Are you cleaning out closets for spring? Noticed you can use fresh new looks? Tired of worn-looking clothes? It’s time for a makeover! Crestline has the April makeover buzz — we are upgrading, expanding and improving our apparel inventory.
To celebrate, we’re having a huge apparel sale this month! Throughout April, we have a deal a day — over 25 apparel pieces on sale. Come visit our website every day and see what we’re featuring.
This huge sale is on top of our already affordable pricing! You almost can’t afford not to order Gildan® 5.3 oz Cotton T-Shirts (107357), for the value. Crestline is committed to bringing you the best quality promotional apparel for your budget, and this favorite tee gets your message out there at a low price.
There’s nothing boring about our selection – new styles are being added every single day! We are so excited to bring our expertise to this apparel expansion. Ask us about fashion-forward North End Performance Hoodies (109484), they bring athletic lines to your message. Do your employees need stain-resistant materials in their work shirts? Port Authority® Stain-Resistant Sport Shirts (106452) are an attractive option, spiffy and professional with custom embroidery. Our Promotional Products Consultants are industry-trained branding experts. We’ll help you choose the most fun and functional clothing and accessories for your promotion, special event, or everyday.
Give a little, gain a lot!
Where else can vendors meet and greet so many prospective customers in a relatively short period of time? The items you give away at trade shows inform consumers about your products and services, and they enhance your company’s brand. Everyone enjoys receiving a gift. The positive feelings that come from trade show custom giveaways serve to keep your company–and your message–on their mind and literally in their hands! Try making the giveaway a true exchange of ideas: take down the name and email address of each new contact you give promotional giveaways to. It’s a great way to start a conversation that you can continue later, after the trade show is over!
Choosing the best items for custom giveaways doesn’t have to be difficult. You’ll want to consider cost, appropriate representation of your brand, and the usefulness of the item to the target audience. For your benefit, Crestline has two excellent white papers that are terrific references:
Making The Most of Trade Shows
Top 5 Tips For Making The Most of Trade Shows
Another wonderful reference you have as a Crestline customer is the extensive knowledge base of our Certified Promotional Consultants! Call
1-866-488-4975 for one-on-one advice and suggestions. We’re here to help! At Crestline, your promotions are Smooth. Simple. Solved.
Would you buy a new career wardrobe without trying on the garments? Since custom imprinted promotional products say as much about your company as your choice of attire says about you, why take chances? Crestline gives you the opportunity to try before you buy. Our free samples take the risk and uncertainty out of the buying process.
Free samples allow you to share your ideas with coworkers. It’s so much easier to decide which products best fit your message to your audience when you can see the item and hold it in your hand. At Crestline, we believe it is always advisable to “try before you buy”, so order a promo item sample and put it through your own rigorous testing.
Our free samples program is just one more way that Crestline makes your promotional purchase Simple.Smooth.Solved. Plus, we pay the shipping, and you keep the samples. You absolutely cannot lose!
Would you like a sample to help you decide? Check out our free sample policy or call
866-488-4975 and a Certified Promotional Consultant will assist you with your
sample request.
It seems that people everywhere are readily embracing the notion of reducing the number of disposable bags they use. Some municipalities have even outlawed disposable plastic bags due to their deleterious effects on marine life. Regardless of where you live, I think we can all appreciate the reduction in litter that reusable grocery totes offer.
I find myself reaching for Crestline’s foldable grocery totes for each shopping trip, and I use them to bring things with me to work. I keep a smaller one in my purse for unexpected purchases, and for grocery trips, I have four of the 105591 full size bags that reside in my car. Their ruggedness appeals to me—as does the convenient shoulder strap, which makes carrying them so much easier! I have these bags for the long haul. They will last for years.
Crestline’s Grocery Tote holds much more than a standard plastic bag or paper sack from the grocery store, so I have fewer bags to carry in. They are lightweight, yet very strong. I don’t have to deal with the moral quandary of having to reuse or recycle the dozens of plastic shopping bags that are replaced by these reusable totes. When I’ve put my groceries away, I simply fold my totes up to take to the car for my next trip.
