ADD SOME WOW TO TRAINING OR SALES MEETINGS

Whether you sell sun screen, computer hardware or pharmaceuticals, we’ve got your color!  26 to be exact! Part of our Spectrum Bag line, this basic briefcase (#8803) has a great price point and makes a great sales training/meeting gift. Imagine the fun you can kick off your meeting with using a bright yellow, purple or orange brief.  Build the color around a theme and imprint the bag with the meeting theme (“A Bright Future”- yellow, "Back to Basics”– earth, “2007 - An A“maze”ing Year!”– marigold.)  A fun way to keep the meeting papers organized and/or registration quick, neat and easy.  Just hand them the brief already filled with meeting materials.

Only a 36 piece minimum, this briefcase is clean and professional, featuring a padded shoulder strap, single zippered main compartment, fabric Velcro handle wrap, and zippered sleeve pocket with ID slot and pen holder.  Need a basic tote or duffle instead?  Avaline has six other styles in our Spectrum Line.

TAG THEM

This worked so well for us we thought we’d share it with you.  Our idea was to target show attendees with a pre-show mailing,asking them to drop by the Avaline booth.  But we didn’t want to just ask you to drop by the booth, we really wanted a chance to get to see and talk with distributors.

The problem was getting our direct mail piece noticed. After all, how many pieces of mail do you receive from suppliers asking the same thing? We needed it to “pop” in the mail. We accomplished this by using a bright PVC dog tag embedded in a clam shell pack and a very colorful, attention getting card. It wasn’t simply a postcard, it had depth and the product gave you reason to look further.  Then by combining the direct mail piece with an in-booth contest, we achieved the second half of our objective: to get you to the booth.  Each dog tag had a serial number imprinted on the back. The card asked the recipients to bring the card/dog tag to our booth and match it to a number that had been picked prior to the show.  The matching number wins! 

Avaline mailed 5300 of the postcards prior to the show (it only cost $0.39 each to mail). We had a redemption rate of close to 30%... that's 1500 people!!  Old friends and new distributors were among those who redeemed their card.  It gave us a chance to show those familiar with Avaline “what’s new” and educate our new friends about Avaline, and at the same time have some fun!  It was a good promotion because it reached the market before the show and was able to entice recipients to the booth.  Are any of your clients looking for a good tradeshow promotion? Dog tags are the new, hip, urban jewelry and now they are a great way to tag customers before a show..

WRITE ON!

Promoting a new product or highlighting a cash cow at an event or tradeshow?  These durable and flexible PVC custom luggage tags make the perfect giveaway to add color and punch to your tradeshow product launch.  Customize the luggage tag to look exactly like the product you are promoting.  Unique shapes, the colors and the life-like appearance draws attention to these fun tags.  How much fun would it be to have a tag in the shape of a can of Campbells Vegetarian Vegetable Soup, an Oreo cookie, an iPod, a new sneaker, a magazine cover, or new car hanging off your bag?  You simply write your contact information on this tag and they are ready to go!  Hand them out today, see them all over tomorrow on your attendees luggage going home. A superb practical item that they will use because it makes their luggage easily identifiable among the sea of black luggage at the airport carousels.  And if they see it, how many others will too!

A great visual, and a great way to keep your product and company’s message traveling all over.  They are inexpensive and will last a lifetime.

STEPPIN' OUT

Client planning an off site meeting at a warmer location -Scottsdale, Orlando, even Las Vegas?  Want an item that is as unique as it is practical?  How about footwear?  That’s right, have you taken a look at what the new hip footwear is? It’s not hush puppies, or sketchers, and please don’t even mention stilettos to my aching feet! It’s the easy comfy flip-flop.  But these flip-flops are FUN FLOPS.  Similar to a puzzle, Avaline’s “fun flops” are part of a larger board, which offers a large area for imprinting a fun and colorful message that gives new meaning to the old advertising adage “a walking billboard”.  Whether handed out at the meeting or placed in each participants room, these flops will generate buzz and be put to good use during the attendees free time exploring their destination.  A great alternative to bags, tee shirts and fruit baskets.

Made of 15 mm EVA foam, they come fully loaded with a pair of sandals and a floating key chain.  Get creative with shapes and custom mold the board to look like a palm tree, airplane, new product that is being launched or a company logo.  Stock foam shapes available are square, round, rectangular and come in White, Black, Red, Blue, Green, Yellow.

MAKE IT COUNT

A pad and pen.  An amenity that a hotel always makes available whether by the phone in your room or at your seat in their conference and seminar facilities.  Why not suggest punching up the complimentary gift with these simple, sleek and sturdy note pads (#PB515)?  Unlike the white terry cloth robe, the translucent polypropylene pad holder will be an amenity the hotels won't mind see stroll out the lobby door.  And unlike the flimsy pads, these pad holders are colorful and functional and they’ll be used again at meetings, offices, sales calls and at home with the hotels name "traveling" everywhere. 

THIS TRADESHOW GIVEAWAY ROCKS.

This is a great tradeshow promotion, a terrific way to build traffic on your client’s website, and keep their company top of mind, even after their event is over. Start off by building a tradeshow contest around the hottest selling item in the last decade, the iPod®, and use these protective silicone cases as a great “tie-in” giveaway.  (Mix sizes of iPod cases at no extra charge. Recipients Can chose which case they want, whether for an iPod® they already own or to pass along to a friend/relative). Want them to visit your website? Each case should be tagged in some way with its own number by placing a printed card in each case or putting a sticker on each case. After the show, post a winning number on your website.  The idea is to have the recipients of these colorful cases visit your website to see if their number matches the one posted for a FREE iPod®.

Want them to keep coming back, giveaway two or three iPods® and post a new number each day/week.  It’s a great idea for a mailing too.  Mail these lightweight cases with a letter to “Visit your website and win a FREE iPod”. Personalize each letter with a special number and promotion instructions. With the possibility of winning an iPod®, who wouldn’t log on? Both are great for companies launching a new website or introducing new resource tools and new product on their site. 

KICK IT OFF A CORPORATE MEETING

Luggage tags are a great way to kick off a corporate meeting even before it begins.  For large sales meeting, conventions and seminars that are off-site, send a pre-meeting gift to the attendees.  Along with a meeting agenda or travel/city information, include a custom made luggage tag for them to use on their travels to that specific event.  Durable, custom made PVC luggage tags, so bright and colorful, they’ll jump off the luggage at you, making it easy to identify bags on an airport carousel.  What a great way for people to recognize other seminar or meeting goers… and great way to facilitate the networking.

PIN THEM DOWN

Need instant recognition? Lapel pins are perfect for generating a lasting impression at an outstanding value. Introducing a new product or logo, launching a great special, have a hip tag line? 

As they are walking the aisles, “pin” down those customers with a colorful and custom lapel pin. If you haven’t used lapel pins for any of your clients tradeshows, let Avaline take the mystery out of Emblematic Jewelry.  First people enjoy them.  Pins after all are the 2^nd largest collectible next to baseball cards which makes it an item that is actually sought after.  Second, they truly make the perfect promotional product, highly visible and at an unbeatable price, allowing your advertiser a lot of bang for his buck.  They can be die cut to any shape and there are many options and processes that will fit your clients budget and artwork needs.  A great communicator, very visible and great fun!