25. Promotional Carabiners OK we’ll give $1 million if you can tell us where a carabiner comes from. Well, to answer that question you would have to know what a promotional carabiner is. Stop frowning with perplexity. We know that most people wouldn’t know the official name of that metal thingy that keeps things hooked to other things. That of course is the average description of those personalized clips that are usually found on backpacks and hiking gear. Yeah, they do have a real name, one that comes with a definition in the dictionary and everything. But most people couldn’t spell the moniker for the hook thingies anymore than they can pronounce the word for them. Promotional carabiners come from the German word “Karabinerhaken,” which is German for a hook that sits on a longish gun known as a carbine. (Hint: This is the answer to the $1 million question.) Climbers use the personalized clips for safety. They hook them to the ropes so they don’t fall down and go boom. You can use custom promotional carabiners imprinted with your logo to highlight your business services or promote your company. Custom printed clips are popular among the climbing set, but they’re also great for branding, and have become superb giveaways at corporate events, tradeshows and work conferences. As promotional items go, custom‐
printed carabiners have become among the most coveted promotional products. People need to clip stuff to other stuff and personalized clips merchandise helps them do just that. From keys, to sticky notes to even potato chip bags, custom printed clips have found a place in our modern society as advertising or a cool corporate gift. Order your promotional carabiners in bulk today and get them at a cheap wholesale price. You don’t have to be an adventurer to want one just a person who longs for organization. Show your appreciation for your customers, clients or employees with promotional carabiners which make amazing promotional gifts. They may have a funny name but promotional carabiners have a desirable place in our society. You just can’t go wrong using custom printed clips with your marketing message printed upon them. 26. Gadget Grips We find it interesting that if you look up the word geek on Microsoft Word’s synonym function it gives as a possible replacement for the noun the word – bore. Seriously, a bore? Really? Since when does being incredibly smart equate to being boring? Today no company or business can live without the geek. Anyone who knows anything knows that the geeks are ruling the world. The nerds have taken their revenge and their domination is complete with little new companies called Google, Facebook and anything with a lowercase letter “i” in its name. Just after the Judd Aptow produced show “Freaks and Geeks,” made thick glasses and sweater vests the purview of the hip and popular any guy who accessorized based upon their tech quotient moved up the sexy food chain. Today no one’s got it more going on than the nerds and the geeks and among this new crop of jungle kings are a slew of accessories to organize all their gadgets. Geeks breed gadgets and with gadgets come the need to organize and nothing says organizing better than gadget‐gripping promotional products. You can show clients, customers or employees your appreciation by ordering promotional gadget clips as a corporate gift or tradeshow giveaway. Nothing says geek trendy better than personalized cell phone sticky pads or printed cell phone grips. Few categories of merchandise would be used more by today’s tech‐savvy customer than the promotional gifts of personalized cell phone sticky pads. They help keep cell phones, otherwise known as Web‐browsing, videotaping, music‐listening life lines, protected and from slipping and sliding all over the work place. More than 1 billion cell phones are sold each year and they can have something else besides apples printed upon them. Imagine having your branding or logo imprinted upon promotional gadget clips or printed cell phone grips wrapped around them most popular tool known to man. Order these custom printed promotional items today in bulk and get them at a cheap wholesale price. You can watch as the world adopts your marketing message while they coddle cell phones, the most ubiquitous gadget ever invented. 27. Acrylic Tumblers As the saying goes, “People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.” But we say chuck both the stone and glass alike and outfit the world with acrylic. Let’s face it; glass is a menace to society. The fragile substance is tough to keep clean and at any moment glass can turn into a blood‐wrenching weapon capable of taking out limbs and eyes of unsuspecting victims. Each year 110,000 people are rushed to the emergency room because of eye injuries, mostly from flying glass. In Wales and England more than 87,000 people are injured in bars each year because people are using glass pint containers as weapons. Yeah, we know glass doesn’t kill people, people kill people. But we say let’s give peace a chance and populate the world with promotional products like acrylic tumblers which are great promotional gifts. Choose peace and pick up a batch of custom promotional acrylic tumblers imprinted with your logo to promote your business or to lower the pub violence around Britain, whichever you prefer. Well, OK, forget about England and just bring these promotional products to your next tradeshow, corporate or work event or use the promotional items as giveaways for customers, clients and or employees. Bulk acrylic travel mugs and custom printed plastic tumbler glasses are logical advertising substitutes if you want to ensure that blokes who wander into a bar after work aren’t going to be clopped on the head by a wayward glass whizzing past their heads. Buy this merchandise in bulk and get the custom printed plastic tumbler glasses at a cheap wholesale price. Promotional acrylic tumblers make superb promotional gifts and as far as promotional products go they’re relatively safe not prone to causing blood‐spilling injuries which is a plus! Keep the promotional acrylic tumblers out of the air, please. Instead order in bulk acrylic travel mugs as the medium to show your appreciation of peace, love and harmony or as a branding vehicle for your next marketing campaign. Either way we believe that the acrylic revolution as seen in the custom printed plastic tumbler glasses will make this a safer world. 