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Is Promotional Merchandise More Valuable Than A Super Bowl Ad?

Posted by Chris Higgins on Thu, Jan 31, 2013 @ 09:38 AM

Have you heard what companies are shelling out for 30 seconds of advertising at this weekends Super Bowl, $3,800,000 for 30 seconds. That's a lot of cash no matter how you slice it but when you look at it from a cost per impression basis it doesn't come close to the cost per impression of promotional merchandise.

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Topics: Advertising, Promotional advertising, promotional merchandise, branded promotional items, promotional products

Combine Promotional Merchandise With The Web For Big Results

Posted by Chris Higgins on Fri, Jan 25, 2013 @ 11:10 AM

The Internet has changed marketing forever and created entirely new marketing channels, without the Internet there'd be no such thing as email marketing, SEO, or Inbound Marketing. But that doesn't mean traditional marketing is dead, in fact in some areas, such as promotional merchandise and even printing, the rise of the Internet has made old school marketing even more valuable.

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Topics: Advertising, Marketing, Promotional advertising, promotional merchandise, printed promotional items

Discharge Folder Saves Hospitals A Fortune

Posted by Chris Higgins on Tue, Jan 22, 2013 @ 10:41 AM

On October 1st 2012 Medicare began fining hospitals that have too many patients readmitted within 30 days of being discharged. On average these fines will be about $125,000 per hospital in the first year and can rise to 3% of Medicare payments under the new health care law. All of a sudden reducing readmissions is a top priority.

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Topics: Pocket folders, accordion folders, hospital records folder