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The 5 Best Promotional Products for Your Trade Show or Convention

by Wade Benz on April 30, 2013 in Custom Stress Balls, Ideas & Inspiration, Promotional Products, Tradeshow Giveaways, What's Trending

If you are headed to a trade show or convention to get new customers, raise awareness of your company or organization or just reconnect with customers you are more than likely looking to giveaway some sort of swag. After nearly a decade in the promotional products industry, I have learned not all items are created equal. So I have put together a list of the top 5 best giveaways that will give you the most bang for your buck. After all, you are not just buying the swag to give out to make friends: you want a return on your marketing investment.

1. Laminated Tote Bags

First of all, go big! Make sure you purchase at least one item that has a big imprint area for your company’s logo, website, or phone number. These non-woven laminated totes are very similar to the Lululemon shopping bags that you see everywhere. They are great quality tote bags and have a large place for your logo.

Promotional Laminated Non-woven Large Shopper Tote #8213202

2. Custom Hand Sanitizers

Hand sanitizers are another great item to giveaway. Especially at the big shows where you come in contact with hundreds of people. These small and portable sanitizers have a perfect space for your imprint. Potential customers will keep hold of this useful healthcare themed item, reminding them of your brand. They are also an inexpensive option at under $1.

Four Color Process – Lightly Scented Hand Sanitizer #12088715

3. Stylus Pens

I normally advise against buying pens for trade shows, simply because everyone is giving them, away but this item is the exception. Our Curvaceous Twist Action Ballpoint Pen With Stylus And Rubber Grip is the perfect pen that people are sure to want and hold on to. The promo writing item has a ballpoint pen on one end and a stylus at the other end. A perfect tech-themed item to use with your iPhone, iPad or any other touch screen device or phone. These pens are also less than $1 with your imprint!

Curvaceous Twist Action Ballpoint Pen With Stylus And Rubber Grip #11358511

4. Customized Sunglasses

Our neon custom sunglasses are our best selling product for three years running. They are not just popular fraternity party props or wedding favors anymore! Companies of all sizes are using these fun and useful items year around. Another new and very popular option is the retro specs that come with an imprint on the front of the sunglasses. Don’t worry you can still see out of the glasses.

Promotional Neon Plastic Sunglasses #8240986

Retro Specs with Front Imprint
#12088650

5. Stress Balls of All Sizes, Shapes, and Types!

Last but not least one of the other most creative and poplar swag items for your next big convention is stress relievers! They come in hundreds of shapes, colors, and styles to match just about any branding you have or service you may offer. We have a wide selection of thousands of creative stress balls in everything from fruits to body parts to technology themed items. The imprint area is not huge, but our customers have given us feedback that attendees at shows go crazy over the unique stress balls. Check out all of our custom stress balls.

Rubber Duck Shaped Stress Reliever #8123933

Hot Dog – Food Shape Stress Reliever #8055725

Truck Shape Stress Reliever #8214296

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Personalized Pedometers: Step by Step to Great Health

by Natalie on November 28, 2012 in Get Fit | Stay Healthy, Ideas & Inspiration, Promotional Products, Tradeshow Giveaways

Pedometers increase fitness awareness while monitoring your progress. Research shows that wearing a pedometer helps with weight loss and encourages physical activity. Walking is one of the best ways to burn calories and to stay in shape. Promotional pedometers are a perfect gift to help encourage your clients or employees to walk to great health! You are also letting your client know that you care about them and their health. Our pedometers can be customized with your logo.

Choosing the Right Pedometer

There are so many options for promotional pedometers. USimprints carries many options including step-counters, calorie counting, distant measuring, pulse or heartbeat measuring, there are even some that include a radio and earbuds. They also come in many shapes and sizes. It came be overwhelming trying to pick out the best pedometer for your giveaway. Here are my top picks for pedometers:

Promotional Clearview - Pedometer With Clear Acrylic Cover #8056550

These multifunctional personalized pedometers are a convenient way of monitoring your fitness regimen. Functions include measuring steps, distance walked, and calories burned. Input user’s stride length for the most accurate readings and it counts up to 99,999 steps. This pedometer also features an energy saving auto shut-off and idle mode and a replaceable button cell battery inserted for continued use. Pad print imprinting available and comes in 13 great colors.

Fitness First Pedometer #8056563

Step into a healthier lifestyle with this fitness first pedometer. A clear plastic case protects the bright-colored pedometer and showcases your custom logo. This heath accessory also features a large LCD display to easily track daily walking steps with a count up to 99,999 steps. To conserve energy, it has an auto shut-off and idle mode, and an oversized belt clip with one button cell battery inserted. Pad printing is offered for a custom look.

