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Why You Should Choose Custom Canvas Bags for Marketing Promotions

While they share many qualities with our vast selection of custom reusable bags, custom canvas bags have their own redeeming qualities. Similar to other options for reusable bags, they are eco-friendly, durable, and customizable. But, what sets them apart from the rest?

In order to create an effective marketing tool for any brand that’s hoping to develop and push a green initiative, the product must work in unison with the message, whatever that might be.

Let’s take a deeper look into the underlying features of custom canvas bags that make this experience more unique.

5 Reasons Reusable Tote Bags Make The Best Promotional Gifts

Promotional gifts are a great way to start or build upon relationships with your customers. But not all promotional items deliver the same value. If you are looking for a promotional gift that will leave an impression with your customers, increase your brand’s awareness and recognition, and deliver a great ROI than reusable tote bags are what you want. Here are 5 reasons reusable tote bags make the best promotional gifts.

7 Benefits of the Materials Used to Create Recycled Grocery Bags

With each use, recycled grocery bags give back. From a business owner’s point of view, adopting a green initiative can be beneficial for marketing purposes. From a consumer’s perspective, using recycled grocery bags that have either been purchased or obtained as a giveaway creates a bond with the business that produced these eco-friendly products.

Promoting an eco-conscious initiative can go a long way for building brand awareness in your industry. According to an Edelman 2016 Earned Brand Study, customers look to brands to kick start social movements that can be rallied behind.

Plastic is far more harmful to the world around us than it is useful in day-to-day life. The harsh reality is that once it is created, it will always exist. Because of this, finding another use for recycled plastic is the logical countermeasure. By taking this step, single-use bags can be kept off the streets and out of our oceans.

Recycled grocery bags are durable and eco-friendly, but the benefits offered by the materials that go into making them might require a deeper explanation.

Here are 7 benefits that the materials used to make recycled grocery bags can provide.

8 Other Uses for Your Reusable Shopping Bags

One reusable shopping bag can lead to years and years of consistent use, providing a reliable bag option for all of your shopping needs. But why should the opportunity to use these bags stop with grocery shopping?

Going green means taking advantage of every opportunity you have to reuse materials and limit your carbon footprint along the way.

Let’s take a look at 8 other uses for your reusable shopping bags.

Overcoming 5 Marketing Challenges with Custom Reusable Bags

Each year brings about new challenges for marketing departments across every industry. While they can shift based on buyer trends and other industry-specific factors, many of these challenges remain consistent from year to year.

The solutions that these challenges demand can be complex and may come with caveats, but with custom reusable bags, you can make progress towards overcoming them.

Let’s take a look at some of the common marketing challenges being faced and how custom reusable bags can help.

3 Reasons Wholesale Custom Bags Could Be a Good Marketing Investment

A strong marketing investment isn’t something that has a cut and dry definition. It all depends on your key performance indicators (KPIs) and overall organizational goals.

If the investment in question is a promotional product, there’s a variety of questions that must be answered. For starters, are you investing in a product that lasts? When is the investment going to show a return and how will the return be quantified? How does it make your company look in both the near and distant future?

With wholesale custom bags, you’re investing in a product that has staying power. They will provide value to customers while your company plays their part in providing an alternative to single-use plastic bags that have a hand in crippling our environment. All of this is possible, while also increasing your company’s visibility. What’s not to like?

Let’s look at 3 reasons why wholesale custom bags could be a solid marketing investment.

Here’s How to Create Reusable Shopping Bags That Work to Market Your Brand

The whole point of creating reusable shopping bags is not just to help our planet by reducing the use of single-use plastic bags. You also want to make reusable shopping bags work to market your brand. To do that, you want to take the time to design a bag that will be wanted and used by your target market. Here’s how to make reusable shopping bags work to market your brand or retail outlet.

Here’s The Easy Way to Remember Your Reusable Bags

Making the switch to reusable bags can take some getting used to and forming the habit of grabbing your bags is a must. Until that habit is formed it can be frustrating when you find yourself at the checkout without your bags, but we are here to help with tips for creating a habit.

New research shows that is does not take just 21 days, as was previously thought, to create a new habit, but on average it takes 66 days to form a habit. The easy way to remember your reusable bags is to keep using these tips until grabbing your bags becomes habit.

5 Ways to Exhibit Greener and Reduce Your Environmental Impact

By the nature of the beast, trade shows tend to be wasteful and they have a very negative environmental impact. Historically, there has been a very “disposable” culture surrounding trade shows. A lot of displays and items are intended to be used once and then thrown away. Add to that all of the freight and travel associated with trade shows, and you are driving up the carbon footprint even more. Things have definitely gotten better in recent years, but there is still room for improvement. Here are 5 ways to exhibit greener and reduce your environmental impact at your next trade show.

