Owner: Steel City Marketing Promotional Gifts Blog URL:http://www.steel-city.co.uk/blog Join Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:24:44 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: A Blog about the Promotional Gifts industry, and how to use promotional products successfully to brand cooporate image, and identity. Site statistics:Click here
Prodir Pens - Swiss Style 2008-07-30 06:16:04 It is always worth keeping an eye out for the latest innovative and striking design to make it into the promotional pen industry. This usually comes from within the design studios of Prodir, producers of the “Personality Pens – Swiss
Made” promotional pens.
There are now 7 very different and very distinctive writing instruments within [...] Read more:Style
Where Has Our British Summer Gone??? 2008-07-18 08:45:07 Its the middle of July and what do we have? Dreariness.
When I first heard about global warming I was was quite fond of the idea. Living in Britain with a Spanish climate, sipping cocktails as the sun goes down whilst playing football on filey beach…
Sheffield flooded last year, this summer a washout… Global warming [...] Read more:British
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Steel City Marketing- Welcome To The New Blog! 2008-07-18 05:09:41 Welcome to the brand spanking new steel city blog, Currently under development but watch this space!
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Why Not Try… Promotional Rucksacks 2008-08-15 10:46:34 What a great gift to give to a client who is about to go on a summer expedition or travelling adventure. Practical, ideal, and the chance to get your logo seen by thousands of individuals.
At Steel City Marketing, we are constantly selecting products from within the promotional bag category to ensure that you have the [...]
SCM New Promotional Gift Directory 2008-08-05 09:29:48 It is always an incredibly long job in preparing the Annual Steel City Marketing Promotional Gift Directory
. As a company producing our own in-house business gift brochure – one of the few in the industry – we are usually very proud of the result. We constantly try to be different with a great deal [...]
Promotional Lanyards & Badges 2008-08-04 10:33:14 The combination of Personalised Lanyards and Badges
has grown tremendously over recent years. From a sportsman succeeding at the Olympics to a delegate attending a conference or exhibition they are now a familiar sight.
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The Countdown to Christmas… 2008-09-04 10:30:09 It’s 110 sleeps and 10 hours till Christmas
, and don’t we know it in the SCM office, as September begins the phones start ringing like the bells on Santa’s sleigh on Christmas eve!
Its time to order your Corporate Christmas Presents and Steel City Marketing can cater for your needs with an excellent range of Festive [...] Read more:Countdown
Green is the new black… 2008-08-18 06:50:00 So honestly, how ‘green’ is your office? Do you recycle? Does the coffee machine only know the caress of environmentally sound coffee? Is there only sandpaper … I mean recycled paper … in the toilets? Does everyone think twice before making spare copies of documents and reports, and printing off emails? Because, let’s face it, [...] Read more:Green
Promotions Through the Credit Crunch… 2008-09-22 08:13:49 Your company may have to cut costs due to the current economic climate. But don’t neglect your ever important marketing strategies. Read our short article on how to make your promotions campaign more low budget, but still just as effective..
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Steel City Marketing - Award Winning. 2008-09-19 04:54:09 Steel City Marketing
is delighted to have been voted as the North East Distributor of the Year for 2008. This award is voted for by the trade association membership and would have included all regional and national promotional companies. This is a fantastic achievement and one that everyone associated with Steel City Marketing is very [...] Read more:Award
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Competition Winner Announced! 2008-10-02 06:10:58 Congratulations to Heather Clayton from Penny Hydraulics who has won a Samsung 32″ LCD TV!
She correctly deciphered the code to reveal SCM MARKS THE SPOT and her name was pulled out of the hat yesterday.
Well Done Heather!
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Competition Results! 2008-10-01 07:35:51 The entries are in and the names are in the hat waiting to be drawn! Watch this space to see who has won the SCM comp!
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Tea Break… 2008-09-30 10:43:25 Have 10 minutes spare? Why not try Steel City Marketing’s jigsaw puzzle! The 36 Jigsaw puzzle of ‘Incentive Island’ offers a dose of fun in a few moments spare.
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Promotional Gift Packaging can make all the difference.. 2008-10-30 05:49:47 There are thousands of business gift ideas that work well and do all the talking they need to do on their own. For most promotional items packaging is not needed, it adds frills where no frills are required and would usually be thrown away immediately anyway.
However, packaging does add value to a certain type of [...] Read more:difference
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Wii, Wii, We Are Giving Away Wii’s! * 2008-10-27 07:12:58 There are times when you just think; I have to tell as many people about this as possible. The opportunity to give away – for free - Nintendo Wii
’s has to rank up there with the most important blog entries ever!
