Why Promotional Coffee Mugs Are Popular Gifts

Posted by Riya Moore

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These days, coffee-drinking is “hot” – pun intended – since it is both a societal trend and it offers a hot beverage to soothe stress. With the proliferation of gourmet coffee shops, hot coffee drinks such as lattes as well as iced coffee drinks are even making their way onto the menu boards of fast-food restaurants and bakeries.
Perhaps one reason why coffee is so popular today is that workers seem to have more work to do than ever given the workforce reductions companies have undertaken in the last several years as a result of the recession and globalization. People need a way to recharge and re-energize – and coffee seems to be fitting the bill.
So what better way to take advantage of this trend than to offer promotional coffee mugs to customers and employees? Not only will they appreciate your giving them a free coffee mug, you will enjoy multiple advertising impressions every time customers and employees use your custom coffee mugs in front of others.
Custom Coffee Mugs Offer Years of Impressions
Imprinted with your company logo and contact details, these custom coffee mugs make

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the perfect promotional medium that is both effective for your company and useful for the receiver. The imprint area on a coffee mug is fairly large – offering a nice-size in which to imprint your company/organization logo and even a campaign message or cause call-to-action.
Consider also that a custom ceramic coffee mug offers permanency. Since it is so durable, its lifespan covers years, even decades, offering countless advertising impressions every time it is used. People collect coffee mugs as keepsakes and memorabilia of previous experiences in which they participated. For this reason, people handle custom coffee mugs with care – to preserve their memories associated with the mug.
Personalized Mugs Have Many Uses For the Office and Home

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Aside from the obvious use for customized coffee mugs – drinking coffee – there are many other uses for personalized coffee mugs. You will often see employees using custom coffee mugs as holders for office accessories such as pens, paper clips and scissors.
You can also use personalized coffee mugs as planters for seedlings and candle holders for tea candles and other smaller-size candles.
Promotional mugs are a great way to package a variety of components for kits – such as a “get well” kit (including a thermometer, packet of instant chicken soup and mini-pack of facial tissues) or a “new hire” kit (including pens, sticky notes or note pad, and a business card holder).
The uses for promotional mugs are only limited by your creativity!

U Drives for your Smart Phone and computer...

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Custom Reusable Grocery Bags

Switch to Custom Reusable Grocery Bags For Your Business

After you return home from a trip to the grocery store and you’ve stored away all your groceries, what do you do with those plastic bags they came in? If you’re like most people, you simply throw them away.
In the United States, the average person uses between 350 and 500 plastic bags a year. And as a nation we consume approximately 100 billion new plastic bags a year. Producing all these plastic bags requires approximately 12 million barrels of oil a year.
Since plastic bags are made from nonrenewable resources, the increased demand for these bags has resulted in higher fuel prices. But that’s not the worst part.  It is estimated that 1 million birds and 100,000 turtles and other sea animals die each year after ingesting discarded plastic bags, which block their digestive tracks.
Incentivize the Use of Reusable Bags at Your Business
Unfortunately, plastic shopping bags are littering our earth. Because they are so lightweight, they often fly away from landfills and settle in trees, storm drains, beaches and the ocean.  Plastic bags comprise more than 10 percent of litter polluting the nation’s coastline. And they can take anywhere from 15 to 1,000 years to decompose.
In the past five years, more than 12 countries have banned or levied taxes on disposable plastic bags. Ireland, the first European country to impose a tax on them, has decreased plastic shopping bag consumption by 90 percent since 2002, reducing overall plastic bag usage by 1.08 billion.
Some grocery stores even offer discounts for customers who bring their own bags. They also sell their own custom grocery bags. Additionally, many stores accept their bags back. The bag recycling collection bin is usually displayed at the front of the store, near the shopping carts.
The proliferation of non-reusable plastic bags adds up to many negatives for our nation and its people – including the depletion of natural resources, increased fuel prices, littering our landfills and killing innocent animals.
Many People Are Turning to Reusable Grocery Bags

