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The Top Promotional Products of 2017

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2017 has been a fun year for the more inventive promotional product. Don’t get me wrong, the standard, essential products such as pens, lanyards and leaflets are still flying out to customers but, companies are becoming much more daring with the types of promotional products they are giving away to their customers. Technology related items Technology is fast growing and the consumables to go alongside are useful and desired. Mobile phone accessories such as ear phones, mobile phone cases, mobile phone stands are quickly becoming popular promotional products that companies gift to their customers. Branding these practical items means that they will be seen by a huge array of people day to day. Fun work wear Formal shirts, polo-shirts and t-shirts are always going to be needed within the uniform choices for your company but, you can’t always see a branded shirt on someone when they’re out and about in the frosty winter. Fleeces, gilets and coats are becomi

A Christmas Q&A with Coo-Var

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It’s busy in the bmt Promotions office at this festive time of year but, with just over two weeks to go until Christmas Day all of us here are well and truly in the celebratory spirit! Last week’sChristmas question and answer session with our Director, Jack went down a storm, so we thought we’d get our customers involved in some of the yuletide fun too. Here’s Danielle from Coo-Var, the paint and coating specialists with her answers to our Christmas questionnaire: How has 2017 been positive for you in business? Well, we are all still here, so I guess that’s a positive! What difficulties have you faced in business in 2017? In our department it was a real struggle to assign someone to tea maker… but I did the right thing and stepped up to the job. It was a difficult decision but the best all round as I clean the cups thoroughly and now found a new hidden talent which I never knew I had. What are your hopes for your company in 2018? That we continue to be a ha

Go Eco-friendly with your Marketing Merchandise

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Eco-friendly promotional products are fast becoming THE branded item to have. Adding your company branding to an array of environmentally friendly products means, when you give these to a customer or potential customer, they get to see your logo on a regular basis and the eco-friendly item promotes that you are an environmentally friendly business. bmt Promotions have many eco-friendly products that can be branded with your logo. Take a look at a few of our favourites below: Branded Jute Bag Jute is a vegetable fibre used mainly to make course cloth. A branded jute bag is highly sustainable and can be your ‘bag for life’, eliminating the need for plastic carrier bags. bmt Promotions have a variety of promotional jute bag sizes and styles that can be branded to your specification. Promotional desktop plant A terracotta pot or recycled metal tin including some peat and seeds makes for a quirky and eco-friendly promotional product that your customers can grow

A Christmas Q&A with bmt Promotions Director

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It’s December and it’s time to get a little festive in the office! We’ve opened day 1 of the advent calendar, put up a Christmas tree, and we have yuletide tunes blasting from the radio. I’ve nabbed our busy Director at bmt Promotions , Jack Thomas to talk about business in 2017 and all things Christmas. How has 2017 been positive for you in business? Most significantly, we brought our search marketing operation in house & took on a dedicated employee to oversee our digital marketing activities. We are receiving lots of new business across a wide range of sectors, and our year on year turnover has increased by 34% which is very encouraging heading into 2018. What difficulties have you faced in business in 2017? Other than the odd computer/server problem, one occasion resulted in me not leaving the office until 3:30am - and we were leaving for the airport for our summer holiday at 6:00am! Aside from these minor difficulties, we were approached with an acquis