Absolute Promotions Ecofriendly Promotional Products, Corporate Gifts, Printed Logo Items

New Eco Desk Accessories

Here is a new eco-friendly idea for a business giveaway that screams natural. It's a business card holder created from 100% recycled cardboard.  You can have your logo customized on the small top centered front panel.  It also has, debossed into each piece, the universal recycled symbol. I like how it easily collapses too, makes for a great light weight mailer. 

Or how about its little cousin the 100% recycled cardboard mouse pad?  Both are easily under $5.00 with a logo, useful and they clearly say eco-friendly branding. 

Did you see the new mouse pads created from recycled rubber tires?

I love those.  I always wonder what will become of all those tires you see on the side of the road piled up.  What could be done with them to make them useful?  I've come across a couple small items that may help us to utilize those old tires, logo jar openers and mouse pads.  We're getting there.

Got another one for you ~ Cool eco-friendly promotional product

Love 'em.

They are little eco notebooks.  Rather than blank paper within, they hold four pages of different sized recycled sticky notes.  The cover and back page are created from a 100% recycled paper board.

I think what I like best about this idea is the unexpected.  Since they are so new, people aren't thinking "little post its" when they open them.  They'll think clever new idea. Which is what you want them to think of your company, isn't it?  And offering so many sizes, there are little notes for all kinds of office needs from marking pages to leaving little recycled reminders for people.

There is a colored version too but you have to be able to compromise some of your recycling goals.  Only the eco brown notes will be created from 100% recycled materials the colored cover is created from paper board.  It's still strong baby steps to full green marketing.  You can still hold your head up and know you're doing the right thing as a company "Going green". 

If you need a full color branding vehicle for your message, know this can handle four color process on the cover too.  I hope you like them, I'm pretty sure your clients will.   

New Idea for Eco Meetings

New eco friendly logo product in the hood. 

This is perfect for the "one meeting" kind of event, where you have to give out something with your logo and you want to make a green corporate statement.  Just goes without saying you don't have a lot of money to spend and for sure you don't want the environment to take a hit. 

This is offered in all the new hip hues and the minimum to customize is 250 pieces to start. It has a soft saddle stitched cover, 20 lined pages within and each piece is created from 100% recycled material. 

I love new logo stuff that has a fresh look.

Biodegradable Trade Show Bags

A branders nightmare.  Your logo bag stuck in a tree, flapping in the wind for all to see.  Rats! That's going to leave a mark.

 
Good news ~ We can now customize, true ~ no confusion, biodegradable, reusable bags. The bags meet and exceed FTC regulations. They hit the environment, they begin to break down naturally.  You don't have to formally compost them.  If they do get mixed in with other recyclables, they're not going to contaminate the process.  And the price has dropped too, so you're not going to be punished for doing the right thing.

Here is what I found from the Federal Trade Commission's guidelines: "An unqualified claim that a product or package is degradable, biodegradable or photodegradable should be substantiated by competent and reliable scientific evidence that the entire product or package will completely break down and return to nature, i.e., decompose into elements found in nature within a reasonably short period of time after customary disposal." 

Here are some other clarifications I found: 

Biodegradable plastic - A plastic that biodegrades anywhere that natural organic material will biodegrade.

Compostable plastic - A plastic that biodegrades a little quicker and under more controlled conditions but certainly both aerobic and anaerobic and certainly not requiring extremely high temperatures.

Plastic that is Compostable in Municipal and Industrial Composting Facilities - A plastic that degrades very quickly under very specific conditions that requires a processor.

We like happy biodegradable plastic conference bags.

 

Every bag will also have a small symbol stating the guidelines they meet, so there will no be room for confusion.

Some day, when only biodegradable products are produced, people will look back at photos such as this and probably wonder what the heck we were thinking.

  

Until then we could make some nice furniture out of the bags?

This is so cool, have you seen the street art created by Josh Allen Harris in NYC?  He takes garbage bags and turns them into creatures utilizing the airflow created from the subway moving below the city.  His work is amazing.  Below is a photo of his bear and here is a video by New York Magazine explaining his animated bags.                Brand on...

Eco Friendly Conference Giveaway Ideas

This is a neat new idea ~ pre-packaged themed logo conference giveaways.  When it's conference planning time, you know how you're expected to provide a bag, but you also want to have more than just the printed collateral to hand out?  This could be the answer to one of your trade show giveaway dilemmas. 

There are three branded conservation themes:  Energy, Water and Fuel.  Each of the offered packages include a tote or a pouch which is green, reusable and recyclable.  Each one also includes a booklet full of extra ideas how to conserve our resources and save money.

The energy package has the tote.  It has a CFL light bulb packaged in a plastic globe.  To enhance the savings idea, the globe becomes a savings bank when the bulb is removed.  Also included is a refrigerator thermometer that helps you maintain the recommended temperature setting of your refrigerator.  Frig too cold -waste energy, too warm -risk salmonella poisoning ~ all useful with the booklet included too. 

