A Phone Call

Last Friday I received a phone call from a prospective customer. Normally this wouldn't surprise me but this one did. She told me that she is a member of a local Church and that they are having a Women's conference in April and would love to have a gift to hand out to the attendees. Last year she said one of the ladies in the congregation hand crocheted 200 book marks as their gift...I'm thinking to myself how can I beat that...but this year she was thinking that she wanted a magnet or some other gift/giveaway with their logo imprinted. No Worries! I can handle that!
I asked about budget, she didn't know.
I asked if she knew about how much she wanted to spend, she didn't know but said that she wanted to be careful with the Lords money. Being a church I'm sure they have a small budget what ever it may be. Plus I don't think I could live with myself if I charged them full price for what ever gift they do choose. I mean come on...it's a Church.
What she said next made the hair on my arms stand up!
She said she opened the phone book and the Good Lord lead her to me!
Really, the hair stood up on my arm and I had a rush of...emotion...becuase I didn't know I was even listed in the phone book. If it is listed then it is just the name of the company and phone #. Which means she skipped over all of the other larger and more colorful advertisements to find me.
HOW COOL IS THAT!!
I pray every night for God to give me strength to be the best I can be and to give me guidance with my business...and for her to call and say that just gave me chills all over!

The Good Lord works in mysterious ways and I know he is extremely busy with all of the other problems in the world than to worry about whether or not I'm making money...but...to me at least...it seems he's been listening.

Eco-Friendly Bags

ECO-FRIENDLY BAG AND HOLDER

Eco-Friendly Bags come in so many different shapes and sizes. A lot of the time the only thing that does make a Bag Eco-Friendly is that it is reusable. Which does help with the amount of Plastic bags that we accumulate at a grocery store. Especially with the, trying to be helpful, cashier ends up placing one or two items in ONE plastic bag instead of filling them up.
I guess you could say that the only bag that is 100% Eco-Friendly would be if it come from 100% Organic Cotton...which of course drives up the price.
Either way, if you are using Eco-Friendly or 100% Organic bags then you are doing your part to help the environment.
If you would like to include Eco-Friendly or 100% Organic bags into one of your Company Promotions...then I can HOOK YOU UP!
For instance, the bag shown in the picture is an Eco-Friendly Non-Woven Reusable Grocery Tote that comes in a variety of colors.
Price for 150 to 500 pcs with a 1 color imprint is $1.70 each.
The Set up fee is $50.00

You can even purchase a handy dandy bag hook which makes it a lot easier when trying to tote 3, 4, 5 even 6 bags to your car while fumbling around trying to find you keys.
Price for 72 to 1008 pcs with a 1 color imprint is $2.85 each

For more information on how you can purchase these items either together or separate please contact me
I would love you help you help Mother Nature!!

List Caddy

The List Caddy

The is the perfect promotional product for a Grocery Store, Pharmacy or Speciality Food Store.

The List Caddy is a shopping aid that fits on the handle of your shopping cart and allows you to have both hands free.

Comes in several different colors and we can also match your Corporate PMS color at a higher quantity.

Price for 250 pcs with a 1 color imprint is $2.45 each

Price for 500 pcs with a 1 color imprint is $1.85 each

Set up fee is $62.50

For more information on how you can order please contact me.

Snow

I love snow days!
As a kid it meant a day or two out off from school. We would wake up early in the morning to see how much had fallen then plan our day. The sheer excitement of the of a whole out of school playing in the snow was felt not only by my sister and myself but also by my mom. She was just excited as we were about the day because she would have a day off of work to stay home with us. We would go sledding, build snowmen, have snowball fights and bake! Robyn and I would go outside and play for a while then come back in to the smell of all kinds of cookies baking.
Patrick street where we lived would pretty much shut down. All of the kids and parents would meet at the corner of Patrick and Moncure street where the sledding hill was. Some days we would have the parent come out and start a huge bon fire right in the middle of the street and we would spend all day out there sledding and playing around. I remember one snow day Franklin Rick pulled us all around with his bronco with a knee board tied to the back of it. IT WAS SOO MUCH FUN!! We would also walk down to Eden Drug to get a grilled cheese sandwich and french fries.
Now that I'm a little older I still love snow days but they usually mean sitting on my couch with my files and my laptop working instead of at my desk. It is still considered a snow day to me so I have to be brazen in some aspects. No sledding, but sometimes I still make time for a snow angle or two.

Cell Phone Charging Station contact.

As I mentioned earlier today I was in Las Vegas for my annual trade show where all of my vendors displayed all of their latest and greatest items for 2009.

The Cell Phone Charging Station is one item that I found that is really cool! With the cord wrapped around the station it keeps people or in my case animals from tripping over the cord.

It comes is several different colors.
Green (displayed)

Black

Royal Blue

Red

White

Pricing includes a 1 color imprint

Minimum QTY is only 50 pcs

Price is $2.75 each with a one time set up fee of $50.00

Contact me for more information on how to order

Working

By the way Rod...that's my boss...I'm no longer sitting on the couch. I am sitting at my dest working ;-)

A new year

I realize that the new year is already well into it's 19th day but I have just returned from my trade show in Las Vegas where my company MadeToOrder has energized me with new possibilities for the company. We discussed new ways to reach out to our current customer base as well as cultivating relationships with a new customer base.
So...I'm sitting here on my couch watching the Today show and expanding my knowledge of the web...like blogging. I guess you could say this is my first blog and I'm looking forward to writing more. I'm planning my day, like cleaning and reorganizing my office, Oh...and what I'm going to cook for dinner tonight. I love to cook so that is usually one of the first things I think about...got to plan ahead!
Tonight I think I'll make Chili. It's cold here and they are calling for 1 to 3" of snow tonight so Chili sounds like the perfect cold and gloomy day food!
But first I've got to get my day going with writing up a couple of orders, clean the office, organize so that I can begin the "new year" with a clean slate.