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Today at the Forums 12.31.08

The Logo24/7 Forums has close to 250 quality members pre-launch.  If you are attending the PPAI Convention in Las Vegas in a couple of weeks, please stop by our booth #5555 and say hello!  We'll have information available for you special distributors AND suppliers / service providers.

At the forums today, there is discussion about the BEST of 2008.  Products that worked for everyone in different categories.  This is helpful information for you. 

Come and join the group of industry veterans and educators.  The forum is FREE for members of the promotional product industry.  Our goal is to reshape our industry, train, educate and mentor our members as we all face the challenges of the coming new year.

The Administration and Members of The Logo24/7 Forum wishes everyone a safe and peaceful New Year!

Economic Doldrums? Buck It!

There is only one way to survive the economy in 2009.  If you're a major corporation or a small business, you cannot survive without reaching out to the client.  How you do that will depend on what medium of advertising you will use.  Return on Investment will be KEY - and must be analyzed for every marketing project you will be planning. Every single one of them.

Specialty Advertising professionals  who belong to the trade industry, especially the professionally trained members of the Promotional Product Advertising International are not a dime a dozen.  There are many folks in the industry who think this is a quick buck business.  IT IS NOT.  True professionals work hard to find creative solutions that will work within your budget, provide you with information that will be beneficial and help you navigate through the myriad of products available for promotional gift giving. They have access to data, access to contract service providers and can give you the best return on your ad money!

Additionally, many have formed (and are forming)  a tight community at The Logo24/7 Forums, an industry  member-only group where the BEST ideas are shared by colleagues within the promotional product world. Informational , training forums and educational forums are already formed and more will be added. This is the heart of the site.

IS YOUR SERVICE PROVIDER A MEMBER OF THE FORUM?

Unlike some other forums which may have formed in the past, The LOGO 24/7 Forum is different and unique.  Here we save the drama for someone else's mamma!  We maintain a true professional environment and it is A SAFE ZONE for distributors, suppliers and service providers.

We encourage all TRUE PROMOTIONAL PRODUCT PROFESSIONALS in the industry to come check us out. Membership is free to all bona fide industry members.

Find out what the hot topics are right now.  Find out who our educators are and what they're teaching!

Industry members: Don't get left behind.  Get involved.

Help your client buck the economic doldrums.  It is possible with everyone's help.

Promotional Product Suppliers & Service Providers - Ad Programs Open!

Promo Product suppliers and Service Providers - are you ready to reach out to hundreds (and eventually thousands) of promotional product distributors?  Are you winding down a successful year and planning to work it in 2009?

 

It's a fact, the coming year will indeed be a challenging one for everyone.  We at The Logo24/7 Forums have laid the groundwork for everyone by putting together a FREE forum for industry members to participate in and support each other in a helpful, non-competitive and professional online community forum.

This is where YOU, the Suppliers and Service Providers are at an advantage.  You have a targeted market that you can directly communicate with AND educate!  Why is your product so great? What do you have that is unique for distributors' clients?  What's your special today?  How can we all work together?

We expect email blasts to invade our mailboxes and trust me, not everyone has the time to read them.  Most of the time, someone else in the forum WILL call it to our attention.

But here's the deal - there are Special Advertising Programs that you'll find only and originally from The Logo24/7 Forums.

Our special programs are available PRIOR to our launch date at PPAI in Las Vegas this coming January!  So get in early and get in while you can!  OWN YOUR OWN SPACE at The Logo24/7 Forums.  You may contact Forum management at info(at)logo247(dot)com.

Green Business is 2009?

2009 will be a year unlike any other most of us have ever seen.  For small business owners, we all have to rethink our strategies and be as savvy and wise to keep afloat.  It's not an impossible task, but anyone telling you that their raking in the dough is either in denial - or simply not being truthful.  Ours is not a 'work in your pajamas' business.  True, most of us work from our homes - but if that's all you do, you're missing out on a lot of opportunities out there.

After all the merriment of the holidays, it is an excellent time to think about the good, the bad and the uncertainties of 2008.  It is also time to plant the seeds for new business - but how? 

Money doesn't grow in trees - if it did - we'd see a lot of this in many affluent business areas.  But the fact it, just like you would plant a tree..you start small.  You would  give a tree nourishment to grow.  Hopefully, it takes roots and you'll be able to enjoy the fruits it will bear.

Same concept applies to all the businesses you were privileged to work with in 2008.  In the coming new year, you may be enjoying the benefits of your hard work...or planting new seeds.

Whether you're one or the other, there's always HELP and ADVISE for your from none other than people in the same business.  You may think it's competitive out there and it is - but you would never feel that with all the camaraderie and ideas being exchanged in The Logo24/7 Forums, the NEW and BEST online community comprised of professionals and long time successful veterans in the Promotional Product industry. 

Have a basic idea? There's always someone who'll help you deliver it with a punch, over the top impressive.  We love our businesses.  We are all creatives.  We also love success stories.

So whether you're a promotional product distributor, a service provider or a supplier - we have forums for all of you!  For suppliers, there are free advertising programs available!  Reach out to more people without having to send out promo blasts (that may get deleted in email anyway!).  