Now that I’ve told you what I like about these grocery totes as an end-user of them, let me point out this translates to favorable advertising for the brands that are printed on these bags. Like most Americans, I shop two or more times per week. While I’m pushing my cart around the grocery store or discount store, my reusable totes are in my cart or on my shoulder. There are literally hundreds of people who see my bags each week. Sometimes I am asked where I got a particular bag because it has an eye-catching design or clever phrase on it. Even if no one says a word to me, my reusable totes are sharing messages with everyone around me!
When you choose reusable grocery totes as your next promotional giveaway, you are ensuring that the item will be used, and seen. Give them at trade shows, job fairs, recruitment events. Hand them out to employees, business contacts, and prospective customers. You will be giving them an item they will enjoy using!
The 2012 Trade Show season is literally right around the corner. When the New Year rings in, deadlines will already be sounding for everything from new table covers to name badges to great giveaways and sweet treats for booth visitors. Why not take a few minutes of slow-down in these final weeks of 2011 to take the rush out of the first weeks in January 2012? Review your trade-show inventory, call Crestline and get a jump on production deadlines by ordering now.
New to trade show planning or need some ideas on how to promote your brand in a big room full of competitors? Use the Crestline Trade Show and Events Store as your guide to the basics. Everything from buttons and badges, booth accessories and displays is at your fingertips.
If you are chasing a new look for your booth this time around, check out the Crestline Exclusive 4ft Tradeshow to Go or the Trade Show Super Set and set your sales force on the floor in style with the Crestline Conference Kit in all colors. New Shirts? Branded Caps? The Crestline Apparel Store is the place to shop.
Get your trade show planning completed before the New Year! Contact a promotional products consultant with any questions. Your personal trade show planning assistant is standing by to help make 2012 Simple, Smooth and Solved from day one.
Choosing Food Gifts that Make Your Message Linger
When giving food gifts that promote your business, cost per impression translates to taste, timing and presentation. Although the packaging is temporary, the branded food item goes right to the senses, offering an opportunity to create a lasting connection to you and your message any time those flavors come around again. Treat even small food gifts as special in your planning by knowing your clients and the dates of their special events. Design packaging to blend in and place your brand on the party table with class.
Great Snacks put your Brand on the Table
Of all the elaborate entrees and food items that arrive on the holiday buffet, nuts, pretzels and easy to eat treats often get the most individual attention over the course of an event. The side tray creates a central place for socializing, simple tastes to fill the time between formal moments and a great place for your gift to stand out as an excellent addition to the celebration. Try a Seven-way-snack tin, a Fairy Tale Treat Tower or a Center Stage Gift Box and deliver just in time for the sales team holiday party. Every pretzel and peanut will have your name on it, all night long.
Classy Gift Sets for Top Clients
Keeping things simple but special lets your top clients know you are thinking smart with gifts they will enjoy. Pecan Turtles, Belgian Chocolates and even Hersey’s Kisses are all tasteful, time tested holiday calling card candy gifts that hit the spot. A Gourmet Brownies Tower will let the whole office know you care. Treat your top Ten List to a Ghirardelli Gift Set and put your brand in their hands with a leather embossed thermos to help keep things hot all season.
Tradeshow Treats
There’s nothing hungrier than the tradeshow floor and nothing tastier than mints and candies to fill the void. If your display has cool treats, word will get around and your booth visits will multiply. Choose fun packaging and your brand may even land on the home desk as a memento. Create booth buzz at your next trade show and make everyone glad you came with Flavorburst Candies, mouse mint tins, buttermints and colored candies galore.
Be Bold, Bring Food
Food gifts need not be limited to special occasions or the holidays. Tasteful treats can be offered and will be appreciated at all times of the year. Keep your clients and business friends guessing and glad to see you by arriving with special food items in hand anytime. Bring a case of branded soda. Leave a plate of logoed iced cookies. Set the stage with popcorn, cocoa or flavored fortune cookies. Make your brand mean good times and great taste every time.
