Happy Holidays from the Magnetic Attractions team.

Magnetic Attractions would like to wish all our promotional magnet fans a happy and safe holiday season. We are always grateful for your trust and support, and we look forward to helping you with your marketing plans in 2016.

But before we flip the calendar magnet to 2016, We thought it would be fun to amaze and astound you with some random and interesting facts about the Christmas season.  (Ok, maybe they aren’t going to amaze or astound, but they may help you sound really smart at the holiday dinner table.)

So, grab yourself some eggnog and a Christmas cookie as we unwrap our 10 Crazy Facts about Christmas. (more…)

(That’s why our “Promote the Pie” magnet program has been around for over 20 years)

If you are an independent pizza operator, you are always keeping one eye focused on the hot new trends in pizza marketing.  So, I’m sure you noticed the latest advertising from one national chain that is using a pizza slice to promote their loyalty program.   Without going into details, they found a promotion designed to drive more online orders by offering free pizza as a reward.

Time will tell if this is a successful campaign, but with consumers in love with a good loyalty program, my guess is that it will be.  So this might be a great time to start up your own loyalty program, and Magnetic Attractions can help get you started with our Promote the Pie magnet program.

With the Promote the Pie program, you can use promotional magnets as the first step to an effective loyalty program.  Best of all, you can start up this program with just a minimum investment of time and resources.  A slice magnet is really all it takes to get started.

Here’s How the Promote the Pie Program Works (more…)

Yes, even in this digital age, print and calendar magnets continue to prove their marketing muscle for customer engagement and overall brand awareness.  As we come to the end of the year when calendar orders take off, Magnetic Attractions would like to share 3 key reasons why you need to consider ordering  print and calendar magnets this fall. (more…)

A familiar face returns to Magnetic Attractions

For some of our regular customers, calling in a promotional magnet order today might have felt like you’ve travelled back in time.  Don’t worry, the calendar magnet on the fridge still says 2015.  We just brought back a name from the past, to drive future success,  and we didn’t even need the Delorean to get the job done (my one Back to the Future reference, I promise). (more…)

Magnetic Attractions is taking their magnet marketing and direct mail solutions on a little summer road trip. We’re in Washington, DC exhibiting at the 9th Annual Bridge to Integrated Marketing and Fundraising Conference.  We’re handing out our new Nonprofit Catalog, sample magnets and a special photo frame created just for the Bridge Conference.  More importantly, we’re spreading the word how magnets and magnetic direct mail can help you become a nonprofit marketing superhero.

From a simple 2×2 square magnet and photo frames to Laminated Postcards and Outdoor Magnets, our products can work alone, or combined with your online efforts to help you succeed in today’s competitive world.

Click here to read how our magnets can help you engage donors as thank you gifts, fundraising appeals and volunteer recruitment.   You can even request a free sample pack while you are there.  Then give us a call at (800) 521-4773 to talk to our magnet experts.  They aren’t going to help you leap tall building in a single bound, but they will help you attract and retain donors without blowing up the budget.

Independent Pizza Operators have another reason to attend the International Pizza Expo this March.  Magnetic Attractions will be in the house and ready to talk pizza marketing, promotional magnets and magnet mailings.  We’ve finalized our booth location for the Pizza Expo (#1928), and are ready to answer the one big question.  “Why should I even bother to visit the Magnetic Attraction’s booth?”

Top 5 Reasons for visiting our booth (more…)

Magnetic Attractions Brings Online Ordering to 4 Magnets 

Business Card Magnet

Calendar & Schedule Magnets

Puzzle Magnet

Magnetic Attractions has just introducted a new initiative to bring online ordering to all our promotional magnet customers.  Currently, customers can order four best-selling refridgerator magnets  –  Business Card Magnets, Schedule Magnets, Calendar Magnets and Puzzle Magnets – online.

The process for ordering these four advertising magnets is easy to do

1. visit www.magneticattractions.com
2. Choose Business Card Magnet, Calendar Magnet, Schedule Magnet or Puzzle Magnet from the Promotional Magnet dropdown.
3. Click the Order Now Button
4. Follow the instructions to choose your quantities, upload artwork, enter billing and shipping information and add product to your cart.
5. Submit your order.

Magnetic Attractions will then contact you to collect your payment information and verify your order.  That means none of your credit card information will be entered or stored on our website.

If you have any questions about ordering products online, please contact us, or call (800) 521-4773.

I’m looking at my 2013 Calendar Magnet stuck to my file cabinet and it dawns on me that we’re into the month of October.  It seemed like we just celebrated Memorial Day, and now we’re creeping up on Halloween.  Yikes, time flies.  And at that moment, I realized I needed a 2014 Calendar magnet.

Now I’m lucky.  I work for Magnetic Attractions so all I have to do is raid the sample room to get a 2014 Calendar Magnet (the perks of working for a promotional magnet manufacturer).  But without this sample goldmine, I’d be out of luck and staring at an open space on my file cabinet. Talk about a huge marketing opportunity for the really smart local business.

Now, a smart businesses already knows a Calendar Magnets marketing value, and places an order every year.  Then they have something to hand out (more…)

Here’s another reason to keep promotional magnets and magnetic direct mail in your marketing plans…

According to a recent Pew Research Center survey, 15% of adults in the United States don’t use the Internet, and another 9% don’t use it in their homes.   With the US population around 314,000,000, that’s a lot of people who aren’t the least bit interested in social media likes, online trends or the newest search algorithms.

So, the question as a Marketer.  How do you reach these eyeballs when you know digital campaigns are useless? The answer is as clear as the refrigerator you stare at over 20,000 times a year, or should I say, the custom refrigerator magnet you can stare at over 20,000 times a year.

Now, I know what you’re probably thinking.  That 15% is probably made up of a bunch of grey-haired seniors living (more…)

In our technology-driven time it’s not difficult to figure out what day it is. That information is constantly on display on our computers, our emails and our cell phones.

Does that mean people no longer need old-fashioned calendars? Not at all.

A calendar that shows the full year at a glance is still a convenient source of information when planning trips, checking on what day a holiday falls, or how much time is left to prepare for your next convention or trade show.

That’s why most people still like to have a calendar on their desk or nearby. And that’s why a calendar magnet from Magnetic Attractions always seems to stick around until the end of the year. As long as your clients still need a calendar, why not give them one that also has your brand and contact information, so they can be reminded of you each time they check a date?

We are still creatures of habit in many ways, and many of us receive items like calendars from the same sources every year. Why not start a new annual tradition by sending calendar magnets to your customers as 2013 draws to a close? It’s a great way to renew customer relationships every day, year after year.