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 Summer Marketing Tips

Summer isn't always the best time to test or try new marketing techniques but it is a great time to prepare for fall and winter promotions. With people  traveling, and spending more time outdoors it can be difficult to reach customers during the summer months. Here are a few tips to turn the hot summer months in to cool promotions. 

Offer promotional gifts to customers during the summer months so your brand message is received whether they are on the lake or in their car. Branded water bottles, travel mugs and other inexpensive promotional give-aways can place your name in front of potential customers all summer long. A potential customer has to stop by the store to pick up the gift and may just make a purchase while they are there.

Offer free Ice Cold Lemonade to customers while they shop. Serve in branded plastic cups or glasses that the customer can take home with them. Use discretion because this tip could be a disaster for an electronics store. 

Summer can be a great time to prepare for fall and winter sales or promotions. Spend the summer months collecting email address's from interested customers and announce Your Back to School Sale without spending a fortune. I even read where one retailer asks customers for the names, emails and addresses of friends and family members while displaying a holiday gift that will be sent on the customers behalf. Of course the gift has the retailers brand on it and arrives with what was described as tasteful holiday advertising for the retailer.

Use your imagination! Summer can be a great time to promote your brand or prepare for future promotions.

 Monarch Country Reaches 50,000 Visitors!

Monarch Country, the sports and fine arts web site highlighting the activities at Denison High School has gone over the 50,000 visitor mark. The site is now visited thousands of times per month.

The web site content has been tweaked and expanded since it went live and seasonal content is updated at least twice per week. 

Sponsors support the site  making over 5000 highlights displayed over the past year possible.

Without using any special submissions or optimizing techniques the site has risen to placements of third and fourth when a search for Monarch Country is done on Google.

Monarch Country is a true internet success story. Serving a niche and providing current content have made Monarch Country in to a valuable community resource.

www.monarchcountry.net

    Just for Grins    

Investment Tips for 2004
Due to recent mergers such as Time-Warner and AOL, some investment tips might help all of us take advantage of the next big merger and get in on the ground floor.

1. Hale Business Systems, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Fuller Brush, and W.R. Grace Co. will merge and become Hale, Mary, Fuller, Grace.

2. Polygram Records, Warner Bros. and Zesta Crackers join forces and become: Poly, Warner, Cracker.

3. 3M will merge with Goodyear and issue forth as: MMMGood.

4. Zippo Manufacturing, Audi Motors, Dofasco, and Dakota Mining will merge and become: ZipAudiDoDa.

5. FedEx is expected to join its major competitor, UPS and become: FedUP.

6. Fairchild Electronics and Honeywell Computers will become: Fairwell Honeychild.

7. Grey Poupon and Docker Pants are expected to become: Poupon Pants.

8. Knotts Berry Farm and the National Organization of Women will become: Knott NOW!

That's all for now....invest wisely!

Denison Links 
Area Website Directory, Recipe Database, Family Resource Links, and E-Minder

 Monarch Country  
Highlights, Scores, Schedules and More..

Promo Print International 
Online Printable Promotions Catalog

Promotional Everything 
New and Unique Promotional Items & Products

 Branded Items 
600,000 Branded Items

A Promotional Outlet 
Brand Name Promotional Products, Corporate Gifts, Trade Show Premiums & Novelty Items

Saving a Web Page to Your Hard Drive

Have you ever wanted to save a web page on your hard drive so you could reference it later? There are many reasons for saving a web page to your hard drive but the typical File - Save doesn't always provide the results that we hoped for.

The *.mht format is available with Internet Explorer and creates a single compact archive of a web page, including all the graphics. Choose File-Save As from the Internet Explorer menu, then choose *.mht from the Save As Type: drop down menu. Once the file has been saved on your hard drive, navigate to where you saved the archive and double click to open it. The full web page with live links and graphics will open in your browser.

The archives can be emailed or burned to disc allowing for portable storage of any web page.