Will you be doing a tradeshow or display in the upcoming weeks?  What impression you make at your booth can impact the traffic you attract to your booth and ultimately, your business.  Is your table well marked with good signage, legible from several feet away?  Are your handouts fresh and interesting?  Is there a friendly face waiting to greet visitors?  Do you have levels in your table or it it simply flat and uninviting.  To get people to notice and then stop at your table to inquire about your service or products, they first have to notice your booth.  A good runner or tablecloth with your name or logo can catch their eye.  Colorful, interesting handouts will give them something to remember you.  If you have space and it applies to your business, a laptop running a program showing your product or service can be a great way to showcase your business.  Adding headphones so that the person can listen to your information can make for better booth neighbors.  This lets visitors hear your information without making the booths around you and their occupants having to hear it as well.  To be sure you stand out, have something interesting to hand out.  Here’s one good item that will keep your name in their mind.

Thank Em Promotions also has full color tablecovers as well as banners and thousands of hand out ideas.  Available in 14 colors, business card luggage tags keep your name available and the recipient will be able to slip their card into the middle and be able to spot their bag on an airport carousel.  87 cents at 250 pieces with no set up.

Luggage Business Card tags # 5100

Order yours today!

www.thankem.com    877-351-2627

Getting a new client or customer’s attention is one thing, keeping their attention is another.  Part of doing a booth at a tradeshow or event is capturing the attendees attention.  When they walk by your booth, do they see you standing up, smiling, being open for business or do they see you munching on a sandwich, hunkered down with your face in a book?  Standing up increases your energy level right away and refrain from eating in your booth area.  You are renting that space for the day or days so don’t squander the time you could be interacting with potential customers.  Do you have something interesting to hand out as they stop by to inquire.  Business cards like these that we did for an Seo toronto booth are a must but if you have something they will remember, you have won part of the battle.  Everyone else is vying for their attention as well.  A well thought out item, interesting, bright, useful and affordable for you to hand out in volume, can pay for itself over and over.  Basically you want to be in one of 3 places in a person’s life, where they spend the most time…their desk, their car or on their refrigerator…what does that mean?  Think real estate, their desk is like land.  If you can give something that they think is desktop worthy, a great coaster, a handy, colorful mousepad, a great mug or computer calendar, those will keep your name in front of them all the time they are at their desk.  In their car, an auto mug, an air freshener, either hanging or one that goes in air conditioner slots, a CD sleeve that goes on the visor…and their refrigerator, think magnets or magnet frames.  Average person spends their time in one of those 3 areas so think what can you give to keep your name out there.

Great pen/screwdriver the tool to boost your business

On sale for 70 cents with no set up for 200 or more pieces.  Special sale lasts until April 28, 2010.  Available in translucent blue, green, purple or red.  Imprint area is 1-5/8″ x 7/8″.

For these or other ideas contact

www.thankem.com        877-351-2627

Do you do tradeshows or events and want to stand out?  You need a banner at your booth if you do a tradeshow.  A full color vinyl banner makes you look professional and can grab the passerby’s attention.  With grommeted top and bottom edges, banners are custom made to your size.  Durable, legible, colorful, they can be the reason people stop or walk on by.  Capture the attendees attention by having a professional look to your booth.  The banner along with some interesting or tasty handout (chocolates or mints work well) can get noticed and increase traffic and interest in your booth and your product or services offered.  On sale through February 14, 2010 for 3.00/sq ft.  Tax and shipping add’l.
Order your banner today and make it a banner year!

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Recently after meeting with a longtime business acquaintance, he mentioned that he likes to give a small plain tablet and a pen to his clients to thank them.  They spend hundreds of dollars a year and his acknowledgement is less than a dollar…that’s budget friendly but there’s a way he could stand out to his customers.  Full color tablets cost only pennies more and would be useful.  Same with the pens, anyone can give a cheap, blank pen but one with your logo or contact information helps keep your name circulating.  Why be in business if you don’t want referrals?  Are you doing a tradeshow or attending a networking event and need something to get remembered by the attendees?  Each time your recipient writes a note to a co-worker, teacher, milkman or any other person they drop a note to, your information can be in the recipient’s hands.  Twenty five sheet tablets are 3-1/2″ w x 8-1/2″ h and can be mailed in a regular business envelope or tucked in a folder or dropped in a tradeshow bag.  Can be lined or have graph, full color graphics.  You choose what goes on the tablets…and it’s no additional for the full color.

Min is 500 tablets at 45 cents, 1000 tablets 30 cents ea, 2000 28.3 cents ea, 5000 26 cents ea.  Tax and shipping additional.  Order yours today!

