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10 Ways To Make Your Business More Eco-Friendly – Part 1

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  In business, we are all conscious of the legacy we want to leave behind. We want to be successful, trusted and remembered. More poignantly, numerous businesses today are striving to be more environmentally aware and create an eco-friendly business for the future. There are numerous ways to help make your business more environmentally friendly. Small changes within a business can help to create a more sustainable future for the world around us. We believe the top 10 ways to make a business, big or small, eco-friendlier are: Change how you travel to work . Instead of driving on your own to work, try riding a bike to reduce your carbon footprint or, car sharing with some of the other employees that live on your route to work. Both options would reduce pollution. Driving with colleagues and having a little chat can be good for your mental health on the journey to and from work too. Another way to reduce your carbon footprint could be to work from your home office if ...

10 Ways To Make Your Business More Eco-Friendly – Part 2

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  Following on from part 1 of “ 10 ways to make your business more eco-friendly ” here are five further ideas to help your business go green. 6. Sourcing goods sustainably. If you’re not already, start purchasing any good and services in the most sustainable way possible. Examples of this include: · For your packaging materials choose recycled ones and those that can be recycled again. · For your canteen, purchase fresh food from local suppliers so there is less vehicle use reducing pollution. 7. Reducing water usage . Water usage can cost a business a lot of money: when food is being prepared, when toilet facilities are being used and when workplaces need cleaning. Ways to save money and be more eco-friendly could include: · Fixing leaks - If you have taps with leaks, get them fixed. The water that is being wasted is costing a lot more than you think. · Change your cleaning options - It would also be an eco-friendly idea to use a high-effici...

Give The Gift of Promotional Gloves

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A few years ago, an American based design agency produced some promotional gloves for McDonalds. As we all know, McDonalds is one of the most recognised brands in the world, so they wanted to come up with a fun and quirky idea for a promotional product for their millions of loyal customers. The agency came up with an imaginative idea to make the gloves to look like a box of fries…   Just imagine what you could do with your business branding and some of our high-quality gloves: Beechfield Suprafleece™ Thinsulate™ Gloves These 100% polyester gloves are made with an ultra-thermal thinsulate™ fabric creating a warmth without the weight of a heavy glove. These gloves come in black and navy colours and can be branded with your logo by embroidery or by attaching a printed label to the gloves in your position of choice. Beechfield Touchscreen Smart Gloves It can be quite tiresome having to remove your gloves every time you need to reply to a message on your phone ...

The Versatility of Enamel Mugs

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Enamel mugs are a popular promotional item. They are durable, visually attractive and make an impressive branded gift for lovers of the outdoors but, what is an enamel mug and why should you be purchasing some? What is enamel? Enamel is a material that is created by fusing powdered glass to a substrate and fired with additive pigments. Layering steel components with enamel protects it from rust, gives the material an attractive look, and assures health and safety during the use of enamel-ware in the kitchen. The robustness of the enamelware is the result of firing at high temperatures (approximately 850°C). This makes the enamel durable, suitable for use on every type of cooker and makes it dishwasher-safe too. Where can I use an enamel mug? Enamel mugs are versatile. They are created for people who enjoy the outdoors and love to travel and be amongst nature. Enamel mugs work as well on a campsite as they do in a kitchen. If you try boiling water in the middle of ...

The Advantages of Eco-Friendly Promotional Pencils

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More and more businesses are taking steps towards becoming completely environmentally friendly by: · Mindfully recycling packaging and unwanted items. · Offices becoming paperless. · Lighting our workplaces with the most energy efficient bulbs. · Buying recycled products or, products that can easily be recycled once we have finished with them. All in all, as a nation, we are becoming much less wasteful and are thinking about what is right for the land and sea around us, and the environment we want to live in. Saying all this, we still need products and we still need to advertise our businesses. To become eco-friendly, marketing might not come in the form of a leaflet drop but of an email sent out telling people about the newest products and services. Useful products still need to be purchased however and going eco-friendly is the right thing to do. bmt Promotions have many eco-friendly and recycled products available for branding with your company logo...

Great Promotional Items to Leave Behind at Meetings

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  You never get second chance to make a first impression. And first impressions really count. When attending meetings, giving presentations or visiting clients what you say and how you speak will leave an impact but not every word you say will be recalled. It takes 5 to 7 impressions for someone to remember your logo and associate it with your company name so, another way to leave a great lasting impression is to leave behind some promotional giveaways so your brand and logo will be remembered. ‘Leave-behind’ promotional products There are many types of product you could purchase as a ‘leave-behind’ item: · Your ‘leave behind’ promotional items can be relative to the work you do, for example; a company that sells paints and is giving a presentation could leave a branded paint tin opener. It’s a highly useful and imaginative gift for the recipient. · Instead of a business card, why not use promotional pens and pencils that have your business contact...

Christmas Giveaways on a Budget

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Your Christmas marketing campaign doesn’t need to cost an arm and a leg in fact, some of the cheaper promotional products are the ones that make the biggest impact and stay in customers minds longer. Whether you have £100 or £10000 to spend on promotional items over Christmas, bmt Promotions have some outstanding products for you. The Advent Calendar A great place to start with a festive giveaway is with some branded Advent calendars . Our advent calendars come in many different designs and you can even design your own with your bespoke branding printed on the chocolate filled chart. We have recently designed a calendar for a customer and each individual chocolate is in the shape of their business logo. There are a few low-cost options with our smaller desk advent calendars making these an effective budget friendly giveaway. The Promotional Pen A branded pen is useful, will stay around the office for months, if not years, creating brand awareness for your company and...