Compressed tote bags are the natural progression of compressed tee shirts. They combine the popularity and usefulness of tote bags along with the eye grabbing attraction of a custom shape. It’s a powerful one- two marketing punch. If you have never seen a compressed t-shirt, they consist of an imprinted tee shirt that is folded [...]
Green Products
Paper web keys may be the most innovative product that we have seen in years. They are the perfect bridge between paper (old school media) and digital (new school media). First, a paper web key is a USB device that is inserted on a piece of printed media. When plugged into a computer’s USB port, it automatically links [...]
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Everyone seems to be in the business of being green. Our new office cleaning service even asked us if we wanted them to use green cleaning products. Of course we replied yes, we are in the business of selling green promotional products right! Over the past year MCM has consulted with many of our clients [...]
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Recently our good friends at Foodell.com purchased some promotional shopping bags from us. We advised them to look at the laminated recycled bags that are featured in our 2-18-2010 post. These clients are savvy marketers and they saw the value of the stock design imprinted with their logo. Promotional shopping bags are really hot right now [...]
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In the 1967 film the Graduate, Ben, played by Dustin Hoffman is told one word, “Plastics”. In these past 43 years plastics have impacted our lives from consumer products to medical devices. Only recently years have scientists at the CDC using very advanced biomonitoring equipment have found traces of 212 environmental chemicals inside our bodies. [...]
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Earth Day 2010 marks the 40th anniversary of this important event that has raised global awareness on the issues regarding the health of our environment. For the sake on staying on message, let’s exclude the controversy of global warming. Pollution, conservation of natural resources and intelligent energy consumption should be part of our everyday practices. [...]
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Can you get excited about apromotional shopping bag or tote? We think you can. Just think back a couple of years ago when 100’s of millions of us simply walked out of stores carrying all of our goods in plastic. The issues to our environment are staggering. It is calculated that we are using over [...]
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Banner bags, recycled totes, recycled billboard totes… everyone calls them by a different name but I am getting ahead of myself. Each year thousands of artistically designed banners, billboards and truck tarpaulins are created and summarily tossed in landfills. These PVC and polypropylene materials do not biodegrade and become an environmental blight. Don’t despair, we [...]
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Back on May 20, 2009 we wrote about our efforts on how we would truly explore being green and what changes we could make to do a better job at it. In the Niagara Falls blog spot we spoke about the changes that we made to our shower heads and projected what the potential savings [...]
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On the way back from a sales call Chris asked, why were driving a gas sucking albeit really cool looking German SUV? I did not have a good answer. We had made a commitment to looking at every environmental and ecological aspect of our personal and business lives and this was the perfect opportunity to [...]
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