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“NO” – giving a product to a child does not make it a children’s product.

I love being associated with people that are considered experts in their field.   It allows me to utilize their expertise to make the work that I do for my clients more successful. In an online discussion group that I belong to, the following question was posed today: If I give a product to a…

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Top 10 Marketing Ideas found at PPAI 2012 and how they Get YOU Noticed!

We start our year, as we do every year, at the PPAI Marketing Expo in Las Vegas.   This is where we get excited and motivated by finding new and unique ideas that we can integrate into our client’s marketing plans to help Get YOU Noticed! This year, we scoured the entire Million Square Feet

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Understand the Value of Multiple Marketing Tactics For Better Brand Awareness!

One of my guilty pleasures is that I post quite frequently on a Linkedin Group that has some of the brightest minds in the Promotional Marketing Industry as part of its membership.   These are major suppliers in the industry, top rated marketers and trade organization executives. What I like about this group is that

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How do you know how social responsible your supply chain is?

Every once in a while I come across something so great that sharing it is a natural. I was speaking with a client of mine the other day and they said that they are putting far more weight in their evaluations on the social responsibility of their vendors. So I obviously asked the question, how

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CMYK Solutions is Named as Part of the Business in Vancouver Top 25 Promotional Marketing Companies Two Years Running

We are honoured to be named to the Business in Vancouver “Top 25 Promotional Products Companies in BC” for the second consecutive year. Our thanks goes out both to our customers and partners for allowing us the ability to work with them to provide unique and memorable promotional marketing campaigns that Get YOU Noticed! from

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CMYK Solutions Has Signed onto the PPAI Code of Conduct Pledge

Promotional Products Association International, of whom we are a member, has created a series of initiatives in order ensure that product safety and the ethical treatment of workers is at the forefront of our concerns and that national and international rules and regulations are adhered to.    We believe that by signing onto this code

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CMYK Solutions Joins the Board of Steps Conference Solutions

We are pleased to announce that CMYK Solutions Inc.’s Ben Baker has joined the volunteer board of Steps Conference Solutions. Through this affiliation, we will be able to offer our clients a wider array of services through relying on their expertise to provide fully integrated conference services.    We are excited about this alliance and

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The Canadian Consumer Product Safety Act (CCPSA) has become law

Towards the end of 2010 we wrote a blog speaking about the pending legislation in Canada for Consumer Product Safety. Below please find an explanation of the ACT (as per a news release by ASI Central June 16 2011) and link to the document in it’s entirety.    Please note that all of our key

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Event Marketing 2.0 — How to Boost Attendance Through Social Media

CVENT is the largest event management software company in the US.    We have used their software countless times while attending and showing at conferences around North America. They have just written this EBOOK on how to boost attendance through social media. I hope that you find it as valuable as we have. This is

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Our Client was a finalist for the Premier’s Innovation and Excellence Award

We were very excited to find out that our client, the BC Ministry of Health was a finalist fo the Premier’s Innovation and Excellence Award. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ghhHdfcc6s&feature=player_profilepage[/youtube] In the fall of 2010, our client came to us asking for ways to promote their new program- Caring About Food Safety.  They were looking for an economical and

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