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Promoting Your Business to the Elderly With Promotional Stress Balls

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

 

Do you find that a lot of your customers are in the over sixty age bracket?

You may then want to forget about traditional marketing methods such as the television or radio and choose a product that the recipient will have in front of them day in day out.

Promotional stress balls are available in hundreds of shapes and could be the answer to your marketing needs.

 
Stress toy shapes can be made in any vibrant colour and offer relatively large print areas so that your message is clear and will stand out.

A round standard stress toy for instance is 70mm in diameter and has a print area of 35 – 40mm in diameter so your message will really stand out.

Spherical stress relievers can be supplied in any colour to make them as vibrant and colourful as you choose. They can even be supplied in a mixture of colours to add that extra vibrancy to any marketing campaign.

 
Of course older people can be targeted particularly well with pharmaceutrical shaped stress ball products. Stress relievers are available as capsules where one side of the capsule can be white and then  the other side any colour at all. The colour could be your own corporate colour or any choice of colours to make these promotional products really stand out. Tablet stress reliever shapes are also popular so that your brand can be marketed really effectively with a large clearly visible print area.

Stress toys in the shape of medicine bottles and pill bottles are also very effective for use by pharmaceutical companies. The bottles can be made in your own colours and again offer large print areas on which your message will be clearly visible.

 

If the idea of your campaign targeting elderly people is to raise awareness of a certain medical issues then stress reliever shapes can be a very effective marketing tool.

The flu bug shape are a fantastic promotional tool to remind older people of the importance of the flu vaccine.

It should also be pointed out that stress squeezies are ideal for keeping the hand muscles functioning. Many people claim that squeezing a stress reliever also helps reduce the pain of arthritis.

So what are you waiting for? Ask for a few samples and get your next successful promotional campaign under way. 

By Dan Toombs

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Promotional Dumb Bell Stress Balls-A True Success Story

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
Dumb Bell Stress Balls

We supply dumb bell stress balls at trade prices!

In hard times gym membership is often the first to go.

That said, my gym is always full and this is obviously down to how they promote themselves. Promotional gifts are a major part of their marketing. Like many gyms they offer the promotional water bottles, logo printed sports bags, sweatshirts and embroidered towels. These personalised items they sell behind the counter for profit. They know that people like to advertise the fact that they are a member of a gym.

This is smart advertising because their logo gets worn, carried and shown off which promotes their brand all around the area.

The gym also have a little fun with free giveaways that are personalised with their logo and details. These are useful items such as promotional pens, coasters, and notepads that are printed with their details but are also printed with a daily work out diary. These gifts are low cost and build brand in a fun and very useful way.

A couple of months ago I was contacted by the manager of a health spa that recently opened not far from where I live in North Yorkshire England. In addition to the essential water bottles, embroidered clothing and pens she also wanted some eye-catching, thought provoking low cost gifts she could giveaway to local people to promote the spa and gym.

I suggested dumb bell shaped stress balls printed with her logo. The spa logo is black and purple. To keep the price down we decided to have the stress balls manufactured in the spa’s corporate purple and printed just one colour, black.

What a success! She handed them out at local office complexes, supermarkets and everywhere imaginable. People loved them! Each purple dumb bell was also printed with an early joiner discount code. This made it easy for her to judge the success of the promotion. She has no doubt that it worked!

Within hours of giving away the first batch, the spa was receiving it first enquiries. The fun stress shapes had done their job. The 10% discount printed on them probably did not hurt either.
Can you think of a good use for promotional dumb bell stress toys for promoting your business? They are not only used for promoting gyms. Why not use a strap line such as ‘Let us take the weigh of your shoulders.’ or ‘Don’t be a dumb bell… Use (your business) for…

Do you have any creative ways you think you could use these fun stress products? Would you care to share you ideas by leaving a comment?

By Dan Toombs

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Oil Drum Shaped Promotional Stress Balls-Who Can Benefit From Using Them?

