Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
Everyone has had a nail biting wait this morning, whilst details of the emergency budget were being unveiled! What a stressful time, with everyone second guessing what cuts would help reduce the huge deficit! I bet there were a lot of politicians and businessman squeezing the life out of stress balls today!
They have the right idea, when times are tough and you feel stressed or pressured with work or home life, a few squeezes of a nice squidgy stress ball does help reduce your tension and can have a positive effect on your health. There are a huge range of stress balls, ones particularly appropriate to today are currency signs, gold bars and characters with stressed faces!
George Osborne will be sitting down later on with his cup of tea and biscuit, glad the delivery of the budget is over but with the knowledge the media will be firing questions at him over the next few days - more squeezing of the the stress ball required!
All of our stress balls can be customised with your company logo and as they are such good value for money, you can afford to order many and give them to your staff, clients and potential clients alike! Why not have a look at www.stress-balls.co.uk to see what we can do for you today. At times of stress you can guarantee your stress-ball will be in use and reminding everyone of your companies name!
Monday, May 24th, 2010
Tactile promotions have long been a firm favourite. People love to squish, squeeze and prod something close at hand! Why not make the item your client loves to play with best, a promotional gift with YOUR companies details on? There is an enormous range of stress balls, plain, sporty, medical, animal, trade, industry and character ones, just like the stress ball happy sun, shown here. Why not incorporate the stress ball into a sales incentive. Every time your sales agent makes a sale, they can shoot a mini hoop and points mean prizes!
The range of aqua products are very tempting to squish! The oils and gels inside don’t mix together, so everytime you press the product a different pattern appears. Fascinating to watch and you can all too quickly, while the hours away! As this is a promotional product range you will use time and time again, the marketing exposure is high. Aqua products often become the product of choice, with clients wanting to write with their aqua pen or in the aqua notebook - not just with a regular pad or pen!
If you want to know more about our range of promotional items and see what we can do to help your company succeed, please go to: www.mikkis.co.uk, www.stress-balls.co.uk, www.eco-usb.co.uk and www.usb-europe.co.uk.
Thursday, May 6th, 2010
Promotional mouse mats and counter mats are proven, successful, tools in our promotional tool kit. We now have an expanded range of promotional mats here at Mikkis, really something for every occasion, event and customer! I will explain the new range and explore some ideas for their use - could your company or organisation benefit from a new twist on a proven promotional concept?
Pet Mats - For use underneath the food and water bowls to protect your floors. Ideal for pet food manufacturers, insurers and suitable to print for retail purposes.
Festival mats - Also super as picnic mats, great at stopping the damp ground ruining your picnic or concert viewing! Great promotional or retail item.
Medical / chiropody mats - Fully washable, ideal size for medical / chiropody purposes, large areas for branding.
Mattress protectors - Especially for furniture retailers, they protect the end of the mattress where customers rest their feet when trying a bed for comfort - enormous print areas!
Education / game mats - great for children orientated organisations, nurseries, schools, colleges etc… These mats can display the alphabet, be printed with a game, nursery rhymes, the possibilities are endless.
Watch out for our mat range to keep expanding as well as new takes on old favourites and even more eco - friendly mats, (all the above mats are Eco-friendly)!
Thursday, May 6th, 2010
I was really pleased today, I have managed to source an eco-friendly bar runner! Here at Mikkis we are trying to expand our environmentally friendly range, it’s important to us, so we think it’s important to you too. Green promotions are definately the way forward!
This eco-friendly promotional bar runner has a natural rubber base, contains no PVC, it uses water based ink, it is recyclable and the materials come from sustainable sources. Like all the bar runners in our range it looks great, is fully washable and non slip and can be branded with your company information or latest promotion.
We do have a large range of other recycled products at Mikkis and a huge range of recycled or Eco Friendly USB flash drives on www.eco-usb.co.uk. Why not take a look to see how you can promote your company is a green way? If you need help, drop one of our friendly team a mail at sales@mikkis.co.uk.
