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Maria Duval

Maria Duval is the assumed name of a psychic (currently living in France) who’s made a reputation for herself. If you’ve gotten an email or letter recently saying you’re going to win the lottery or face certain doom without her help, then it wasn’t from her. Maria Duval sold Read the rest of this entry »

The People’s Program at thepeoplesprogram.com is an illegal cash gifting program. If you’re researching them or involved in it, this is probably not what you want to hear, but I’ll prove it to you during this review.

The main page in warm and fuzzy, they go on in every way about how it’s not a business, nobody makes or earns money, and lots of pictures of families with kids. It’s not until you enter the password and see the rest that they Read the rest of this entry »

Ignite Marketing offers a wide variety of items such as clocks, watches, keychains, and so on with your corporate logo silkscreened into them. There’s just about everything here from food gifts to golf clubs and the pricing is really very competitive.
Of course the most useful person for these types of gifts is giving them to customers or vendors so they have a calculator or pen with your company logo on it in front of them each day. If you have a smaller company then it might be wiser to make a logo with your web site domain or just an 800 number made into it as well.

When doing some comparison shopping with similar places (like some specialty pen retailers who so silkscreening) they are very competititve. These are inexpensive items meant to be given away at trade shows and customers or clients. The difference with Ignite is they have such a broad selection of products compared to any other I found, so the one stop shopping aspect of it is nice. Also you can order a sample of just one to try items out before getting hundreds of something to check out quality (especially important with things like food items).

This strategy is all about building customer loyalty with gifts, as well as promoting your company logo. I personally would stick to items that people will use over the years, like a car dealer giving away free tire pressure gauges at local car show, pens of course for retail stores to give to customers, whatever is specific to your industy. I’d also call them when you’ve decided to get a firm ship date if you’re planning a giveaway for a trade show or something with a fixed deadline.

While it’s not going to get viewed as much as more permanent items, I really like the fortune cookies with your logo on the wrapper and a custom fortune you can write that’s baked inside. They score high marks on variety and price for customized items.