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Search Globally for the Best Prices on Promotional Stress Balls

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

It’s simple… If you want to find the best prices on promotional stress balls, you need to find companies that deal directly with the Far East manufacturers. That is unless you care to have a go dealing directly with the Chinese factories yourself. Most marketers will find it much easier and cost effective to find a company who can deal with the factories for them.

Don’t purchase from just any promotional gift supplier. Most promotional gifts suppliers will not specialise in stress toys and will order their stock from wholesalers. They then add on their margin before selling them on to you.

This is a very expensive chain of supply. One that, if you are not careful, could cost you an additional 50%. We are not talking small time savings here especially if you are looking at purchasing large quantities of stress relievers.

The good news is you are not limited to purchasing from a supplier in the country you do business. Search online for companies that claim to work closely with the manufacturers and then compare prices.

You should know that when having your stress balls manufactured and shipped from the source, you are looking at a four week lead-time. That said, you will be able to choose the colours your stress toys are manufactured in right down to exact Pantone matches.

Just because a promotional products supplier has a fancy stress balls website does not mean they deal directly with the manufacturer. They probably do but it never hurts to ask.

Can you see why it makes no difference where your supplier is? You could have a business in Turlock, California and purchase your stress relievers from a supplier in the North East of England and save a lot of money. If the English company has a good relationship with a top quality stress reliever manufacturer who is able to send the goods directly to you, then the savings will be there.

If you are exhibiting in a country other than your own and you want promotional stress balls, it is a good idea to look for a supplier in the county you are exhibiting. There is no point having the stress relievers sent from China to you, just to be packed up again, put on a plane and flown to some other destination.

Try to find an importer who will import the stress relievers for you and hold them for you until you arrive for your event.

By Dan Toombs

Promotional Stress Balls – Developing a Healthy Lifestyle

Wednesday, January 5th, 2011

Promotional stress balls are not only used for promoting businesses. Very often they are used to promote special causes. This could be organisations seeking to promote further education, reducing stress or as I will discuss here in this article promoting a healthy lifestyle.

Promoting healthy lifestyles is easy with promotional stress balls. They come in so many shapes that increase the chance that the important message will be seen and read.

Take for example the cigarette and lungs shapes. Both of these stress shapes have plenty of print space for letting people know the dangers of smoking.

Other popular health shapes are the wine bottle, liver and diseased liver. Actually the wine bottle is just as often used for promoting festive parties but I’m sure you can see how they can be used to encourage people to drink less.

Food shapes are also used often. The fruit shapes are often used to promote cocktail bars and exotic holidays but they work equally as well promoting healthy living.

Vegetable stress relievers also work well with healthy living promotions. Order a selection of different shapes to decorate your trade show stand. The effect will be eye-catching to say the least.

You may also decide to look into the hamburger, fries and fizzy drink shapes. These look delicious but don’t taste very good. If only the real things tasted that bad, healthy living campaigns may not be as necessary as they now are.

Over the past few years I have seen an increase in the amount of customers asking for body shapes to promote their message.

Two of the most popular are the butt shape and the fat tummy shape. Nothing gets people thinking about eating less at lunch time than a fat tummy stress ball sitting right in front of them on their desktop.

I know because I have personally had one on my desktop while on a diet when I was in training for a karate tournament. I can’t say I didn’t cheat from time to time but the stress ball did help.

Such promotional products are a light hearted and fun way to remind you to go for the fruit shake instead of the burger and fries.

Are you ready to check out all of the health themed stress relievers available to you?

You will be glad you did! Have fun… There are some really cool stress relievers just waiting for your important message.

By Dan Toombs

Promotional Gifts – Stress Balls – 2 Frequently Asked Questions About Printed Stress Toys

Tuesday, January 4th, 2011

Promotional stress toys offer exceptional value for money. They offer a fun and eye-catching way to promote your business. Good quality stress relievers printed with your logo and details can promote your business or organisation for months if not years! Here I would like to share with you two of the most frequently asked questions about these excellent promotional tools.

Where are promotional stress balls manufactured?

Stress relievers are made in two countries – England and China. The Chinese manufacture most of the stress toys available on the market.

I have personally visited many of the factories that produce promotional stress toys. Some are really sad places while others seem to have happy employees and good working conditions.

If I do not feel comfortable with the way employees are being treated in a factory, I will not do business with them.

The quality of the stress relievers produced by different factories can vary greatly. It is therefore a very good idea to request samples when you order so that you can ensure you are using a supplier who deals with the best manufacturers.

