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Custom Logo Pretzels
Jun 12th
When you think of promotional pretzels, what do you picture? Regular knot like pretzels, pretzel sticks, soft pretzels, giant pretzels, covered pretzels, or something entirely different?
Although pretzels were not introduced into North America until the 19th century, when German immigrants known as Pennsylvania Dutch began producing them here, they were actually originated in about 610 A.D. by Christian monks. Their popularity rapidly spread, and in the twentieth century soft pretzels became popular. The large German population in Pennsylvania contributed to it being considered the birthplace of the American pretzel industry, and where 80% of the pretzel production is located. There is even a private Pretzel Museum located in Pennsylvania, as well as a National Pretzel Day celebrated on April 26!
It’s no wonder, then, that promotional pretzels, make great advertising items. They are a well known, well loved and delicious snack. They have long been distributed at schools, events, as well as at grocery and convenience stores. You can find them at movie theaters and sports stadiums, as well as at tradeshows and conventions. Shouldn’t some of these tasty creations bear your company logo? What better way to advertise your company than with a product that everyone loves? There are over 20 selections to choose from, and one is sure to blend in with your marketing plan.
You might want to opt for the executive pretzel box as a way to show your appreciation for a job well done by a top employee, or for your past years valued customers. It is filled with 8 gourmet chocolate covered pretzels in three delicious flavors; Milk Chocolate, White Chocolate and Dark Chocolate with candy coating. Each box comes with a one color hot stamp of your logo on the lid and ribbon that adds the perfect finishing touch.
If you prefer custom pretzel tins, you might prefer the The Grand Tin – Chocolate Covered Mini Pretzels, Grand Pretzel Tin, or the Royal Pretzel Tin, among others. Any of these choices will be sure to please everyone who receives them, and leave them with pleasant thoughts associated with your business.
Promotional Nuts
Jun 11th
When you are looking for a combination of a great promotional product and a healthy snack, nothing tops promotional nuts. Recent research has shown that eating nuts as part of a heart healthy diet will lower the LDL cholesterol levels in the blood, helping to maintain good heart health.
Nuts contain unsaturated fats, omega 3 fatty acids, fiber, vitamin E and other substances that are considered good for your heart. Eating nuts is considered a good way to prevent blood clots that could lead to a heart attack, and they expand the healthy lining of your arteries.
All of these facts contribute to the reason for considering nuts as a snack that is healthy and good for you. Using nuts as part of your advertising campaign helps to brand your company as one that values the health of your customers. Being considered health conscious and up to date on the news is always a good step towards building recognition for your company.
These company gift nuts make a particularly attractive promotional tool when associated with such events as heart and cancer walks, or when given by businesses associated with the health industry. With over 65 selections available, it should be a simple matter to choose the one that best represents your business. Choose from cashews, pistachios, peanuts, trail mixes and more in a variety of containers such as tubes, cellophane packs, glass jars and custom nut tins.
Select from such best sellers as a Pistachios Gourmet Tube, a Trail Mix Promo Pack, or a Cashews Glass Jar. Are you looking for a unique gift for a valued customer or a prized employee such as a top salesman? A perfect choice might be the maple ridge 1950s flatbed truck with almonds and cashews. The truck includes a shipping crate with your logo or imprint fire branded on both sides. It also includes six ounces of Milk Chocolate Covered Almonds, and five ounces of freshly roasted Extra Fancy Jumbo Cashews. Each recipient of this wooden classic truck will appreciate its craftsmanship and style.
You can select these promotional nuts in a price range that fits your advertising budget, and packages that suit your distribution methods.
Custom Fortune Cookies
Jun 5th
Your initiation into the world of custom fortune cookies was almost certainly at a Chinese restaurant, where they were served after dinner. These cookies come wrapped around a piece of paper on which is printed a “fortune” which is either words of wisdom or a prophecy. They typically consist of flour, sugar and vanilla, and are quite crisp. They were first actually introduced in Japan rather than China; they were imported into China in the late 1900’s and sold as “authentic American fortune cookies”. In China, they are also known as “good luck cookies”, “good luck sweet cookies” and “good luck biscuits”.
Whatever you call them or wherever you are, these personalized fortune cookies can be can be effectively used for your advertising. Include them when drawing up your marketing plan, and plan for their distribution carefully to get the maximum results from them.
Personalize these cookies not only with your logo, but also by writing the fortunes yourself. Why not include a “cents off” coupon fortune, or a special deal fortune? You can be as creative as possible with the writing, and increase your advertising while entertaining everyone who opens them.
