Images and ideas from our spring 2019 product shoot.
Each spring and then again each fall we go to a new and exotic location to take photos of our products plus to test out and photograph some of the latest trending promotional product ideas.
This spring we have just returned from the tiny beach town of La Manzanilla, Mexico.
Where we stayed.
Not to gloat but…. we stayed in this amazing house on the the near perfect 5 mile beach in La Manzanilla.
Mainstreet of the tiny fishing viallage in Mexico
Product 1. The folding stainless steel bbq tool.
I found this on a recent factory tour in China. Can you see your clients logo on this ?
Product 2. The RFID Credit Card Holder and Money Clip. The Secret!
I sourced this out of Germany and have had it made in China in order to make it affordable. What do you think?
rfid secret wallet
Product 3. Shrink Drink Folding Water Bottle.
How cool is this? Food grade silicone folding reusable water bottle.
shrink drink folding water bottle
Product 4. 360 Pop Ring.
A new and inexpensive additon to our family of POP phone grips.
pop ring phone stand grip for logo
pop ring phone stand grip
Product 5. Curved Stainless Steel Straws.
We have a new and very competitive stainless steel straw factory. Staright or curved for about a buck all included!
stainless steel drinking straws
Product 6. Infinity Cube.
Overshadowed during the fidget spinner craze of a couple of years ago the infinity cube is a great way to launch a logo.
infinity cube promotional product
Product 7. Tyvek Paper Wallet.
Tyveks is a very durable, waterproof and tearproof, completely recyclable paper product that can now be made into a custom full color wallet. How dope!
tyvek paper wallet
Product 8. Square POP Phone Grips.
Square logos finally now have a home on your phone.
pop phone grips
Product 9. Nuck Nucks? Who’s there?
Power up the logos on your phone holder for less with Nuck Nucks.
nuckee style phone stand
More to come next post…….call us at 1-888-908-1481 or email us here
sunset on the beach in mexico
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A Nuckee is the latest and greatest phone grip to stick to your smart phone, tablet or other device.
Taking a page from the Pop Sockets book, Nuckees by Tumi have taken the world of the smartphone stand to the next level.
It is easy to see that there is a huge niche for a collapsible pop out phone stand and media grip as witnessed by the popularity of the Pop Socket and the people at Promo Motive have come up with a new idea for the promotional products market. The Nuckee.
Here is great couple of Videos to explain what a Nuckee is?
Looking to get your clients logo on a NUCKEE?
Promo Motive is proud to announce and launch the newest part of our POP collection, the Nuckee! All at a price that slays the competition.
Is the nuckee phone stand better than pop socket? You decide. nuckee phone grip and nuckee media stand are perfect for your business or event logo.
Is the nuckee phone stand better than pop socket? You decide. nuckee phone grip and nuckee media stand are perfect for your business or event logo.
nuckee phone grip and nuckee media stand are perfect for your business or event logo.
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Every year I take a 3+ week vacation during the Chinese New Years.
Sun, Sand and Product Research. Yeah right!
You may be thinking as you read this..”BS…product research on the beach in Mexico!” If you do think this way (ie BS) you are wrong (in a nice way).
“Yea Right…you call BS…product research on the beach in Mexico!”
We work very hard 11 months of the year trying to stay on top of the new trends and ideas. We are very quick in recognizing new ideas that work for logoing, sourcing them in China and around the world and adding them to the site making them available to you and your clients.
However, our best product research and testing is done during the period in China where everyone at the factory is on holidays. Chinese New Years.
Where I go and What I do?
For the last few years I have gone to a tiny Mexican fishing village on the west coast called La Manzanilla. I stay in a great place called Casa Maguey.
tonight la manzanilla mexico
During the next 4 weeks I will be shooting images of new products and updating Sage and our web sites. We will be testing out the products looking for advantages and decorating options that will make you and your clients happy in 2019. Stay tuned for updates.