Grocery stores are now proudly displaying their logos on their own custom grocery bags. These stores are even charging a fee for these promotional products, even though they advertise the stores every time they are used.
Custom reusable bags are especially popular at organic food stores, where customers “naturally” are inclined to think in environmentally friendly ways.
Custom reusable bags come in all sorts of smart and stylish shapes and prints, spicing up your shopping trips by adding a personal touch. Many people enjoy “making a statement” by toting custom reusable bags bearing the logo of a favorite brand or charitable cause. Thanks to the rise of custom reusable bags, our nation’s landfills, animals, resources and even people are better off.
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Do you use a reusable bag for your grocery trip?

Deep Etched Bistro Mugs

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Cash vs. Symbolic Holiday Gifts

Tis the Season to answer…..

Cash vs. Symbolic Holiday Gifts

You trust your Promotional Products adviser to find just the right holiday gift, and it’s one of the most enjoyable requests I get to work on all year. Then comes the bombshell, when you tell me “ we had a meeting, and this year we have decided to give out cash (or gift cards)”. 

The two points you will find in most studies are: (a) if you ask employees which they would rather receive, they will almost always say cash (b) studies show that non-monetary gifts do much more for the giver, and actually have a much higher appreciation value to the recipient.

Think of it this way- Productivity is rewarded with cash and that can be a powerful motivator to the recipient. However, a “gift of appreciation” is much better received as it is seen as coming from the heart, and has a lasting effect, where cash does not.

Below is an excerpt from a recent study by The Symbolist which can be used to make the point.  

"What determines reciprocity in employment relations?  We conducted a controlled field experiment and tested the extent to which cash and non-monetary gifts affect workers' productivity.  Our main finding is that the nature of the gift, not its monetary value, determines the prevalence of reciprocal reactions.  A gift in-kind results in a significant and substantial increase in workers' productivity.  An equivalent cash gift, on the other hand, is largely ineffective even though an additional experiment showed that workers would strongly favor the gift's cash equivalent.

Read that again… cash was less effective even though workers preferred it.   

Their premise:

"We hypothesize that, unlike a wage increase, non-monetary gifts or gifts in-kind provide a more salient signal of kind intentions and therefore represent a superior mechanism for the establishment of successful gift-exchange relations. In comparison with money, gifts in-kind are often considered to be more thoughtful and to more credibly reflect regard."

Meaning – non-cash communicates emotions and social contracts – not transactional ones.  And that is double-plus good.

If that is not enough to get you to steer away from cash this year, just check out this classic (and very funny) Seinfeld video and let Kramer teach you!  Enjoy!

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21 Habits of Happy People

Posted in  Self Improvement on January 30, 2013Comments: 147 comments

“Happiness is a habit – cultivate it.” ~ Elbert Hubbard Happiness is one aspiration all people share. No one wants to be sad and depressed.
We’ve all seen people who are always happy – even amidst agonizing life trials. I’m not saying happy people don’t feel grief, sorrow or sadness; they just don’t let it overtake their life. The following are 21 things happy people make a habit of doing:


1. Appreciate Life
Be thankful that you woke up alive each morning. Develop a childlike sense of wonder towards life. Focus on the beauty of every living thing. Make the most of each day. Don’t take anything for granted. Don’t sweat the small stuff.
2. Choose Friends Wisely
Surround yourself with happy, positive people who share your values and goals. Friends that have the same ethics as you will encourage you to achieve your dreams. They help you to feel good about yourself. They are there to lend a helping hand when needed.
3. Be Considerate
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QUIKOIN PURSE BRINGS MEMORIES

CLEVELAND (AP) -- A low-profile company solved the problem of jingling pocket change for Frank Sinatra and millions of other penny-wise people.

"When you hand it to a baby boomer, they'll smile and rub it, or open it and smell it," said Mike Burns, the third generation to lead production of the ubiquitous Quikoin coin purse, created in Akron in 1951.