All the best in promo have now been combined into ONE arean and it's all on The Logo24/7 Forums.

The Logo24/7 Forums is a free membership-only forum available to members of the Promotional Product industry.  Official launch is scheduled for January 2009 at PPAI in Las Vegas.   We are growing by referral fast - and now is the best time to be a member!  See you at The Logo24/7 Forums!

Bank on Secrets

Some of us are sharing TIPS and SECRETS on our Forum.  What was successful for one business can certainly work for you too!! While we're busy closing our year end holiday orders - we're also looking towards the coming new year. How and where to find new business in this strange economic environment.  How suppliers and distributors can work together to garner leads. What it takes to succeed. Who can help?

Marketing tactics - new ones, unique ideas and those that have been tried and tested successfully.  Niche marketing, hot market trends.  Everything you need to know so that you can be the best informed supplier for your clients!

The Logo24/7 Forums will soon be making waves. It will be THE ONE independent community forum where every business in the promotional product industry can be represented and have a voice.

Be part of our build up prior to our launch at PPAI in Las Vegas in January.  We've been in ramp up mode for almost one month - and already we've achieved so much.  It's kind of fun to see where we've come from!

The The Logo24/7 Forums is a free membership-only online community comprised of industry veterans who have much to teach and business savvy members eager to win and learn.  Come and visit - share - meet a colleague.  We have banked all our combined experiences and  information into one arena - and you're invited to enjoy the dividends.

The Main Rules to Follow on The Logo24/7 Forum

SEE NO EVIL, SPEAK NO EVIL AND HEAR NO EVIL... (i.e., no bashing, no wedgie issues, no ill words against another business).  Be kind and informative. Professionals wanted.  Drama Queens,hhmmmm,no.

And if you don't choose to heed our rules,  occasionally...we kind of like to see a little torture during Time Out (sort of like this below - but just kidding!)
  

Then we become friends all over again.  Happy happy joy joy!

The Logo24/7 Forum Celebrates a Milestone!

You would never think we were competition.  It used to amaze me when I first joined an industry forum. I was  the type who would ask a question, get advise and be on my merry way.  Pretty soon, I was making friends - and then I found myself offering advise.  (okay, a FEW times I got my behind whooped because I argued with the Advisor...wrong!)

Then I attended an industry convention (SAAC in Long Beach) and for the first time, I met someone who had tons more experience and wisdom then me and I soon developed a healthier respect for contributing what I could.   That was another forum life ago!

Today,  the new The Logo24/7 Forums is celebrating a milestone!  Find out WHO, WHAT and WHY by becoming an early member and joining the most educationally focused, idea exchanging bunch of creative professionals in a helpful, friendly environment. We didn't invent forums, but we have a core team of professionals and industry veterans who expect a lot of themselves and each other and have so much wisdom to impart.  And it is beginning to show!

We will be formally launching at PPAI in January!  Suppliers and Service Providers- there are special advertising packages for you (check 'em out before your competition beats you to it!). Distributors,  if you could use more knowledge, tips and ideas to improve what you can offer your end customers, you'll find colleagues who are ready to help.

Membership to The Logo24/7 Forum is free to all members of the Promotional Product industry.

The Logo24/7 Forum - Expect Good Things!

The Logo24/7 Forum will be going live with instant polls, breaking news, HOT new finds, video, pictures and MORE with the addition new features.  The poll which preceded this post is just a sample of what we'll be able to share and how we can interact with with our community participants. It's just one of the mediums we'll use to be a value added service for the Promotional Product industry as a whole, and our membership in particular

We are merging minds - creatives, techs, educators, business savvy - all in one community forum that will innovate and propel the promotional product industry into the Web 2.0 (plus) world.

If you have something to share - or could use some great advise - then we've got the piece to complete your puzzle!

We've turned on the GREEN Light and are Going for Greatness!

Are you headed in the same direction?

Today's Poll Question

Which medium of advertising would you say makes the most impact in your decision making process?

Thank you for participating in our poll. Happy Holidays!

The Logo24/7 Forums - Ad Packages

Suppliers in the Promotional Product industry may now purchase advertising packages for The Logo24/7 Forums.  The Logo24/7 Forums are officially launching in January 2009 at the PPAI Convention in Las Vegas, NV.

Since it's initial and limited beta introduction, the Forums already include close to 200 quality members - most by referral and special invitation only.  Special ad packages are available by emailing Forum Management at info(at)logo247(dot)com.

Because this is still in beta format, ad package information will not be announced to the public yet. This is the best time to market your services to Distributor members.

The Logo24/7 Forums will be an education and information-centered online community forum. Special programs are in the works and you'll be privy to all the upcoming plans by becoming a member. All segments of the industry and all service providers are welcomed and encouraged to have a voice. The mission of Forum management is one of centralized learning and fairness to all members and participants.

LOGO 24/7 is open to everyone in the promotional products industry (Including sales professionals and support staff). We want to be sure to include these other groups in education.