No new project for you today…I may be out of the craft room for a couple of days.  I’m working through a frustrating health issue – not life threatening by any means, but significant enough that it’s got me out of my routine.  I promise to be back as soon as I am able!

Meanwhile,  there are new items available on the Clearance Rack and the Holiday Extravaganza Online Sale continues until Monday.  Many Mahalos to those of you who have already placed orders.  The deals are extraordinary!

Back as soon as I’m able….

 
Royal Bambino is pleased to announce special sale pricing on
Cotton Tale Designs baby bedding, N. Selby Designs baby bedding, and the UPPAbaby Vista Stroller System!

Now through December 31st, receive 15% off on all Cotton Tale Designs and N. Selby Designs baby bedding collections! Cotton Tale Designs is an innovative baby bedding company that creates artful and inspired baby bedding for every nursery. N. Selby Designs is an exclusive line of baby bedding available only through boutiques and specialty stores, featuring superior quality fabrics and mature contemporary styling.

Now through December 31st, purchase the UPPAbaby Vista stroller system in any color for just $579.99! The UPPAbaby Vista is a 3-in-1 stroller system that has been showcased in 2009 on both the Martha Stewart Show and the Ellen DeGeneres Show! Don’t miss your chance to get this coveted high-quality luxury stroller at the best price of the year!

Royal Bambino’s Year End Sales Event is going on now! Visit www.royalbambino.com to get these great deals before they’re gone!

DIY, Home Decor & Furnishings – Aussino, Ikea, Barang Barang, AuthenTEAK, House of Presentation, Macy, Red Envelope, Harvey Norman

Scoop a Fish Charity
Outdoor Bazaar
Santa Claus & singing sessions

Bakery Moments
Free a pc of Norwegian cake/mini bread with purchase of any pastries/Norwegian sandwich/hot beverage.

Euphony Musical
Discounts of piano, keyboard, drum set

Da Vincci Creative Kids
School Holiday Kids Cartoon Drawing & Fun Craft Workshop

More promotions: http://www.ikano.com.my > Promotions

Among the most important skills in marketing are communication
and promotion. Communication is the broader term, and it happens
whether planned or not. A salesperson’s attire communicates, the
catalog price communicates, and the company’s offices communicate;
all create impressions on the receiving party. This explains the
growing interest in integrated marketing communications (IMC).
Companies need to orchestrate a consistent set of impressions from
its personnel, facilities, and actions that deliver the company’s brand
meaning and promise to its various audiences.
Promotion is that part of communication that consists of company
messages designed to stimulate awareness of, interest in, and
purchase of its various products and services. Companies use advertising, sales promotion, salespeople, and public relations to disseminate
messages designed to attract attention and interest.
Promotion cannot be effective unless it catches people’s attention.
But today we are deluged with print, broadcast, and electronic
information. We confront 2 billion Web pages, 18,000 magazines,
and 60,000 new books each year. In response, we have developed
routines to protect ourselves from information overload. We toss
most catalogs and direct mail unopened into the wastebasket; delete
unwanted and unread e-mail messages; and refuse to listen to telephone
solicitations.

the glut of information is leading to attention deficit
disorder (ADD), the difficulty of getting anyone’s attention.11 The
attention deficit is so pronounced that companies have to spend
more money marketing than making the product.

As a result, marketers need to study how people in their target
market allocate their attention time. Marketers want to know the
best way to get a larger share of consumers’ attention. Marketers apply
attention-getting approaches such as high-profile movie stars and
athletes; respected intermediaries close to the target audience; shocking
stories, statements, or questions; free offers; and countless others.
Even then, there is a question of effectiveness. It is one thing to
create awareness, another to draw sustained attention, and still another
to trigger action. Attention is to get someone to spend time focusing
on something. But whether this leads to buying action is
another question.

A couple of promotions at Greeting Card Universe.

Today’s Black Friday Sale:
Order 5 cards or more and pay $1.99 per card
Use Promo Code: BLACKFRIDAY09
(Promo ends November 27, 2009)

Special Promotion:
Free Shipping when you order 25 cards or more
Use promo code PHOTOSHIP09 at checkout. Offer expires November 30th

Here are a couple of my Christmas greeting cards. See my featured Christmas cards here. See all of my Christmas cards here.

Well, not to induce panic, but there are only 27 more shopping days until Christmas. If you’re like us, there are always those people on the shopping list that have everything. Well, how about a few solutions to make your life easier and their hair better?

Kérastase is offering some great deals on their holiday gift boxes. You purchase the conditioner and styling product and get the shampoo free! Here are the Kérastase gift packs we have available:
The Chroma Reflection pack for coloured hair contains Bain Mirroir 1, Chroma Refelct Masque and Chroma Reflect Enhancing Milk

The Volumactive pack for fine hair features Bain Volumactive, Volumactive Masque and a Volumactive Mousse
The Chroma Riche pack for highlighted hair comes complete with Bain Chroma Riche, Chroma Riche Masque and Chroma Riche Softening Essence

Our Nutritive pack for normal to dry hair contains Bain Satin 1, Lait Vital and Masqueintense

Finally, the Bain de Force pack for weakened hair features Bain de Force, Ciment Anti-Usure and Ciment Thermique

Are you and yours Kevin.Murphy fans? Well, we haven’t left you out in the snowy cold. There are 2 to chose from that contain some pretty great little extras… The High.Roller gift pack get you ready to curl with 6 rollers, Session.Spray hairspray & Antigravity. The Angels Bearing Gifts of Hold are sure to impress the hair diva on your list and comes with Angel.Wash and Angel.Rinse, as well as a small Session.Spray hairspray.

