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Whether you’re looking for promotional items for an upcoming tradeshow, or need to design some unique wedding favors for your nuptuals, we’re proud to invite you to browse through our extensive selection of Clipart for you to choose from. We’ve got Clipart for birthday parties, holidays, baby showers, sporting events, and so much more.

In addition to our Clipart selection, we have a huge variety of fonts to choose from in order to create a customized promotional product or special event gift easily and with style.

Plus, our professional graphic artists can help to ensure that your Clipart is imprinted correctly and stylishly on your promotional product order. So get started today using our extensive Clipart selection with your next order from Discountmugs.com.

Check out our special sale today, where we’re offering closeout prices on some of our most popular products, including personalized champagne flutes, customized ceramic travel mugs, promotional pens, and more. While we always offer the lowest possible rates on the highest possible promotional products, our closeout sale gives you even better discounts than ever before!!

Print your school name or class year on a water bottle that your classmates will use.

Class reunion organizers: it’s time to start thinking about the party favors you’re going to give away at this year’s class reunion. Whether you’re celebrating your 5-year reunion, 10-year reunion, or more, having a customized give-away as a party favor can help to bring spirit to your class.

Here are some ideas for products that you can print with your class year, school name, a funny saying that pertains to your class, and more.

1. A high-quality pen with your class year and school on it.

2. A water bottle – BPA-free, of course! Got a funny image of your class president then and now? Imprint it on the water bottle for a laugh for everyone.

3. Say Cheers with a custom-printed beer glass. You may want to check with your school to make sure it’s okay to print the logo on a beer glass (if the reunion is for a high school).

4. Thank folks for making the trip with a custom-printed travel mug in your school colors.

5. Print your class yearbook photo onto a ceramic mug for a good laugh!

For more ideas for promotional products that you can customize, visit our site to browse through our extensive inventory of high-quality customizable products you’ll love.

Votive candle holders are elegant and stylish.

When it comes to personalizing your wedding, we think that personalized votive candle holders make an excellent and elegant option. Not only are personalized votive candles holders great for wedding favors, but they also provide a unique way to decorate.

Here are three ways that you can use personalized votive candle holders for your wedding:

1. Make a path to the reception. Make sure that your candles will last for more than an hour so that a pathway can be lit for your guests’ arrival. When you use votive candles along the path to your reception, you’ll not only ensure that your guests are greeted with elegance, but they will also be able to stay safely on the path!

2. Give personalized votive candle holders away as wedding favors with a cute message, like “I survived Beth and Danny’s wedding.” Your guests will love the personalized touch and humor!

Personalize your wedding favors with a humorous message on a votive candle holder.

3. Decorate the reception tables with personalized votive candle holders. Put a place setting card into each holder, or use votive candle holders of varying heights as a centerpiece to add an elegant dimension with a personalized touch.

We’ve known for quite awhile now that many hard plastic water bottles are made with a polycarbonate that leaks potentially unsafe chemicals into the water. (If you haven’t heard about this, check out this article.) According to a National Toxicology report, bisphenol A – the chemical leaked by many water bottles that contain a #7 on the bottom – may alter human development. In fact, bisphenol A is said to function in much the same way as estrogen, which can be damaging for males.

However, we also know that reusable water bottles are excellent not only because they encourage people to drink a healthy amount of water each day, but also because they reduce water bottle waste on the environment. In order to ensure that our customers can continue to have custom-printed water bottles, we’ve revamped our water bottle inventory to include all BPA-free materials, including steel, aluminum, polycarbonate and more.

Our customers can get hard plastic water bottles, soft plastic, or stainless steel to meet their varying needs. Plus, these water bottle shapes and materials are trendy!

Trendy Custom-printed Water Bottles

Promotional pens help businesses get recognized and remembered.

Did you know just how popular promotional products are to businesses? Promotional products not only provide an effective advertising mechanism, but they also provide a trendy way for businesses to stay in the forefront of the minds of their customers.

According to a recent article by Ethan Woods, “a study conducted by Baylor University suggests that customers who receive a promotional product with a sales letter will view your company and its sales reps 52% more favorably than customers who receive a sales letter without a promotional product.”