I will be answering emails but your main contact will be Emily who is forcibly tied to a desk back at the home office. She can be reached toll free at 1-888-908-1481 or email Emily
Day 1
I arrived and checked into my Casa. The town is La Manzanilla and is a fishing village of about 2500 people located on a soft white sand beach about 5 miles long. About 4 hours south of PV.
I am on the end, on a cliff overlooking the beach. Looking forward to product research….soon, real soon.
House on the beach
Day 3
Went for a long walk today to scope out locations for the photoshoot. It’s nice and hot 80 plus with a nice breeze.
La manzanilla
Day 4 First New Product Shots.
Yes I know it sounds like a ridiculous idea but I truly do go to a remote location each year and shoot the new products. Here are the first raw images.
The first is the folding coffee cup shown both collapsed and open…how freakin’ cool…see product page
silicone folding coffee cup for promotional product
Folding Sip Flip Coffee Cup in both a 16 oz large and popular 12 oz Medium size
medium-and-large-folding-coffee-cup
Day 6
The coolest new RFID wallet with fold out card holder.
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The world’s best custom socks for your logo. Custom socks for less!
Why are you paying so much for custom promo socks?
We have been in the factory direct business in the promotional products world for over 20 years. 2 or 3 times a year we travel to China on factory visits seeing 4 or 5 new factories each visit. In total I have probably been to 80 factories or more.
I also like socks…weird I know!
In my experience in the Promo Business some products are WAY OVERPRICED in relationship to what it costs at the factory level.
The one that has caught my eye in the last year is custom socks. Custom socks for the usual suspect suppliers are way too costly. There is no good reason for this!
“Custom socks for the usual suspect suppliers are way too costly. There is no good reason for this!”
Sublimated Custom Socks. Free Shipping, No Set-Ups. Coded c
Custom logo socks for promotional product and b2b marketing. Get your logo on sublimated or knit custom socks
Knit Custom Socks. Free Shipping, No Set-Ups. Coded c
Custom logo socks for promotional product and b2b marketing. Get your logo on sublimated or knit custom socks
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We are based in Canada and we only sell to Distributors. What more is there to know?
It’s an odd fact that Promo Motive and the custom site Promo Crunch is based in Canada but 99% of our clients are American (include Halo, Kaeser Blair, Geiger etc). We are now changing that and invite you to check us out.
Promo Motive is a long time promotional products supplier that specialized in trend-savvy swag (yes I know you hate that word) and we deliver all good factory direct and fresh.
How Fresh?
We deliver logo’d product from our factory in China in as little as 7 days. Yes, 7 days.
We NEVER charge extra for shipping, set ups or 4 colour. As a Supplier who owns factories we know the cost of these to us is zero, bupkis, zilch, nada. If it doesn’t cost us anything we don’t charge you anything. Simple. The only extra is of course GST.
Why Are You Paying Too Much?
One of the things we specialize in is POP phone grips. Our factory gives us a smokin’ deal. These come with the official 3M waterproof washable re-usable adhesive, a custom package complete with “how to use instructions” plus free 4 Colour.
Check out the competiton, we are over $1 less expensive with no set ups or extras. If you are using them you are PAYING TOO MUCH!
In my opinion, I believe in the year 2018 (and going forward), sole reliance on ASI by both Suppliers and Distributors is likely bad for your business. Here are my reasons and opinions.
First, a little background info.
We are a Supplier and over the past 25 years I have been in this business on both sides, first in the 90’s as a Distributor and in the last 15 years as a Supplier. Here is my informed opinion.
Everything in ASI’s marketing offers for Suppliers is “Pay for Play”. This means that every time a Distributor does an ASI search or sees a flyer or any info from ASI, the results that a Distributor sees have all been paid to be there.
Nothing shown to Distributors is a result of a product’s popularity or uniqueness.
This means that every Distributor using or seeing the ASI search or info is fed the same “Pay for Play” results as every other Distributor.
