Promotional tote bags are an especially useful promotional product if your booth is located at the front of the showroom.  People generally work their way from the front to the back and with printed tote bags they will have use your corporate gift as a carryall throughout the visit of their time there.  That means your company logo will be displayed by many for hours at a time.  They will even bring your custom printed tote bag back the next day or back to the office to show off all the swag they got while they were there.

Custom tote bags wont be disregarded after a tradeshow either.  People continually use tote bags because they are useful gifts and will take them shopping, the grocery store and even the beach.  Thats why I always believe promotional tote bags are the way to go as tradeshow giveaways.

I thought to myself afterwards one, I should really sign up.  I need some motivation to get back into shape and find a cure to cancer is something close to my heart because of family history.  And two, what a great gift selection.  The t-shirt is always fun.  You will remember running every time you put it on.  Shows that you cared and can be a conversation piece if someone sees you wearing it.  But the promotional gym bag is a perfect gift for the audience they are trying to reach.  Most everyone that participates in walks, races and marathons are usaully people that go to the gym on a regular basis.  They will get great use out of it and it will advertise the race all year round.

So when next year rolls around, the 5k will have plenty of advertising from people who ran last year.  Word of mouth, t-shirts and gym bags will have done all the marketing they need to draw a bigger crowd and raise more money.

On the positive side, they are always cheap, just a dollar or two most of the time and you feel like you got one extra item to bring home and show off.  I have printed reusable grocery bags from so many different stores now when I go grocery shopping people may think I stopped at Walmart, Walgreens and Target on the way home too.

This is because I cant seem to say no to them because the cashier always says something along the lines of, “would you like to buy a reusable grocery bag to supports starving kids in Africa,” or “If you pick up a reusable grocery bag today all profit go to cancer research.”

For the price, if you say no you really feel like a jerk, like you wouldn’t part with just a dollar to help the less fortunate.  Now that I have so many printed reusable grocery bags, I don’t have any extra plastic bags to take on my walk with the dog

On my way back I decided to grab some lunch in the quad when I saw people gathering around a few people handing out free promotional drawstring bags!  I ran over to see how I could get my hands on one.  They were having a trivia contest.  Each correct answer got you a custom cinch bag (1 per person obviously) until they were out of bags.  When I got over there they had five bags left.  It was movie trivia which is right up my alley.

The next question was, “Who won best supporting actor at last year’s Academy Awards?”  An easy one for me, Christian Bale is one of my favorite actors, so I shouted his name.  They pointed at me like I won, but asked me a follow-up, “Which film?”  The Fighter.  And they threw my a promotional cinch bag.  It had Paramount‘s logo on it.

I threw my books in my new custom drawstring bag and walked home.  My roommates had actually skipped class and found their way there as well, picking up promotional bags as well.  Today was a good day.

Is it true? Athletes can really sell anything?  Maybe not, but when you become known for something it becomes a lot easier.  Well-known actors can sell their movies based off their name,  Jessica Simpson was a spokesperson for tuna after her ditzy moment on her reality show, and athletes are usually an easy sell for shoes.  But what about backpacks?  No one would really associate them with backpacks, until now.  After games NBA superstar Kevin Durant usually conducts his interviews wearing a backpack.  This got people so intrigued.  There were articles about “Whats in Kevin Durant’s Backpack”, a twitter campaign to Find Kevin Durant’s Backpack and now Durant even has his own line of custom backpacks.

It’s unbelievable to me what people take an interest to and how easy it is for a recognizable face to make money off anything.  For people who actually have to earn their keep a backpack can cost you a little bit of money.  Luckily for myself, my company gave away promotional backpacks as a Christmas gift this year.  I wonder if whoever thought of the idea really liked Kevin?

Last week I was at the laundry mat minding my own business when something caught my eye.  A college kid had a HUGE bag with probably a month’s worth of clothes.  But it wasnt the person or the amount of laundry that made me look over, it was the custom printed laundry bag.  It was really cool.  The bag actually had directions on how to do your laundry.  It was probably a gift from his mother who had done his laundry his entire life and thought it would be smart so he wouldnt come home with everything  pink or two sizes too much.

After seeing that I found a picture very similar.  I also found a blog specifically about printed laundry bags.  I cant believe the amount of sites that are dedicated to laundry.  I guess you can find really anything on the Internet.

Unbelievable.  To read the whole story from the Huffington Post click here.

When I purchased it, I wanted the biggest screen possible so I would be able to have as much room as I needed to keep everything on the screen and like everyone wanted the option to keep it portable.  However, it turned out to be I just moved from one couch to another with it.  Now that I actually have to take it out of the home on a daily basis, I cant find a computer bag big enough to fit my laptop, which is leaving it exposed.

I have been to stores in the area that sell computer bags, but none of them have the appropriate size.  So I had to make the effort to look online.  Blue Soda Promo had exactly what I was looking for and was able to imprint it with my new company logo!  Now I look stylish when entering the building and everyone wants to know where I got it.  They sell their custom computer bags in bulk, so now I’m taking orders to get everyone in the office one of them!

Nowadays, everyone thinks that they are doing their part in being eco-friendly and saving the planet in one form or another.  So for my first post I thought I would talk about tote bags so I can feel as if Im doing the same.  I use custom tote bags every trip I take to the store.  I no longer have the need for paper or plastic, or finding a place to stash those extra bags because I bring the same tote bags to the grocery store.  Ive found that Blue Soda Promo has an excellent selection of promotional tote bags and the prices seem to be really low after comparing them with a few others.

Well, I think Ive done my part now.  I drive a hybrid, use printed tote bags, and Ive spread the good word to you guys!