Fleece Blanket with carrier

Decorating Method 1:  Laser Etching

In this method, the art is all black.  It can be text, clip art, design borders.

The blanket is stretched out on a line and lasers trace the image into the cloth, taking off the first layers.  This is great for clip art that has been filled in, logos, and big, bold words.

You can have a design over the whole blanket or just in a corner.

Handles attached for easy carrying

Another popular choice is to have the blanket lined with nylon on one side.  Then, it can be used for  outdoor use, a picnic or sporting event.  That way, when you pit the blanket down, there is a barrier that will keep moisture from penetrating the blanket.  This would be a great piece to have in the car for unexpected events.

A third blanket material is a plush material.  So soft and cuddly, you won’t want to leave home without it!  It makes you understand what the word comforter means.  This is SOFT!  Bigger words look great on this piece.  Not great for details, they get lost in the pile.

So Soft! Plush blanket, great for both laser etching and sublimation

 Decorating Method 2:  Sublimation Printing

The acrylic fleece blanket and plush blankets can be the next smash hit under your Christmas tree.  The 50 by 60 inches blankets are ready for you to add your photos and text.  You can use as much of the whole blanket at you wish.  You can add a border of color, clip art, or words.  You can submit a picture of your favorite child at the baseball game, celebrating with his friends at soccer, enjoying a dance recital with all the dress up clothes.  Pictures need to be at least 100 dpi resolution..the bigger the better.  The colors and detail are amazing.

Here is the order page and design tool that you can use to make your own blanket, or call Get Promoted to do the work for you!

http://getpromoteddesigns.gigabitprint.com/staticstorecreate/step/product/category/365

Call us for more information.  One blanket will be about 8.00 in freight, but only .50 per item after that…So buy these with your neighbors and other family members.

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Quantity

1 Custom Name Badge with magnet back $10.00 USD 2-5 Custom Name Badges $10.00 USD 6 or more Custom Name Badges $8.00 USD 30 or more Custom Name Badges $7.00 USD

Maximize your visibility with a Custom Name badge.

A name badge serves several purposes.  First of all, it is an instant introduction to a stranger or a aid for someone you have met before but may not remember your name or company.   It is easier to read than a stick on name sticker and more professional.  Having a name badge gives you a chance to show your logo and increase your branding.  It also multiplies your chance to be remembered after the initial introduction.

Get Promoted specializes in Custom one-at-a time Full Color Badges.  These are made of Fiberglas reinforced Plastic and have a long lasting scratch resistant surface.  A strong magnet on the back protects your clothes and will go through even a heavy sports coat and hold.

The process we use for most of our badges is called sublimation.  This process gives us the capability of using many kinds of art and photos on the surface.  Jpgs and pdfs are often acceptable.  Photos also will work.  The higher resolution camera ready art is the best, but often we are able to retrace art for use.  The graphics staff will give you one half hour of art work to design your piece or bring the quality up to a usable standard.  You will be contacted if we feel that your art is not satisfactory.

Locally, we often make personal arrangements with you to either pickup the badge at the workroom or meet you for delivery.  We do have shipping available through the post office or other shipping choices.

We offer a discount if a group buys at one time.  It is much easier for us to work on them and volume allows a discount.   One to five  badges is 10.00.  Six badges to twenty nine badges is 8.00.  Thirty or more badges will be 7.00 each.  If you need replacement pieces after that, in most cases, it goes back up to the 10.00 prices because of shipping and processing…but we view this on a individual basis.

Plastic name badges are our main production item, but not our only choice.    We have thinner, flexible plastic badges and metal badges that have different printing methods on them.  We can engrave metals, plastics, and woods.  We can even laser cut a custom shaped badge for you.

Another way to get badges is from a badge program.  When you have many employees and the need for badges is constant, you can pay ahead for a badge program and they will be shipped out to you as you notify them of the new employees.  Here is some info on that program: ttp://www.idline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=74&Itemid=175

We have a couple of badge companies that also have special paper you load in your printer and make the new employees names.  These are then added into a slot in the name badge.  For the revolving employee badge….we can even have a writeon badge that can be wiped off and reused.

Here is a link to some good badge companies we work with:

http://www.bebco.com

http://www.idline.com

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• see spirituality as an important aspect of life, but worry about religious fundamentalism
• desire equality for women/men in business, life and politics
• concern and support of the wellbeing of all women and children
• want politics and government to spend more money on education, community programs and the support of a more ecologically sustainable future
• are unhappy with the left and right in politics
• optimism towards the future
• want to be involved in creating a new and better way of life
• are concerned with big business and the means they use to generate profits, including destroying the environment and exploiting poorer countries
• unlikely to overspend or be in heavy debt
• dislike the emphasis of modern cultures on “making it” and “success”, on consuming and making money
• like people, places and things that are different or exotic

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Sage Pride Shirt Sizes and Prices

S-XL $8.50 2XL $11.00 3XL $11.50 4XL $12.00

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Get an customized oval techno skin and matching keyboard calendar Less than $3.00 each for 125

Decorate Your Electronics!

