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Watch This Short Promotiona Pig Stress Ball Video!

Friday, October 28th, 2011

 

Promotional pig stress balls are some of the most popular shapes available for promoting business and organisations. At CompuGift, we manufacture these promotional pig stress balls to order.

You can choose the colour of the pig and yes we can Pantone match.

These pig shaped stress balls are great for promoting everything from banks to butchers. They offer a large print area on the back which can be transfer printed in spot or full colour.

For more information about our promotional pig stress balls or any of the other fun shapes we supply, please visit http://www.stressballs.co.uk!

5 Promotional Gifts That Will Get People To Your Trade Show Stand

Sunday, January 23rd, 2011

People expect lots of promotional gifts at trade shows. After all, exhibitors are there to advertise, and promotional items are an effective way of keeping their brands in front of the public. However, with hundreds or thousands of exhibitors, you’ll need to capture people’s attention by using your imprinted items wisely.

One way to do this is to offer promotional items that people want and need. Customers will brush by stands that don’t offer anything interesting or useful. Here are some practical items that customers love and will continue to use.

1. Stress balls

Promotional stress balls are a perennial favorite. Customers are always drawn to original, interesting and even humorous shapes. They love to keep them on their desks at work. Some people use them for stress relief; others say playing with stress balls gets their creative juices flowing. Either way, people are always drawn to unique and industry-related stress balls.

2. Travel Mugs

People can’t seem to get enough travel mugs. Anyone who has ever sloshed coffee on the front of their shirt or knocked a beverage over on their desk can tell you how important it is to have a spill-proof lid. A stack of attractive travel mugs will always draw customers to a trade show stand.

3. Mouse Pads

Just about everyone who works in an office setting uses a mouse pad every day. There is something about a nice, new mouse pad that people can’t resist.

4. Desktop Helpers

There is no shortage of promotional pens and pencils at trade shows. One way you can set yourself apart is to provide two useful desktop items: pencil sharpeners and pen holders. Most people don’t have pencil sharpeners on their desks, and they waste a lot of time walking back and forth to the community pencil sharpener. They also need something to organize their pens besides the desk drawer. Useful items that solve problems like these will always attract customers.

5. Tote Bags

People love large bags, and trade show stands that offer them always seem to attract a crowd. Consider how much material people collect at trade shows. Large bags provide an immediate solution by helping them tote it all around. Bags with flat bottoms are even more popular. Customers can set the bag down without having it sag or collapse on itself, and the handles stay within easy reach. Displays of large, colorful promotional bags will always attract attention and will get people to your trade show stand.
 
By Dan Toombs

Promotional Stress Balls * Print Your Logo on a Shirt Shape

Friday, December 31st, 2010

Your company’s promotional giveaway products should be interesting and fun for a wide variety of different current and potential customers. The best promotional giveaway products are easy to ship, useful and can easily be customised to tell your target customers about your business. A great way to promote your business is on a fun promotional stress toy shaped like a t-shirt.

The unique shape is a fun twist on the promotional giveaway t-shirt, but is a one size fits all option. Promotional t-shirt shaped stress toys are small and light in weight, which means that your trade show representatives can easily bring a large number of them when traveling.

The promotional stress balls are made even more cost effective when you purchase them from suppliers that deal directly with the Far East manufacturers. Most suppliers purchase through wholesalers. If you can find a supplier who imports these eye-catching promotional products you could save up to 50%.

High quality promotional stress toys are cost effective promotional tools. If the promotional stress balls you give away are of high quality, they can be used by your potential and current customers for months if not years. This means that dozens or more family members, colleagues, and friends will see your company’s name too. These people will then associate it with their friend, relative, or colleague for a positive correlation.

A promotional t-shirt stress reliever should be of high quality, so your target customers can enjoy it for a long time. The longer your promotional t-shirt shaped stress ball sits on someone’s desk or office shelf, the more people will see it. This means that your company’s name will become well known by even more people. If this is the effect of just one promotional t-shirt stress ball, imagine how great the effect can be of giving away hundreds or even thousands of promotional t-shirt stress balls?

Your company can take advantage of both sides of the t-shirt shaped stress reliever to promote your company. Like a traditional promotional t-shirt, you can use one side of the promotional t-shirt stress toy to display your company’s logo or name. The other side of the promotional t-shirt stress toy can be emblazoned with your company’s contact information.

Putting your website address on one side of your promotional t-shirt stress ball makes it easy for customers to contact you for more information. You may also want to consider including your phone number for easy reference.

By Dan Toombs

Attract Customers to Your Business with Sports Themed Stress Balls

Wednesday, December 29th, 2010

When good energy surrounds a business, people notice. People wonder what the secret is that makes a business so successful. Great products and excellent service come to mind. But a major part of a business’s success is down to how they promote themselves. Promotional stress balls do this in a fun way.