Evaluating Promotional Products Vendors: 4 Qualities to Look For

With so many choices out there, it can be difficult to find a dependable vendor for promotional products like custom bags and water bottles. They must have the ability to identify and anticipate your needs, but there must also be reliable avenues of communication between you and the vendor. As you prepare for your upcoming trade show or promotional event, keep these four qualities in mind when choosing a promotional products vendor…

5 Surefire Trade Show Marketing Ideas

A trade show is an opportunity for your company to spread its wings and meet potential customers and partners face-to-face, but the work starts long before the doors to the conference hall open. The show itself should be the easy part. The real challenge presents itself when planning your marketing assets for the event.

Here are some ideas to guide your trade show marketing strategy:

5 Trade Show Marketing Blogs You Should Be Reading

When you’re planning a trade show or another type of event, it can be easy to get burned out or hit the planning equivalent of writer’s block. When this happens, you might just need a fresh perspective or maybe some insider tips from a pro. We rounded up 5 of our absolute favorite trade show marketing blogs that are all full of great information to help you get your event on track.

Share The Love This Valentine’s Day and #GoReusableNow with Eco-Friendly Bags

Today is about love and appreciation for that special someone in your life, but what about showing some love and appreciation for the planet? Your company can do just that when you promote your brand with eco-friendly bags.

5 Types of Promotional Bags for Trade Show Marketing

Businesses hand out promotional items with their printed logos during trade shows to generate leads, promote brand awareness and foster positive impressions. But, what about custom printed promotional trade show bags to carry them all in and have your brand seen? We’ve put together a list of bags that are designed to aid marketers in their journey towards generating trade show marketing ROI.

South Carolina Moves Closer to a Ban on Plastic Bag Bans

A bill in South Carolina will determine if municipalities can regulate “auxiliary containers,” such as disposable bags and cups. The bill covers a wide range of containers made from a variety of materials, but single-use plastic bags are at the center of the debate. Essentially, this measure will determine if cities, towns and counties can or cannot pass plastic bag bans.

The bill was recently sent to the House floor and state legislators will vote to decide. If passed South Carolina would join the ranks of Michigan where plastic bag bans were recently banned.

Plastic bag bans require a change in consumer behavior, but they can have a major impact for the better on the environment. Furthermore, plastic bag bans can have a significant impact on your brand’s marketing.

NYC Says NO to Reusable Shopping Bags

The 5-cent fee on disposable plastic plastic bags handed out in New York City that was set to go into action this month was recently canceled before it even got started. The motivation behind the measure was to discourage the use of disposable plastic bags and the resulting negative environmental impact, and encourage the use of reusable shopping bags. Despite a lot of support it turns out there was more opposition, and lawmakers overturned the ruling. While it looks like there is no immediate solution to address the plastic bag problem in NYC there are still ways to turn things around.

3 Trade Show Marketing Ideas You Haven’t Thought of Yet

Some of the best trade show marketing ideas are ones that you may not have thought of, yet. Today I would like to offer up three trade show marketing ideas that have worked for us to increase leads and business. Simply incorporating one of these tips into your next trade show or event can yield major results. Keep reading to learn more!

Reusable Tote Bags Make a Marketing Impact

The goal of any marketing item is to make an impact, but if you’re not sure what type of marketing tool is right for your brand, we suggest utilizing reusable tote bags. Some marketing items are specific to certain demographics, but reusable bags are useful for everyone. These promotional bags will get your brand tons of exposure while also delivering great ROI and living up to your company’s green goals. Are you thinking about adding reusable tote bags to your marketing lineup? We are here to help.

Reusable Bags vs. Recycled Bags: What’s the Difference?

Across industries, people seem to be confused as to the difference between reusable and recycled items. Although they sound similar, they are actually two distinctive terms.

A recycled item often refers to something that can be reused, but unlike reusable items, it’s made of recycled materials. As part of the recycling process, things like plastic or glass bottles are broken down and turned into something new and completely different.

Reusable items, on the other hand, are something that you can reuse over and over again.

We’ve summarized some of the primary differences between reusable bags and recycled bags (below) to give our customers the information needed to make an educated purchasing decision.

Create Custom Reusable Shopping Bags in 4 Easy Steps

Custom reusable shopping bags are a very effective way to promote your brand. If you want a promotional item that delivers a great ROI, is eco-friendly, durable and safe than custom reusable shopping bags are what you’re looking for. Creating something custom can be intimidating and time consuming, but not when you work with us. We’ve streamlined the process to be 4 simple steps that make it easy to create your very own custom reusable shopping bags.