The FDA’s ban on tobacco companies’ use of promotional products has now gone into effect.  We talked about this ban at length as it was passed nearly a year ago.  Tobacco companies are no longer allowed to use their logos on promotional items.  This ban is meant to protect America’s youth from marketing campaigns that encourage smoking.

While we support this ban to fullest extent, we have covered this story at length to show the power of promotional products.  When used to promote a business or a worthwhile cause, promotional products have proven themselves as a marketing effort that can’t be duplicated by any other medium.

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We’ve written about the best promotional product campaigns to use during Summer.  Please search “summer” in the search box to the right to view all the posts we’ve created over the years related to summer time promotional products.

In order to create awareness and encourage people to fill out their 2010 Census form, the U.S. Census Bureau spent a whopping $22.7 million dollars on promotional products including coffee mugs, notebooks, lunch bags.  Rumored to be as high as $1 billion spent on promotional products, it’s clear through this spending amount just how valuable and impacting promotional products can be if that much budget was allocated for promotional products alone.

An estimated 65.2 million promotional items were given away to create as much participation as possible.  Did you receive a Census related promotional product?

Need promotional product campaign ideas for Summer?  It’s never too early to get started on your summertime promotional products campaign.

We recommend the following:

Promotional Fans

Promotional Frisbees

Promotional Water Bottles

Promotional Koozies

Promotional Coolers

Remember, the key to an affective promotional products campaign is to cater to seasonal usability.  A product that’s undesirable or unusable in the current season won’t create the brand awareness you’re looking for.  Contact us today if you need added help in setting up the perfect summer promotional products campaign.

With baseball season starting in early April, make use of fantastic promotional products when entertaining your clients or prospects at a ballgame.

Misting Fans - Stay cool in the hot sun with this “cool” promotional product.

Caps and Visors - Shield yourself with a promotional baseball cap or visor.

Baseball Keychain Sunscreen - A unique and useful promotional product that protects your skin from the hot ballgame sun.

It’s heating up — for some of us — but promotional sunscreen will come in quite handy for upcoming promotional product campaigns.  View our  promotional sunscreen selection here…

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If any of you watched the Christmas day NBA basketball game between the Los Angeles Lakers and Cleveland Cavaliers, you might have noticed angry Laker fans throwing foam hand promotional items on the court in response to the poor officiating and poor play of their home team.  We’ve often talked about the many uses of promotional products, but I think we will keep this one off the list : ) .