If you have any avid travelers on your list, the Kevin.Murphy Jet Packs are always a great option as well. They include travel-sized bottles of shampoo, conditioner, body wash and body lotion.

How about that appliance queen? Well for the holidays only, we are offering CHI Digital Flat Irons for only $145 (that’s $100 off the regular price!). For yourself or as a gift, it’s a deal that shouldn’t be missed.

Finally, Blonde gift certificates are always available at the salon. So treat your loved ones to some servies within the salon.

Let’s face it, great hair is the gift that keeps on giving, so this year, why not do some kick-butt holiday shopping while waiting for your colour to set in the salon and beat the crazy parking lots and long line-ups at the mall.

In promotional marketing, and indeed below-the-line marketing in general, we’re constantly looking for a reason to speak to our customers, send them an offer and reap the additional sales as a result.

Today in America, it’s Black Friday – the day when seemingly the whole country does their Christmas shopping. But in the UK, we’re unaware of this – one of the few traditions from across the Atlantic that hasn’t made it over here.

This year though, with the retail sector continuing to stagnate at best, it seems as though it’s catching on. Strangely most of the communications I’ve received today, don’t explain what Black Friday is, and instead, they just say “Black Friday, 30% off” and this is a mistake. See, we may always be looking for a reason to speak to our consumers but we shouldn’t be doing this at the risk of confusing them over why we’re doing it.

Nowadays online advertising is becoming a trend for many business owners. I recently read at Techcruch that after the first three quarters of this year being flat in online advertising now it is up by 1.7 percent from the second quarter of this year.We see different product promotions in our day to day life. But I have brought some very beautiful ads which will blow away your mind. I got these awesome illustrations on deviantArt so brought to you as a post. Hope you would like it!

1. Beat Attack

2. Flyer – Sei-Sei

3. Fight Global Warming Poster 1b

4. Sony Ericsson K850i

5. Global warming PSA – time

6. Wrigley’s 5 – Pulse

7. Mirror

8. Martini Asti Elements – Earth

9. Orange – 100

10. KDU x Adidas

11. Ty Nant Water Advert

12. Advert for Apple Macbook

13. Street Shop

14. Bacardi – Water Bat

15. Diesel – Only The Brave

16. iPod-Play Your Music

17. JOHN MOON’S FLYER

18. Nokia L’Amour – II

19. Oakley – Hydrophobic

20. Poetry in The Air

21. Just Heat It

22. SC-Futura

23. Snack it.

24. VW: Pilot’s Wanted

25. Free Gaza

Author: Nikhil

I am professional Web, Graphics & Logo Designer from India. I like to design creative websites. You can follow me at @Powerusers

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We recently wrote about Sidebar, an app that wants to help smartphone users with the process of finding the perfect apps for their phones. Sidebar is debuting its first app and guess what? It’s not an iPhone app-it’s an Android app! While Sidebar’s Android app is built for all Google-powered Android phones, the app has been configured specially for the newly released Verizon Droid. Android users can download the app here.

Sidebar will ask you a series of demographic questions (gender, age, location) and a series of questions to determine your interests and content preferences (i.e. what type of news do you prefer, do you play online games, what types of outdoor activities are you interested in). Once Sidebar figures out a rough sketch of who you are, the app will begin to recommend mobile content to you. Content consists of videos, games, music, apps, ringtones, podcasts, promotions, news articles. The app will load no more than 12 content recommendations per day, which will last for 24 hours until the next batch of recs are sent to you. Recommendations include a short synopsis of the app or content and a screenshot or image. If you like the rec, you can save it and and download or access it later.

While the Android Market no doubt needs an improvement, its promising that nifty apps like Sidebar are coming to the Android before hopping on the iPhone train. We’ve seen Sobees and Seesmic take a similar approach. Because the iPhone market is so saturated, it could make sense for developers to perhaps gain a following from other smartphone users, and perfect their iPhone offerings in the meantime.

Sidebar seems like a compelling app for an Android user. Although the number of apps on the Android Market doesn’t yet reach the magnitude of content on Apple’s App Store, there still is a value in receiving customized recommendations for mobile content. Android’s app store features top paid and free apps, but doesn’t have an in-depth personalized recommendation feature that competes with Sidebar. And the app suggests other types of mobile content, like ringtones, videos, news and more.

By Leena Rao

http://www.techcrunch.com

Have you seen the amazing deals currently being offered as part of the Stampin’ Up! Online Extravaganza??  I’m working on putting up some posts showing some of my recent cards and projects but in the meantime I had to share the awesome discounts while the shopping is good.

