Sales & Marketing
Trade Show Booth Design: Pop-Ups, Backdrops & Display Ideas
According to the Freeman 2025 Commercial Trends Report, 32% of trade show attendees are final decision-makers, and another 68% have significant influence on purchasing decisions. That means nearly everyone walking the floor has the power to say yes, but they’re making that decision in roughly three seconds as they pass your booth. [...]
Custom Banners Guide for Events, Business, and Every Display in Between
At a trade show, 81% of attendees have purchasing authority — and 67% have never encountered your brand through any of your existing marketing channels (per CEIR (Center for Exhibition Industry Research). A well-designed custom banner is often the only thing keeping those attendees from walking right past your booth. The same is true at [...]
How to Promote Your Event: The Complete Event Promotion Strategy Guide
You’ve got an event coming up. Whether it’s a nonprofit fundraiser, a community 5K, a trade show booth, or a school spirit week, you need to get the word out to make sure it’s a success. A strong event promotion strategy combines multichannel digital marketing, smart partnerships, and branded swag to build awareness, [...]
Holiday Giveaway Ideas for Small Business: Branded Gift Baskets Customers Actually Keep
Twelve months from now, one of your customers will still be using a gift you gave them this holiday season. The others will be forgotten by February. According to ASI’s 2026 Ad Impressions Study, 78% of consumers hold onto a branded item for a single reason: it’s useful. That insight should shape your entire holiday marketing [...]
Wearable Marketing for Small Businesses: How to Design Custom Hats & Apparel
A branded hat delivers high-impact advertising. It’s worn for an average of 10 months and generates about 3,400 impressions over its lifetime, at a cost-per-impression of just 3/10 of a cent, according to ASI’s Ad Impressions research. That ROI is unbeatable for small business owners who need every marketing dollar to count. [...]
Don’t Be the Invisible Booth: Pop-Up Shop & Trade Show Marketing for Small Business
There is a moment every first-time trade show exhibitor knows: you spend months planning, order everything on time, set up the booth, and then realize the exhibit next to yours has a floor-to-ceiling backlit display, matching staff polos, and a prize wheel drawing a crowd. Your folding table with a paper sign and a pile of business cards [...]
The Business Owner’s Guide to Marketing Collateral: Stickers, Signs & Flyers
Most marketing advice for small businesses recommend blog posts, white papers, and social media ads. Ask any industry source to define “marketing collateral” and you will get a list that reads like a corporate B2B playbook: brochures, case studies, sell sheets. What gets left out is everything that actually gets small [...]
10+ Best Promotional Products to Grow Your Small Business
Promo products are one of the most cost-effective ways to advertise your business. T-shirts are the industry’s top-selling category, generating $4.2 billion in annual sales according to the ASI 2026 Ad Impressions Study. From bags and drinkware to headwear and stationery, branded merchandise is a $27.7 billion industry because it [...]