If you want to customize your own laptop and other electronics, Get Promoted would be glad to give you several sources to do so.  This particular blog will address the use of using the customized skins as a marketing vehicle.

You might want your office to have matching customized laptops for increased brand visibility.  You might want to put your logo on electronics that you have sold.  You may be a web designer that wants your logo to be front and center when your customer is using their product.

The skin and calendar duo showed in the photo is a great gift piece.  It is attractively packaged and very colorful.  This is re positional vinyl that will not harm your laptop.  The calendar is a welcome addition with dates right in front of you at your computer…and full branding there, of course.  You have the entire surface to design on and the production time is fast, about a ten day turnaround.  125 units is the minimum order and run less than $3.00 each.  Read more about it here.

That same company has stock shapes in many sizes.  For comparison, we are going to use 3.75″ x 3″ and 5.75″ x 4″.  That way, we can compare them with three other company’s offerings.

$5.00 each for 50. 4" x 5" Stock shape Vinyl skin for laptops, etc.

On your left, you see a sample that is still re positional vinyl with no adhesive.   The minimum purchase is 50 pieces at $5.00 each.   The cost is higher because you are getting less pieces…this is all a quantity game.

So,   if you could use more pieces, custom make your own design with any shapes and colors.  You can get the price down to about $2.50 each for 125 in this same size range of 3 x 4 or 4 x 6.  The only extras not added in this price are taxes and shipping…the setup is free for this kind of product.  More information on site.

125 custom vinyl shapes for less than $3.00 each

The company with all of these choices also offers a great branding package that would be great for colleges and tradeshow giveaways.  They have a skin package to do the whole laptop, your nano, and cell phone all on one easy to giveaway sheet.  Call me for samples at 636-688-6240 or email at getpromoted@charter.net.  They also have cell phone skins, too in many brands.

Another favorite company handles low tech adhesives skins with the 3″ and 5″ size with the same design situation…no setup costs and full color.  Again, your buy size is the thing that brings the costs down.  The minimum is 500 pieces for .26  (3.25 x 3) or .35 (4×5.75).  So for 150.00 to 200.00 dollars, you can have stock sizes with a low tech adhesive.  See this style here.

Last choice!  I like all three of these manufacturers.  They have a lot to offer in their catalogs, so look through them for other ID IDEAS.  This manufacturer is using low tech adhesive also, but does more stock shapes.   250 pieces at 3.5 x 4  for $1.10 each with lots of good shape ideas. Check out their entire site for unusual name tags, wooden items, light plastics, and the techno skins.

If you want vinyl with adhesive decals or static cling, check out this website...but I did not think it was appropriate for the electronics market.  The price goes down because of the adhesive to $1.50 for 125 stickers at 4 x 4 inches.

I am going to put this in a table for you for comparisons.

Please contact us for more details on setups.  Each job is unique and prices vary.  636-688-6240

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http://www.mycmsite.com/sites/marylogan

I recently designed a snow themed shirt for Mary Logan, Creative Memories Consultant for an event she held in January 2011.  She holds this event every year and has about two hundred women that take the weekend to work on their scrapbooks.  It is quite an adventure to see what they do! A crop party is a great way to get some of your pictures in better order and have some fun, too.  You can get new ideas for laying out your pictures, see new products, and make life time friends.  Your family will benefit from the beautiful scrapbooks that will be treasured for generations.  Go see her website.  Are you looking to make $$$$? Mary is always looking for new reps.  She gets many trips and other perks.

People have been overwrought about the storm, so I have collected some of the names of the storm and put them on a t-shirt.  That just started the fun!  I decided to spend the snow day creating shirt designs including a couple for the Groundhog!  Peg said I went too far when I did the Snowglobe one.  You will have to be an avid TV hound to enjoy it.

The storm fizzled in St. Louis, but gave us a lot of new names ...

I put the snowflakes on the back burner and did one that I really like.  It is a picture of a guy….well..just look for yourself.  No words are needed, look at the picture below:

Tired of the snow? So was this guy

We do screen printing.  Many of these designs are more than one color and would be expensive to do one at a time.  Screen printing is for quantities over 12 pieces. Prices fluctuate depending on the apparel chosen, the amount of ink colors, and the intricacies of the design.

For an inexpensive alternative, we can do full color on cotton shirts with heat transfers.  The prints fade after many washings, but the price is right, somewhere in the 10.00 range.

