Here are some reviews of specialized promotions

1.    2008-04-10 05:31:52   francisco http://r.yuwie.com/francisco81 entertainment / general    (37 reviews)   ( review this site )   ( add to favorites )	5.00	.	5	5	5	5
	lots of content and many products, good luck, site also loads fast.
2.    2008-04-08 04:02:32   mike http://www.webprogramming.tv mm opps. / free-opportunities    (3187 reviews)   ( review this site )   ( add to favorites )	5.00	.	5	5	5	5
	good site, will be back…..
3.    2008-04-07 17:09:34   Bernadette http://www.cybercoconutz.com/gardens shopping / general    (10 reviews)   ( review this site )   ( add to favorites )	5.00	.	5	5	5	5
	Great for any advertisers. Booked marked site…
4.    2008-04-07 09:14:13   beth http://www.illusionbeads.com shopping / general    (94 reviews)   ( review this site )   ( add to favorites )	5.00	.	5	5	5	5
	Great site for anyone who wants to advertise their business. Huge variety of things you can put your logo on. Easy navigation and easy loading. I wish you the best of luck..
5.    2008-04-06 20:57:20   Betty http://bmoore1094.avonrepresentative.com… shopping / general    (87 reviews)   ( review this site )   ( add to favorites )	5.00	.	5	5	5	5
	unique items for your business advertisment. great selections. prices are affordable and a must for your business advertising budget.site loads fast. navigation is easy. graphics load fast. site is relevant to category..
6.    2008-04-06 19:10:31   Betty http://www.freewebs.com/moorebettyboop/ shopping / general    (73 reviews)   ( review this site )   ( add to favorites )	5.00	.	5	5	5	5
	I have never seen such a wide selection of promotional products. the jewelry pages alone are huge! this site has every type of idea possible to promote and advertise your company, a must see. fun to visit.site loads fast. navigation is easy. graphaics are good. site is relevant to category. good luck.
7.    2008-04-06 18:51:59   dawn http://www.dawnsjewels.com shopping / general    (35 reviews)   ( review this site )   ( add to favorites )	5.00	.	5	5	5	5
	Very nice site. Easy to use. I will keep you in mind for my next promotion..
8.    2008-04-06 18:40:38   Betty http://www.crazyhorseindustries.net/ shopping / general    (272 reviews)   ( review this site )   ( add to favorites )	5.00	.	5	5	5	5
	What a great idea. love the lip balm or steak knives. the baloons are cool also. site loads fast. navigation is easy. graphaics are good. site is relevant to category. good luck.

Promotions That Build Profit

 

      Promotions are everything you do to let your customers know you exist. Good marketing techniques can help eliminate the “I didn’t knows” from your clients and would-be clients. Even if you believe you have more than enough business you should always continue to do some sort of marketing. What if there is a sudden downturn in your industry? What if you have to suddently reach more customers? With a good marketing system in place you will be prepared for any surprises.

Additionally, you must be very vigilent in your marketing efforts when things are slow. This is NOT the time to pull back. If anything, go forward by taking advantage of all the free and low costs opportunities that will keep your name at the front of your market.

Develop a Winning Marketing and Promotions Campaign

Marketing a business can be a huge challenge. However, if you have systems in place, are consistent in implementing your systems, have great follow up and truly care about your customers, your business will not only survive, it will thrive. Before you begin a marketing campaign for your business, take time to develop a good plan.

With promotions, it may not be a one size fits all for your business. Depending on what you are promoting at any given time will determine what type of plan you need to put in place.

However, these are some things you should always consider in any campaign.

• Collecting names and contact information for inclusion in your database
• Inputting the information in a timely fashion
• Sending some type of a follow up within a short period of time after obtaining the information
• Keeping a well-groomed database

Before starting a promotional marketing campaign, ask the following questions:

• What is the purpose of the campaign?
• How much time do you need to properly roll it out?
• What is your budget?
• Who is your target market?
• How will you promote it?
• What type of incentives do you need to offer – coupons, giveaways, drawings?
• Will you do all the promotions yourself or will you need to hire someone to help?
• What is your system for collecting names and contact information?
• Will you need special insurance for the event?
• Are you complying with all state and federal laws? For example, in Utah we have very strict laws about anything that remotely resembles gambling such as a raffle.
• Will you be including other companies in your campaign?