28. Custom Cowbells When the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) World Cup came to Africa in 2010, the world literally went nuts. Not just because the most popular sport in the world, long the domain of European and Latin American stadiums was coming to Africa. People went crazy about FIFA’s ban on “vuvuzelas.” “Vuvuzela,” (yeah, we can’t pronounce it either) the long, skinny horn was a ubiquitous noisemaker at every soccer match in South Africa. The FIFA, citing the horn’s popularity among some rowdier fans, wanted to ban the funny looking horns and keep them out of the World Cup for good. Yeah, good luck with that. The FIFA did not succeed and people proudly blew their vuvuzelas loud and strong throughout the multi‐day tournament. Sounding like a really annoying muffled fog horn, the vuvuzela drove many people in the United States into a crazed frenzy that forced them to seek out a noisemaker at all cost. The U.S. had met the vuvuzela and fell in love, well not everyone but enough. People, of course, wanted their own noisemakers right away! Who wouldn’t want a device that allows you to be inappropriately annoyingly loud without you getting arrested? Satisfy the need for folks to show their appreciation and be loud and pep up your branding efforts. Order custom printed noisemakers in bulk and get a cheap wholesale price. With this merchandise you can give your customers or clients an opportunity to scream their love for anything, by ordering promotional clappers, personalized noisemakers or custom printed cowbells. Not your average corporate gift, these noisemakers imprinted with your logo will show your clients your fun side. You can even buy the promotional clappers or personalized noisemakers for your employees – make sure you’ve got earplugs! Custom printed cowbells and other like‐minded promotional gifts are a whimsical way to spread your marketing message and advertise your business. These promotional items are fun and amusing advertising your business or company services with flare. Highly entertaining promotional products for corporate or work events, tradeshows, as promotional giveaways, these promotional clappers, custom printed cowbells and personalized noisemakers will make memorable amusing gifts. 29. Embroidered Clothing King Henry VIII was one of the most famous monarchs in history and not just because that good‐looking, Irish actor Jonathan Rhys‐Meyers recently portrayed the lusty and hedonistic king in the wildly popular Showtime series “The Tudors.” Even people in prison know about King Henry’s infamous marriages and his six wives, two of whom were beheaded. When he fell in love with the impish Anne Boleyn and the Catholic Church would not grant him a divorce from his first wife, well ole’ Henry just created his own Church of England naming himself as Supreme Being. Henry married Anne Boleyn with the quickness. Alas, Anne fell out of his favor and the young queen was executed just three years after the two married. OK, so you’re probably wondering what all this has to do with embroidered clothing. Custom embroidered hats, polos and shirts are not just the coolest corporate gifts but they are another, albeit lesser known, legacy of King Henry the VIII. Shortly after Anne’s death, the king married Jane Seymour. Jane was beautiful but plain in the brain department, but she also loved to embroider making stuff imprinted with the royal seal and such. When she died suddenly after the birth of Henry’s first and only son, the king took up her hobby, becoming quite the embroider himself. So you see, custom embroidered hats, polos and shirts imprinted with your logo aren’t your everyday common promotional gifts found at any ole’ corporate event, tradeshow or work conference. When you give them to your clients and customers or employees you show your appreciation by following a time‐honored royalist tradition. Personalized apparel products are sleek, sophisticated promotional items, superb advertising vehicles for your marketing message, a royal corporate giveaway or fashion statement you choose. Buy personalized apparel products in bulk and get them at a cheap wholesale price a great plus for any business. Who knows, maybe Prince William will revive this royal hobby creating personalized apparel products for his new bride? Let’s just hope she accepts the new promotional products and this commoner doesn’t fall out of displeasure, otherwise, “Off with her head!” 30. Custom Duffel Bags Nothing tops the guilty pleasure list more than watching an episode of Hoarders. When the cable television network Arts & Entertainment (now known as A&E of Mad Men fame) debuted this documentary series in 2009 about people struggling with their compulsive tendencies to never throw anything away, the television series seemed just another reality show in a slew of reality shows. But with very little advertising, the marketing marvel has turned into one of the most‐watched shows on cable. Who knew that American’s compulsion to keep all kinds of stuff from animals, to dolls, to unopened boxes of shoes, boxes from the Home Shopping Network and their contents and even dog hair could be so fascinating? (We’re ashamed to say that we rattled off the topics of various Hoarders shows from memory and didn’t even have to consult Wikipedia.) It makes us wonder if those folks on Hoarders had access to promotional gifts like promotional sport bags or personalized duffle bags wouldn’t they be better able to hide their obsession with