Monday, April 26th, 2010
With the general elections looming, all the political parties are lobbying hard for our votes - especially as it looks to be such a close run thing! There is a morale pressure to vote green and try and save our planet for future generations, but for most of us that isn’t a practical way to vote! So how can we be do our bit and vote for who we would like?
Here at Mikkis we try very hard to be an envrionmentally friendly company as far as possible; we have stopped paper mailings, we do everything by e-mail; unless paper based correspondence is requested, we use recycled products and have try to become a paperless environment. Along with our own efforts to be green, we have sourced a large range of promotional products made from recycled or sustainable sources.
By offering these Eco-friendly products, we are able to help your company be green and help your reduce your carbon footprint. Green promotional products are just as good quality and as well priced as the regular products we do. We have a large range and most of them are made from either, recycled CD cases, car tyres, sustainable materials such as wood and bamboo or plastic waste from the manufacturing industry.
All of the recycled promotional gifts can be branded with your company logo and / or information; they can also have the recycled sign on them to make sure your customers know you are being green! We have a large range of recycled advertising items, including; mouse mats, coasters, pencil cases, rulers, magnets, jumbo paper clips, coasters, key rings, badges, pencils, pens and Frisbees! Our sister company has a huge range of recycled and sustainably sourced USB flash drives available for that high tech promotional gift, please see www.eco-usb.co.uk
Friday, April 23rd, 2010
We have recently had customers asking us to recommend promotional products with long life cycles. What they want are ideas for gifts that people won’t throw away, or tire of easily. Choosing a promotional item with a long life means your brand is seen over and over again and is imprinted in the mind of the people seeing your name. Perfect!
So what kinds of items have such a long life? Think of items that we use everyday, repeatedly in our daily life, make your branding look good and it is these items that will be kept at hand for a long time. At the top end of the promotional spectrum we have items such as digital photo frames, leather conference folders and MP3 players - these are products will real staying power and usability.
At the other end of the spectrum we have promotional pencils and pens that will be used until they run out of ink or lead and a wide range of coasters - these will be used many times a day and are so reasonably priced, they can reach a wider audience. In the middle section we have promotional mugs, flash drives and mouse mats - again daily use and desktop exposure!
We believe in reducing the negative effect we have on the earth wherever possible - we have a large range of green products in our recycled section. Lots of these recycled products have a long life, they have already had a life before as CD cases, plastic cups or paper! Your customers will be keen to receive an environmentally friendly gift, this will help them want to keep it longer and use it more! Our range includes; pencils, pens, flash drives made from sustainable or recycled material, pencil cases, mouse mats, coasters, rulers and much more…
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
Promotional items are not just a great way to advertise your company, club or association, they are a great way to raise money too! Imagine a smart club without the branded bar runners and coasters? Impossible! What a simple but effective way to make money for the club, buy the branded items in and sell them to your members, new or old and make a profit for the club funds.
School children love items branded with their school name and logo, book bags, mugs, pencil cases, rulers, pencil sharpeners, pens, pencil, the list is endless. The items could still be sold at a reasonable price and make money for the school fund. Promoting your school, club, association and company has never been so easy or cost effective. The range of promotional items available is enormous, incorporating a host of clever ideas such as USB drives and world travel adaptors as well as simple favourites like stress balls and coasters.
It is really important in the 21st century to think about our effect on the environment, there is a huge range of eco friendly products made from either recycled or sustainable materials, why not brand some of this range to sell on and help raise funds? People love to buy new things and help the planet at the same time! Why not have a competition in your club or school to create a design for a new mug, mouse mat, coaster or squeezy ball? Competitions are fun and the winning entries can be made and sold to friends and family.
Why not have a look around our site and see what promotional items would suit your club, organisation and company?