For an alternative, if there are just a couple of colors, we would suggest a soft fabric transfer.  That is a flexible, long lasting choice…not great for many colors or tiny lines.  But if it is too intricate, we can order digital prints that would be able to do all the color and last longer than heat transfers.  Prices for a shirt would be in the 15.00 range.

The shirts that are pictured here are done with special dyes and heat.  This method is called sublimation printing and is less familiar in a custom decorating shop.  We love it for the speed in which we can take care of our customers.  I can actually sit right down with you at the computer, design a t shirt and often go downstairs to the workshop and print it right then.  That price is around 25.00-30.00 for a shirt.  The imprint must be on light colors as the ink is transparent and won’t show up on black; white places won’t show up either on a design, as there is no white ink..The colors are brilliant and the shirts wear exceptionally well.  A year from now, you will see very little fading.  It’s like our Cadillac printing method.

We also can use our professional embroidery services to do an attractive left chest.  Many of the techniques can be mixed and matched.  Rhinestones, distressed fabrics, flocked ink, sparkle ink are just a few of the choices.  Here is a great website about alternative methods.

I Went Too Far:

So, then, I got a grandiose idea.  Peg says she doesn’t get it.  I thought it was funny.

What if we really don’t live in an open environment??  Perhaps, we are like Truman…we live in a globe.  When the Higher Power shakes the globe, we get all the snow again.  Isn’t that what it feels like right now??

In the ’80s, for four years, many of us enjoyed a quirky TV show called St. Elsewhere.  Many of the hospital employees went on to mega stardom including Denzel Washington, Howie Mandel, and Mark Harmon.  the whole time we watched it, the hospital had lots of drama and some comedy.  It was popular, but the last episode was the clincher.  A young autistic child is playing with a snow globe and we find out the entire story of the hospital is just a figment of the child’s imagination.  That was a busy coffee pot the next day at work as everyone discussed this shocking end.  It was a much better dream sequence that the stupid Bobby Dream on Dallas.  (Just google if you don’t get the references…and yes, I am old).

Do you remember the last episode of St. Elsewhere???

If you were voting during the 70′s, you will have some frame of reference for this.  Otherwise, I would Google St. Elsewhere.  You can watch the first season on HULU.

Here is two takes on the Beach Shirt Snowman:

Even a snowman wants out

Groundhog on VA-CA

So good bye to the winter weather, Groundhog Day is over, and the sun is shining more every day.  Soon it will be Spring!

Happy Groundhog Day

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Use a simple cord for .75-1.50 and add fun extras

For an economical solution, you can use a blank lanyard.  But, that is giving you no visibility and after event branding of your company.  But, it does bring up other ways make your presentation pop.  There are all sorts of accessories that can be added to a simple cord to make it unique and useful.  For example, you can add a carabiner that can hold a flash drive, lip balm, or sanitizer.  You can add a custom full  color slide to the cord to make it an item with color and flash.   A cord lanyard should run about .75 -1.25.   The advantage is that you should have easier minimum order standards, faster production, and no design time.

When you add your name and logo to a lanyard, you can get lots of visibility mileage, if the lanyard will be used again.  So really put some thought into it if you are giving it to people that will wear it every day to work.

The least expensive printing method will be screen printed.  You can get your logo woven into the strap material.  You can have different kinds of material such as nylon.  Color is no issue, the lanyards come in a multitude of colors.  We can always find something that will match your color scheme.

A great choice is sublimated lanyards if you have many colors in your logo.  Sublimated stock lanyards can have beautiful backgrounds that make them stand out.  Remember, your job is have people want to keep it and use it.  Take a look here. (Slow to load, will take you right to the page)

Lanyards have many different fittings on the bottom of the cord.  There are usually five different hooks that are standard and should not add to the cost:  D Ring, snap hook, swivel hook, bull dog clip, and split ring.

Stand ends for lanyards can include these styles

Other great accessory items include breakaway clips, cell phone holders, water bottle holders, and retractable badge reels.

So, the question is:   What features do you need in a lanyard; what attachments do you need on the end; what would your return on visibility investment be, if you upgraded the purchase you are about to make?  What will make your client hold on to this piece and use it frequently.

Statistics indicate over 50% of people keep a promotional item more than 2 years.  30% give it away if they don’t use it….so your promotional item needs to be perceived as useful, fun, unique, or desirable.

Contact Get Promoted to see samples, get exact figures based on your particular needs.  Prices start at about 1.00 and can go up to 10.00, depending on the accessories added to it.  We have several manufacturers that we like for their price, quality, and speed.  Check out:

www.snugzusa.com

www.marathonprestige.com

www.fieldsmfg.com

You can look at their product lines or online catalogs.  We have hard copies at our office that you are more than welcome to view.  See us for samples and recommendations.

Cell phone lanyard is a deluxe version of a lanyard

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