The first time I ever saw a bottle of Voss Still Artesian water, I was in downtown Chicago for a board meeting. The sleek cylinder bottles were magnificent, lined up at attention down the middle of the long table. They were beautiful to look at and intimidating to touch—leaving no doubt that they were an expensive luxury item. It wasn’t until later that I discovered that Voss water is from a glacial fed aquifer in the wilderness of southern Norway. What’s wrong with the water in Chicago that they felt the necessity to ship water around the world? More marketing fluff: “Voss is recommended to accompany fine wines and food and is the closest thing to pure H2O on the planet. A sip of Voss is like drinking fresh air.”
Hand this ball to an engineer and immediately they’re amazed and can’t stop throwing it in the air. The patented color changing ball is one of the most unique toys we’ve seen in a while. Toss this two-tone ball up into the air and watch the colors magically flip from white on the outside to colored panels (choose from black, blue or red – custom colors available) on the other! Toss it again and it will revert back to white on the outside!
Amazing giveaway for a trade show – wow your booth visitors! Generous imprint on the white panel – 1”W x ½”H. Prices as low as $2.50 per ball.
In my day bag, in my car, the top right drawer of my desk at work, pockets of random sweaters and jackets.
These are all the places where you can find tubes of my lip balm. I wouldn’t necessarily say that I’m addicted or should seek professional help (in this matter anyways). I wouldn’t even consider my usage to be unusual or atypical. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to unchap chapped lips, right?
Males and females alike use lip balm every day, and most, several times a day. There’s just something inexplicably satisfying in picking up the tube, uncapping it and doing a few laps around the ‘ol kisser.
Back in the days of unsettled wilderness, Native Americans hunted buffalo and other large game for survival. Every part of the animal was utilized one way or another. Whether for food, protection, or instruments—this was a highly efficient and effective strategy.
Let’s fast forward to present day. While we’re no longer hunting buffalo in the wild, we are always looking for the most efficient and effective ways to do anything—particularly in the ways we use and consume. This is becoming increasingly vital in a day and age where we are seeing the impact of our waste. The recent “Green” movement has inspired many creative ideas to help minimize or eliminate waste altogether (while being stylishly fabulous).
Once upon a time, the word Password was the brand name of a popular television game show from the 1960’s. Two teams, each composed of a celebrity guest and a contestant, competed in a game to guess words from one-word clues. One member of each team was given the “password” and tried to get his partner to say the word using a one-word clue. If he or she could not, the opposing team received a chance to try. The point value started at ten and decreased by one until the word was guessed. The first team to score twenty five points won the game and played the “Lightning Round,” where one player tried to convey five words to their partner in one minute (at $50 per word). Watch a clip of the game show below.
After the Haiti earthquakes, people around the nation rallied behind a unified cause. The goal to raise enough funds for medical and relief efforts continues—one cell phone at a time.
Banner stands are a quick, clean and simple marketing tool to use at trade shows, conferences or even in a retail environment. Inexpensive stands combine functionality with attractive design, creating high visibility displays that can be deployed in seconds. They offer an outstanding solution for distribution of display graphics to multiple locations. Banner stands are lightweight (most weighing under ten pounds) and are delivered in a practical nylon carry bag for easy transport and storage. They come in a variety of flavors (1-sided, 2-sided, scrolling, with lights, without lights), costs, sizes and materials. For a unique display experience, use multiple banners showing a common theme. Bullpen can not only help you find the banner that’s right for you, we can create a design that freezes your audience in their tracks. Contact Bullpen today for all of your trade show needs.
I’m embarrassed to say that when I first bought my Snuggie at Costco, I thought it was a robe-blanket… and wore it like that for a few days. Then I saw a lively conversation on a friend’s Facebook page about them and figured out that I was supposed to wear it like a hospital robe. With the weather in the teens this past week in Houston, I’m seldom without my snuggie close by and proudly looking like Dumbledore sans wand. After seeing the commercial on television, I saw additional usages of the snuggie although you’ll never see me wearing mine outside of the home. Regardless of how they look (silly), they’re amazingly functional for keeping you warm without limiting your range of motion like a normal blanket.
While there are many parodies on the snuggie, it’s getting more and more popular. Because my older son likes to sleep with mine, I’m considering getting another one. (again, for home usage only)
The Advertising Specialty Institute announced that hand sanitizers now rival pens as one of the most popular logoed items that companies are giving away to clients and employees. Blame it on the flu! Searches on ASI’s product database jumped 439% for the last year – only pens which are the most popular promo product of all time were higher.
Sales of all logoed sanitizing products surged in early spring, and then again in September, at the start of flu season. Sales of flu-related items, like facial tissues, have also increased. H1N1 (swine flu) first was detected in the US in April 2009. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests that when soap and water are not available, alcohol-based disposable hand wipes or gel sanitizers may be used to help prevent the spread of germs.
Sanitizing products aren’t just used as promotional giveaways. Increasingly, they are being used internally by HR departments to reduce absenteeism caused by illness. Bullpen has an extensive line of hand sanitizers. Contact us today to find the perfect one for your company!
Recently a representative of Cross came to our office to teach us about their pens….errrr writing instruments (lesson 1!). Cross is a wonderful classic American brand and the perfect product for a company to use as an upscale gift for important clients, prospects or board members. Putting your brand next to the Cross brand sends a strong statement. Personalizing a Cross creates an item that the recipient will keep for a lifetime.
Cross pens are a staple of high school and college graduations—we all have gotten either the gold or silver set at some point in our lives.
Bullpen is a marketing services and promotional products firm. We can put your logo on just about anything. However, promotion is more than just printing your logo. There’s a strategy to picking the right products to promote your business. We design and distribute impressive executive gifts, clothing, organic teas and food items, desk toys, pens-turned-USB-drive, and more!
The first time I ever saw a bottle of Voss Still Artesian water, I was in downtown Chicago for a board meeting. The sleek cylinder bottles were magnificent, lined up at attention down the middle of the long table. They were beautiful to look at and intimidating to touch—leaving no doubt that they were an expensive luxury item. It wasn’t until later that I discovered that Voss water is from a glacial fed aquifer in the wilderness of southern Norway. What’s wrong with the water in Chicago that they felt the necessity to ship water around the world? More marketing fluff: “Voss is recommended to accompany fine wines and food and is the closest thing to pure H2O on the planet. A sip of Voss is like drinking fresh air.”
