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!
Practice Your Own Dentistry
Shake Rattle and Roll - Sports Products hit the Spot! It's a familiar sight in homes all around the country...substitutes for hard work and dedication. It's not that there's anything ostensibly wrong with packing your body full of vits, supps and protes, the problem...
From Reception to the Top Table
The Promotional Emery Board - an Essential Piece of Kit Seriously, how much time do you spend on your nails? I live with three womenfolk and there seems a disproportionate amount of time that is spent on Nails - filing, buffing, polishing, admiring.... Not that I...
Slap Heads Raise Your hands
Slap On Watches - The New Big Thing Silicon bands are still a hot promotional item and continue to top our big hitter list every month. Only natural then that some bright spark would take the concept and develop it into a similarly attractive product that could be...
Let’s Talk Lanyards
Branded Lanyards - a Conversation Starter When it comes to talking lanyards, I could wax lyrical all day, and then some. I've been festooned by them for more than a couple of decades and strangely never tire of their alluring qualities. As items of promotional...
Over the Hump
The Winter Solstice - Marking Time for the Southern Hemisphere Well, lap it up folks. For some peoples, today marks the start of Winter but for us in Australia, we're a genuine 3 weeks into our hibernation. NOT that you'd know it with all the outdoor activities going...
Game of Thrones, Season 1
Branded USB drive Makes Headlines Well, perhaps not in your neck of the woods or your industry but where I come from and in what I do, they're up their in black and white for all the right reasons! As Alice succumbed to the temptation of the bottle (hey, we all know...
The Shame Game
The Sad Link Between a Golf Ball and the Promotional Stress Ball When I think of teeing off on hole 1 with the shame of the next 17 embarrassing attempts to elevate myself over my fellow players, I always cringe at the prospect. What should be a leisurely walk in...
Pride in Our Past
Indigenous Aboriginal Art Inspired Promotional Items Over the last few years we have seen a groundswell interest in iconography and products inspired by Aboriginal Australia. Indeed, in fairness, that is an identity that should be shared by all Australians! Ours is a...
The Beautiful Game
Custom Made Balls help kickstart the Next Big Thing Soccer, aka "Football" to the rest of the world is a hot topic. It's failing management through FIFA is a trending topic and the stewardship under Sepp Blatter has been a masterclass in deception and corporate greed...
Promotional Royalty…of sorts.
Promotional Stubby Holders One of the Kings of Promotional Products is the humble Stubby cooler. Yep, promotional stubby holders are as simple in design as they are to manufacture and print, making them a winning solution to promote your logo or message. Their...
Whiling Away the Hours
Give a Corporate Gift that says You Care - Promotional Shower Timers When I was a child, I have memories of wasteful hours spent standing under a constant luxuriant stream of hot water, emptying the hot water tank then getting into trouble, having shouting matches...
Come Hail or Shine
Let's get Colourful: Striped Towels are all the Rage I'm a stickler for fun and groovy things - colourful striped towels fall into this category and are corporate gifts which sell perennially, whether we're in summer or winter. The promotional beach towel has uses...
How do You Measure Up?
Marking and Measuring with Promotional Rulers Watching my child drawing margins in scrap books was a wonderful experience, no seriously! It reminded me of my youth marking up school jotters - an exacting experience which fueled one of my later careers as a...
Hop to it!
Electronic Jump Rope - Skip your way to Health One of the sports products that stands out as a fun way to encourage a healthy lifestyle is the electronic jump rope. As a promotional marketing tool however, it's a dead-cert winner in any competition. Click on the...
Be a Savvy Exhibitor
Moving Adspace - Conference Bags One of the most forgotten and mis-understood promotional items are conference bags. Savvy exhibitors at trade shows, events and conferences realise the power of reinforcing their message with a range of promotional products but what...
Help People in Need
Power Bank Solutions for Busy Lives We're all about technology these days and with good reason....our business depends on it and increasingly, our personal lives are governed also. But even though we're pretty smart at managing it, there are times when we forget...
Don’t Fight the NEW Wave
Solution - Branded USB Drives Technology is now hardwired (quite literally) into our lives, there is no escaping it's reach or how dependent we are on it. Rather than fight against this wave of impersonalisation and robotic solutions, deep down we all know that...
Hail the noble Pint Glass
Reconnect with Pint Glasses with Handle Hail the noble Pint Glass - 576ml of fluid storage and decanting in your hand. Isolated from the warmth of your body by its extended handle, it ingeniously maintains beer's cold, health giving properties for longer, save for a...