Ergonomics...Oh yeah, that old thing.

I remember when this buzz word was all the rage but it seemed like no one REALLY did anything about it until their hands literally started going numb. Probably because the solutions were all a little too much of a pain in the a&%. You had to sit in a certain chair, have your screen positioned at a certain angle; you had to place a bulbous pad in front of your keyboard that seemed more uncomfortable than helpful, look away…don’t look away, stop slouching, 12°, 90°, 1,000° blah blah blah. At some point I stopped paying attention.

But I just found this handy new invention! And as it turns out, it can be branded which means it falls right into my promotional products yellow brick road. Check it:
 

AViiQ’s portable, lightweight, sturdy and BRANDABLE laptop stand.  To get the full effect, you must watch the instructional video.  Seriously.  It’s a super cool way for your often traveling, laptop working, must have portability VIPs to keep your company brand and their hands working.

QR Codes. Have yours?

I’m sure you’ve seen them. But the important question is: are you using them to your advantage? QR Codes are bar codes that are embedded with your website address, contact information and/or other text. A potential customer or client simply scans the barcode using a barcode scanner app on their phone and VOILA, they are at your website or dialing your number in seconds. How cool is that?

Now let’s take it up a notch. QR codes are of particular interest in marketing because it gives you the ability to measure response rates with a high degree of precision thereby allowing for easier ROI (return on investment) calculation, and thus helping justify spending on marketing budgets. Want to know if the marketing material you handed out at that last conference worked? This is how you do it!

Now let’s think application. Envision billboard ads, guerilla marketing campaigns, in-store displays, event ticketing and tracking, trade-show management, business cards, print ads, contests, direct mail campaigns, websites, email marketing, couponing and my favorite part….SWAG. Here is the part where I usually tell you to contact Swag Necessities for more info, but instead:

Is time on your side?

It can be!  Fully customized jelly watches. You choose everything.  Any one of several styles including slap on, square face, ion, quartz or digital. Pantone color of your choosing for the watch. Print anything your heart desires on the band.  Heck, we can even put your logo on the face.  So when your past, present and future customers are counting down the hours, why not count with them?