Friday, August 27th, 2010
oil drum stress balls

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Refining crude oil is a complex operation that is responsible for creating the building blocks of almost every product we use in our daily lives.

Different types of crude oil are refined in different ways and the resulting products and bi-products are not just limited to the automotive industry as many people falsely believe.

I only know this because I have sold promotional oil drum stress balls to companies specialising in everything from grease lubricants to wax candles to cosmetics. You name it, if it is a physical manufactured product, chances are refining crude oil has played a part in its construction.

It is therefore little wonder that promotional oil drum stress balls are so popular.

Promotional oil drum stress toys can be manufactured to order in your company colours. Pantone matched colours could give your promotion that extra boost it need to really stand out. There are not many promotional products that can be manufactured to order in perfectly Pantone matched colours.

If these fun squeeze shapes are of interest to you, look for online suppliers that specialise in promotional stress toys. Your supplier should be an importer of these Chinese manufactured promotional products and not just a middleman.

Purchasing direct from the importer could save you up to 50% so it is important you find the right source.

Oil drum stress relievers offer quite a few different print areas for your logo and message. In fact I recommend you use as many of the print areas as possible as the end result looks fantastic.

Think about the way in which your products are produced. Do they include a crude oil product? If you are not sure, type your product into Google along with the words crude and oil and see what comes up. You could find a whole new way to promote your products to your customers just as many other marketers have.

Promotional stress relievers are easily sent in the post without fear of breakage. They also look great on exhibition stands and decorating displays at conferences. The oil drum shape has the added bonus of having two flat sides. This makes them perfect desktop gifts that could sit happily on your customers’ desktops for many years promoting your brand.

I hope I have given you a few ideas for you next promotion. Try to think of a way you can work these fun desktop gifts into your marketing. While you are thinking about it, why not order a sample or two and see first hand how addictive the stress products are to squeeze.

By Dan Toombs

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Promotional Penis Shaped Stress Balls-What Are They Used For?

Thursday, August 19th, 2010
Willie shaped stress balls

Willie shaped stress balls

So then, how do you think penis shaped stress balls should be used? Some guys might think it would be fun to put one down their pants and direct it out their front zipper at this year’s office Christmas party. Most likely he they will just end up making a d**k of themselves. Is that not what office Christmas parties are for?

Although some people do purchase these male organ shapes for some pretty unusual marketing campaigns, the majority are order to draw awareness to illnesses like testicular cancer and impotence.

Last year I lost a very close friend of mine to testicular cancer. He was only 42 and had a wife and three beautiful children. He had everything to live for and his loss has affected everyone who knew him.

Just after he was diagnosed he told me how he had never checked himself for the disease for fear of finding a something out of the ordinary. Even when he did feel a lump he didn’t go straight to the doctor as he would for other health worries. He was in denial, was wishing the lump away before finally deciding to get himself checked out.

If people find these anatomically correct stress balls funny that is great. Let them throw them around the office or at the pub. If they are used in the way they were intended, they will also be printed with an important message which might just get read.

Penis shaped stress balls can be given out to men and women printed with a medical message. It was my friends wife who finally forced him into going to the doctor which probably bought him a few more months of life with his family. Joking aside these shapes can help save lives.

Penis stress toys are not always kept in large stocks. They are usually manufactured as and when they are required. There are anatomically correct shapes and also cartoon shaped varieties. They can be manufactured in the colours of your choice and printed in spot or full colour.

There are many different human organ shaped stress balls to choose from that draw attention to many different diseases and disease prevention.

Have you managed to read this far? I hope that even if you never have the requirement for promotional penis shaped stress balls you at least take one thing away with you. If you are a man, know what to look for and check yourself out regularly. If you are not, then make sure those you love do.

By Dan Toombs

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Choosing The Best Promotional Stress Balls For Your Business

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

If you were to choose a character, animal or shape to represent your company, what would it be?

Give it a little thought and then consider how you are going to make that animal, character or shape sync with your brand marketing. Promotional stress balls offer an easy and cost effective means of doing just that.