stuff? Think about it. If you ordered custom printed duffle bags imprinted with your logo and handed them out at tradeshows, corporate events or work conventions and anywhere else promotional items are on hand not only would you promote our business but you could be stopping a legion of future hoarders. Show your appreciation for your clients, customers or employees by buying these promotional products in bulk and get a cheap wholesale price. You can get custom printed duffle bags with your logo imprinted on them or the branding message of your company. With your new corporate gift, or giveaway you can prevent mothers, grandmothers, dads and sons from ending up crying on their knees as garbage men pick up rolls and rolls of dog hair to throw it in the landfill where it truly belonged by giving them promotional products like the neat personalized duffle bags to hide their stuff. Not to mention how custom printed duffle bags or promotional sport bags could help stave off the worse‐case hoarder scenarios. Come on you already know what they are! 31. Custom Letter Openers If a group of custom printed letter openers wanted to sue Jessica Fletcher for defamation we’re pretty sure the case would get heard. After all it is because of that writer and amateur sleuth of “Murder She Wrote,” fame, played by Angela Lansbury, that what is a benign utensil meant to help people avoid the mind‐numbingly painful paper cut has become the universal weapon in fictional murders. From “Murder She Wrote,” to “Matlock,” to any movie featuring Raymond Burr, the idea of the personalized letter opener being used to slit more than envelopes has been pushed into the popular consciousness. Thanks to those murder mystery shows, the cruises, the parties, the “Who Done it?” weekend getaways, the custom printed letter opener is always suspect when someone comes up stabbed. You can restore the reputation of custom printed letter openers by ordering promotional letter openers as promotional gifts. Use personalized letter openers as giveaways to promote your business and make sure people understand this amazing tool is meant only for cutting paper and as a surface to get your logo printed upon. Promotional letter openers are great for advertising your business at tradeshows, corporate, work or company events. This merchandise adds a little style and sophistication offering your clients, customers or employees a little something different when it comes to promotional products. Order these promotional items in bulk and get them at a cheap wholesale price. To be sure, letter openers will always have the menacing cloud around them. Still modern design has shaped the letter opener in a way that eschews the skinny knifelike design seen in the classic depictions of letter openers in murder mysteries. The personalized letter openers are now cute, dare we say downright cuddly, and can show appreciation, and even make you smile when you see your logo imprinted upon them or your latest branding message. As far as promotional items go, custom letter openers are wonderful marketing tools or as a corporate gift. Help people avoid vicious blood‐gushing paper cuts and teach people the true purpose of this incredible instrument which is open envelopes. Order your custom printed letter openers today. 32. Custom Back Packs Have you ever seen what pure joy looks like? All you have to do is look at the face of children in need when they receive something as simple and as handy as promotional backpacks and you know they can be more than just your typical corporate gift or giveaway advertising a business. Whether it is a group of school children who live in the slums in Chennai India or a team of inner city soccer players in Chicago, the squeals of delight that spill over when children receive book bags is contagious. You can spread this type of joy by ordering personalized cinch bags, promotional back packs or custom printed sport packs. Sure these are great promotional products to advertise your company or business or to have on hand at the next corporate event or tradeshow. But these personalized cinch bags, promotional back packs and custom printed sport packs are also good to provide to needy children in your community. Customers expect their service providers to also do good. And Blue Soda offers companies the opportunity to order promotional backpacks in bulk making the idea to give local school children bags filled with books an affordable prospect. Think of the boost to your branding and your community’s appreciation if you order these custom printed sport packs wholesale and then give some away. You would not only be the company that serves but also the company that cares. To be sure, you do not have to order the personalized cinch bags just for a charity or for philanthropic purposes. This merchandise is great for work, makes great promotional items and giveaways to clients, customers and even employees. Order these promotional gifts in bulk and get a cheap wholesale price. But with so many companies trying to find an edge these days, there is nothing wrong with a little cause marketing. Plaster your logo or marketing message on these promotional back packs and watch how the good will builds as little smiling, happy children run down the street with your marketing message on their backs. Sometimes you have to give to get. 33. Custom Keychains We could write 1,000 words about why you need to order promotional key chains. Personalized key chains, ubiquitous as promotional products for clients, customers and employees, are the grease that moves the marketing wheel. Custom printed key chains are essential to any marketing campaign advertising your business and company services with ease. As merchandise goes, promotional key chains are perfect promotional gifts for that work tradeshow, corporate event, corporate giveaway program or branding campaign. On the one hand, custom printed key chains are great advertising for your business