So, if a Distributor thinks they have seen a “special” or a “unique product” that no one else has seen and forwarded that “special” to their end-user, you can be sure that your competitor Distributor may very well be sending the exact same “special” to their end-users as well.
Distributors, ask yourself this: “What distinct advantage am I offering my client/prospect if all I use is the same info as my competitor uses?”
My Opinion: The future of our business is in your ability to break the ASI-only habit and think differently.
FACT: Today’s end user has an average age of 35 years while the average ASI member is 57, this means that the end user was raised on GOOGLE search as their go-to solution while the ASI member is more steeped in the old school ASI paradigm of catalogs and supplier/distributor sanctity. If this is true, you need to think more like the end user.
Look outside of ASI as well as inside.
ASI is for profit and will let seemingly anyone in. As a Promotional Products Supplier, I opted out of ASI specifically because I was seeing Chinese factories getting ASI numbers as Suppliers and even more outrageously as Distributors!
In fact, not 1 month ago I had a conversation with ASI membership on this very matter.
As you can imagine, I get solicited by ASI to join and about a month ago I found a “Supplier/Distributor” in California selling a similar product as what we import from our factory in China for a price that was so low it had to be a Chinese factory masquerading as a US Supplier/Distributor.
Their website was very poorly done, the site being full of typical language problems that are a tell-tale sign of a Chinese-owned company. Their email was answered at night (Chinese time) and their toll free # had a Chinese accented response. Go figure.
I called ASI and said simply: “If you keep asking me to return as a Supplier member, I need reassurance that this issue will disappear. They listened and as far as I can see, did nothing. They did not call me back, the Chinese site still has an ASI number. I had to ask myself… Why would this behavior happen?
My guess is for profit, pure and simple. In the last few years – when I was an ASI Supplier member – I paid ASI well over $60,000 a year on average.
This was for membership dues, trade shows and ad placement. Ad placement or “Pay for Play”…as an example, we paid $1500 a day for half of the banner ads for a single day. So $6000 a month for 1 days a week banner display on only 50% of each of that days search result.
“So for only 4x 1-day ads a month – with only HALF the Distributor views – the cost was $6000 in total per month.”
Remember – the cost incurred by any business ultimately gets passed along to the consumer. That would be YOU!
In Closing…
I am not saying that you should stop ASI altogether or that ASI is in any way to blame for the current state of the industry, but what I am saying and trying to do is start an industry dialog that gives you (the Distributor) a better insight into all of the factors that affect your business.
I feel it is important that for Distributors to succeed in the online age, they need to get out of their comfort zone and look in places outside of ASI for innovative product options.
I firmly believe that the Distributor’s strongest hand to play is to offer their clients/end-users something different than their competitor is offering. Given the information outlined above, can you be innovative and competitive in 2018 using ASI as your ONLY source for promotional products?
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Turn your clients logo into an ultra thin, waterproof, tearproof Tyvek Paper Wallet!
If you’re a millennial, you totally get what this is. If you’re older, well…you need some info!
We specialize in seeing what is trending online and at retail and especially what is hot with the Millennial and Gen Next.
What is a Tyvek Wallet?
Firstly, let’s learn a little more about the fabulous material that is Tyvek. Tyvek is a Dupont product that has been used for decades as a waterproof, tearproof and breathable material. It is most commonly found in the material that is used as a wrap around your house. In fact, Tyvek (in use over 40 years) has wrapped more than 10 million houses in America.
“Waterproof, Tearproof, Super Thin …it is the perfect material for the new Ultra-Thin Wallets.”
Guys and Girls Use Wallets these days! Get used to it!
The days of only guys using a wallet while the girls would have a purse are long gone. Millennials love to have a wallet that they can put in their pocket and go.
The entire surface both Inside and Out can have a 4 color logo!
Seriously! Yup, get your client’s 4 color logo, product shots, address, web pictures, pictures of the owners, small map… anything you want! In fact, we will help you design it for FREE!
