Hello, fellow promotional enthusiasts. As usual, I’ve been on high alert this week searching for the top promotional products in the wild. This week, we have some limited edition drinkware and movie-themed merchandise making the rounds on the internet, and I love it all. Keep reading for my top picks! 1. Lady Gaga x Urban…
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“Sixty queens there may be, and eighty concubines, and virgins beyond number; but my dove, my perfect one, is unique…” (Song of Solomon 6:8-9). This Old Testament verse, interestingly written by one of my very distant relatives (Solomon), beautifully makes a point that modern day language can’t quite convey. Every business must have a unique…
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Dale Denham wrote a great post for us last week, “Promotional Products Suppliers Stink at Twitter,” that I wanted to follow up on. I thought it might be helpful to build off some of Dale’s ideas and show some examples of excellent Twitter feeds and talk about what we can learn from them.
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This year, I’m celebrating Earth Day by getting wired.
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Do you remember a few months back when I wrote about the Starbucks Index? The basic gist was this: “In his February 19, 2009 editorial entitled ‘Starbucks becomes a harbinger of the economy.”
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You can study common economic indicators like the GDP, CPI, inflation, deflation, housing markets, unemployment or bull and bear markets to determine if our economy is heading in the right direction, but I prefer to take a different tack. Perhaps you could call it the “Main Street” approach as opposed to the “Wall Street” approach to analyzing the hopeful economic rebound.
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Millions of Americans are about to feel like the Griswalds in National Lampoon’s Family Vacation (Moose out front should have told you). Desperate for their next venti latte, they will (or, depending on when you read this, they have) approached the local java brewery only to find the doors locked and themselves coffee blocked. That’s right, Starbucks is having an unprecedented three-hour-universe-wide shut down in an attempt to re-energize the barista population (They do know they work all day with caffeine, right?). I can only imagine how the meeting will go. Hopped up managers extolling company pride, talking brightly about the
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