Your Marketing Program Needs to Be Ongoing

As a marketing and promotions advisor to small and medium sized companies, I often see people who try something once, get little or no result and then cry, “Marketing doesn’t work!” Fact is, one letter, one phone call, one ad, one press release – none by themselves will achieve the desired result, but having a continuous, ongoing plan for marketing and following it will.

Something you must do in order to gain optimum results is to get excited about marketing you and your business. The more passionate you are about what you do the more people will want to do business with you.

Copyright: © 2004 by Kathleen Gage

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Specialized Promotions has novel ideas and cost effective ways to promote your business. We are always bringing to you, our client new and exciting items to help give your message that added visibility! We offer promotional marketing, promotional items, custom promotional products and promotional advertising for businesses.

You can easily search our vast database of products for items to:

 

Improve traffic at trade shows

Launch of relaunch your brand

Motivate staff members

Thank a customer

Commemorate an event

Increase safety awarenessWhen you are ready to place an order, our secure check out makes it safe, easy and convenient. Or, call us toll free @ 1-800-666-7736 for personal attention.http://www.specializedpromotions.com

 

Internet Marketing: How to Use Email Promotions for Big Results

Internet Marketing: How to Use Email Promotions for Big Results
 by: Kendall SummerHawk

Email is still, hands down, THE best way to launch a new program or product. Unfortunately, most women entrepreneurs are skittish about using email frequently enough. Others don’t understand how to effectively use the medium.

Now, my internet marketing tip is NOT that you send your list an email every five minutes. We all know how annoying THAT is!

BUT…I hear from too many business coaching clients that they send out one, maybe two emails, and then expect to sit back and watch their programs fill and their products leap off the shelves.

It just doesn’t work that way.

Your prospective clients are busy. They’re not focused on what you’re so generously offering. Doesn’t that sound like YOU on the receiving end of an email offer?

So, to earn their attention, you need to send multiple emails. Make your message catchy, authentic and fun to read. Now, before you balk and tell me you “don’t want to be one of THOSE kinds of marketers,” please hear this marketing coach out…

If your email campaign is engaging and relevant to your reader, you can easily send five to seven emails over a period of three or four weeks.

Here are six quick tips for a successful email campaign:

Internet Marketing Tip #1: Plan a “preview” event and market it FIRST.

It’s much easier to get prospects to take baby steps during the trust-building phase. For now, make it easy for them to say ‘yes’ to an invitation. Later, during your preview event, when your relationship is growing, you can introduce your new program or product.

Case in point: I sent out three emails invitations to register for my free Brand Authenticity business coaching preview call. The result? A gratifying 516 people registered for the preview call!

Internet Marketing Tip #2: Get their attention with this…

Did I make you look? Using a trailing sentence in your subject line… and the first sentence of your email will encourage your reader to, well, read the rest of your email. (Asking a question in your subject line will have the same results!)

Internet Marketing Tip #3: Do NOT sell in the email!

Don’t expect a little ol’ email to do the heavy lifting. That’s your sales page’s job. Your email message should create enough interest to motivate your prospect to go to your website for more information. Resist giving details of your new product or service. Instead, explain what the offer will do FOR them!

Internet Marketing Tip #4: Create urgency by releasing your sales figures.

Let your readers know how limited your offer is, and then keep them posted as to how much you’ve sold. Demonstrate that others want what you’re offering by revealing the decreasing supply, and you’ve created a sense of urgency.

For example, response to my last email for Brand Authenticity disclosing that we were 56% sold out, pushed the figures to 64%! People need to know that if they snooze, they lose; so be sure and remind them to take action…now!

Internet Marketing Tip #5: Send a “last chance” email the day before your cut-off date.

You will be amazed at how many people will wait until the very last, teensy, tiny second to take advantage of a time-sensitive offer. So if you’re tempted to omit the “last chance” email, please, send it. You’ll be glad you did!

Internet Marketing Tip #6: A weekly email is barely enough!

In my business coaching campaigns, I send one email each week for the first 2-3 weeks. Then, as the cut-off date draws near, I send a second email each week for another two weeks. For the final week I send out a third, the “last chance” email.

Will sending so many emails make some people mad? Yes. Please excuse me for sounding tough here, but just ‘get over it!’ These are the people who won’t buy from you anyway. As I remind my business coaching clients: “Don’t take it personally. Sending out email reminders to your potential clients is an important part of your job.”

Most of all have fun with your campaigns. If you’re genuine and project a feeling of caring and connection in your emails, your readers will watch what you’re doing with interest. When your offer (finally) tickles their fancy, they will appreciate the consistent reminders that you’ve been eager to work with them.