OK, so is this for real? Well yes it is. Steel City Marketing have tapped [...] Read more:Giving
Buy it Once, Sell it a Thousand Times 2008-10-24 05:47:22 What am I talking about in the title – put simply… “Knowledge”. During a meeting this week, the business gift industry in general was discussed and to put it bluntly – there are people who appear to be trying to mix up a decent, well organized industry up for self gain. I am told that [...] Read more:Thousand
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How many? Ooo – it’ll cost you!! 2008-10-23 08:44:34 OK, so maybe the title is a little dramatic, but it grabs the attention don’t you think?
For the smaller enquiries, which are, as always greatly received, there are sometimes a few issues to iron out and once explained can result in an alternative route being taken or an adjustment in the initial requirement.
A client who [...]
The Winter Woolies are Coming Out! 2008-10-22 04:09:14 What makes sourcing business gifts even more enjoyable than normal (what a cliché!) is not only when you have put together a brochure of promotional ideas that clients can source from and want to use again and again, it is also the fact that some requests are away from the norm and these are the [...]
David Beckham Writes Out Loud With Sharpie 2008-10-20 10:43:17 What have DavidBeckham
and the Business Gift Market currently got in common? Sharpie. The most recognized face in international football and possibly the world has now linked up with the world’s number one permanent marker in a high profile marketing campaign – WRITE OUT LOUD.
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Promotional Carrier Bags 2008-10-16 06:53:25 For Steel City Marketing the biggest selling item in terms of volume is Polythene Carrier Bags. In nearly 30 years we have sold literally millions…
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Competition Winner Announced! 2008-10-02 06:10:58 Congratulations to Heather Clayton from Penny Hydraulics who has won a Samsung 32″ LCD TV!
She correctly deciphered the code to reveal SCM MARKS THE SPOT and her name was pulled out of the hat yesterday.
Well Done Heather!
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Competition Results! 2008-10-01 07:35:51 The entries are in and the names are in the hat waiting to be drawn! Watch this space to see who has won the SCM comp!
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Tea Break… 2008-09-30 10:43:25 Have 10 minutes spare? Why not try Steel City Marketing’s jigsaw puzzle! The 36 Jigsaw puzzle of ‘Incentive Island’ offers a dose of fun in a few moments spare.
More…
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Bic Ecolutions Ballpens - White Is The New Green! 2008-11-21 09:02:36 Over the last few months, Bic Graphic have launched a “greener version” of 5 best selling promotional pens – “Ecolutions” - where a percentage of the final pen is made from recycled materials.
The “white” refers to the fact that all the barrels in this Ecolutions range of pens are white, with other (non recycled) components [...] Read more:Green
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M&S Voucher Giveaway 2008-11-20 03:47:39 We are already half way through November in the blink of an eye and Christmas will soon be upon us….when you read that is seems almost poetic rather than a shock statement of just how quickly the weeks are really flying by.
We are very keen to make noise about our special November offer, but I [...] Read more:Voucher
Promotional Gifts More Effective Than Adverts! 2008-11-18 08:27:33 A recent report out of the US - conducted by the Advertising Specialty Institute, has shown that our great industry of business gifts outscored conventional TV, print, or radio adverts. Startling result and something I am more than happy to shout about in my latest posting.
From Data by Adweek (USA) and WARC, the promotional products [...] Read more:Adverts
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USB People - They Work and Play! 2008-11-13 09:31:22 One of the most popular range of promotional gifts at the moment is USB flashdrives. The choice of colours and models is increasing all the time along with the memory capacity available. There is though a gap in the market for something that has design flexibility and a greater degree of personalization.
The USB people range [...]
Mission Impossible? - Not So For Steel City Marketing! 2008-11-12 09:38:05 Some Business Gift orders appear from the outset to not have a single possible solution to get close to the clients initial idea. The design and imagination of both agency and end user clients can initially feel as though “mission impossible” has just been called through! But we have to look at matching these requirements [...] Read more:Marketing
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Steel City Marketing - Starts Marketing 2008-11-10 09:39:34 We are delighted to announce that Rachel Biggin has joined the company on the 10th November, as the company’s first Marketing
Consultant.
With over 8 years experience as a Marketing Communications Manager for one of Yorkshire’s biggest companies, Rachel brings with her vast knowledge of an area we just haven’t had the opportunity to devote enough [...] Read more:Steel
Promotional Gifts - its all in the timing 2008-11-05 04:43:59 The question clients appear most nervous about asking is “can you make a tight lead time on this?” There are obviously some pretty concerned people out there in “client land” whenever they receive a promotional gift enquiry where an event is imminent and obviously cannot be missed.
A great deal has changed over recent years in [...] Read more:Gifts
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