There are very good quality stress balls manufactured in England which is the only Western country where stress relievers are manufactured.

The English stress toys are far superior to those manufactured in the Far East and this is reflected in their price. It is also more expensive to manufacture stress toys in England than it is in China so you really need to reach deep in your pockets to get the superior stress relievers.

How can I save money when purchasing promotional stress balls?

When purchasing Chinese made promotional stress balls you should purchase from importers who deal directly with the Chinese manufacturers. Very few supplier specialise in stress products and purchase their stock through wholesalers.

This is a very expensive chain of supply.

I have been dealing directly with the leading manufacturers of stress relievers for many years. By cutting out the middleman you can expect to save up to 50% on your purchase.

You will need to allow at least four weeks for delivery but the advantages of purchasing your stress relievers from an importer are numerous.

In addition to saving money you can also have them manufactured to order in the colours of your choice. Ask for samples to ensure you are purchasing the best.

Often the stress balls are of good quality but the print is bad. Poorly printed stress toys can do your brand more harm than good.

By Dan Toombs

Promotional Stress Balls – 3 Things to Avoid – 3 Things to Do

Monday, January 3rd, 2011

Promotional stress toys are consistently in the top ten best selling promotional gifts. They are fun, eye catching and have the added bonus of being available in many shapes to better promote your company. It is so easy to use promotional stress balls to draw attention to your brand.

What’s more, they are inexpensive and easy to give away and trade shows, conferences and through the post.

I have been supplying promotional logo printed stress relievers to customers for over 20 years. Here I would like to give you a few things to consider when making a purchase of logo printed stress relievers.

Avoid:

1.) Avoid purchasing stress relievers from one stop shop promotional gift companies. If a supplier doesn’t specialise in stress products you will not get the best value for your money.

Such suppliers will more often than not be ordering their stock through wholesalers and not importing themselves. This is a very expensive chain of supply.

2.) Avoid low quality stress relievers. There are a lot of really good quality stress relievers on the market but there is also a lot of poor quality products that should be avoided. Make sure you know what you are buying.

3.)Avoid rush buying! You will get the best value for your money if you order early. Doing so will save you a lot of money – up to 50%.

Do:

1.) Order samples. There is no other way to ensure you are purchasing stress toys that a good enough for your business than to order samples. Compare the products of several different suppliers.

2.) Insist on ordering from suppliers who deal directly with the Far East manufacturers. You have a choice. You can either purchase blindly from a one stop shop that will likely purchase their stress balls through a wholesaler – or – you can purchase from a supplier who can have your stress balls manufactured and sent to you directly from the factory. Order direct and save!

3.) Take advantage of made to order service. Your stress toys can be manufactured to order. They can be Pantone matched in the colours of your choice. You can have them printed with vibrant full colour logos and designs. If you are ordering over 1000 stress relievers you can even have them made in the shape of your choice.

Do you have a product you would like to promote? Why not have a stress ball manufactured in its likeness for a promotional gifts that is unique to your business!

High Quality Promotional Stress Balls Get Great Results

Thursday, December 30th, 2010

One of the best ways for a company to use their marketing budget is to invest in promotional products that potential customers will use every day. This means that your company name, website and phone number will be seen by your current and target customers as well as their work colleagues and friends every day.

Logo printed stress toys are a terrific promotional product because your customers will enjoy using and displaying a high quality stress ball for months if not years to come.

Stress relievers offer a low cost means of gaining people’s attention at trade shows and conferences, since people will be naturally attracted to your booth to pick one up. Stress toys also are light in weight, which makes them ideal for sending in the post to current and potential customers.

Promotional stress relievers can easily be sent along with additional promotional materials. A high quality stress toy is seen as an item that is both fun and eye-catching to your target customers. As a result, they are more likely to feel an affinity for your brand.

While companies offering goods or services for sale are among our customers, we also provide stress relievers at a low price to charitable organisations. A stress ball in a clever shape with the charitable organisation’s name and contact information can serve two purposes.

First, it will raise awareness of the charitable organisation’s cause, which is an important goal for most charitable organisations.

Second, a stress toy with the charitable organisation’s name and contact information, such as their website and logo can help to raise donations – also very important. The stress ball serves as a constant reminder of the charity and what they are trying to do.

Unfortunately, if you purchase stress relievers of poor quality, you may do more harm to your company’s reputation, than good. This is because potential customers will perceive a company that gives them something of poor quality to also provide inferior goods and services.