and on the other hand personalized key chains are a must have for anyone who has keys and that’s just about anyone these days. Instead of trying to convince you to order promotional key chains in bulk and get them at a cheap wholesale price, we’ll just use this space to spread a little love and talk about the world’s most famous copoclephilst. Copoclephilst show their appreciation for the promotional items by collecting key chains. Yes, this sounds like a one‐way ticket to Boringville, but bear with us, the tale is worth reading. When he was a teen‐ager Brent Dixon, who has Muscular Dystrophy, began collecting key chains. We suppose the hobby was a welcome diversion from the fact that Dixon would spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair. Dixon nevertheless strived to live a full life. But he was reconciled that finding love was out of the question. Chicks just don’t dig wheelchairs. So Dixon grew up, still collecting key chains and in 2001 he had amassed more than 41, 400 key chains, and each one unique with a different logo imprinted upon them and printed with different messages. His custom printed collection landed Dixon in the Guinness Book of World Records. Seven years after surpassing the world record in key chain collecting he was on line and met Brittany. The two met and it was love at first sight and the wheelchair didn’t even matter. No one expects a corporate gift to lead to love but who knows, ordering promotional key chains could make someone’s dream come true. Isn’t love grand? 34. Promotional Flashlights If you want to join the funk revolution that emerged from the burned embers of the disco flameout then you must order a vat of promotional flashlights. Sure, personalized flashlights make smart promotional gifts offering your business an opportunity to spread your branding message around several targeted marketing groups. Custom printed flashlights are ideal for the youth market – who hasn’t needed a flashlight during a camp out sleepover? Personalized flashlights practically make night sport activities from bike riding to baseball game possible. But the real purpose of having promotional flashlights is for that inevitable party moment when everyone is grooving on the dance floor and the lights go down, the disco ball swirls and that funky bass line appears and one hears George Clinton’s smooth voice singing, “Flashlight.” The funk band Parliament single‐handedly killed disco when it released its album in Funkentelechy Vs. The Placebo Syndrome (yeah those funk guys were a little odd) in 1977. Though Parliament released several singles their best‐known hit was arguably “Flashlight,” which forced legions of people to whip out key chain flashlights in unison. Provide your clients, customers or employees with custom printed flashlights allowing them to get down and funky even when the lights go out. Promotional flashlights are essential for traipsing through dark alleys or just as must have giveaway at your next corporate event, tradeshow, work conference or any place you need a corporate gift. People always love promotional items that are fun and functional and the personalized flashlights you can order in bulk and get a cheap wholesale price fits this bill. In any marketing push it is best to have some type of fun and highly useful item and the custom personalized flashlights are superb branding merchandise, advertising your business through imprinted logos. Custom printed flashlights are awesome for a corporate gift. What are you waiting for? Custom printed flashlights are a no‐brainer as a way to show your appreciation; you should definitely order them today. Besides you can make sure people do not step on each other’s toes when it’s pitch black and the dance floor erupts with the funky sounds of Parliament. 35. Custom Highlighters We have to confess we have an unnatural love of promotional highlighters. As promotional products go this merchandise which you can buy in bulk and get a cheap wholesale price are essential promotional gifts and are found at nearly every tradeshow, corporate event, and work conference advertising local businesses or being used as a corporate gift. What’s not to love about the felt‐tip beauties which can isolate the important information in a book while relegating the lesser stuff to the boring black and white landscape? Invented by a Japanese innovator, all the best stuff comes from Japan right; highlighters imprinted with business logos are mainstays for corporate giveaways to clients, customers or employees. Since their creation in 1962 by Yukio Horie, the felt‐tip pen with a fluorescent flair at the end has become uberpopular and even that is an understatement. So any business wanting to boost its branding and show appreciation to others would be smart to co‐op the already obsessive zeal people have for custom printed highlights. So why do we love promotional highlighters? As far as promotional items go it is not that fantastical. The custom highlighter is just a slim piece of plastic, usually imprinted with a company logo or message printed upon it, with a point that magically colors words on a page so that you can still read the words but also see the selected words separated from the other rabble included in the printed article. The tool is just pure genius. If only we could have metaphorical highlighters to use during our daily lives. Could you imagine being able to just zero in on the important words or phrases that a person is saying without being drawn into an entire boring conversation? You couldn’t put a price on such an invention. Alas, we’re stuck with the two‐dimensional version of custom printed highlighters. This fact isn’t so bad if you think about it. Promotional highlighters are a must for any branding campaign. We suspect the world’s fascinated with the most popular promotional products because of Pyranine which gives the highlighters its fluorescent allure. Order your personalized highlighters today.