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!

Stress? Who Needs it Anyway?!

Find Solace with lots of Custom Made Bags! Relieve gift giving stress with a Custom Made Bag. Every year around my wife's birthday, I experience a certain amount of anxiety over what constitutes a suitable gift; something reflecting a year's worth of love and...

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It All Adds Up!

Promotional Calculators and a Little Dolly Parton! Yet again, I spent wasted minutes scurrying around this morning looking for a calculator. That was time I could have better spent reading to my dog, watching the clouds roll by through my skylight or playing snap with...

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A new Personalised Product

Time for a Mouse Mat Upgrade? This is such a great promotional product and a personalised product, I'm busting a gut to share it with you! Really? Well, no but it is a unique product. Most of the time we offer promotional products - it's why we exist. But we also sell...

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Fill ‘er up!

The Grande Takeaway Cup - Promotional Mug next gen. Times change, we all bemoan the departure of the cheerful gas monkey who leapt out of his humpy and filled your car with petrol, and washed your windscreen "gratis". It was a simple courtesy that kept you coming back...

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A Good Walk Spoilt!

Promotional Golf Ball - Mixing Work with Pleasure The infuriating thing about Golf is the infrequency I play. If I fronted up to the local course every odd morning, I'd be relaxed and composed on every hole.  If I wore the right clothing, I'd look , y'know, like a...

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Capital City?

Promotional Product news for Sydney Sydney, capital of Australia, right? Ask anyone from overseas and that'll be their answer. Who can blame them though when all the clues point there. Sure, Brisbane is brilliant (we all know this), Adelaide is adorable, Melbourne is...

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The Big Dawg says…

Promotional Keyrings, from the Promotional Giveaways Category Every now and then I am given a task by our Big Dawg at Budget Promotion to write about one of the products . Today my list says “promotional keyrings, from the promotional giveaways category”. To tell the...

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Living your Life through a Lens

Promotional Sunglasses - An Australian Necessity When I was young, I lived in the country where the air was fresh and pristine, like the water that ran in the rivers and streams. That's in stark contrast to the vast range of pollutants we now breathe in cities,...

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Dry, Chapped Lips

Pucker up to Promotional Lipbalm It's not a case of vanity but one thing I hate in myself and therefore in others is dry, chapped lips. For most of us, dry and cold wintry winds rob our lips of moisture, and if you're not well hydrated, your smackers start cracking...

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Still Packing a Punch

We Love Promotional Flashdrives In our office, we love promotional flashdrives. As a form of promotional merchandise, they rock!!! Aside from our business interest in 2014's hottest promo product, each and every one of us have a heavy reliance on them every day,...

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Stolen Biscuits Taste Better

Conserve Your Resources with a Dynamo Flashlight This Week's Business Tip - Stolen Biscuits Taste Better (supplied by Bruce from Arisaig). Great advice Bruce and it's a fact that breaks the general rule which is...it's better to give than receive! Taking from your...

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A Simple Law of Nature

Promotional Mugs - Fill Yer Boots! Stop what you're doing and walk over to your office kitchen cupboard. Not the one with the mouldy cheese and rancid biscuits from last summer, the one above the kettle with the mugs. Unless you're a control freak with obsessive...

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Save $1000s!

How a Promotional Air Freshener Saved me Thousands of Dollars! And brought peace to my house. A few years ago, I needed to sell a compact SUV to make way for a larger car. It was a great car but when it's time to go, it's time to go. Thing is, after years of carting...

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You May Feel a Cringe

Budget Giveaways - it's the Economy... There are many reasons why a business may need to give away low-cost promotional items and they're not always driven by financial constraints. Sure, you could shave hundreds if not thousands off an ongoing marketing campaign by...

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Jetting off to Pastures New

Corporate Gifts to SOS Sometimes our plans are up in the air and NOT by design! At the weekend I walked along Beaconsfield Parade in Melbourne and watched the most amazing sight as a man, standing on a skateboard of sorts was propelled up in the air by his mate on a...

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A Renewed Sense of Personal Style…

Exploit the Power of Promotional Sports Bags When our thoughts turn to promotional sports bags, we tend to think of plain old canvas tote bags, stuffed with junk in the garage or garden shed, or a convenient reusable shopping bag for old ladies - I'm not knocking any...

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Take The Message With You

Promotional Travel Mugs - take the message with you At weekends, our family likes to go the beach in summer and autumn, and head to the hills in spring and winter. During holidays, we retreat down the coast or the mountains. In the week, there are 2 hrs of commuting a...

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Don’t Live in Coober Pedy

Stick with Promotional Magnets Onless you live in a cave (Coober Pedy readers aside), the chances are you're within a few meters of a metal surface. A fridge, a washing machine, a garage door, dungeon door, roll-on-roll-off ferry door....OK, I'm now being stupid!...

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