While the stress toy was free, your goods and services are not.

As a result, your target customer may be disinterested in pursuing a further relationship with your company. The disappointed customer could even mention their disgust with the poor quality of the stress ball your company gave him to his friends or work colleagues.

Want to avoid disappointment?Always ask for samples to ensure you are ordering high quality promotional stress balls.

A Video About Top Quality Promotional Stress Ball Printing

Friday, December 3rd, 2010

At CompuGift, we pride ourselves on the quality of our promotional stress balls and the printing we can achieve. I would like to invite you to order samples so that you can see for the quality we insist on for our many happy customers.

In this video, I show some of the jobs we have supplied to clients. Gone are the days when you had to settle for one or two colour printed promotional stress balls. Now we can actually print in full colour with amazingly clear results.

Promotional stress balls are an excellent, low cost way to promote your business but only if they are of good quality. Great quality is what you will find at stressballs.co.uk.

All of the promotional stress toys featured at stressballs.co.uk are supplied at trade prices. This means you can expect to save up to 50% on your purchase!

Dan Toombs

Promotional Stress Balls Direct from the Factory to Your Door

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

Times are changing in the promotional gifts industry. Not long ago, promotional products such as personalised stress balls were quite a lot more expensive. This was because they had to be purchased through a wholesaler who worked directly with the manufacturer in the Far East.

Not any more.

The internet has made it possible for good promotional merchandise suppliers to work directly with the factories that produce such goods. In fact, personally I find it easier to deal with the manufacturers than with most wholesalers.

So what does this mean to businesses that want to use promotional stress toys to promote their businesses?

It means that you can now expect much faster service. It means that you can have your stress balls manufactured to order at a fraction of the cost of off the shelf stress relievers. It means that regardless of where in the world you do business you can have your stress balls delivered right to your door direct from the factory!

Of course if you wanted to deal with the factories yourself you could do that too. But if you do not specialise in promotional stress relievers I would not recommend doing so. There is just too much that can go wrong if you do not know what you are doing.

The next best thing is to use a supplier who deals with the Far East factories for you. They can help you to design your stress shapes to your exact specification. You can choose the colours that they are manufactured in. Pantone matching is also possible and asked for often.

When looking for promotional stress reliever suppliers it is important to compare prices. If you deal with a supplier who is working directly with the manufacturer you can expect to save up to 50%.

In fact, when you choose the right supplier you can often have your stress relievers manufactured in a special shape that no other company has for the same price as an off the shelf shape.

I always recommend asking for samples so that you can ensure your stress ball supplier offers the best quality stress toys on the market. There are a lot of bad quality stress relievers out there so this is a very important step that should not be ignored.

Find the right supplier and you can look forward to a very successful promotion that will show you company in a very positive light.

By Dan Toombs

Saying You’re are Sorry with Promotional Stress Balls

Wednesday, November 17th, 2010

I had a new kitchen put it a few weeks ago. Everything looked fantastic but there was a problem. You see, when it was all completed my sink only trickled hot water. When I complained to the company that installed the kitchen they pointed the finger at me and claimed that it was somehow my fault. They said I did not have the correct type of boiler for the sink. What?

I can talk about promotional gifts until you want to run for cover but kitchens and sinks and boilers are not my specialty. I just want a my sink to work.

We argued back and forth with the kitchen installer for a week about whose fault it was that the sink didn’t work correctly. When we could not come to an agreement I decided to contact the manufacturer of the kitchen.

They informed me that it was nothing to do with them as they do not install kitchens but they wanted to come out and see the problem for themselves.

Within a couple of hours I had their sales rep at my door who checked out the situation and then explained that the builder should have known better than to install the sink with the boiler I had.

Just as I thought I was getting no where and was really quite stressed and angry, he opened up his brief case and handed me a sink shaped promotional stress ball and said he was going to sort it all out for me.

This took me completely off guard. Little did he know that I actually sell stress balls for a living and have hundreds of them already but the gesture was a good one!

It helped calm the situation and left me happy to have done business with such a company.

In all the years I have been in the promotional gifts industry I have never thought of handing out stress balls as a sorry gift! What a great idea.

Just looking at these squishy little promotional products brings a smile to one’s face.

When in business you are always going to have a few customers that are not happy with this or that. Next time this happens to you why not hand them a stress reliever printed with your logo and details? Oh, and of course solve the problem.

I have told friends about how the kitchen manufacturer handled the problem and also made the situation better with the surprise stress ball gift. In fact, one of my friends has since used the same manufacturer for their kitchen.