Specialized Promotions has novel ideas and cost effective ways to promote your business. We are always bringing to you, our client new and exciting items to help give your message that added visibility! We offer promotional marketing, promotional items, custom promotional products and promotional advertising for businesses.

You can easily search our vast database of products for items to:

 

Improve traffic at trade shows

Launch of relaunch your brand

Motivate staff members

Thank a customer

Commemorate an event

Increase safety awarenessWhen you are ready to place an order, our secure check out makes it safe, easy and convenient. Or, call us toll free @ 1-800-666-7736 for personal attention.

http://www.specializedpromotions.com

Internet Marketing And Viral Marketing

Internet Marketing And Viral Marketing
by: Scott Lindsay

Viral marketing is a unique tool designed to create so much buzz about the article itself that even the largest sites will want to publish it.Those who use this technique have seen incredible spikes in their site visitation simply because viral marketing can provide a quick boost in traffic.

In a campaign where viral marketing is successful traffic can go from a few hundred visitors to several thousand.

How does it work?

The idea is to create content that is so compelling that when you offer it free of charge you will find the content being used by large websites. Because you have links in your free-to-use article you will find readers who are interested in your writing coming to your website to see what you offer.

This has the effect of turning on a faucet. The traffic comes pouring in, but like most things in life it won’t last. Attention will soon focus on other new articles. Viral marketing can be a bit like the “flavor of the month club”.

So do I keep trying to create a buzz with new content?

Well, you can, but you also need to hope that other secondary sources will continue to carry and archive your viral articles.

Think of viral marketing like the spread of a virus. The hope is that your content will spread all over the Internet providing positive back linking opportunities for your website that will last much longer.

What sets viral marketing apart?

Viral marketing is often negative and controversial. It thrives on either raising the blood pressure of the reader or jarring the reader into considering something they have never considered before.

The articles need to be cleverly written with titles that grab the attention of the skimmer. These are individuals who scan until something catches their eye. In this case it could be a viral marketing article.

Why don’t more people use viral marketing?

In my estimation there are three reasons people don’t use viral marketing.

1) They don’t know what it is. They may have heard about it before, but most have no real idea of what it is or how it works.

2) They don’t know how to write a viral marketing piece. There really is an art form to the process of writing this type of article. It’s a skill that can be learned, but many don’t take the time to learn it.

3) The don’t feel it represents their business well. The truth is the negative feel of viral marketing and the controversial nature of much of the content can make the use of viral marketing problematic for some business owners.

Viral marketing is a strategy that seeks to grab a share in the proverbial fifteen minutes of fame by rolling out a dynamic article that can improve traffic to your website for an extended period of time. The positive residual effect is in multiplied backlinks from sites that will carry your article long-term. The reason this is a positive for business owners is that a growth in backlinks is generally viewed as improved trust by search engines and they will reward your business site with enhanced rankings. The best result would be better overall sales.

Perhaps the primary consideration for using viral marketing would be whether or not the article is a positive reflection on you and your business interests. If not then viral marketing may not be a perfect fit.

Specialized Promotions has novel ideas and cost effective ways to promote your business. We are always bringing to you, our client new and exciting items to help give your message that added visibility! We offer promotional marketing, promotional items, custom promotional products and promotional advertising for businesses.You can easily search our vast database of products for items to:

Improve traffic at trade shows

Launch of relaunch your brand

Motivate staff members

Thank a customer

Commemorate an event

Increase safety awarenessWhen you are ready to place an order, our secure check out makes it safe, easy and convenient. Or, call us toll free @ 1-800-666-7736 for personal attention.

http://www.specializedpromotions.com

3 Simple And Low Cost Marketing Ideas To Create Visibility

3 Simple And Low Cost Marketing Ideas To Create Visibility
 by: Tracey Lawton

Marketing your business is one of the biggest challenges for any solopreneur – it’s a task we all find quite daunting, and are simply overwhelmed by all the information that’s available. Below I have put together some information on 3 simple and low cost marketing ideas, which you can easily implement right away to create more visibility for your online business and web site. They all work well for me!

To help you decide which is the best strategy (or strategies) for you, I have listed the pros and cons of each one.

Create a Blog

Pros

You can really show off your expertise by posting on a regular basis.

Blog posts don’t need to be very long – approx. 200-350 words.

If you have some important information to share, you can instantly create a post – no waiting for your next newsletter to make your announcement!

If you use a blogging platform such as WordPress, this is hosted on your website. Each time you post to your blog you are creating fresh content for your website, which the search engines love!

