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Better Schwag = More Followers

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

I found this awesome post at promotional-t-shirts.com with a great Twitter idea. This girl printed twitter shirts with her twitter name on them encouraging people to follow her. Apparently it has earned her over 10,000 followers so far.

I’ve actually heard of people doing this for trade shows too. They print up a bunch of shirts [...]

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MySpace Ultimate Schwag Package

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

blog.skiheavenly.com
Even though it’s summer, I had to mention this MySpace Schwag Bag Giveaway which takes place every year in February. I have not come across any social media site or search engine that has ever given such an enormous schwag package as this one. Winners receive a custom backpack with Heavenly (ski resort) schwag, Solstice [...]

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Southwest and Twitter Join Forces

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

Southwest recently gave Twitter users a chance at winning this promotional gift package by following the company’s profile within a time-range of several hours. The winner received a full set of Southwest schwag, including a custom t-shirt, imprinted book sleeves, and a promotional koozie. Southwest was able to reach its goal of attaining more than [...]

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Facebook Business Cards

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Having trouble finding a job? Try using these Facebook custom business cards to send to some companies that rely on social networking as a major marketing tactic. Maybe your resume isn’t that great, but you may be able to impress a few employers by giving them a Facebook business card to help them remember you while [...]

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MySpace Gets Cozy

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

For the last three years, social giant MySpace has treated its top advertisers, their spouses and salespeople to a trip to the Sundance Film Festival, the largest independent event of its kind in the United States. While in mountainous Park City, Utah, for the cold, January event, clients stay at condominiums procured by the MySpace [...]

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Do You Digg Me?

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

tcritic.com
It’s a good feeling when you digg an article and it gets a lot of hits. It shows that you picked a relevant article that many other people are genuinely interested in and probably enjoyed reading. It’s too bad you can’t see how many people “digg” you — as a person anyway. Or can you? [...]

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Spread Your Social Wings

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

cafepress.com
It’s relatively easy to find schwag from all of the dominant corporations, such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN. What about a custom product that honors a whole sector of the Web 2.0 world? This promotional travel mug advocates being a social butterfly, or a proponent of the social media world. Social networks such as Facebook, [...]

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MySpace Promotional Journal

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

I finally found some MySpace schwag! Well, it didn’t take me that long, but if you type in “MySpace schwag” or “MySpace apparel” into Google, there are no stores or online retailers listed on the first result page that sells MySpace branded products. However, typing in “MySpace merchandise” results in accurate hits on the first [...]

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Facebook and Dunkin Donuts

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

techowl.com
This past month, Dunkin Donuts has initiated its Keep It Coolatta promotional campaign with the help of its network in Facebook. Currently, the company has over 800,000 fans on Facebook and 23,000 followers on Twitter. In order to win prizes from the campaign, Dunkin Donut Facebook fans first have to buy a Coolatta, take a [...]

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Promoting your business through social media networks is all about finding widespread preferences and hobbies among consumers. After all, users of MySpace, Facebook, and other networks post their interests for your viewing pleasure, so why not take advantage of this to bolster your marketing campaign? Businesses have the opportunity to enhance their reputation two-fold by [...]

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