Best Ways to Ensure Repeat Business

Published On September 15, 2012
If you have managed to attract a new customer to your business, it is extremely important that you do everything you can to make them want to come back again. The more repeat business you can get, the less you will have to concentrate on finding ways to bring new people in, so make sure your customers have more than enough reason to come back. The following is a look at some of the best ways to ensure repeat business.
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Ideas for Promoting Your Business With Minimal Costs

Published On August 15, 2012
If you are looking for ways to promote your business but don’t have a lot of money to spend, don’t worry, because what you lack in financial support you can certainly make up for with creativity and effort. Often, the best ways to promote your business won’t cost a lot of money, so think carefully about how you are doing your business promotions, and make sure you are getting the best possible value for your money. The following is a
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Promoting Your Business at Trade Shows

Published On July 30, 2012
Finding the right ways to promote your business can be a significant challenge, but one way that is effective for a lot of businesses is by taking part in trade shows. However, just setting up a booth at a trade show won’t guarantee you success, as you will have to also do all the right things to promote your business while you are there. Otherwise, your trade show investment can easily end up being a waste of money. The following
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How to Reduce the Environmental Impact of Your Business

Published On July 20, 2012
Every business should do whatever it can to be as environmentally friendly as possible. Doing so is important for both the sake of the environment and the business, as these days, an increasing number of consumers are looking to support businesses that are more eco-friendly. There are a lot of easy ways to reduce your business’s environmental impact, and you may find that quite a few of your staff are excited to help out with the changes. The following is
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How Do Fairtrade Products Help the World?

Published On July 10, 2012
Fairtrade products are a fantastic example of the way all trade should be, because unless the workers, their families and communities are getting a good deal out of the exchange, it is hard to feel good about buying products with a history of exploitation. Whether you are buying art, school bags or coffee, if you have the choice, always buy Fairtrade. The following is a look at some of the reasons why. Protects workers and their families One of the
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4 Reasons Why Reusable Items Breed Customer Confidence

Published On April 15, 2012
There are many good reasons why businesses choose reusable items for promotional purposes. Not only are reusable items often practical and much appreciated by customers, they can effectively show that your business cares about the environment enough to develop promotional items that reduce negative environmental impacts. Essentially, customers value promotional items that help them to fulfil a need and can be repeatedly used. Here we look at four specific reasons why reusable items have such great appeal for customers and
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3 Ways to Demonstrate Your Business’ Commitment to the Environment

Published On March 15, 2012
It is not only individuals that can and should care about the impacts they have on the environment. At a more macro level, businesses also have a serious responsibility in terms of demonstrating their commitment to sustainability and environmental protection; many customers are immediately attracted to businesses that give serious treatment to this responsibility. You are unlikely to have the opportunity to have customers sit and down and listen to your organisational policy around environmental protection, but there are a
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3 Things that Impress Customers

Published On February 15, 2012
We live in a world where competition for market share and customer loyalty is fierce. Businesses always need to be doing things well in order to impress potential and actual customers and create and maintain a positive impression of their organisation. In light of this, it is common for forward thinking businesses to always be seeking innovative ways to impress customers. Not only does such creativity delight customers when they receive products or services that effectively address their needs, it
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3 Ways to promote Your Business this Christmas

Published On January 15, 2012
It is that time of the year again – Christmas – and while for many of us it means holidays, celebrations and time with family and friends, for most of us it definitely means shopping. Christmas shopping is an unavoidable task for most of us and you only need to have visited the stores lately to appreciate how many people are now turning their attention to Christmas purchases. For retailers of all types, sizes and purposes, the silly season presents
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4 Reasons Why Customers Value Reusable Bags

Published On December 30, 2011
Of all the items that all sorts of people use and reuse, green bags must be one of the most popular. People love to receive an item such as a promotional bag for nothing and take delight when the item is something so useful and practical that it meets their needs and can be used repeatedly. For businesses looking to provide promotional items that customers truly value, there is no better choice that reusable bags. Customers love to receive environmentally
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3 of the Best Promotional Items

Published On December 22, 2011
If your business is serious about using promotional items to increase awareness and drive customers to you, some careful and strategic thought needs to be invested in the selection of the items that will represent your business. It is no secret that actual and potential customers most often love getting an item for free, but it certainly matters to them that the promotional items they receive are useful, practical, something they want and something of high quality. While promotional items
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How to Impress Customers with Green Bags

Published On December 14, 2011
Many businesses go to great lengths (and great expense) to find way to positively impress both actual and potential customers. Astute business owners and managers realise that in order to gain an edge on their competitors, an organisation needs to be strategic and often creative in the ways that it provides service to its customers. Green bags are one of the best ways for a business to impress customers and these bags have the added benefit of longevity. Designed for
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How to Use Bags to Showcase the Values of Your Company

Published On December 7, 2011
When in business, there is absolutely no shortage of things to consider and tend to. You naturally need to be mindful of issues relating to personnel and productivity, as well as promotion, market share and inventory control. One of the most significant and influential matters for any business to consider is how it is perceived by actual and potential customers. In order for customers to understand and feel an affinity with your business, they need to know something about what
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4 Advantages of Reusable Bags