Cons

You need to post regularly – at least once a week – in order for this to be an effective marketing strategy.

You need to feel confident that you will be able to write fresh content regularly.

It can be difficult to build a direct relationship with your reader.

Publish an Ezine

Pros

Unlike a blog, readers sign up to receive your newsletter so you already have a connection with them.

You can build a relationship with your newsletter reader and encourage one-on-one communication.

You can go into more depth in your newsletter article than you can with your blog posts.

Your clients/target audience can get to know you through your newsletter.

Cons

You have to make a commitment to publish on a regular basis, otherwise your subscribers will see you as unreliable, and may even forget about you!

There is more work involved in putting together a newsletter than writing a simple blog post.

You will need to subscribe to one of the ezine distribution services – I strongly recommend you do this and not send your ezine via your email client!

Article Marketing

Pros

If you are already blogging or publishing a newsletter, you have your articles written.

It is highly likely that once you submit your article to one of the article submission sites, it will be picked up and published on other article submission sites.

Regularly submitting your articles will elevate you to ‘expert’ status within your field/niche.

Cons

You have to write the articles if you’re not publishing a newsletter or posting to a blog.

It takes time to manually research suitable article submission sites and submit articles.

In order for this strategy to be effective, you have to submit your articles regularly – at least once a month.

Conclusion: You can just pick one strategy to focus on, or you can do all three! Whichever one you choose make sure it’s the right one for you. The key is to be consistent in your approach. If you decide to go with a blog make sure you have the time and motivation to add new posts regularly – at least once a week. Don’t start a newsletter if you know you won’t be able to keep to a regular publishing schedule! And for article marketing to be effective you need to submit articles on a regular basis.

Specialized Promotions has novel ideas and cost effective ways to promote your business. We are always bringing to you, our client new and exciting items to help give your message that added visibility! We offer promotional marketing, promotional items, custom promotional products and promotional advertising for businesses.

You can easily search our vast database of products for items to:

Improve traffic at trade shows

Launch of relaunch your brand

Motivate staff members

Thank a customer

Commemorate an event

Increase safety awarenessWhen you are ready to place an order, our secure check out makes it safe, easy and convenient. Or, call us toll free @ 1-800-666-7736 for personal attention.

http://www.specializedpromotions.com

Hello wordpress, specialized promotions has arrived Unique Promotional Gifts: Keep The Interesting

Unique Promotional Gifts: Keep The Interesting
by: Lottie Carrot

It seems that more and more companies opt to giveaway promotional mugs and pens to the point that there are times when you cannot even tell which pen is from who as you have whole drawer-full of metal pens, cute pens, colorful pens and a lot others. Although these items are very economical, they are certainly not the only low-cost promotional gifts available today. Through opting for unique promotional gifts, you are increasing your chances of being remembered by the recipients. They could cost a bit more, but they would certainly prove to be worthwhile investments.

Kits are examples of great gifts that you could try to use to show your clients that you care about them a great deal. These are relatively larger, so they would not be advisable to be handed out at the trade show. But they would certainly make fantastic promotional gifts that you can give to old and new clients alike. Care kits have two categories: the one that are used when traveling and the one that are kept in your car. A care kit for a car would usually include items like a mini tool kit and reflectors while a care kit for traveling would include mirror and thread or needles.

Some other extraordinary promotional gifts that you do not see everyday would be Frisbees and yo-yos. These toys make interesting gifts even though your company offers services or products that are not associated with kids. Most of your clients have kids so using toys as gifts would be attracting families. Your promotional products would achieve staying power, as children use and save toys that they enjoy. After a year of receiving your promotional gift, the parent could be cleaning and stumble upon your promotional gift and decide that they can purchase your product or services. Some great ideas for toys that can serve as gifts would pinwheels, beach balls and toys that light up.

Remember that the best promotional gifts are the ones that prove to be most practical and functional. For instance, printed pens are able to work well since they are actually taken home to be used. And even if they would just end up in a desk drawer, chances are they would be searched for later on once they are needed. Unlike paper flyers and brochures, they are more likely not to end up in the garbage. For more unique ideas, you could try stress balls, letter openers and mint containers.

One more approach would be to go for the more expensive items like corporate gifts but rather than just giving them away to everybody at a trade show you could probably make a contest out of it to determine winners who be receiving them. Most of the time, having more expensive, unique and interesting promotional gifts attract more people in visiting your stand, which would give you the chance to make your sales pitch.