My favorite is the logo water conservation kit.  It has the recyclable green pouch, the water saving idea booklet and it also has a tap water aerator which restricts the flow of water from your tap without reducing water pressure.  This eco branded giveaway includes a digital shower timer.  Simply attach the timer to the bathroom shower wall with the suction cup and the programmable timer will help you keep track of using water wisely.

The fuel conservation package is nice too.  This one also has the reusable/recyclable green pouch and a booklet chock full of fuel saving ideas as well as a tire pressure gauge, a tire tread gauge and a rechargeable flashlight. 

 

All simple, all useful eco friendly promotion ideas.  I hope you like them ~ brand on. 

eco friendly promotional

Here is a new green promotional item for 2009.  This guy makes me smile. The cup is a recyclable container with a standard fun earth design.  It contains a natural soil wafer and a seed packet with approximately 30 flower seeds.  Each arrives with a lid.

There are some fun branding options too that you can choose from.  The feet that you see, you can also do high heels, or you can just eliminate the foot stands and go with only logo green cups.

There are four standard cup styles to choose from, here is the eco calendar cup style: 

You also have the option to do a complete custom green eco cup, that's where the real fun comes in.  I can't wait to see what cool new ideas our clients come up with for their company's. 

It's the end of the year, new ideas for marketing and branding in 2009 will be popping up every day, stay tuned.  Have a great weekend and Brand on...

Rockin' the Logo

I always wanted to be a rock 'n roll girl. I know just creating my personal play lists don't count.  Thank God no one can hear me sing when I'm driving and all those concert mishaps over the years?  Well it looks like this is probably the closest I'll ever get.  I was so excited to get the call from Megaforce Records.  They wanted to use Absolute Promotions to produce their corporate holiday gifts for 2008.  They definitely wanted to produce USB drives.  They're getting behind the environment and wanted a biodegradable style, with a good memory count. (It all comes back to you)  Bounced around some ideas and the winner was a biodegradable black matte style customized flash drive with an epoxy dome format. 

Check out the custom holiday cards they created too.  That star you see tied with the red ribbon is made from seed paper and the body of the card is made from recycled paper.  What I like about this card manufacturer too, is that their manufacturing is powered from wind turbine energy.  I like how it all flows through ~ from their belief, to their production.  This is what was inscribed on the back of each card.  (Missi of Megaforce thought of everything ~ notice the recycled box the drive came in too?   Nice touch.)

Megaforce invited me to their headquarters for a visit a few weeks ago when I was in Manhattan. Best experience.  Megaforce rocks.

Going Green?

I was psyched when I found this new product being introduced. It's a customizable gift card that allows your clients to plant a tree in their name. I think it's a great trade show giveaway that won't break the bank and gives your brand a great heads up. (No one else is doing it yet ~ Love that)  It can be imprinted on seed paper and is done through a partnership with the global reforestation project.

Everybody wants to do their part to help the environment.  Us as individuals, as a family, as a community, we're thinking in new ways for a healthier planet.  Changing up the light bulbs to CFL, walking more, using recycled paper.  Recycling paper, cans and bottles. Buying smart products with less packaging, bringing our own shopping bags to the market. Blah blah blah...  I look forward to the day when all these steps are just a way of life, only biodegradable/recycled is offered to buy, everything is recycled.  You know what I mean. 

Committing as a corporation is a totally different ball game.  There can be hundreds of people you have to get on board, participating actively every day.  It starts at the top. Real green, providing options that will inspire individuals to take action.  It's in every department from Purchasing buying recycled supplies to Building Maintenance using green products to HR cutting down on hard copies to Marketing getting the word out environmentally smart.  Tough call when everyone is cutting budgets, we're all expected to do more with less.

Here is where I think this new eco branded product can come in as a new option for Marketing as a trade show giveaway.  It meets all the criteria:  Eco-friendly, inexpensive, fuzzy warm feeling, inexpensive to ship too, as beautiful as you'd like it to be, it's very cool and it also keeps the trade show booth looking neat.  Did I say no one else is doing it yet?  

Brand on... 

Street Smart Wind Energy T's

I went to a couple of festivals over the weekend in my area. The Chowderfest in Troy and the LarkFest in Albany. The weather was great, the bands rocked, the chowders were unique and the day was perfect.

I was surprised to see at LarkFest a vendor that was selling wind energy customized t-shirts.  A portion of the proceeds went to the windustry.org, an organization that promotes progressive renewable energy solutions.

I loved the green T design and had to get myself a little souvenir to remember my day. There was a lot of interest and a line at the booth, a good sign for the future and a strong sign for the popularity of Wind energy related promo items.

Wind Energy Giveaway

Isn't it beautiful?  I have been searching over 6 months for a desk size wind turbine that we could customize with a corporate logo.  I've finally found it.  

There are a lot of cool features offered on these customized wind turbines too.  You can do metal or plastic, white or silver, several logo placement options, and here is the best part ~ you can even have a solar panel placed on them that, when the wind turbine is exposed to the sun, will power the blades to spin.  Amazingly cool alternative energy corporate gift.