Capture their attention with full color tablets

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Time to start thinking about what you will hand out at your trade show booth in 2010.  You want something people will keep, use and remember where they got it.  Pens are very popular items to hand out.  They come in all kinds of price points so there’s a pen for everyone’s budget.  A nice pen that someone uses every day can make a great marketing tool at a trade show or networking event.  Industry experts say that the average pen has 7 owners.  People pick a pen up here, leave it as they sign a receipt or write a note, the next person picks it up and does the same and so on.  The person you originally handed it to may not be the eventual one who keeps it so make sure your contact information is on the pen as well as what you do if it’s not obvious from the name.  Good pens make great silent marketing partners. Time and again people report they got referrals from someone saying, “I have a pen and here’s the name of a VPS Hosting, servers, etc.”   Lastly, why wait until just before the trade show or event, order your items today and you will be set when the event rolls around.

Make an impression with a quality pen at your next trade show booth or event

877-351-2627        www.thankem.com

Do you have last minute money or line item in your marketing budget to spend down by the end of the year?  Why not get a jump on 2010 by ordering now to create buzz in your tradeshow booth or organization?  There are just a few business days before the end of the year and we have time to put orders in and get them processed in 2009.   You will receive the items in early-mid January if you order right away.  Do you need pens?  We do have quick turn on some popular pens if you need them before the end of 09.   Will you do tradeshows or thank volunteers or boards or employees 2010?  Great for safety program or marketing money that needs to be spent now.  We have heard UPS is going up in 2010 so order now to avoid higher fees.

Handy 6 bit tool to build business

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Thanksgiving Card

If you want to beat the holiday card rush and be on someone’s desk before the rush of holiday cards, why not send a Thanksgiving card.  Mailed by November 20, these will be a surprise to the recipient and will be remembered as few people send Thanksgiving cards.  Lots of card choices and verses as well.  Some just mention Thanksgiving and some verses include Happy Holidays or Season’s Greetings so your card can be this year’s holiday card as well.  Cards can be ordered by themselves or can include a matching CD with holiday or classical music.  It’s your choice.  Why not get ahead of the curve this year and stand out on someone’s desk or wall.

More info.    1-877-351-2627

Capture walk in traffic with Giant Holiday Stocking

For some businesses, the upcoming shopping season is make or break.  What better way to draw customers into your business than a giant stocking filled with toys and gifts that customers have a chance to win.  Great way to draw in family business, create goodwill and repeat customers.  The world’s largest Christmas stocking, filled with the hottest licensed toys comes with 1000 entry form blanks, 1 raffle box, 2 colorful posters to announce the event and drawing date, and a photo slick for advertising circular. 

Call 877-351-2627 to order.

Available in 8 foot deluxe or standard stocking or 4 foot giant Santa sack.  Can also be used for fundraisers (i.e.  food drive donors can get a chance to win if they drop off canned goods).  Last day to order for ground shipping is Dec 1.

Christmas is only a few weeks away so order your giant stocking today.    1-877-351-2627.

Event Convention Kit

Here is a Top Selling promotional giveaway for expos and conventions: an Event Convention Kit.  This thoughtful set will be warmly welcomed by weary conventioners and visitors.  Or sell this item to customers or in a gift shop.  Zipper top bag includes: 2 aspirin packs, 3 ¾” strips, 2 antacid, mouthwash, 1 hand & body lotion packet, 1 Blistex® packet, 1 shoe shine packet, 1 mending kit, 1 lens cleaner packet, 1 Shout® stain treater packet, 1 hand cleaner towelette.

6″w x 4.5″h

Imprint Area:
3″w x 3″h

Price includes one color, one location screen print.
Add $0.30 (G) run charge per additional color / location.

There are 3 places you want to be in people’s busy lives if you want to get your message across over and over.  One is in their car, the second is on their refrigerator and the third is by their computer.  Why those places?  Most people spend the most time each day in their cars, near their refrigerator or at their computer.  How do you get your message to people at each of those?  Think of what you personally do in a car.  You might play a CD, adjust your mirror(s), apply makeup or check for stray hairs before a meeting.  A visor CD holder can have your logo or message imprinted so that they see your message as they reach for a CD.  Air fresheners that hang from the rear view mirror can be imprinted.  The long valued litter bag can have your message imprinted.  There’s the gel mat that sticks to the dash board to hold sunglasses or cell phone from sliding all over the dash.  Sun shades for the front windshield provide a huge imprint area.

For their refrigerator, how about a calendar sports magnet or magnet frame?  For pennies your name or logo will stick around for a long time.  Anyone who delivers anything to a home or office (flowers, pizza, other takeout food, etc.) as well a service individuals where people want the information instantly at a glance, plumbers, auto repair, lawncare-would benefit from magnets.  Custom shapes are available as are business card magnets.  Shopping list magnets or wipe off boards are other useful items for household services. The best convertible baby car seats will be the next thing for car lovers.

Stick your business card at the top, instant handout

Third, the computer or desk.  Adhesive notepads notes come to mind first.  Your name or message for pennies.  Pick a size, pick a background color and voila, every time someone sends a note to a teacher, the milkman, a sales person, or anyone, and there your name and information.  Mousepads, calculators, monitor calendars, you name it, if it’s sticking around someone’s computer or desk, your name will come to their mind because they see it again and again.

For other ideas or to check availability contact cheryl@thankem.com   We are always thinking outside the box for you!