For the next three decades, the palm-size rubber coin carriers were all the rage -- produced by the tens of millions and often handed out free by restaurants, banks and other businesses who had their company name or logo on the item.

The Quikoin was named as one of the top five promotional products of the 20th century by Promotional Products Association International.

, the industry trade group. And just ask baby boomers if they remember the item.

"Then they'll tell you a story, like how their Uncle Jim had one stuffed with quarters and would hand them out to the kids," Burns said. "People relive these moments when they see a Quikoin. It's an instant time-travel back."

Burns said Sinatra always carried a Quikoin so change didn't jingle in his pocket when he was on stage.

The rubber, oval-shaped thingamabob holds about $3 in quarters and dimes comfortably -- a lot of money in the 1950s. Today, you'd need $24.28 to have the same buying power, but the Quikoin still holds only about $3.

Despite that, the Quikoin has persevered and has made a resurgence the last two to three years with 2 million now sold each year, Burns said. "It's a nostalgia item," he said.

The product, sold through distributors and not available in stores, is perhaps the most recognized product made by Quikey Manufacturing Co. The 250-employee company also makes rubber key chains, magnets, ID holders and luggage tags.

The coin purses routinely sell among collectors for way more than their actual value. They cost about 70 cents each to buy in bulk. Recently several were sold on eBay for $5 to $7 each, plus shipping.

Quikoins also are bouncing back in popularity because people are using them in new ways. The company routinely hears stories about people who love using them to store earrings, guitar picks or condoms.

The Quikoin was conceived by Burns' grandfather, Ben Stiller, who originally created a rubber case to hold the two keys that many vehicles required (one for the door and one for the ignition). The company was taken over by Burns' uncle and then passed to Burns and his brother and cousin.

The patent on the Quikoin ran out years ago, but competitors haven't quite been able to duplicate the technology, Burns said.

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Twelve Reasons For Using Slinky to Promote your message...

Twelve Reasons For Using Slinky to Promote your message...
Have you ever considered using Slinky in a client marketing, promotional or advertising campaign?
If not, here are ten reasons why you should:

• 94% of all Americans know Slinky.
• Slinky has one of the strongest and most recognizable brand names of any product
• Slinky is one of the few products that is still made in America (Hollidaysburg, PA).
• Slinky is made from 90% recycled metal.
• Slinky is recession resistant.
• Slinky is an American icon with an extremely positive image.
• Slinky has over 60 years of history, attributes and characteristics that can be adapted to a client campaign
• Slinky can be color-keyed to match your clients corporate or product colors.
• Slinky can be used as a means of packaging other products, i.e. compress t-shirt into a Slinky; fill center with candy; add circular Post-it notes; shrink wrap. You've just "stretched" your imagination.
• Custom Slinky boxes can be provided for your creative program.
• Real brass and gold Slinkys are available for special awards programs.
• The first kid to ever play with a Slinky, Tom James, the Slinky Master and son of the inventor, can be available for special programs, i.e. autographed Slinky retro boxes, tell Slinky history, demonstrate Slinky. 
   

