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	<description>Our Promotional Gift Blog pulls together ideas &#38; advice on ways to use promotional &#38; business gifts to best effect in your campaign.</description>
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		<title>Top 5 Promotional Merchandise Trends for 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The team at Steel City Marketing have been discussing our predictions for the top 5 promotional merchandise trends for 2012 and here they are. 1. QR Codes Using QR codes on branded items is an extremely effective use of the print area. It provides the brand with the opportunity to maximise the information they want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Promotional Ice Scrapers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the best ranges of branded merchandise to consider in the winter months is that of promotional ice scrapers. We are guaranteed frosts in the UK at some point and people will often choose to use an ice scraper (plus a little elbow grease) above other solutions such as chemical de icer sprays, credit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creating a Marketing Plan for 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Putting together and creating a marketing plan for 2012 can seem a little daunting at first but failing to plan is planning to fail! Producing a list of all your activities will help keep your budget spending under control as well as making it easier to measure the effectiveness of your marketing spend. If this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gravity Mobile Phone Holder</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If promotional items need to have the wow factor to impress an audience, then the Gravity Mobile Phone Holder has it in bundles. This is a great desktop branded product with some major selling points. This mobile phone holder comes packed in two parts for self-assembly, making it easy to post, with low mailing costs. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smartphone Gloves</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steel City Marketing are pleased to introduce Smartphone Gloves, the latest innovation to hit the promotional merchandise industry. You, your staff and your clients can say goodbye to cold hands when out and about using your Smartphone to text, call, browse or tweet! As you can see from our recent video on this product, normal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 Promotional Gift Company</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 10:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steel City Marketing are pleased to announce that they have been voted joint 10th UK Promotional Gift Distributor in the annual Sourcing City awards. There are around 2500 companies in the UK that are classified as promotional merchandise distributors and the awards are voted for by the industry. Managing director James Biggin commented “This is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bespoke Promotional Caps</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are now delighted to be able to offer an easy, simply option to create bespoke promotional caps. This is something that has been always been available in the past, but has been extremely expensive and therefore only really feasible on the larger enquiries / orders. “Speculation” is key to securing business these days and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Promotional Merchandise Delivers a Higher or Equal ROI Than Most Forms of Advertising</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Key findings: · Promotional merchandise can deliver a higher or equal ROI than most forms of advertising · 66% of respondents said they could remember the brand on the promotional product they received during the last year · 79% said they were likely to do business with the company in the future· 8 out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pro-Brella</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Pro-Brella is the only umbrella that we feel can claim the phrase “sunshine on a rainy day”. With the recent installation of a large array of solar PV panels on the warehouse roof, the UK printing and production factory of the Pro-Brella golf umbrella has been transformed, and is now on target to becoming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Promotional Tree Growing Kit</title>
		<link>http://www.steel-city.co.uk/blog/index.php/2011/10/promotional-tree-growing-kit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Promotional Tree Growing Kit is a branded product that has the ability to fight climate change, reduce pollution and combat deforestation. That may sound a little exaggerated, however more now than ever businesses are considering eco gifts over traditional alternatives in a bid to promote Corporate Social Responsibility and to communicate their green credentials. [...]]]></description>
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