Walk N' Roll - Radio Pedometer With Top-view Digital Lcd Display #8056604

Exercise never sounded so good with the basic step-counter pedometer! Features a top-view LCD display for easy monitoring with a high quality FM scan radio with auto scan and two-position volume control. Energy saving auto shut-off and idle mode. Counts up to 99,999 steps. Earbud headphones and one AAA battery are included. Comes in 8 colors.

Stayfit - Abs Plastic Pedometer #8213063

This pedometer has it all! The Abs Plastic Pedometer features a Fm scan radio with earbuds and an armband. It also includes a calorie counter, easy-to-read digital step counter and a clock display. I love the elastic armband and the plastic belt clip for versatility. Must be worn around the waist while using the pedometer function

Promotional Exercise Kit #8214946

This complete compact kit includes Clip ‘N Step promotional pedometer in and exercise band tucked into a personal travel pouch. This items is great for health clubs, spas, gyms or any exercise enthusiasts. The Promotional Exercise Kit is compact and stores easy for travel. The pedometer comes in black and you can choose from black, blue, red and lime for the exercise band.

Sherri Krenk

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Tumbler Time: The Hottest Custom Coffee Tumblers

by Natalie on November 12, 2012 in Ideas & Inspiration, Promotional Products, Tradeshow Giveaways

I am a java addict, I do confess. It is my drink of choice, especially in the cooler and colder months. I am as picky about what I put my coffee in as I am what coffee I choose. Customized tumblers are one of USimprints most popular products we sell. After seeing, inspecting, and using thousands of them, I want to give you my top four. So here goes:

Best Bang For the Buck

Journey Double Wall Logo Tumbler #8152366

This double wall tumbler is a great economy priced tumbler, and makes for a great inexpensive giveaway item. It has a nice curved shape, an easy to use handle, and I really like how they mold the plastic making the color much more vibrant than other tumblers I have seen. You logo will look great on these. I recommend this one if you are on a budget.

Stainless Steel Option

Promotional Stainless Steel Double Wall Tumbler #9263058

This double wall tumbler is a great option if you are looking for stainless steel drinkware. It is priced well for the high quality construction. It also comes in five great colors to match your branding. It is not the biggest tumbler you will find, but I think it holds enough coffee. After all, no one likes the last few ounces of coffee anyways. If you are like me and you put lots of sugar in it, the last few sips usually turn out a little too much, even for a sugar addict like me.

Retail Quality

Customized Travis - Double Wall Tumbler #10102798

The USimprints.com Travis double wall tumbler is one of my other favorites, and has a real “retail” quality to it. It has the nice stainless steel with a color band at the top half. It comes in four colors and looks great with a white imprint that will surely make your logo or imprint pop. It holds up to 16oz of liquids. The rotation lock will prevent spills. I absolutely recommend this tumbler and makes for a great corporate gift for clients or employees. It is a giveaway that won’t end up in a box full of trinkets or in the trash.

The Best Tumbler of 2012

Matrix Promo Tumbler #10369521

Drumroll please….my favorite tumbler is the Matrix Tumbler! I love the shape. It gets smaller at the bottom, so it fits most car drink holders and is easy to hold on to. The color options are vibrant, making your imprint look great. It is constructed well, like a tumbler you would purchase at Starbucks! The foam insulation helps keep your drinks hotter longer. It is stainless steel with an interior plastic liner. I absolutely love this tumbler, your customers, potential clients, friends, or employees will make this their favorite too!

You can check out more customized tumblers here at USimprints.com.

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Totally Awesome Ways to Promote Your Business with Promo Items

by Natalie on November 8, 2012 in Corporate Gifts, Ideas & Inspiration, Promotional Products, Tradeshow Giveaways

Anyone who owns or helps run a business is always looking for new ways to get their name out there. Of course, we are all familiar with the typical promotional items used at trade shows, grand openings, or other company events. We are so used to the standard stuff that all companies have had success with over the years (promotional pens, key chains, magnets, tote bags etc.), that many of us stock up on those items and call it a day. So I was thinking…everyone is looking for new and improved ways of doing things…the new diet that REALLY works, the new sleeping position that will help you live longer, the new DVD that will teach your 6 month old to read…….so why not focus on finding new ways you can promote your business and make more money! I did some digging, and found some really great items that will take your promotional efforts to the next level and leave a lasting impression on prospective clients:

The Cutting Board

Laser Engraveable Natural Bamboo Cutting Board #10607625

Honestly, I hadn’t even considered a cutting board to be in the category of “promotional tools”. These are GREAT corporate gifts. If you are a large firm or agency you’ve probably done the golf umbrella Christmas gift or the company logo’d Leather Portfolio for your big clients around the holidays. Hate to break to to ya- but “Jo Schmo Agency” down the street is doing the same thing. A cutting board is giving you the same top quality corporate style, along with being totally in your face in a NON obnoxious way…score! Think about it…everyone has a kitchen, most people are not going to chop things on their granite counter tops, and a lot of people leave really nice cutting boards sitting out on their counter all the time, kind of like a decoration. AND, when do people want to show off their nice kitchenware and Top Chef chopping skills? At dinner parties. Who attends these dinner parties? Probably people very similar to your client who could similarly benefit from your services. Not to mention that the kitchen is usually a happy place…whether you’re cooking dinner for your family or entertaining a huge crowd, you are usually relaxed, wine in hand, enjoying your surroundings-what a perfect time to remind them why being your client is AWESOME!

The Microfiber Cleaning Cloth

Promo Microfiber Cleaning Cloth #11005539

Customized Full Color Microfiber Cloth #11068198

Everyone you know has a device, that has a screen that must be cleaned. Cell phones, Tablets, Laptops…and usually these electronics come with a small microfiber cloth in the box when you purchase them. Show of hands for who has managed to keep track of that one original cloth? Zero. This presents the perfect opportunity to remind people of your company while they are using and maintaining devices that usually relate to business. They come in different forms- you can do a promotional key chain with a cloth attached and rolled up (very convenient, hard for client to lose, great logo exposure to anyone and everyone who gets a glance at their car keys) or you can do a larger, full color micro fiber cloth (get your logo directly onto the cloth itself, huge imprint area with the ability to put virtually anything you want on it) or you could always do an imprinted case with both a microfiber cleaning cloth and a brush on the other side (two tools in one, easy to throw in a briefcase or purse or boardroom desk drawer). Whichever way you go, this promo tool can be affordable AND make you stand out among the rest. Don’t forget, the easier you make life for your client, the more they will think about and TALK ABOUT your business.

The Emergency Auto Tool

Emergency Auto Tool #8175929

This is basically the coolest thing ever. This little gadget, that fits conveniently in your glove box, your trunk, under the passenger seat, or wherever else it may fall, can save your tail in most car related crises. Slap your logo on it and you just reminded your client or whoever is fixing her flat why you are the best company to do business with. I mean, any company that gives away or even sells such a handy and useful item to their people is going to stick out in that persons mind. And what is Sally going to do once her auto ordeal is over with? Tell all her friends about how this really neat car tool that she got from {YOUR COMPANY} totally saved her. And where can her friends find such a tool? “Oh, I’ll just give you my contact person’s name and number and you can call him. He’s awesome, he should know!” Bingo: foot in the door.

The Ice Scraper

Ice Scraper That Attaches To Car Visor #8154442

Again, a very usable, handy, and NEEDED item! Saves the day at just the right time. While scraping their windshield before they leave for work in the morning, your client will be staring at your logo. Not only did your gift make their life easier, but it also put you in the front of their mind first thing in the morning. So that project that they’ve been meaning to get to and possibly call around for pricing on, just got a heck of a lot easier…they’ll call you! Why not? You’ve obviously reached out to them somehow in the past and gotten this promotional tool into their hands, and you just so happen to offer the services they are in need of for this project. Are they going to call the guy on the magnet on their cafeteria fridge or are they going to call the guy on their handy dandy ice scraper? Genius.

The Foldable Water Bottle

Promo Bendable & Foldable Water Bottle #10141123

These are awesome for the same reasons the standard promotional Acrylic Tumbler is. With the world trying to conserve energy and save money, tons of people are switching from buying the plastic Aquafina water bottles from the store, and using their own re-usable water bottle on the go. Foldable Water Bottles are great because they also help with another problem that EVERYONE has space. When they aren’t full, they can be folded or rolled up so small you can stick them in the side pocket of your purse or even your pants pocket. When full, they usually come with a clip that you can use to hang them on your backpack or purse for easy carrying, and also provide a major promotional opportunity! This is such a fun and fairly new product, it gets noticed every time. Remember cool promo items mean cool company! USimprints is your source for awesome logo giveaways!

You can reach me at kyla.w (at) usimprints.com for more ideas.

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Planning For Your Tradeshow: The Right Promo Products To Pick

by Natalie on November 2, 2012 in Business Sense, Corporate Gifts, Events & Promotions, Promotional Products, Tradeshow Giveaways, Uncategorized

Trade shows are a great place to promote your business. In order to have a successful turnout to your booth, you need to make sure you have the best booth. So what do you need in make sure people stop by your booth to get additional information on your business?

Make sure you pick a nice imprinted table skirt for your table, our most popular one is item#8366393 seen below. It is a must have for branding your company or organization. Make sure your logo is big, so potential customers don’t miss it.