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  History Of Slinky

  One of the most famous toys in history originated in a meter for testing horsepower on battle ships. As World War II raged on in 1943, marine engineer Richard James worked at his desk in Philadelphia's Cramp Shipyard. It was a routine day, but a harmless mishap forever changed the life of James and his wife Betty and sowed the seed that produced the immortal Slinky®.
  A torsion spring used in a testing meter fell off James' desk and tumbled end over end across the floor. James took it home to Betty that evening and said, "I think I can make a toy out of this." This he did by devising a steel formula that allowed the spring to "walk".
  This accomplished, Betty thumbed through the dictionary for a fitting name for the toy and found it in Slinky®, which was defined as "stealthy, sleek and sinuous". In 1945, Richard and Betty used a $500 loan to pay a company for manufacturing a small quantity of Slinks and an attempt was made to sell it through retail outlets in Philadelphia.
  However, with no name recognition, the spring didn't sell. It just sat on the counter. As Christmas neared, Gimbels Department Store agreed to provide counter space for 400 Slinkys and Richard James went down ahead of Betty to demonstrate the toy. It was a snowy evening, and the Jameses feared the worst, but when Betty arrived at Gimbels, she spotted a mob of people with dollars in their hands, and they were gathered around the Slinky® display. Within 90 minutes all 400 Slinkys were sold, and the rest is toy history.
  A factory was established in Philadelphia and Richard quit his job at the shipyard to devote full time to the Slinky®, which was the hit of the 1946 American Toy Fair in New York City. During the 1950's business boomed, but Richard James' life took a course that led to his going to South America in 1960.
  Left with the responsibility of six children and now a floundering business, Betty James began a rebirth of the Slinky dream by relocating the factory to her hometown of Hollidaysburg, a small town adjacent to Altoona. By 1960, Betty had a unique co-op advertising plan in full swing, aided by the production of a "jingle" that is still the sound behind Slinky® television commercials.
  Slinky® sales continued to increase through the years and a number of new items were added to the James Industries line of toys. In 1990, a national survey by a publication revealed that 89.8 percent of the people in America knew what a Slinky was or were familiar with the jingle.
  Purchased in 1998 by Poof Products, a leading American toy company, Slinky® is firmly entrenched as one of the leading staples of the toy industry and is one of America's most recognized brand names.
  Other milestones include:
  
• The Discovery and History Channels selected Slinky as one of the top 10 toys of the 20th Century.
• The U.S. Postal Service honored Slinky on a 1999 commemorative stamp.
• Slinky participated on a NASA space mission.
• Over 300 million Slinkys have been sold.

Promote your business or message with a classic executive gift... The "Slinky"

Promote your business or message with a classic executive gift... The "Slinky" Please visit www.PROMO-TED.com  for more product information, to place an order, or request a quote. Click the picture for more product information, to place an order, or request a quote. Type the item number in the Advanced Search field or in the keyword search field for more product info...   Check out my new revamped website, for more AWESOME Promo Products, a more user friendly interface, shopping cart service, new branded Ted boutique websites, and much more...   Guaranteed On-Time Delivery!!! and Ted's exceptional personal service!!!   ***Testimonials*** Contact Ted for more info.   So please book mark www.PROMO-TED.com in your web browser as always thanks for your continued support TL   Become a fan of Ted's Promotions on Facebook.   TED CAN HELP WITH RUSH PRODUCTION, SPECIAL PRICING, PROMO IDEAS AND PROGRAMS I have more for you than just Promo-Products, I have the Ideas that make those products work for you. Call or e-mail me anytime to discuss how we can reach your business goals with a creative promotion.     Pricing above does not include screen/setup, sales tax, or freight charges to produce your custom order. Other additional charges may also be needed for artwork, proofs, drop shipments, personalization or PMS color matches. Pricing and products are subject to availability. Ted will contact you personally to discuss your request   For any Questions Please Contact: Ted Lehman Ted's Promotions Inc. Phone: 770-972-8081   Fax: 770-573-3141 Contact Ted

Most Macy's stores will open at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving

The move follows a trend with other retailers.

(Photo: Scott Olson, Getty Images)

Story Highlights

• First time retailer will open on Thanksgiving
• Stores are trying to lure customers with the best deals possible
• Some employees don't mind the holiday hours

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For the first time in its 155-year history, Macy's is joining the parade of retailers turning Thanksgiving night into a shopping bonanza. Stores will open at 8 p.m. on the holiday, four hours earlier than in previous years, the company said Monday.
"Black Friday is the biggest shopping event of the year and brings with it a level of fun and excitement to our customers around the nation," Peter Sachse, Macy's chief stores officer, said in a news release.
When it comes to Thanksgiving, Macy's is best known for its annual parade in New York City. But its new store hours could overshadow the festivities if they draw the same backlash other retailers faced for opening on turkey day in recent years.
People who weighed in on Twitter called the earlier opening everything from a "shame" to "crazy." Others said they have never shopped on Thanksgiving and never will.

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