Budget Promotion Blog
Here you’ll find a great source of information on how to leverage off promotional items and make great, lasting business relationships!
Maximise Your Marketing Budget with Promotional Merchandise
Feel like your marketing budget is shrinking year after year? You’re not alone. In a world where every dollar counts, finding cost-effective ways to promote your brand is crucial. Enter branded merchandise – your secret weapon for budget-friendly marketing. The Value...
Get the Concept
The Organic Cotton Satchel OK, I get the cotton satchel concept, afterall we're talking about a material that's hanging off nearly everyone's back. A satchel too is a useful item I've been familiar with ever since I was a little boy on my way to school. But, what on...
Charmed
Promotional T shirts by the Sea I was charmed to see a friend's holiday snaps the other day and noticed that in one picture they all wore the same t shirt with Byron Bay stamped on the front. It was the symbolism of a family playing together, tickled pink by the fun...
Reducing our Footprint
Choose Bio Degradable Waste Eco Bags There was a time when the mere mention of "bio degradable" or "eco" would have been meaningless to previous generations....and a grim peek into a future many of us wouldn't recognise. Of course there are tenets of the English...
The Elephant in the Room
Short Handle Bamboo Tote Bag Occasionally we are blinded to reality because it’s just so damned evident. How frequently have you heard someone mutter “I can’t see the wood for the trees”? Well, that’s precisely what anyone presenting a table at a conference or event...
Entry Via Stage Left
Sharpen up with Recycled Promotional Pencils Continuing our season of Eco-based promo products, the recycled promotional pencil makes another entry via stage left; the returning hero of past marketing campaigns bursts onto the scene with renewed vigour. Ready to be...
Our Children’s Future
Promotional Shower Timer - Get Clean and Organised! OK, we all had the drought a few years ago and these promo items went gangbusters! They sold like proverbial hotcakes as businesses promoted themselves as environmentally aware and protective to the environment. Now...
A Sign of Ageing?
Branded Stickers Bring out the Inner Child What is it little kids love about stickers? Perhaps it's a sign of ageing that I can't fathom the obsession with peeling and adorning books, walls, doors, windows, fridges and the dog with brightly coloured...
The Great Teacake Disaster
Teacakes for Promotional Picnic Sets I wonder if picnics will ever be the same now that the Scottish baking giant Tunnocks have deceided to drop it's "Scottishness" in favour of "Britishness" when advertising their famous Teacakes.... You can see their point when...
Hardly a Generation of Thinkers
Promotional Bucket Hats Something disturbing has occurred in the development of children's toys....it's a scourge pandering to short attention spans and parental laziness. When I was a boy, I developed a close relationship with my toys in that I spent many hours...
Swaying in the Wind
Promotional Paper Bags - Wrap a Bargain There's nothing wrong with a well constructed paper bag. And their uses are amazing when you put your mind to it! At 9.15 this morning I'd already been issued with two paper bags, each of them plain white with no branding. the...
It All Adds Up
Promotional Calculators - It All Adds Up Just a thought but when did you last add up a list of figures? When you sat, utterly confounded by simple addition that any 14 year old would breeze through, subtraction a tween would scoff at, multiplication and division...
The Ice Cream Maker
Gel Wine Tote - Epic! Wow! Now this is a great promotional product...you put the flexible gel sleeve in your freezer then slide a bottle of something fancy into it for transportation and chilling. The gel protects your bottle against breakage and the frozen gel...
To Attract or Repel?
Promotional Magnets - Eureka! Well, it depend on one's mood really, doesn't it? At times we crave human contact and camaraderie, as though our existence depends on kinship. Of course it does, it's part of our genetic makeup that we gravitate to those who are similar,...
That Big Ball of Fury
Tip Your Promotional Hats A weekend in Brisbane is enough to reinforce the need for a decent sun hat! last weekend, before the storm that grounded my aircraft for 2.5 hours - Grrrr, the good people of Brisvegas were treated to days of sweltering heat and when that big...
Dilemmas No More
Eco Bags for the Self Conscience It's a contentious move at the checkouts asking for plastic bags, in the full knowledge that they will at some stage in their lifetime, end up in landfill. The stores know this yet still push plastic bags upon us to make the shopping...
How Proud are you?!
Advertising Products - Australian I love travel, it broadens my mind and drains my wallet but the journey, as they say, is well worth it. That exposure to foreign cultures is refreshing from a business perspective; to glimpse how other countries run their and how they...
Catering Knows about Branding
Restaurant Glasses - a Negative Experience? The catering trade know a thing or two about branding and reinforcing their message from the moment you search online, make a booking, enjoy your meal and review online - some establishments run a very tight ship any...