These stress balls infuse positive energy into a business unlike anything else. It is easy to take our business’s a bit too seriously. Promotional stress toys can add a fun edge.

Sports themed stress relievers make any business appear more down to earth. I am convinced there are few better ways to spread the word about your business than with stress toys. The sports themed versions are some of my personal favourites.

There are many sorts of businesses that can benefit from sports themed stress relievers.

Perhaps a physical therapist wants to expand his practice to athletes. Maybe a restaurant manager wants to attract more school sports clubs. Whatever the case, sports stress toys can be a way to directly market to a specific audience niche, whether they be athletes or simply lovers of sport.

This reminds me of one of my customers who is a sporting goods distributor. His goal was to expand his business nationally and into Europe. Over the years he has handed out literally thousands of sports stress relievers at exhibitions. He says people know he will be handing out the popular stress products and go directly to his stand. The campaign has been a huge success as those same people have also become his paying customers.

Sports agents can also benefit from distributing sports stress balls, in order to form good relationships with clients.

The truth is any business can benefit from using these fun promotional items. But the next question you may ask is, how does a simple stress ball convince customers to buy my product?

Psychologically, marketing a business with physical promo products is actually better than online marketing. People can not physically touch an online website, graphic, or blog. Even though these are important parts of marketing, promo products have an edge unparalleled to any other form of marketing.

People live by their senses. When a customer can actually touch a promo stress toy, it somehow communicates a sort of brand trust that good quality promotion products have helped promote for decades.

In addition, a customer will feel that a company which gives out stress balls for free truly works for the “good of the customer.”

There is just something that psychologically makes a customer feel valued when a company can spend money to give out free products to customers. There is some sort of subtle incentive communicated through that act, to make a customer buy future products through a company.

Promotional stress balls can also travel everywhere around the world with a person. They also make excellent desktop gifts.

Infusing excitement into your business isn’t difficult when you use sports themed stress balls!

By Dan Toombs

House Shaped Stress Balls – A fantastic giveway for so many different industries

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010

 

House shaped stress balls are a great promotional product to make your brand and company really stand out amongst the competition.

The best quality stress relievers are just the right size and shape to fit into the average sized hand to be squeezed to relieve tension.

They can be easily used in mail shots as they are light to post and also look great on any exhibition stand. They not only look great but they also have an amazing draw! There is nothing like attention grabbing, useful gifts for get your brand promoted.

It is also really important to remember that house stress shapes can be made in the colours of your choice so your own corporate identity can be very well represented. For best results and fastest turnaround, you will want to find a supplier that deals directly with the Far East manufacturers of these fun promotional products.

The base of the house looks good in white but can be made in any colour. The chimney, door and window trims could then be manufactured in your own pantone colour to make these promotional giveaways really stand out. If you really want to be creative,  the base of the house does not even have to be white as this can be any colour at all.

The best print area is on the roof and it is possible to print on either side of the roof. This is a flat area and generally has a print area of around 35 x 30mm so there is plenty of room to print your logo and all contact details.

You could even think of printing different things on both sides of the roof. Printing your logo on one side of the roof and telephone number and web address on the other side can really maximise the use of the print areas.

Feel free to get creative as promotional stress reliever houses can be printed in full colour if you so choose and the results look fantastic. Stress reliever printing has come a long way in the past few years!

The house stress balls will sit flat very well on any desktop so your contact details and logo will always be clearly visible to any recipient and anyone else who happens to see the desktop gift.

The lead-time for house stress balls  to be made in your own special colours is generally around 3 weeks – not bad considering the product can be made to order. There are not many promotional products that can be made to order just as you want them.

Whether you are in the building, home decorating, home delivery
industries or you are just like one of the many other industries that have used house shapes in their marketing, these promotional products are fun and get results!

By Dan Toombs

Made to Order Promotional Taxi Stress Balls

Monday, November 22nd, 2010
NYC KARSAN TAXI

A picture of the new Karsan NYC yellow cab that could be made into a stress ball.

Being in the promotional stress ball business – as I am – I am always looking for new ideas for shapes. Some shapes rarely sell where others are being ordered daily. One shape that is certainly very popular in the UK is the black cab shape. So when I read an article in today’s Times Newspaper that officials in New York are looking for a new style yellow cab I could imagine the popularity of a new – not yet designed – yellow cab promotional stress ball!

New York is phasing out the old yellow taxi cabs. The Ford Crown Victoria will cease production next year. The car that has become one of the major icons of the city will be replaced with another more modern and eco friendly cab.

David Yassky – New York’s taxi commissioner said “Were really looking for something to become as ionic as the London Cab.”