They used a different builder of course.

Promotional stress balls are inexpensive and will help keep you in your clients’ good books. I’ve learned from this supplier and have decided to have some promotional stress balls manufactured for those times when my customers need just that little more care.

Promotional stress balls are a great way to say you’re sorry.

By Dan Toombs

Choosing Promotional Stress Balls for your Exhibition

Thursday, November 11th, 2010

There are few promotional products that beat the low cost stress balls. With a large print area and scope for a full colour print , there are 100s of different stress ball shapes which make an ideal giveaway on your exhibition stand. Visitors will be drawn to your stand by the vibrant colours and originality of this freebie.

Many of us have been at that frustrating stage when preparing for an exhibition. Choosng a theme that will make people seek out your stand but will not cost the an arm and a leg.

Look no further than a promotional stress ball. They are attention grabbing…thought-provoking…and enviably effective!

It is important initially to think of a theme for your stand. This is where stress balls, as giveaways, are ideal. On the market, currently, there are 100s of shapes, ranging from tablets to kidneys, convertible cars to hearts, dragons to flowers. All shapes have the versatility of being available in any colour and so can easily adapt to your own corporate theme.

Imagine, for example, hundreds of racing car stress toys all made in your own corporate colours. What attention that would receive! Or a farmyard theme on which you could display five or six different animal stress balls each personalised with your company logo and details. The choice is yours, you can be as inventive as you like!

It doesn’t stop there. Once you have chosen your colour scheme for the tactile, squeezy stress items it is then time to think of personalising them. Stress toys can be pad printed simply in one colour for the most cost effective option.

However, if your logo contains more colours then that is also no problem. Stress ball shapes can be screen printed in four or five individual colours. In addition, what is also so flexible about a stress ball as a giveaway is that it is possible to print them in full colour.

If your logo is complex and is not defined in separate solid colours it is possible to print a full colour design on them relatively inexpensively. This is created by applying a transfer print onto the stress balls, which produces a striking effect to give a quality recreation of your corporate identity.

If you have only left yourself a short time to create your exhibition stand, there is no need to panic. It is possible to produce stress balls made to your own design within four weeks. If your print and design requirements are less complex, it is possible to deliver stress balls printed with a one colour logo within just TEN days.

These are plenty of reasons to make stress balls your promotional item of choice. The greatest reason however is that they will not stay on your stand for long. Within a short time they will be taken from your stand and used to hopefully bring some much needed stress-relief to your potential customer! Of course at the same time your brand will be in the face of those sought after clients.

By Dan Toombs

5 Popular Promotional Stress Balls for Financial Firms

Thursday, October 28th, 2010


Promotional pound shaped stress balls

The pound shaped stress ball can be manufactured in the colours of your choice.

If you are looking for a way to promote your financial business or products while at the same time not spending a lot of money, check out the possibilities of using promotional stress balls.

Stress balls serve many different purposes, including being great conversation pieces and stress relievers in and around the workplace. Financial stress balls come in all different sizes and are squeezable, allowing people to relieve stress and anger simply by having one within arms reach.

Everyone in the workplace has good days and bad days at some point, and if used properly stress toys can serve as a fun way to remind clients about your services.

It is possible to purchase promotional items such as stress relievers online in bulk in order to save significant amounts of money on your advertising budget. The more you order, the less you have to pay per ball.

You can purchase stress toys in all different sizes and shapes and just a little bit of brainstorming will help you find the right fit for your financial business. Stress relievers shaped like a computer or a calculator would be a great idea for a financial company looking to get their name in front of more customers.

You can also customize the stress toys to your exact specifications, such as placing your company name, website address and phone number on the item. They can even be printed in full colour.
Many online companies hoping to promote their business and draw extra attention to their website and services are giving out promotional stress balls along with a related event or trade show. Regardless of the type of company that you run, a financial stress ball can add buzz at the right time for your company.

You can use stress relievers as promotional items and gifts for any business function. They will attract attention at any exhibition that you are setting up and you would be surprised at the amount of time that your advertisement can be in the hands of your potential clients.

Don’t hesitate to hand them out to your employees, customers, family and friends. Stress balls get passed around very quickly, and they will do the job of advertising when you are not around. For all companies, especially startups, this is a low-cost, viral, popular advertising strategy that results in more awareness.

In short, promotional stress balls will increase the visibility and exposure of your financial company by masquerading as pieces of indirect advertising that are also useful in the workplace.

By Dan Toombs

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