Promotional stress balls are both fun and eye-catching. Often there will be a stock shape available that will compliment your brand perfectly. If not, it is so easy to have custom shapes manufactured that will work as a unique promotional product available only from your company. This is slightly more expensive but it gets results!

As is often the case with promotional merchandise, it is easy to find suppliers but it is not always easy to find the best suppliers. Look for promotional gifts suppliers that have websites dedicated to these much loved and sought after promotional items. The best suppliers will specialise in promotional stress balls and even offer them at prices lower that most promotional gift suppliers buy them.

That’s right – you could purchase your promotional stress balls for less than trade price.

This could mean savings of up to 50% for you!

When purchasing promotional stress toys, be sure to order them exactly as you want them. Promotional stress toys can be manufactured to order at no additional cost to you. You can choose the colours they are manufactured in and how your logo is printed.

You can have your logo printed in spot colour or even full colour! Given the fact that pictures help promote your brand more than text alone, you may wish to take advantage of this service.

A recent study in the Lawyerist suggested that pictures make it much easier for people to connect with your brand. People were asked to look at advertisements. After 72 hours 65% of the people taking part could recall a message with a picture as apposed to only 10% when only text was involved.

Consider this when you are deciding what you would like to print.

If you have not seriously looked into promotional stress balls before, be prepared to find a massive selection of shapes. Everything from wildlife animal shapes to liver and bulldozer shapes are available and can be printed with your company logo.

I hope I have given you a little food for thought. Have you ever used stress relievers to promote your brand? If so, what shape did you choose? Was it a success? If you have not used promotional stress relievers, would you like to do so now? Leave a comment and let me know your thoughts.

By Dan Toombs

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Building Your Brand with Promotional Stress Balls

Thursday, July 1st, 2010
promotional apple stress balls

Fruit shaped stress balls are always a popular choice!

As the owner of a new company, you are no doubt trying to find innovative ways to promote you facilities, products and/or services.  This can often be a difficult task and one that if not done correctly could cost you a lot of money with poor results.  Promotional pens, mouse mats, promotional paper products and logo printed mugs are all good ways to promote your brand to your target customers.  But what if you could send your top customers something that was unique to your business?  Would that be of interest to you?  If your answer is yes, then read on about using promotional stress balls to build your brand.

Promotional stress balls first became popular in the 80s.  Back then there were only a few shapes but the demand for these stress relieving promotional items is so large that hundreds of new stock shapes have now been introduced.

There are literally stress toy shapes to suit every industry.  There are houses for construction firms and estate agents, toilet and bath shapes for plumbers and plumbers’ merchants and medical related stress relievers for special clinics and pharmaceutical companies. Whatever shape you want to promote your business, chances are you will find it from the top online promotional stress balls suppliers like http://www.stressballs.co.uk.

Even if the shape you require is not available, bespoke can be manufactured quickly and easily for you.  At stressballs.co.uk we can usually deliver an order for custom shapes in as few as four weeks.

This means that you can truly have the exact shape you require that is unique to your business.  Let’s say, for example, that you have a new product that looks different to those supplied by your competitors. Why not have 500 or more stress balls manufactured in your product’s likeness. By offering your target customers a product that looks like the product you supply including your logo and contact details, you will build your brand.

Promotional stress toys are fun. Almost everyone enjoys squeezing them or throwing them around the office.  Stressballs are easy to send to people in the post and also look outstanding decorating an exhibition stand.

If promotional stress relievers are of interest to you, be sure to ask prospective suppliers for samples so that you can ensure the quality is the best available. You also want to ensure that your supplier offers trade prices to all. Many stress ball suppliers will only supply promotional gifts suppliers who then supply the end user. Cut out the middleman and go directly to the stress ball supplier and save yourself up to 50%.

