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Welcome to the December NewsAlert from Promotional Merchandise USA: Final Edition

Happy Holidays from the Editorial Team!

We have exciting changes happening here at Promotional Merchandise USA for 2010. We are merging our “NewsAlert” subscriber base (you) into our sister site’s informative newsletter subscription base with TSNN.com. This positive change will allow us to service the “Trade Show Giveaway” niche in a deeper way and give you valuable insight into the Trade Show Industry.

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Best Practices

Five Practical Tips for Retaining Your Best Clients

By Alyssa Gregory

Looking to retain the “best of the best” customers? Then concentrate your efforts on going above and beyond every time, getting to know them well, keeping the lines of communication wide open and adding value to every business transaction.

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Trade Show News

A Virtual Trade Show Booth? What is That?

By Linda Begbie

Virtual Trade Shows are an attractive alternative to attending a costly live event or show. They also have a productive way of generating leads without devoting a large amount of time or labor.

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Website Insight

22 Unusual Ideas to Test and Help Improve Your Website

Take advantage of some good ideas to help test and improve your website regardless of what kind of website you have. Test adding a tag line to just below your logo to help clarify your sites value proposition or move your site search box into the top right of every page to aid user navigation.

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Social Media

How To Make Commercial Sense of Social Media

By Graham Thatcher, Director of MCC International

Is there commercial potential in the art of social networking? Are your customers, prospects and business partners logging on to social media sites to network? The answer is an overwhelming yes!

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Google Wave - The New Way

What is this new tool? Google Wave is the latest real-time communication platform that launched to the public in late September. This useful platform seems to combine Gmail and Google Docs into an interesting free-form workspace that could be used to write documents collaboratively, plan events, play games or discuss a recent news.

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LinkedIn Group for Tradeshow Giveaways via The Trade Show News Network (TSNN)

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Future Trends

Ten and One Half Trends to Watch in 2010

What are the ten plus business trends thriving even in this economy? One evident and exciting change is an increase in an entrepreneurial spirit. The recession is the reason along with an increased desire to shop at discount retailers. “Going green” is another trend that continues to move forward along with opportunities to target seniors. As a matter of fact, The Chronicle of Higher Education named gerontology one of the "hottest" academic fields of the future.

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Marketing

5 Great Reasons to Follow Internet Marketing Industry News

In business staying ahead of the competition is crucial in order to stand out as a thought leader and an expert. What better way to do that than to keep up with what is happening in your field?

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Contact Us

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