Personalized temporary tattoos are not just for children anymore. They are quickly becoming a marketing phenomenon. The change in public perception of tattoos has significantly shifted in the past decade, opening the way for personalized temporary tattoos to become a factor in promotional marketing.

These temporary tattoo’s can now support multiple ways to either market one’s brand or drive awareness to a good cause. Here are some examples:

• School or sports club fan support
• Cause awareness (Cancer research, MS, AIDS, Animal Rights)
• Charitable walks
• Community events
• Corporate team building events
• New product introductions
• Event ticketing
• Cheerleading
• Brand awareness
• Promotions
• Corporate Programs

The uses are limited only by one’s imagination. There are hundreds of stock images and at MCM, we can help you design a custom image in a matter of days.

If you are ready to learn more about how you can use personalized temporary tattoos, give us a call at 888-344-6060 or click on Info and Pricing.

SAMPLE of STOCK IMAGES

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Personalized lanyards have always been a popular item with our corporate clients. We just recently learned that they have an even broader appeal. Every several years we donate MCM’s excess samples to a charity yard sale. At this year’s event the most popular item was unquestionably the container with personalized lanyards.

It was no surprise, when you look carefully at all off the personalized lanyard options it became self evident that there are almost countless uses other than holding an ID tag around ones head. Just look at how many travelers are wearing their travel documents in plain sight at the TSA inspection points. Today we virtually never sell a custom lip balm without it being attached to a personalized lanyard.

Let’s look at what your choices are when creating your every own personalized lanyard.

Personalized Lanyard Materials
• Bamboo
• Cotton
• Cord
• Denim like
• Dye – Sublimation
• Neoprene
• Non – Flip Knitted Cotton
• Nylon
• Polyester
• Recycled PET
• Reflective
• Stretchy Elastic
• Tie – Dye
• Vinyl

Personalized Lanyard Attachments
• Vinyl Snap Clamshell
• Plastic Bulldog Clip
• Metal Bulldog Clip
• Plastic Swivel Hook
• Metal Swivel Hook
• Vinyl Snap
• Metal Split ring
• Full Color Dome on Clamshell
• Plastic o-Ring
• Accessories Loop
• Snap Hooks
• Convenience Release
• Slide Release
• Neck Wallets

The team at MCM has been helping clients make the best choices in designing perfect personalized lanyards to meet every requirement and price point. Give us a call today at 888-344-6060 or e-mail us with your requirements at sales@mcmproductions.com

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Custom keychains continue to be one of the top selling promotional items. We particularly like to use them with any auto related such as insurance, car detailing, auto repair, sales and tires. But let’s not limit them as they are also ideal as a commemorative piece or a way to introduce a new product. We also believe that if you want your custom keychains to have the greatest impact that it should have lenticular printing.

Lenticular is the fancy name for images that appear to move or change when viewed from different angles. As children we used to get lenticular images on the toys that we found in our Cracker Jack boxes. These changing images connect us to our inner child and put a smile on our faces. This is priceless as your brand and service is linked to a very positive impression.

While there are large number of stock lenticular images available for your custom keychain, we can also help you create a 3D, annimation, morphing or flip image to promote your brand. The really exciting news is that these lenticular custom keychains are surprisingly affordable.

There is so much more to say about custom keychains and lenticular printing. Give us a call right now at 888-344-6060 or e-mail us at sales@mcmproductions.com

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Looking for niche product for women? Read on. Promotional nail files or custom nail files will make a strong impression. Am I sounding a bit sexist? That is not the intention. How frequently does the average woman grab a nail file and do a quick touch up? Based on my observations, it is a regular occurrence.

Promotional nail files or custom nail files provide what is called a high CPI (cost per impression). Simply put: cost of the product / number of times viewed. A nail file is the ideal product to accomplish this for this niche market and it’s not just for beauty salons either. Think spas, women’s conventions, conferences, sporting events and more.

There are a large number of vendors that offer these, but the key to a successful promotion is selecting the vendor that fits your quality, price and impression goal. That’s were MCM and 23 years of experience will guide you to the right promotional nail file or custom nail file to meet your requirements.

We will take the time to listen to your objectives and show you everything from the basic promotional nail file to the incredibly vivid Fotofile. Fotofile’s tag line is, “If it can be printed on paper, we can put it on a file”.  You have to see one to believe it. Call us for a sample at 888-344-6060 or e-mail sales@mcmproductions.com

Have you ever faced the challenge of marketing a new flavor or taste?  Here’s a great way to do it. We have found one of the most incredible lip balm applications on the planet. LIP BALM?

Yes lip balm that comes in 11 flavors including green tea, pomegranate and vanilla bean but it can be taste bud matched to almost anything. Pretty cool! It does not stop there.

It also features an Exclusive Peel-Away Wrapper Technology. This permits you to not only put a custom message on the outside, but on the inside of the wrapper you can offer gift for purchase rewards, music down loads, movie tickets, phone time, ring tones and well, the list is endless.

This puppy is a marketing professional’s dream. We can’t wait to discuss more with you. Give us a call at 888-644-6060

UPDATE: Our good friends at the New York Times just published an interesting brief article on this topic, ” It’s the Scent that Tickles the Memory“. We think it’s an intersting quick read and it really validates why flavor and taste are so important.

Porky Pig? OK, he’s the least offensive image that relates to the swine flu. Yesterday I walked a promotional products trade show with the boss. I watched her stop at a both that sold healthcare products. She took a number of hand sanitizer samples and put them in my tote bag. What do we need these for?

Me, well I am not the brightest bulb in the chandelier. On the drive home she explained that with the recent outbreak of the swine flu people were going to be much more aware of flu prevention health habits. Obviously this was a perfect time to help our clients promote their brand and affix the message that they care by sending a very useful product that is impeccably timed to this global event.

This is guerrilla marketing at its best. When you can speedily seize a moment and at the same time do something that is genuinely smart and helpful, you have a winning combination.

Chris and the team have a bunch of sanitizer type products to show you.  Call us at 888-344-6060 and we can help you react quickly to this opportunity.

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The most recent industry data shows that the Cost Per Impression (CPI) of an Advertising Specialty item is $.004 which is $.0022 less than the next lowest media.

These products are unquestionably the most cost effective vehicle to get your message to your audience. This made me think back of the almost countless number of things that were given to me over my 30 plus year long career in high tech. Back in about 1985 I was VP of Product Marketing and I was given a Dopp kit (aka toiletries kit) with the logo of one of our suppliers. It was of decent quality and I immediately used it to replace the sad looking one that I had been using for years. This promotional item then became my traveling companion for over 20 years and over 2 million miles. It was only recently retired when my wife gave me a new one as a gift.

The item probably cost about $12 back then and I estimate that I saw their logo over 22,500 times. That’s a CPI of $.0005. Pretty cost effective!!!

When you are selecting an item to promote your brand or any other message, think about how useful the item will be, its quality and for how long will it be sending your message.

Give us a call at MCM at 888-344-6060 and we can help you with the right choice.