Choose the giant logo fortune cookie as the ultimate personalized gift. This 4 pound cookie, the size of an ordinary football, is hand dipped in luscious white chocolate and a 100% edible image of your logo. You can include up to ten lines of a personalized fortune inside. Presented in a traditional crisp French Cellophane Bag and tied with an exquisite sheer wired ribbon, this cookie is GUARANTEED to make a BIG impression! Your cookie is hand packed in a signature glossy white gift box and topped with matching tissue paper. These cookies work well for any event where a gift is appropriate, and even make wonderful wedding fortune cookies!
Do you prefer the more classic size fortune cookies? At a cost of as low as $1.43 each, these cookies are hand dipped in white chocolate and have your edible logo and sprinkles to match. Each cookie is individually wrapped.
Custom fortune cookies make a unique and novel promotional product that you will want to use again and again to make a “sweet” impression!
Custom Lollipops
Mar 2nd
Candy of any sort has always been a popular advertising tool, and custom lollipops are no exception. The public as a whole loves sweets, and lollipops bring back positive memories from childhood. Associating your business or event with these pleasant thoughts is always a good marketing tactic.
Tootsie roll pops have been around since 1930, and just about every child is well acquainted with them. Using these custom printed lollipops to advertise your logo will provide excellent results at a very low cost. Everyone loves them!
Dum Dum pops have actually been with us for even longer, since 1924. If you are trying to establish yourself as a reputable company that intends to be around for some time to come, what better choice for an advertising item which has such a long and glorious reputation for quality products? If it is true that you are known by the company you keep, either of these fine businesses are perfect for you.
Of course, < a href="https://www.rushimprint.com/custom-lollipops.html">cheap personalized lollipops don’t necessarily need to be the normal round pop that we are all accustomed to. There are many varieties and styles that you can choose from. A novelty lollipop can be one in a shape that is associated with your business, such as the sedan lollipop for an automotive dealer, or the house shaped lollipop for a realtor. Some of these lollipops have your logo imprinted on the lollipop itself in edible material, while others place the imprint on the wrapper.
The < a href="https://www.rushimprint.com/custom-lollipops.html">customized lollipop wrappers display your logo for all to see, and are a simple yet effective branding tool. The imprint comes in a surprisingly large 1.69” x 3.44” size.
Any of the custom logo lollipops make great choices for large scale giveaways, either alone as part of a gift box or basket. They can also be used as part of a mail out campaign, or be given away on office counters. Children are not the only ones who love these brightly colored sweets-don’t be surprised to find adults wandering around eating one with a smile on their face!
Custom Chocolates
Feb 15th
Custom chocolate bars have always been a favorite with young and old alike. Hardly anyone can pass one up, and it really doesn’t matter whether it is white chocolate, milk chocolate or dark chocolate. We love them all!
The gift of promotional chocolate bars helps to build a relationship with your customers and potential customers, as well as employees. Chocolate has always meant comfort and pleasure to us, and this is what your recipients will associate you with.
Personalized candy bars can help you advertise any business as part of your marketing campaign, and in many different ways. They can be given away at almost any event you can imagine, offered to customers and employees alike as gifts, or placed on a counter in your office for customers to help themselves.
Choosing packaging for your promotional chocolate bars, and the type of bar, can be a challenge, because there are so many choices available. An art gallery might well select a style such as the
Rockwell square chocolate pieces. These square chocolates are individually wrapped in gold, silver or white foil, imprinted with your company logo or other chosen message. These also make great giveaways at tradeshows, conventions or other events.
For as low as $.09 a piece, Lincoln chocolate coins make a great promotional item for businesses such as banks and loan companies. Each wrapped coin measures 1 ½” in diameter, and the wrappers are personalized with your logo or other message. Office parties and other events are also excellent places to pass out these delightful candies, and everyone will enjoy them.
Selecting well known brands such as Hersheys or Maple Ridge helps to build your image as a company which values quality, and you can even build upon that image by giving gifts such as a wooden collectors box filled with chocolate covered almonds.
Choosing promotional chocolate bars to help promote your company is a wise option, and will definitely help you build an image that will please you and build your profits.
Promotional Candy
Feb 14th
Custom candy! Combine everyone’s love for candy with your advertising program and have a delightful mix. Hard candy, soft candy, old favorites, new creations – what an endless variety to choose from. Your biggest problem, other than choosing just one, may be in not eating too much of your own goodies! This is truly the sweetest way to promote your bran.
You can choose personalized candy that is individually wrapped, and have your logo emblazoned not only on the candy itself, but also on the wrapper. Or even candy that comes in gift boxes marked with your logo prominently on display.
Do you prefer novel packaging for your promotional candies? Select your old favorite tootsie rolls in packages from crystal clear bags, cylinder bottles, candy jars and even “take out” packages; your jelly beans from glass jars, gourmet tubes, and rectangular tins.
