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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.

Did Anyone Say Guerilla Marketing?

If the circus is coming to town and you paint a sign saying "Circus Coming Saturday", that's advertising.

If you put the sign on the back of an elephant and walk it through town, that's promotion.

If the elephant sits on the mayor's car and it makes the front page of the local paper, that's publicity.

If you get the mayor to laugh about his newly-flattened car, that's public relations.

If you can get the mayor to see the positive exposure he'll gain riding the elephant through town, that's guerrilla marketing.

If you can organize an animal rights activist to kidnap the elephant, then tell the paper, involve the mayor and have kids protest about the cancellation of their circus, that's Godzilla marketing!

Follow The Leader

The Logo24/7 Forums is tickled pink (okay, orange, green and blue) to have a shadow but it's highly unlikely our efforts can be duplicated.  Behind the name is a team of hard working dedicated professionals from all segments of the industry AND our growing membership currently comprised of individual contributors and some of  Promo's BEST.

We didn't invent this stuff - but we sure want to make it better!  This is US!

We kind of like where we are.  Better yet, we know where we're going.

Need Some Advise? There's Lots of That In Here

Did anyone ever tell you that this business was easy?  That it was something you could do in your spare time.  Ever wonder how these folks got to where they can spend many hours away from their desks and in some vacation spot where you wish you were?

HINT:  They worked hard.  There is no magic solution.

Everybody in this business that I know of all started somewhere where this lady in the picture is  - finding their way to the top.  Finding a niche.  Trial and error.  Failure and success. 

While some of you are in business for yourselves, you don't have to feel like you're in it alone.  With the new online community forum at The Logo24/7 Forums I've received information I never would have discovered on my own. I've shared the creative process, found new product and suppliers and SAVED MONEY for my business.

Best of all, in a forum where you actively participate, you reap the benefits by befriending some of THE BEST minds in all of the Promotional Product industry.

You reap what you sow - this is true at The Logo24/7 Forums and you'll find the more you participate, the more help you'll find.  It's becoming quite evident by the number of people who are discovering the community we're building. 

So aim as high as you want and dream as big as you can - we've got people to cheer you onto success and even help you get to where you wanna go.

How Does Your Business Grow?

I've been a rather avid blogger since 2005 and have been amazed at the growing number of social media marketing 'outlets' that I have come across.  It used to be that a website was good enough to grow one's business- and some kind of physical (paper) marketing, or perhaps an advertisement here and there. And of course - what we're experts on - specialty advertising!

But there is so much more!! Just look at all these avenues to reach out to! 

 

So let's see - promotional product experts - make sure you are on top of ALL current marketing frontiers. You can get advise, help and expertise by becoming members of the ONE total online community forum where all these ideas are shared -The Logo24/7 Forums.  It's important for your business development - and to ensure that you become an asset for your client.

See you on the Forums!