“We will design you a FREE Virtual …Just ask!”
Want Free Samples to Show Your Clients? Sure You Do!
The straw debate is quite the hot topic right now. Several major restaurant chains have vowed to pull plastic straws from their stores, and politicians and activists alike are asking for change in regards to plastic waste.
You may be wondering: “What’s so bad about plastic straws? They’re so small, they must be so insignificant in the grand scheme of things.”
Americans throw away an estimated 500 million plastic straws per day.
According to The Last Plastic Straw, a non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging people to reduce their plastic straw consumption, Americans throw away enough straws to wrap around the Earth’s circumference two and a half times per day. By 2050, it’s estimated that there will be more plastic in the oceans than fish.
Getting Your Logo on a stainless steel drinking straw is a good thing for your business.
Unless you have been living under a rock, you know by now that using a disposable drinking straw is almost a crime. This is bad if you are a retailer that has been handing out the now banned drinking straws, BUT it is an amazing opportunity if you are a promo Distributor.
Something’s gotta give…
Reusable straws are the perfect first step to reducing the amount of plastic you throw away each day. Don’t want to purchase a reusable straw right now? That’s okay. Maybe reading this article will change your mind. In the meantime, here are some other small ways you can help reduce your plastic waste:
Ask for no straw when you’re at restaurants, or ask for your take-out drinks with a lid you can drink from instead of getting a straw!
Bring reusable bags with you when you do groceries, and avoid buying products that come in excessive plastic packaging.
Find out which types of plastics your municipality does not recycle and try to avoid those.
Promo Motive is the Leader
Stainless steel straws are perhaps the most popular variation of reusable straws currently on the market. They are sturdy, dishwasher safe, and easy to clean. Our stainless steel straws came from The Handy House, which sells a variety of kitchen and household accessories. You can find stainless steel straws (or “metal straws”, which is less of a mouthful to say) in bent or straight varieties, and in different lengths as well. The ones we tried were the perfect size for any medium sized take-out beverage.
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We believe that only using ASI or PPAI search for your business is a bad idea.
Here’s why!
We have been a supplier for 20 years and there are some secrets about ASI that most distributors don’t know. It is important to know so you can make more sales and make more money.
Here are a few key things you need to be aware of.
#1 – When you see ANY search result it is PAID to be placed there by the supplier
When using product searches on ASI or PPAI you may not be seeing the best, most popular or most innovative products at all. You are simply seeing what was paid to be seen!
Suppliers pay on average 60K a year for product placement. A few years ago I bought half of 1 day a week’s banner. It cost $1500 PER DAY!
#2 – The average age of end users is 35 while the average ASI distributor age is 57
There is a disconnect in the age gap that is most apparent if Distributors ONLY use ASI and PPAI search.
As a supplier, every day I get inquiries from Distributors looking for “something their client found online!” The end user wants something unique and unusual. They don’t always want the same thing, again… and again. You need to look elsewhere!
#3 – If you only use ASI and PPAI search, what advantage do you have over your competitor?
It may seem obvious, but if you and the Distributor down the street get the same inquiry for the same general product what advantage do you have? Isn’t it then only down to price?
In the internet age, Distributors need an advantage to beat out their biggest competitor: the end user!
If you keep presenting the same old ideas as your competitor down the street you will continue to encourage the end user (remember they are 35 and web-savvy) to buy online and NOT from you.
“It’s time to think differently!”
What do YOU think?
Does this make sense to you? Is this intriguing? Is this an idea you want to explore? Join the many hundreds of other innovative forward thinking Distributors who are looking for something different.
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Logos in funny shapes are no problem. Get your client’s logo on a pop-able phone grip.
As a distributor you get lots of crazy logos you have to work with. Clients love to send you some oddball logo and try and get you to work miracles! Now we can help.
Get your client’s logo on these crazy shapes of pop out POP phone grips. For info call 1-888-908-1481 or email John@PromoCrunch.com.
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