Hershey customized candy kisses, come in many designs to delight your customers. You can order them in a bin with a scoop, in single size packs or as a giant kiss, in large window bags, or as a mug stuffer bag.
Promotional candy works well for just about every business. Are you a realtor?
Try the House Lollipop for the perfect promotional product. This individually wrapped candy has your logo prominently centered on the front in a large 2.45” x 2.87” edible icing! Your customers will eat them up.
These edible promotional candies can be given away at almost any event, from tradeshows and conventions to sports events and even store openings. These candy giveaways are inexpensive yet extremely memorable and effective. Try sitting a basket of them on your office counter and see how well they go over. Use them as a solo advertisement or blend them in with your other campaigns.
Whether you choose the old or new, the hard or soft, or mix and match your favorites, you will find that your custom candy is perfect for your marketing and advertising efforts.
Bottled Water with Your Logo
Nov 22nd
Trade shows are usually massive, multiple day events. People walk around from table to table, getting information on different companies and even scoping out other businesses with which to form partnerships. Usually, food is readily available, but many people will forget to bring bottles of water along with them while they are making the rounds. And no matter whether it is the middle of winter or the middle of the hottest summer possible, people need water to drink during these trade shows. Which is one of the biggest reasons that getting bottled water with your logo on it can be a very effective use of a promotional item.
If it’s your first trade show or your hundredth, everyone can agree that breaking the ice with people attending trade shows can be difficult. If you’ve got a consumable that nearly everyone needs, it becomes that much easier to say “Excuse me, would you like a drink?” than to shout a pitch over all the rest of the noise going on.
Don’t do trade shows? You can still benefit greatly from putting your logo on bottled water. Keep it on hand in the office for meetings, and load up employee refrigerators. Even if during meetings, most potential clients take coffee, it’s customary to offer water along with the coffee as well.
When your employees grab a drink before they head out on their lunch break, they’ll be carrying your brand along with them. This offers brand exposure opportunities; even better because the logo is in the hands of one of your employees, who can easily offer more information or specific phone numbers for people to contact.
Drinking more water is something we are constantly told to strive for because it is healthier. And, according to health research, it is. So why not take advantage of having bottled water with your logo on it? Get your brand out there and into people’s hands via something they will use and carry with them, and they will remember you.
Who doesn’t like Chocolate? If you don’t, check this out first!
Oct 6th
Betsy Ann, Sarris, and Hershey are some of my favorite brands of chocolate. It gives me that mid-afternoon boost of energy, improves my mood, and not to mention tastes delicious. If consumed in moderation some kinds of chocolate can actually be good for you.
In the CNN article (linked below) I read, they performed research at Tufts University. Jeffrey Blumberg, director of the Antioxidants Research Laboratory found hypertensive people who ate 3.5 ounces of dark chocolate per day for two weeks saw their blood pressure drop significantly. Also, chocolate milk may help you recover after a tough workout.
Of course with all the calories chocolate has, it should not be a substitute for fruits and vegetables, you need the vitamins, and potassium that they provide your body.
Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory
What is Chocolate good for?
Heart- Yes! It helps reduce blood pressure levels. Also it can decrease the risks of cardiovascular disease for people with hypertension. Cocoa Increases supply of blood to the brain, but dark chocolate reduces oxidative stress and contains high levels of antioxidants.
Preventing Cancer- Yes! Dark Chocolate, which contains 13,120 ORACs (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity Units), can help prevent Alzheimer’s disease, arthritis, and cholesterol problems.
Mood Elevation- Yes! Serotonin and Dopamine are the two chemicals governing moods in the body. Cocoa contains monoamine oxidize inhibitors which flow freely in the bloodstream for longer periods of time which keeps the mood elevated.
Brain- Yes! Chocolate may boost one’s concentration and attention span, enhances memory, also problem solving skills as it increases blood flow to the brain.
Skin- Yes! Researchers believe that the flavonoids (flavonoids- Vitamin P and Citrin – plant nutrients which are non-toxic and beneficial to the human body) in cocoa absorb UV light, thereby protecting the skin and improving its appearance. These flavonoids also help in fighting wrinkles and also help slow down the aging process.
Teeth- Somewhat! Besides chocolate conducing to teeth decay scientists have said that chocolate has the ability to offset the acid producing potential of the sugar it contains. The tannins (a vegetable, defensive compounds that counteracts bacteria and fungi) in cocoa interfere with the action of bacteria on the teeth, which reduces cavity formation. The cocoa content in chocolate is good for teeth; however, it’s the sugar that causes the trouble.
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I added chocolate to my diet during my marathon training. Chocolate milk was a great drink for recovering after my long runs, It gave me the protein and vitamin D that I needed.