Rebuilding Together - WD-40 helping find the Tradesperson of the Year

With the Kickoff of the Football Season, WD-40, along with other promotion partners are kicking off the Rebuilding Together Tradesperson of the Year campaign.

Those that may know someone in the trades, are welcome to nominate them to win a chance for a trip to the 2011 Super Bowl in Dallas Texas.

This program has so many good things going for it. Recognizing people who give back to their communities, while they go about the hard work it is to get business and industry back on track during our economic recovery.

Incentives West and our Supplier Partner Natural Trends are happy to be partnered with WD-40 and are looking forward to how folks in our Promotional Marketing industry will be promoting this event and helping to get tradespeople the recognition they deserve for all that they do.

For more information on the Program visit : Rebuilding Together Tradesperson of the Year

Get Noticed: Good Info from PR Pro Lisa Horn

Check out this presentation from Lisa Horn or Spark. Great information for Suppliers or anyone that needs to build their visibility platforms. THANKS LISA!

Get Noticed: Good Info from Lisa Horn

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Paying it Forward

Throughout our lives there are moments when we all have relied on the help of others to get us through certain situations.

Many of us have donated some time, energy or other resources with our families, workplaces, faith groups and neighbors to help to make others lives a little better through volunteerism. The concept of "Paying it Forward" is instilled in many of us from what seems to always come back to us via the good feelings and sense of contribution, when you help out others.

Over the last few weeks, I've floated the idea of coming up with a specific day in the year, where individuals can get together with their neighbors, friends, families, suppliers or customers in their communities and find ways to help out. The response has been amazing. Not only have folks offered up their commitment to set aside a day, but many are asking how they can help further . . how they can have their companies or organizations involved . . and how they are planning on including even more people from beyond our industry to get out and help.

We've select Saturday November 6th as our first annual Promotional Professionals Pay if Forward Day.

We have a Facebook Fan Page for now at:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Promotional-Professionals-Pay-it-Forward-Day/138625939511482?ref=ts

Look for more information there, here and via many of the other organizations that have offered up to help get the word out.

For those of you that would like to assist even further, please leave a comment here on this blog post.

Thank you to everyone for what they do to make their communities a better place!

In John Medina's New York Time's Bestselling Book BRAIN RULES. . . He regularly discusses the stimulation of multiple senses, in order to make a memorable experience even more memorable.

Think about it, how many senses are in play when you are out at that favorite club of yours? The Sights, Sounds, Touches, Tastes, and yes, Smells.

When you are sitting and sipping your favorite coffee at your favorite local Barista's . . .

Customers are always looking for proven products that help them in their branding, recognition and trade show events to help them stand out.

Incentives West and our team of Supplier Partners have products that engage the recipients.

Handstands with their pleasant smells for the car and aroma therapy A-Roma Stress Balls

Natural Trends, with their pleasing smells and touch of their Sanitizer and lotions

Outdoor Caps w/ their feel of their quality caps and the new "Hi Beam" cap w/ light in visor.

Howard Miller with their clean lines and quality of sight of their clocks / timepieces

HPC with their comfortable writing instruments

Harry & David to Quality Premium Food gifts fill the tastebuds.

Visit our Website at http://www.incentiveswest.com or right here at our FB Fan Page for more information. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Incentives-West/233241735227?ref=mf

Natural Health Care Products finding popularity

As more and more people are looking to more natural ways of taking care of themselves, unique branded health care items are finding their way into branding opportunities for companies.

Natural Trends www.NaturalTrends.com have brought to market many products that cover both needs.

Especially as the Spring and Summer months come along and more time is spent outside, these products help to bring through a branded impression with each and every use.

You can call for these through your local Promotional Consultant, or visit www.IncentivesWest.com and we'll hook you up with one.

Wear Pink for A Cure

About two years ago, I made a commitment to begin to work with my network, to begin a program of awareness and education for Breast Cancer Awareness.

This past week, I formally announced to the industry just part of the commitment that my company Incentives West has made.

I will spend the coming months coming up with more programs, and opportunities for more people to be a part of the awareness, commitment, funding, learning and more toward the cure.

Visit http://www.wearpinkforacure.org/ for more information, as it becomes available.

Keeping up with your Circles of Influence

Last week, I spent most of the week, learning with, networking, golfing and dining some of the most influencial folks in our Promotional Marketing industry.

A couple of the take-aways that I found there was to make sure that you are keeping yourself and your personal brand in-tune with some of the most influencial folks that you know of in your industry.

One of our most interesting exercises, what to have each of our (60) attendees take on a personna of a very influencial person in business, politics, technology and the internet. After learning a little more about that individual, we were to bring back to our group, what we (as that person) would suggest for our industry practioners to incorporate, in order to assist our Association members in their business growth.

http://www.ppai.org/ is our industry association.

I'll continue to post out here as regularly as I can to assist industry professionals, and company marketing professionals in their quest to find the best value incorporating promotional products and incentives into their brand, recognition and marketing programs