Hello, local readers! Hot off the press is this week’s edition of our weekend guide, filled with the best things to do in and around Atlanta this Thursday through Sunday. As always, be sure to add anything we missed in the comments section. Enjoy your weekend!!
If you live in Atlanta, like I do, you’re probably pretty aware of what’s going on this weekend. The NCAA Final Four Basketball Semi-Finals and Championship games are going down at the Georgia Dome. Louisville will be playing Witchita State and Michigan will be playing Syracuse on Saturday night. The winner of each game will play each other in the championship on Monday night.
In addition to the games themselves, there’s a ton of stuff going on around town. If you read our weekend guide, you know that all weekend long will feature free concerts from bands like Dave Matthews and Sting. Bracket Town, a 4-day family-friendly event inside the Georgia World Congress Center, will be your chance to meet coaches and former college basketball players, get autographs and participate in other sports activities.
While the official NCAA products are sold online at the NCAA Shop, I have a feeling that if you’re downtown this weekend, you’ll still see a lot of promotional products for sale, being given away or on people themselves. Here’s what I predict we’ll see:
Obviously fans are going to wear t-shirts showing off the team they want to win. That also goes for the concerts; fans will show off their favorite bands by donning their t-shirts. There is also a 5K in the morning on Saturday and I’m sure they’ll give out t-shirts too.
• Pens
Sounds weird for a basketball tournament, but hear me out. At Bracket Town, kids (and adults for that matter) will have the opportunity to get autographs signed. Props to the company that thought to get their logo imprinted on the pens that the athletes will be using to sign them.
At a huge event like this, handing out promotional sunglasses is a great way to get your brand logo out there and I predict that lots of companies will do just that. With so many people outside listening to music and just hanging out, I bet custom sunglasses are going to be super popular.
If you’re going to any of the Final Four events (or any other festival-type thing), I’d love to hear what sort of promotional products you saw!
-Lee
Marketing Coordinator
Hello, local readers! Hot off the press is this week’s edition of our weekend guide, filled with the best things to do in and around Atlanta this Thursday through Sunday. As always, be sure to add anything we missed in the comments section. Enjoy your weekend!!
I’m subscribed to a daily email from Greatist.com. The emails focus on health related topics like exercise and healthy food and just healthy living in general. Today’s email stuck out to me though because it was Entitled 23 Ways to Reduce Stress. (I realize, upon writing this, that this blog post could be about the effectiveness of an email subject line, but alas, it’s about stress relief. But a good idea for another post, no?)
There were 23 suggestions and as I read them, my promotional product mind kicked in and I thought to myself that there were definitely promotional products out there that could help with some of their suggestions. Click on the pictures to see the products on our website.
• Yoga
• Aromatherapy
• Music
• Tea
• Your pets
I could go on, but I don’t want to stress you out. However, I encourage you to read the original article for some great tips.
Life can be stressful to us all, giving your customers or clients products to help them reduce that stress is something that will also be appreciated.
-Lee
Marketing Coordinator
Hello, local readers! Hot off the press is this week’s edition of our weekend guide, filled with the best things to do in and around Atlanta this Thursday through Sunday. As always, be sure to add anything we missed in the comments section. Enjoy your weekend!!
We are happy to introduce you to our Fan of the Month for March: Mining Resrouces & Mesabi Nugget! They are sister companies on the Iron Range, both under Steel Dynamics.
Steel Dynamics and Magnetation have partnered to build the new Mining Resources facility near Hibbing, Minnesota to process natural ore tailings basins and produce iron ore concentrate. The plant implements new magnetic separation technology to recover hematite ore from previously discarded waste streams generated by mining operations from the 1930s through the 1960s. New technology employed by the Mesabi Nugget operation now produces the world’s first and only iron nuggets that are pure enough to supplant imported pig iron in mini-mill steel production. Mesabi Nugget uses Minnesota iron ore to produce 97-percent pure, metallic iron nuggets that are perfectly suited for use in EAFs—ushering in a New Age of Iron for Minnesota’s Iron Range.
2. What is your favorite promotional product?
Our favorite promotional item that we have ordered so far are the Eyeglass/sunglass Holder Clips.
4. Tell us a fun fact about you or your company!
Some of our crew participated in the Arctic Splash (jumped into a frozen lake) to raise funds for the United Way.
Thanks for working with Pinnacle. We appreciate your business! Look out for some fun goodies in the mail.
If you’d like to be a Fan of the Month, email lee@pinnaclepromotions.com
Hello, local readers! Hot off the press is this week’s edition of our weekend guide, filled with the best things to do in and around Atlanta this Thursday through Sunday. As always, be sure to add anything we missed in the comments section. Enjoy your weekend!!
SXSW (South by Southwest) is a conference and festival in Austin, Texas that is being held March 8-17th. It’s huge conference filled emerging talent and new products, in the fields of technology, music and films.
People from all over the country who are involved in these industries flock to Austin each spring to check it all out. There are over 5,000 separate events going on during the nine day period. From all sorts of live music to film screenings to technology, marketing and social media sessions, SXSW clearly is the place to be for those in the know (or those who aspire to be).
There are informative sessions in entrepreneurialism and business, culture and entertainment, design and development, community and activism, work and career, gaming and game development, science and space exploration, content and distribution and more.
Aside from all the awesome opportunities that SXSW-goers have, they also receive A LOT of promotional products.
Mashable asked it’s followers to tweet pictures of the best SXSW swag they received with the hashtag #mashSXSW.
I encourage you to do a twitter search for that hashtag and check out some of the cool promotional products that other companies are using to promote their brand at this huge event. Maybe you’ll see something that you can use for your next event.
-Lee
Marketing Coordinator
Hello, local readers! Hot off the press is this week’s edition of our weekend guide, filled with the best things to do in and around Atlanta this Thursday through Sunday. As always, be sure to add anything we missed in the comments section. Enjoy your weekend!!
I’m a runner, not a fast runner, but a runner none the less. I’d say that I do about 5-10 races of varying distances each year. I’m sort of competitive when I race. While there’s no way that I’m ever going to win the race or anything even remotely close to that, I do like to beat my previous times. That said, sometimes there are races that aren’t meant to be run for PRs. They are just meant to be run for fun. Have you heard of the newest trend in fun runs? It’s a color run!
From my research, I gathered that the concept of a color run was first introduced by The Color Run™ in January of 2012 and the idea has soared in popularity ever since. The blasts of color feel somewhat like powdered sugar and while they sort of wash off, I wouldn’t suggest wearing your Sunday best while running in one of these. Fortunately, most races provide a white t-shirt for you to wear.
Emory University recently held a color run as part of their Think Pink Week. Proceeds from the race benefitted the Winship Cancer Institution. Participants were encouraged to wear their white Think Pink Week promotional t-shirts and they were doused with pink powder as they crossed the finish line.
Have you ever done a color run? Tell us about it in the comments!
Lee
Marketing Coordinator