In fact, the black London style cabs were tried in New York but they could not stand up to the requirements of the New York taxi driver. In New York, one cab will be driven by two drivers each working a 12 hour shift so it is really rarely off the road. They can clock up to 70,000 miles in a year. The London cabs tested only lasted for about 18 months.

The Ford Motor Company and Nissan have both put cars forward to become the new icons of New York but the favourite so far is the Karsan cab. Karsan is a Turkish car manufacturer that has designed a bug-shaped van with a glass roof. The interior is similar to that of a black cab with a reverse seat and a place for a wheelchair.

If you are in an industry that could benefit from taxi shaped stress balls there are quite a few already available. If you can benefit by promoting your business with a New York style yellow cab, then WATCH THIS SPACE!

The decision about which cab design will be the new Manhattan yellow cab will be made soon. Why not be the first to take advantage of this and have stress toys manufactured in their likeness. Print them with your logo and details and give your clients these fun squeezable stress products that are like no other on the market.

If you are the first and pay the small charge for the tooling, the tool will belong to you. Copies will most likely eventually be made for mass products but they will not be yours! Your taxi shape will be unique and if you choose your stress toys supplier carefully the best on the market.

You should look for suppliers who deal directly with the best Far East factories and who can back up the quality of their stress relievers with samples of custom work they have done on behalf of the other customers.

For more information about made to order promotional stress balls, go to http://www.stressballs.co.uk/custom-shapes.html

By Dan Toombs

Daily Blogging is Easier with a Promotional Stress Ball

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

Every day without fail, I get up at 5.30am and begin writing my first blog post of the day. It comes a lot easier to me now that I know I have a schedule to work to. I start by pouring myself a big cup of coffee and then sit down to write before the kids wake up around 7.00. My only companions at this time in the morning are my Lamy 2000 pen, a conference folder given to me by a supplier and my handy basketball stress ball printed with the logo of one of my customers.

Of course later in the day I end up typing everything out but I prefer to write in freehand first. Don’t ask – I just do.

The promotional basketball stress ball is nothing special. It is like the other good quality shapes that leave our doors daily. But for some reason I just like it. Sub-consciously I hold and squeeze it from time to time when I write or when I am trying to come up with an idea for a blog post.

Perhaps I like it because I am originally from the US and it reminds me that I never have to play the game again. It brings back memories of the PE teacher who hated my guts because I was tall but couldn’t play the game to save my life. Last I heard he got stressed out over another useless player and ended up being asked to leave the teaching profession. I like that!

Whatever the reason – I have been using this particular stress ball daily for at least the past year. No, I don’t pick it up every day or even every week but from time to time I do.

This is exactly how promotional stress toys are meant to work. I have my pick of over 300 samples I could squeeze when I feel like doing so but your customers probably do not.

I am a big advocate of carefully targeting your customers with gifts they will want to own and use. Questions to ask yourself are;

How is this customers going to remember my brand?

Is there a stress shapes that will help?

What personalisation techniques shall I use when I have found a shape?

Not everyone will benefit from using stress balls. Office workers use them a lot. They are fun to throw around the office or just keep on your desk. Choosing a shape that will help your customers identify with you and your products/services will go a long way toward building that all important bond between your companies.

Have the stress shapes manufactured in your company colours and printed in full colour to make them eye-catching and amusing gifts that will get people talking about your business regularly.

I love promotional stress balls. I think you will too. Why not request a sample and get that next big promotion under way!

Promoting Your Business with Promotional Grenade Stress Balls

Saturday, October 23rd, 2010
grenade stress balls

Your next promotional could be a lot of fun with promotional grenade stress balls!

There are hundreds of different stress ball shapes on the market and it is a very difficult decision to decide which is the  best shape to promote your product or service.

Primarily it is important to decide if you want a serious shape with a serious message attached to it or if you want something that is a little more gimmicky with maybe a tongue in cheek message to gain the attention of any recipient.

Grenade shaped stress balls can be used to suit a variety of marketing campaigns. A clear, serious message could be placed on them or on the other hand a more light hearted stance could be adopted.

A recent marketing campaign was launched when a customer purchased 10,000 grenade stress toys made in their own corporate burgundy colour. The message was printed in black and was created to attract the instant attention of any recipient.

The message was on the lines of not letting the use of bad suppliers blow up in your face – a little crass maybe but also attention grabbing.

Promotional stress grenades can be manufactured in the colour or colours of your choice at no additional expense to you but you may need to wait a few weeks for your made to order promotional products.

Grenade shaped stress relievers have also been used by many business within the defence industry. They definitely make a fun way to promote your business and/or ideas. Military recruiting, university ROTC programs and military supply companies have all realised great success with these fun products..