The month of November is Diabetes Awareness month. Type 2 diabetes is preventable, and yet the rates of diagnosis are on the rise. Diet, exercise and understanding the details of the disease are keys to staying healthy.
The Center for Disease Control, the American Diabetes Association and World Diabetes Federation are all fantastic resources for Diabetes education, support and activism to stop preventable type 2 diabetes. In just a few moments, review of these sites will increase your awareness of this potentially devastating disease and the simple steps you can take to prevent it.
With day to day events, work commitments and family life filling the lion’s share of our time and attention, it is important to stay aware of social concerns and public health issues that impact our lives whether we know it or not. Promoting a cause can be as basic as wearing a wrist band or carrying a water bottle with a reminder or slogan that creates focus and inspires concern. Share Diabetes awareness this November!
While regional and national tobacco awareness campaigns have generated healthy gains over the years, the adverse impacts of smoking and second hand smoke on public health remain statistically staggering (US Center for Disease Control 2011). For many smokers, quality of life, personal finances and feelings of self-worth are still exchanged daily for tobacco use (www.smokefree.gov). As documented by the Division of Periodontology, University of Minnesota, as a mood and behavior altering chemical, nicotine is as addictive as heroin. The challenge for each individual smoker is that quitting is not just as simple as putting the cigarette away.
The Great American Smokeout (GASO) has been held nationwide every third Thursday in November since 1977. Started based on successful local efforts in Massachusetts and Minnesota, GASO encourages smokers to join a supportive nationwide community of others with a desire to quit tobacco, providing a psychologically stimulating starting date, resources and ongoing support for a vital lifestyle change. This year’s Great American Smoke Out is November 17, 2011.
Quitting smoking requires planning, personal commitment and support. Psychological, physiological and social impacts must be managed with care and attention to mood shifts, weight gain and cravings to smoke. A solid plan is highly recommended, including replacement of smoking activity with water, exercise, monitored food related rewards and new social connections. Create a smoker’s quitting survival pack with a commemorative water bottle, a pedometer and a bag of buttermints and make November 17, 2011’s Great American Smokeout the day you started to break the cycle of nicotine dependence forever.
Halloween is coming right up, and we’re sure excited here at Crestline! It’s time for the autumn chill, the crunch of leaves underfoot, and a parade of little monsters, ghouls, and goblins all dressed up to trick-or-treat! Whether your company or organization has a full fledged Halloween carnival or just passes out candy for the children of employees, we know you’ll want to show those trick-or-treaters a scary good time with Halloween promotional products from Crestline.
Those costumed candy seekers will need a place for their sweet loot! This year, why not offer imprinted Halloween promos such the Party Time™ Pumpkin Drawstring Backpack? With its reflective jack o’lantern grin, this backpack increases the wearer’s visibility to drivers. For office grab-bags, the Pumpkin Die Cut Plastic Bag and Haunted House Halloween Plastic Bag are a pair of imprinted Halloween promos that really deliver!
Halloween carnivals are so much fun, especially with custom Halloween items like these spooky Temporary Tattoos or Pumpkin Zipper Clips to add the final touch! Temporary tattoos are so much fun for kids of all ages—and their parents, too. The zipper clips add an official touch to your school or organization’s festivities. Count on Crestline for all the tricks you need to treat kids right!
Make sure you have the breast cancer awareness products your office, company, or facility needs in plenty of time for October. Crestline has several nifty pink promotional products that will fit the bill. One really exiting item is the (101647) Liv® Breast Self-Exam Aid. This FDA-cleared medical device helps to reduce friction between the fingers and the breast to make self-exams more comfortable. It’s a terrific way to encourage regular self examinations. Full instructions for use and self-exam are enclosed.
Many people like to honor the survivors as well as lost loved ones with pink ribbons and other pink items, in October and the whole year long. Promotional breast cancer items such as our (106959) Awareness Bracelet are perennial favorites. Other pink promotional items, including the (102162) Multitasker Pen and the (109043) Pocket Mirror are great giveaways for October and beyond.