Plus, said Woods, when a representative delivered the sales letter, the representative was viewed as being more competant by 16-34 percent than representatives that did not bring pens.

What does that mean for your business? It means that investing in promotional pens with your company name, logo, or message on them can actually make a huge difference to your advertising campaigns.

Of course, we recommend that you choose the right pens for your business by reviewing this blog about how consumers need promotional products that have a high perceived value rating. The better the promotional pen, the more it will be used and the more favorably the user will view your business.

If you are like many businesses that use promotional products for special events, you’ve learned that high-quality promotional products are not only used by your customers and future customers, but they also are highly effective in sending business your way. From time to time, you may find that you have printed a few too many of a promotional product for a special event. Don’t worry – you’re not alone. It’s difficult to guess how many people will attend each trade show, workshop, or other special event.

But what do you do with the extra promotional prodcuts? If you can’t reuse them for another upcoming event or around your office, then we suggest doing what the Promotional Products International Corporation did and donate those extra products to Kids in Need (or a charity of your choice). Last year, Promotional Products International Corporation collected more than $36 million worth of promotional products that they were able to donate to folks that could use them. Here’s an article you may find inspiring.

At Discountmugs.com, we’re always looking for ways to help you find the lowest prices on produts you need in order to make a difference in your business. We encourage you to always look for opportunities to make a difference in your community!

Extra promotional pens can be donated to local schools for children to use.

I recently came across this fascinating article about promotional products and brand names. This particular article focuses on promotional products in terms of clothing that can be worn. However, the principals that are outlined in this article can apply to all promotional products.

According to the article, there are four selling points for pushing wearable promotional products. Regardless of whether the promotional product is wearable (like a sweater), or something that your customers will carry around, like a travel mug) these principals are important concepts for all businesses using promotional products to keep in mind (republished from here):

1. Consumers want it. Surveys show that consumers are reducing their overall spend on apparel, so a client?s target audience is more receptive right now to receiving high-quality items. They may not be spending on clothes otherwise, so your clients should give it to them.

2. Durability. Recipients tend to hang onto wearables much longer than other items. In a recent report from ASI titled the Advertising Specialties Impressions Study, consumers said they used wearable items they received five times per month. And, they said they kept the items on average for nine months.

3. High perceived value. Promotional apparel, because people end up using it often, has a higher perceived value than many other promotional gifts.

4. Price. While high-end branded apparel can be a big seller in a downtime (thanks to the impressive perceived value), T-shirts and other wearables can be purchased at a very low cost. That price point can be very attractive to clients right now.

What can businesses take from this article about all promotional products? Basically, give away promotional products that have a high perceived value so that customers will use them and value them. Make sure the products are trendy, too, so that they will actually be used with pride!

Last week, Congress passed the nearly $800 billion stimulus package, which is designed to help jump-start the U.S. economy. In the package, there are $615 million set aside for small businesses. Because so many of our customers are small businesses, we’re interested in ways that our services can help them to get lower prices, better advertising methods, and reliable partnerships with companies like ours.

According to the Promotional Products Business magazine, this is what the package includes for small businesses:

• Designating $615 million to support guaranteed loans to small businesses and $24 million for critical technical assistance for microloan borrowers.
  
• Extending the carryback period for net operating losses (NOLs), even in profitable years, from two years to five years for NOLs that occurred in taxable years ending in 2008 and 2009. Note: The compromise bill permits only companies with $15 million in gross revenues to account for the losses five years back, according to the most recent news reports.
  
• Extending the 2008 stimulus bill provision that allowed trades and businesses to depreciate an additional 50 percent of the cost of assets that were acquired and put into service in 2008.
  
• Increasing the exclusion for individuals on the gain from the sale of certain small business stock held for more than five years from 50 percent to 75 percent. These changes are for stock issued after the date of enactment and before January 1, 2011.
• Expanding the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) to include homeless veterans and disadvantaged youth as qualified target groups.

Just because the economy is unpredictable doesn’t mean your business should close or stop advertising. With our low prices and highly effective promotional products, we can help you save money while continuing to promote your business in an effective manner. We encourage you to look through our inventory of promotional products to find the right custom-printed advertising resources for you.