Friday, March 26th, 2010
This week we have had the Chancellor of the Exchequer deliver our nations new budget. In just a couple of weeks it will be time for most companies to have their new budgets on the 1st of April. This year don’t get caught out, you know if you don’t start to spend the little budget you have been given for marketing and promotions, they will take it away later in the year, when you feel you need it most!
So what can you do to stop this happening? If you plan in advance and create a promotions timeline for your company or association for the next year, you can have your promotional items, ordered, paid for and delivered, ready for the event, launch or seasonal giveaway. Then when the accounts dept. is looking to cut costs later in the year, you won’t be the department losing out again because you haven’t spent anything yet! What a cunning plan!
Promotional products might seem like a luxury but can your company afford not to do it? Other companies will have their branded pens, mugs, coasters, stress balls,mouse mats and USB’s on their clients desk, when they need a product or service they will probably call one of the numbers within sight. Help your number be the one they call, by customisation a great gift, large or small and giving them to your clients, staff, potential customers and friends.
The outlay needn’t be too high, some items can look good, be useful and be printed for under a £1 each. Remember the more you buy the cheaper they are, so buying a tiny amount is false economy! If protecting the environment is important to you, there is a wide range of eco-friendly marketing items available. There are fun, executive, economy and standard ranges in most products, something to suit everyone’s style and pocket.
For help with your promotions, check out our websites; www.mikkis.co.uk, www.usb-europe.co.uk, www.stress-balls.co.uk and www.eco-usb.co.uk, or call one of our friendly team for help.
Friday, March 26th, 2010
Promotional digital photo frames and key rings are a great hi-tech marketing giveaway or a good promotional tool at exhibitions or in a retail outlet. We have a great range of digital products from the cost effective mini keyring, to an executive 8″ wifi enabled digital photo frame, the range really offers something for every promotional occasion.
The keyring is oval shaped, comes in a range of nice colours and features a 1.1″ screen that will hold up to 150 images! There are a range of mini digital frames that have great styling and are a great giveaway, allowing people to display their photos without taking up too much desk space!
There is a 5.6″ digital frame that has plenty of space for your customisation at the same time offering that bit bigger screen size. There is an ultra high tech 7″ digital frame that features a touch sensitive display, it plays videos, MP3 music and display digital photos - everyone will want one of these great gifts. The biggest in the range is an ultra cool 8″ screen that is wifi enabled. You load your images into your online account and they automatically update onto your digital frame!
The digital frame range is great as prizes, giveaways at a conference or event, a seasonal gift from the company. The larger digital frames can be used in retail outlets or at exhibitions to display a range, product or service, e.g. at a wedding fayre you may want to display bouquets, horse drawn carriages or wedding cakes!
All of the digital picture frames can be custom printed with your logo for the ultimate high tech promotional gadget. If you want to know more about our great range of digital photo frames and key rings then please go to www.usb-europe.co.uk or call one of our friendly team, who will be really happy to help!
Friday, March 26th, 2010
Our customers are very used to promotional items that sit on a desk, but have you considered a promotional floor mat or carpet tiles yet?
Use your floor space to promote your company, product or message, everyone looks down regularly as they walk along without even realising, catch their attention! Make your showroom, outlet or exhibition stand work hard for you with stunning floor graphics. The mats can be personalized by dye sublimation printing to give you durable photo quality images!
Promotional floor mats and carpet tiles create an immediate visual impact, they are inexpensive too, making them ideal for both short and long term advertising campaigns. Our range of floor mats can be custom printed with your graphics, message and company logo. We can also create floor mats for you in custom shapes and sizes, giving the marketing mats more WOW factor!
The carpet tiles provide the same high, impact visibility as the floor mats but the image can be cut up into sections and printed on the floor tiles allowing you to cover a larger area, or use single advertising tiles, dotted about. When the campaign is over simply replace with your existing tiles and you wouldn’t know they were there!
If you want to know more about our range of promotional floor mats and advertising carpet tiles then go to www.mikkis.co.uk or call one of our friendly team.
