association’s Academy Certificate in Promotional Merchandise, with distinction. The BPMA is the UK’s leading association dedicated to promoting best practice around the … [Read more...]
Ok, so this is the first blog post of mine that you’ve read so you don’t know about the first key to success! I believe the key to success with promotional products is to give the target audience something that they will find useful. If it’s useful it will get used, and if it gets used, and … [Read more...]
In a recent survey by the British Promotional Merchandise Association (BPMA), in response to the question “Which promotional items do you most like to receive?” 36% replied “mugs.” Now the promotional mug category does tend to have its regular popular shapes, those ordered far more than … [Read more...]
Promotional Products can and are used everywhere, be it retail, hotels, doctors, dentists, offices everywhere, just open your eyes this week to product that is branded with a logo, a name, a web site you’ll be amazed. If you include signage, shop fronts, vehicles etc. you’ll be in the hundreds … [Read more...]
You will know for this blog and from our web site just how many different promotional products are available, our catalogue is 160 pages with over 1500 products and that catalogue scratches the surface of what we can supply. You see a promotional product can literally be anything that can somehow … [Read more...]
Attending a conference or an exhibition it is very easy to get overwhelmed with materials and promotional products that sponsors, exhibitors and trainers may be giving away. I feel that a common trap SMEs fall into is the need to keep up with the Jones’s, we must have a goody bag because … [Read more...]
Back in January of this year we reported that President Obama had just signed an Executive Order designed to cut drastically federal spending on promotional products. Agencies were being asked to cut spending by 20% across travel, technology, vehicles, printing and promotional … [Read more...]
I read a lot in business blogs and books about surviving the ongoing down turn now in its fourth year, and with no sign of much changing with the euro edging ever closer to collapse. With economies in negative growth, and less business to go round finding sales and growth for business might seem … [Read more...]