Perfect for gifts or just getting a great deal on what you’ve been eyeing; there are over 40 products and product bundles at amazing prices.  I know that personally I’m excited about the cordouroy button bundle (5 packages of buttons for under $25!) and the ribbon bundles.  Lots of punches, wall vinyl, and card making bundles are on sale.

Visit my website and click the Shop Now button in the upper right to view all of the bundles in color and get the lowest prices available on these items, all from home (which sure beats fighting the crowds at the mall and in the stores huh?). 

View a flyer with all of the sale items shown here:  holiday extravaganza 2009

Come by Friday thru Sunday 10 am to 9 pm for super closet out sale.  Secret Society items will marked down super low Tees $5 to $15 Hats $15 to $25, Sweat Shirts $30 ALL Items are marked down 60% or MORE!!!  More goods from other brands as well

COA is located at:

43 Clinton Street (Between Rivington and Staton Streets

Lower East Side, NYC 10002

CASH ONLY!!!!

If you’re in the neighborhood, head down to a Team Express retail store this Friday.

Shake off the turkey hangover and visit one of our stores in San Antonio or Laurel, Md., to take advantage of some serious Black Friday deals. You can get a Louisville Slugger Omaha Baseball Bat — which usually retails for $199.99 — for just $49.98 this Friday.

Get an Accupitch Pitch Trainer — normally $199.99 — for just $24.98!

Here is an e-mail flier with some of the details:

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Both stores will be open from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Visit us in San Antonio:
1003 E. Nakoma Ste 104
San Antonio, TX 78216

Or Laurel:
9375 Washington Blvd.
Laurel, Maryland 20723

Related: Didn’t get the flier? Sign up for e-mail updates at the Team Express homepage.

In case you missed it earlier this week:

If you’re in the neighborhood, head down to a Softball Sales retail store this Friday.

Shake off the turkey hangover and visit one of our stores in San Antonio or Laurel, Md., to take advantage of some serious Black Friday deals. You can get a Louisville Slugger Omaha Bat — which usually retails for $199.99 — for just $49.98 this Friday.

Get an Accupitch Pitch Trainer — normally $199.99 — for just $24.98!

Here is an e-mail flier with some of the details:

Click for bigger

Both stores will be open from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Visit us in San Antonio:
1003 E. Nakoma Ste 104
San Antonio, TX 78216

Or Laurel:
9375 Washington Blvd.
Laurel, Maryland 20723

Related: Didn’t get the flier? Sign up for e-mail updates at the Softball Sales homepage.

In case you missed it earlier this week:

If you’re in the neighborhood, head down to a Cheerleading America retail store this Friday.

Shake off the turkey hangover and visit one of our stores in San Antonio or Laurel, Md., to take advantage of some serious Black Friday deals. Here is an e-mail flier with some of the details:

Click for bigger

Both stores will be open from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Visit us in San Antonio:
1003 E. Nakoma Ste 104
San Antonio, TX 78216

Or Laurel:
9375 Washington Blvd.
Laurel, Maryland 20723

Related: Didn’t get the flier? Sign up for e-mail updates at the Cheerleading America homepage.

In case you missed it earlier this week, here’s a repost:

If you’re in the neighborhood, head down to a Baseball Express retail store this Friday (today!).

Shake off the turkey hangover and visit one of our stores in San Antonio or Laurel, Md., to take advantage of some serious Black Friday deals. You can get a Louisville Slugger Omaha Baseball Bat — which usually retails for $199.99 — for just $49.98.

Get an Accupitch Pitch Trainer — normally $199.99 — for just $24.98!

Here is an e-mail flier with some of the details:

Click for bigger

Both stores will be open from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Visit us in San Antonio:
1003 E. Nakoma Ste 104
San Antonio, TX 78216

Or Laurel:
9375 Washington Blvd.
Laurel, Maryland 20723

Related: Didn’t get the flier? Sign up for e-mail updates at the Baseball Express homepage.

In case you missed it earlier this week…

If you’re in the neighborhood, head down to a Football America retail store this Friday.

Shake off the turkey hangover and visit one of our stores in San Antonio or Laurel, Md., to take advantage of some serious Black Friday deals. Here is an e-mail flier with some of the details:

Click for bigger

Both stores will be open from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Visit us in San Antonio:
1003 E. Nakoma Ste 104
San Antonio, TX 78216

Or Laurel:
9375 Washington Blvd.
Laurel, Maryland 20723

Related: Didn’t get the flier? Sign up for e-mail updates at the Football America homepage.

I just wanted to take a few minutes today to wish all my blog readers and friends a very Happy and Safe Thanksgiving! I hope you all had a great day spending time with your family and friends!

Also, in light of Black Friday, I wanted to extend to you all a Discovery Toys Sale! This is only for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday ( November 27, 28, and 29th). All orders EMAILED to me by 10pm Sunday, November 29th will receive a 10% discount! Get your holiday shopping done from home this weekend with me and Save!

Email your orders to dawnslearningtoys@gmail.com . If you order from My Site, you will not receive the 10% discount, so please be sure to email your orders to me!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!