Custom Imprinted Table Skirt Item #8366393

Most people say nothing is free, but at tradeshows you can get some great free items. Here are my top picks for tradeshow promotional products that are sure to get you noticed:

Tote Bags:

My top pick! You want everyone walking around the show showing off your logo. Everyone loves a great tote to carry groceries, take to the beach or take to ballgames to hold your favorite tailgating items. Whatever they use it for they will be thankful they stopped by your booth to get one of your promotional tote bags. Plus these bags have a HUGE imprint area, and what better advertising than to see attendees walking around the show floor with a big tote with your logo for everyone to see!

Here is one of my favorites:

Promotional Big Grocery Tote, Made From 80g Non-woven Polypropylene

Promotional Big Grocery Tote, Non-woven Polypropylene Item# 8245274

Ink Pens:

Pens are one of the top used office products. Visit our pen section here for must have giveaway for every tradeshow. They are inexpensive and lightweight, which makes them great when traveling long distances to tradeshows. Plus it is an item people use daily, giving your brand maximum exposure. These are just a couple of the reasons that promotional pens come in as my 2^nd choice for your tradeshow.

Water Bottles:

Everyone loves water bottles, it’s something your customers will not throw away and are super eco-friendly and healthy. Make sure you pick out something unique when looking for these water bottles. I recommend large bottles that are BFA free, biodegradable, and can hold at least 20 ounces. It is another item that has a large imprint size for your logo or imprint.

Promotional Biodegradable Bpa Free Sport Bottle, 22 Oz #8241969

Food Gifts:

I will admit I love food and chocolate is my especially big weakness. It is a guaranteed way to get people to stop by your booth. Make sure they remember you with milk chocolate squares. It’s okay that your clients will eat them right away and not keep them around, because they will remember YOU. Why do you think so many people buy chocolate for their loved ones? Show your customers that they are loved.

Foil Wrapped Imprinted Chocolate Squares #8498091

Good luck with your tradeshow, let us know how we can help you!

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Rule #1 | Give Them Something They’ll Remember

by Shari on August 31, 2011 in Tradeshow Giveaways

Lately I’ve been watching old episodes of Mad Men on Netflix. In case you didn’t know Mad Men is a drama about one of New York’s most prestigious ad agencies at the beginning of the 1960s. In my opinion this was the birth of advertising. It’s very interesting to watch how advertising and brand recognition have evolved and become such a common part of Western culture. Could you imagine life without ads or billboards, I know couldn’t. We have become very accustomed to the constant bombardment of advertising.

These days it can be overwhelming to own a business and also try to promote it. Some businesses don’t see the point of even bothering with it at all. Unfortunately those folks fail to realize that the reason so many other companies engage in this type of self-promotion is because it works! Because we are bombarded with brand averting we start to depend upon brands to remind us of the items we prefer. My five year old son is a perfect example of this when he insisted on getting Nike shoes this past week. He was buying into the brand he recognized.

You may not realize just how many items can be imprinted with a company logo. It is always good to consider who you will be the recipient of your branded items and will your items be something they remember? Please know that we hare here to help with your branding needs, we can help you choose products that are a good fit for your brand or event and help you stay within your budget.

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This Seasons Top 5 under $5

by Shari on May 3, 2011 in Promotional Products, Tradeshow Giveaways

So, technically it is still spring, but there are a few places that are already feeling the summer heat (trust me, I just returned from Arizona’s blazing 90 degree weather last week). Summer cookouts, pool parties, family reunions and company picnics are on the way. With that being said, we’ve listed this seasons Top 5 products Under $5. These five products are fun, colorful and a great way to promote your logo at any event!

Catch them while they’re hot!

#1. Promotional Sunglasses

#2. Imprinted Bottle Openers

#3. Promotional Acrylic Tumblers

#4. Promotional Frisbees

#5. Customizable Water Bottles

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Boogie Bots that do a little jig!

by Shari on April 28, 2011 in Tradeshow Giveaways

Click here to watch the Boogie Bot in Motion!

Boogie Bots put your logo into motion with a dance! It’s the ideal promotional item for direct mail pieces, dance studios, trade shows, and the list goes on and on…

These cute little dancing bots wind up and get down! Turn the crank on the back of the bot and watch it move its knees, hips, arms and feet. As the bot sways back and forth, the button on its belly spins round and round.

Boogie Bots are approximately 3.25″ tall x 1.625″ wide (at feet) x 2.125″ deep (at arms, including winding knob), hard plastic, wind-up toy and they are just waiting for your personalized message or logo. Imprintable on the disc of the belly and available in a variety of colors!