Check out this video about umbrellas along with some facts about what to look for in a quality umbrella so your promotions don't leave you "all wet". Umbrellas relate to many industries themes for coverage and protection, they are useful across all ages and gender. The size of the imprint area and outdoor venue insures high visibility as well as low cost per impression for your brand as a walking or stationary billboard. A quality umbrella will last for years and will leave your recipient with a good impression of your company. Great ways to provide these for distribution would be to families that attend sporting events, sponsoring a team, carpool line a local school, professionals that must get out in elements such as real estate related fields; perhaps reward your best referral partners while providing them an opportunity to have future clients ask about your brand. Watch this quick video and then visit our website for some purchasing tips for umbrellas in the newsroom location. While on our website, click the link at the top of the home page for video of the week to access a library of archived quick educational videos about products for many types of promotions.

http://www.mypromosaver.com/vasv.asp?VideoID=957&CustomerID=2595&label=The Industry Show&nb=videos&sec=is&vDistCom=Promotional Partners, Inc.&vDistPhone=919-387-9223&vDistEmail=oscott@nc.rr.com

One of our many unique umbrellas.

Thanks for such a great turn out this morning for the am networking. Couldn't make it? You missed great food, networking and ideas to grow your business. Stop by when you're in downtown to play in our showroom. Branding is all about the "chatter" it creates; playing with ideas will spark the imagination and creativity you need to make an impression with your brand. Did you know that Promotional Products Cost Less, Achieve More, Accomplish Goals, Build Goodwill and Create Market Share?

In the US the cost per impression of a production product is half a cent! $0.005; which is equal to a BOGO deal for advertising!

More costly advertising vehicles such as TV, radio and print publications reach huge numbers of people, but are they reaching your demographic?

How long will your advertisement circulate in front of the demographic you desire?

83% of recipient can remember the advertiser on promotional products they received

A correctly placed item will yield multiple impressions a day. For example a pen has at least 10 impressions on average per day, 437 per month.

60% of respondents indicated that they have done business with an advertiser AFTER receiving an item; creating a change in behavior! Is your current advertising campaign affecting that type of call to action?

Recipients like “free” products and those products are changing opinions. 41% of respondents have a MORE favorable opinion of an advertiser after receiving a promotional product.

Unlike print ads with a limited life cycle before becoming compost or an art project, 62% of respondents see the value in giving away a product to someone else to use if they are able to use it themselves. Think about it, how long will you use a plastic grab bag versus a non woven, canvas or nylon tote? A branded tote with average of 1,078 impressions per month, bags more profits.

64% of recipients have a more favorable view of a company AFTER receiving a “gift”.

Let us help you grow your sales, your profits and your brand awareness with our expert and creative knowledge for how to properly apply a brand that will make an impression one brand at a time.

Sanmars's 40th Anniversary

Our favorite supplier for apparel; it’s also the company store on our website. Ask us to create a custom website for your company or organization for easy orders, send you a digital catalog tailored to your select products, provide videos about apparel, download spec sheets or instantly see color choices on models on the website store. These are just a few of the benefits of working with Sanmar’s family owned business looking after our family owned business looking after our clients like family!

WIN WIN

Schools always face a challenge when it comes to school spirit, they want the kids to be involved but they don't have the tools that will be considered “fun” by teens. Promotional Partners and Dr. Stuart Higgins DDS are active in the community working with programs &r sponsorships at Apex HS, so they were happy to help the student Cougar Crazy’s show some school spirit.

Dr. Higgins, a Gold Cougar Sponsor for Apex High School helped the students with … “rally hair”! It was a “win win” situation. The branding on the band of the hair created awareness for his business while giving the kids a fun way to show off their school spirit! As you can see, the kids had a blast with it!

Tradeshow Ready? January starts a new year of tradeshows will you be ready?

Colorful displays, prize wheels, punko games, chairs, counters, display stands, flags , banners, digital backdrops and table covers, floor graphics, pop up and retractable signs, outdoor tents, balloons, full size mascots for interaction these are all areas we can help our clients. Often our clients only see us for the source for the promotional give away for attendees, but we can design tiered prizes for good prospects, branded raffle items and of course unique reasons for attendees to visit your booth. Perhaps your booth will have the hot bag, fun toy to take home to the kids, the latest techie item or some standard items such as pens and mints.

Here’s an item that was a hit with some of our clients this past year, custom fortune cookies! Available in many colors and flavors with 23 flavors, 12 colors and up to 5 custom inserts, your booth can create contests and fun with food.

Here are some examples of fortunes we have used for our own company:

The journey of 1,000 miles begins when you take your first step with Promotional Partners

Your lucky number for a successful promotion is 387-9223

Editable Profit that we make boring and stale fresh and exciting

Wiseman once side, Improve your results with unique brand exposure by Promotional Partners

Made’ya look are some of our favorites with results

Of course each fortune also includes our contact information. We’ve even given these out in a giant double handed size for administrative assistant’s week to our local administrative assistant’s! Reply if you want to know what flavors or colors you may select.

Shopping Local

Shopping local


A recent nationwide survey conducted by WebVisiable www.visable.com in conjunction with market research firm Synovate e Nation conducted a survey involving 1,000 consumers. The posed the question “What makes you choose to patronize a small local independent business over a large chain?” 4 out of 5 respondents sited small business over “big box” and provided consistent answers for their top three reason as being, supporting the community, more convenient and personal service. Promotional Partners is part of the Apex Downtown Business Association or the ADBA. You can find our website at www.apexdowntown.com to see our membership. Our ADBA in this past year was a Gold Level Sponsor of the Apex HS Cougar Club, many of our business donated prizes to local charities and school groups seeking auction items, we have businesses that have own retail and food awards, our membership regularly supports the local Apex Herald and The Salem Street Gazette with advertising and articles. Our businesses are sponsors of local church and civic activities in our community and our collective energy helps to sponsor our own activities such as Trick or Treat on Salem Street and Christmas On Salem Street as well as participating in town sponsored events such as Peakfest and July 4th. Check out some images from our photo gallery on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Apex-NC/Promotional-Partners/111851192160823)

Promotional Research

According to research conducted by PPAI 69% of attendees at tradeshows and events would keep and use a promotional item that was given to them; free. Only 2% don’t appreciate free products and 74% of the respondents to the survey reported having at least one promotional product in their work area while 59% had between 2-11 products. Last winter we challenged our clients for a fun blog contest for unofficial confirmation regarding the presence of promotional items in their immediate work space. The responses were overwhelmingly yes, full of free branded items with many respondents hosting at least 25-30 products within their desk chair!