Published On November 30, 2011
While the advantage of reusable bags can be many and varied, they can essentially be classified in four main ways: environmental, promotional, versatile and reliable. It is little wonder that so many businesses opt to use promotional bags for marketing purposes and to expand their reach into diversified markets. 1:  Environmental advantages of reusable bags It is not uncommon for reusable shopping bags to be referred to as ‘green bags’. Although these bags are often comparable to plastic bags in
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5 Low Cost, High Impact Ways to Promote Your Business

Published On November 22, 2011
With competition for business being fierce, businesses of all types, sizes and purposes find themselves searching for ways to promote themselves in creative and effective ways. When a business decides to invest in marketing and promotional activities, they want to maximise the value of their dollar and see the promotional activities translate to results. Of course, every business wants to expand its customer base and constantly reach new markets. Very often, a business that is experiencing some financial hardship or
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5 Great Varieties of Reusable Bags

Published On November 14, 2011
When you are thinking of reusable bags, you are probably quick to think of green bags – the trusty and reliable reusable shopping bags -- that we tend to pick up and use from the supermarket or have passed on to us for free by other retailers or businesses. Green bags are an excellent example of reusable bags but, in this day and age, there is a much broader and great selection of reusable bags to choose from. While many
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5 Things You Can Do to Be Greener Now

Published On November 7, 2011
If you care about being responsible and proactive to protect the environment, you will perhaps understand that there is a plethora of things that a person can do to be more green. Adopting a focus on the environment and ‘greening’ your lifestyle need not be expensive; such efforts can in fact save you considerable amounts of money. There really is no end to the number of things that we can all do to be increasingly environmentally responsible. Here we examine
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4 of the Best Reusable Items

Published On October 30, 2011
In life, we tend to accumulate a lot of stuff – some of it useful and beneficial and some of it not so useful and beneficial. When things are practical, durable and meet our particular needs, they suddenly become all the more useful and favoured in our day to day activities. In thinking of the environment and the need to reuse and recycle, it is a bonus to be able to repeatedly use a useful item; here we take a
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8 Reasons to Use Reusable Bags

Published On October 22, 2011
The versatility and functionality, together with their appearance and design, provide very good reasons to use reusable bags. There are many good reasons to provide and distribute promotional bags and even better reasons for consumers to use and reuse these bags. 1:  Many people really appreciate the fact that promotional bags, when made from biodegradable and compostable materials, are good for the environment. These bags also extend protection to animals – both land and marine based. While some plastic bags
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3 Tips for Raising Your Business’ Profile with Bags

Published On October 14, 2011
Promotional bags are valued by consumers and are by far the most effective promotional item in terms of raising your profile and driving customers to your business. As we so often see, retailers make extensive use of green bags and other reusable bags and now, so do companies of varying types, sizes and purposes. What all of these companies realise, is that promotional bags have uncapped potential to increase exposure of your brand (and thereby raise your profile) as well
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5 Benefits of Promotional Bags

Published On October 7, 2011
Essentially, the benefits of using promotional bags extend to both your business and the environment. An ever-increasing number of businesses are recognising the value of providing green bags or other eco friendly bags in an effort to consolidate their brand and facilitate exposure to a broad and varied audience. Specifically though, what are the most significant benefits of promotional bags? 1:  Contribution to sustainability and environmental protection As awareness of the extent of existing (and on-going) environmental damage grows, it
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Four Ways to Increase Awareness of Your Business

Published On September 30, 2011
Every ambitious and motivated business owner or manager is always looking for ways to increase sales, increase profitability and acquire more customers. While these business goals are important and much desired, businesses are most commonly aware and mindful of the fact that they want to promote their business in a cost-effective manner. The good news is that there a number of proven ways to effectively promote a business without spending exorbitant sums of money. Here we take a look at
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How Do Green Bags Impact the Environment?

Published On September 23, 2011
There is great and an ever-growing awareness of the ways that plastic bags can have a negative impact on the environment. Traditionally and historically, the processes used in the manufacture and production of plastic bags have had a less than kind and desirable effect on the environment and green bags have been touted as a more environmentally friendly alternative. How do Australians use plastic bags? Just four years ago in 2007, it was estimated that 3.9 billion plastic bags were
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5 Reasons Why Promotional Products Work

Published On September 15, 2011
Many of the most useful and frequently used items around us are promotional items. When you stop to think about it, many items such as pens, mouse pads, green bags, magnets and coffee mugs are imprinted with a company logo and are often acquired free of charge. Promotional products do work in raising awareness and the profile of your business. In addition, they are so often effective in bringing new customers to your business and having existing customers return for
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How to Be an Eco-friendly Shopper

Published On September 7, 2011
Many of us have good intentions when it comes to the sorts of bags that we use and want to behave in environmentally sound ways and use eco-friendly products. Many people acknowledge the harm of plastic bags and the benefits of reusable green bags, but beyond this, there is some doubt about how we can be eco-friendly shoppers. Paper or plastic? Because many consumers understand that plastic bags pose environmental threats through the processes and materials used for their production,
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