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Promotional Carrot Stress Balls – 5 Ideas For Using These Fun Shapes in Your Marketing

Friday, January 22nd, 2010
carrot shaped stress balls

Carrot stress shapes are excellent marketing tools

There is little bad that can be said about carrots. Of the many vegetable shaped stress balls available to promoting your business, carrot shapes consistently sell in the top five. They are long so they offer a really nice sized print are for your logo and details. There are so many messages that can be conveyed with these much loved stress shapes and here I would like to present to you five of the most popular ways carrot stress shapes are used for promotion.

5 Per Day Campaigns: Carrot stress balls have been purchased by many schools and heath authorities to promote the fact that we should all be eating 5 servings of fruit & vegetables daily. Carrots stress toys are also purchased by companies seeking to educate their staff of this fact.

Eating Food in Season: Recently, chefs, restaurant owners, food publications and food writers have tried to promote eating food when in season. Carrot stress balls have been used many times to drive this concept home.

Improving Eyesight: Did you know there is some truth to the old wives’ tale that carrots help us see better in the dark? Night blindness is brought on by a deficiency of vitamin A. An 80g serving of carrots provides more that the daily RDA of vitamin A. Forget the technical stuff. It is often said that carrots help us to see. Do you have facilities, products or services you would like your target customers to see? Carrot stress relievers could help them to see your important message.

Enticing People: Dangling a carrot in front of someone means to entice. Would you like to entice people to use your services, products or facilities? If so, why not try giving them carrot stress balls with you logo and details printed on them.

Eco Friendly Campaigns: Carrots can be used to promote many eco friendly messages. Have you heard about the new “Worldfirst” Formula 3 racing car? It was manufactured out of many recycled products but its steering wheel was manufactured from carrots. I wouldn’t try that one at home. Scientist also have predicted that by 2015, carrots will be the fuel of the future with 6000 carrots needed per mile. Do you use carrots to manufacture your products or know of some way you could use them in your eco message?

At stressballs.co.uk we specialise in promotional stress balls.  Each of our over 100o stock shapes can be manufactured in your company colours.  For more information, please contact me on 01642 782455.

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Promotional Stress Balls Make Excellent Promoters

Saturday, January 9th, 2010
Bespoke Stress Ball Shape

We specialise in Made to Order Stress Balls

Whatever kind of business you are in, promotional gifts are one of the best way to get your name out and increase your brand awareness. One of the most popular promotional gifts are stress balls. Stress balls are available in over 1000 different standard shapes, all in stock and ready to be printed with you business, charity or club logo.

Stress balls can also be made in custom shapes to represent a new product you are launching or your company’s logo, Perhaps your organization has a special character as a mascot. It takes a bit longer for these kinds of stress balls to be manufactured, but having a unique gift that better represents your brand or product will help you to stand out above your competition and is well worth the wait.

Why stress balls? They are inexpensive and useful to anyone. Stress balls have been documented to release stress and improve circulation in the hands, which can also be very beneficial to those with arthritis. Every time one of your customers grabs and squeezes a stress ball that has your logo, they will be thinking of your organization. Imagine what kind of impact that can have on your brand awareness!

When ordering custom stress balls, it is also important to consider the method of printing. Transfer printing is a far superior method of printing your logo as opposed to the cheaper, inferior pad printing. Pad printing will eventually rub off. Imagine spending all that money to promote your company only to have your logo disappear after a few uses. Do you think that your client will remember who gave them the stress ball?  The old saying ‘out of sight, out of mind’ will come in to play and the impact of your gift will be drastically reduced.

When you order stress balls, keep in mind that although stress balls have a very practical purpose, they are also made to be fun! It’s like holding a cartoon in your hand. Imagine the look on your clients face as you hand them a stress ball with your custom logo on it. Chances are it will result in a smile, and you have made a great impact with something so small and simple.

Another thing to consider when ordering stress balls is the quality of the company you are dealing with. A quality company will offer the aforementioned transfer printing. Make sure that your promotional gift company can send you samples of their custom and standard stress balls so that you can have a better understanding of the possibilites and potential of what can be made. A good promotional gift company will also be able to offer you many different ideas and design options to maximize your stress balls’ impact with potential and existing clients.

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