Regardless of you industry or message, using promotional grenade stress relievers will help draw attention to your brand. Try decorating your next exhibition stand with a few hundred. Watch how many people make a beeline for your stand.

What an amazing way to ensure you have a chance to sell your products or services. You don’t want to be the empty stand at the trade show!

You might like to ask to have your grenade specially manufactured with vibrating mechanisms inside. Pull a string and the grenade stress toy vibrates for about ten seconds. Put these non breakable products in the post to your customers and you will begin to receive phone calls from clients who love them. It happens every time.

Go on and give these top promotional products a chance. Ask for a sample or two to ensure you are getting the best quality products available and then get that next successful promotion underway!

The Top 4 Selling Promotional Transport Stressball Shapes

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
Lorry shaped stress balls

Promotional lorry shaped stress balls can be manufactured to order at no additional cost.

Transport related stressball shapes are extremely popular themed promotional products.

The best selling, most popular stress toy shape in this category is by far the transit van. These are popular for delivery companies or just for any business that deliver goods to their customers.

They have a relatively large print area on 3 sides so a lot of information can be fitted on to these promotional gifts. Various contact numbers can be provided and illustrated very well on each side of the stressball vans. There is also plenty of room for an e-mail address and even a logo on each side.

The vans can also be printed in anything up to and including full colour so there are very few limitations with artwork. The fact that these van shaped stress relievers can also be made in your own corporate colours for no extra cost is also a great selling point and why they should definitely be thought about as part of your next promotion.

Car stress shapes are also extremely popular. The most popular car of all in this category is probably the vintage VW Beetle Car. These can represent your car dealership, body shop or car hire firm or just be a fun promotional gift that everyone will enjoy. The print area is not as large as on other transport related stress relievers but they can be manufactured in your own colours so can still represent you very well even if only printed 1 single colour on the top.
Aeroplane stress toys are obviously very popular with airlines but also can again be a fun promotional gift for any industry. If you want to highlight that your business is ‘taking off’ in a big wag way aeroplane stress relievers shapes could be the perfect promotional gift.

There are various aeroplane stress ball shapes on the market from a fun, quirky aeroplane with a smiley face on the front to a more serious shape that represents a jet liner. Think about having these fun aeroplanes made  in your own corporate colours and you are well on your way to having a successful promotion.
Lorry stress balls are a great choice of promotional gift to the haulage and fright industry. They have three  large print areas and can be taylor made in any colours to create the perfect image for any logistic or freight company.

There are quite a few various sizes of lorry stress balls on the market so always enquire about the size of the lorry shapes that you are interested in to ensure that you are supplied with the correct size for your requirements.

If you are posting these promotional products out to potential customers you may require them to be made in a smaller size than if you are may be handing them out at an exhibition.

Have fun exploring all the promotional stress relievers on offer. Ask for samples and get that next big promotion on the road.

By Dan Toombs

See How Easily You Can Build Your Brand with Promotional Stress Balls

Wednesday, October 6th, 2010

Here is a challenge for you. Order a quantity of promotional stress balls the next time you want to exhibit at a trade show or sponsor a conference. Ensure that they are eye-catching by having them printed in full colour or by requesting that they be manufactured in special Pantone matched colours. Then sit back and watch how they do their thing.

Promotional stress balls on the exhibition stand seem to jump out and grab people’s attention. Have you ever seen this happen?

Almost every exhibition I have ever attended, and in my line of work I have attended my fair share, there is always one or two exhibitors who have made the effort to decorate their stands with a few hundred personalised stress toys. These same exhibitors are usually also those with the largest group of people around them.

Stress toys are fun! They draw people in and make them want to hold and squeeze them. What if your stress balls were in the shape of that new product you are launching or in the colours of your company logo?

Your visitors will not only learn from you about your products – they will be able to take a stress balls version home with them or back to the office for their desktop.

Most successful businesses are there because the are an answer to a problem. You can drive home what problem your business solves by putting the answer right in your customers’ hands. What a brilliant way to show you your services or products could relieve this or that stress.

Promotional stress toys are low cost gifts you can give out freely knowing that they will be kept for months.

You should also consider giving away more expensive promotional gifts to your top customers like metal pens, clocks, calculators – you know – the kinds of gifts people want to own and have a real use for.

That is the magic of promotional stress relievers. You can entice people to your exhibition stand and give stress balls away to everyone. You can then send the time wasters away happily holding their new stress toy while offering more information and promotional gifts to the real interested prospects.

In this way you can build your brand. Your new customers will see your logo not just on the fun stress relievers but also other promotional gifts. The less important visitors – the time wasters, can go away happy possibly, introducing your brand to other people around the event with their promotional stress balls.

By Dan Toombs

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