Seasonal Marketing Ideas

Here at Pinnacle Promotions, we are excited to see what the new year holds. Along with developing our current array of promotional products and services, we have many exciting ideas that we hope to implement in 2011 in order to better serve you, and we look forward to sharing them with you as they emerge. Happy New Year from the entire Pinnacle team!

(Please note: this will be our final blog post of 2010, as the office will be closed tomorrow, December 31. We will return with our regularly scheduled blog entry on Monday.)

If you sense a need for change in your personal life, now is the time to take down your 2010 calendars and start afresh with brand new, completely blank 2011 promotional calendars. Keep reading…

Thanksgiving is the perfect holiday, eat a ton and there’s no need to break the bank buying gifts! It’s a holiday solely for eating and being with loved ones. For me, Thanksgiving involves hanging out with my favorite people in the world, my family.
The eat-athon begins at about one o’clock with the first course, which in any traditional Italian home is what else but pasta! The homemade pasta usually made by my grandmother or aunts is accompanied by meatballs,braciole, and sauce. Once the dishes of pasta are distributed and everyone is seated, some dig right in while others take quite a while to prepare the perfect plate sprinkled with grated parmesan and hot pepper. Mangia!

After the food coma sets in from course number one, cleaning and naps are in progress and soon the preparation of course number two. The second course is another whole meal in itself, turkey and all the fixins’. One of my favorite parts about round two is watching my Brother and Uncles try the hot peppers made by my Nana. The hotter the pepper the more bread consumed adding to the already full bellies. Getting up from the table the second time I’m usually thinking I need some promotional athletic apparel to work off some of the weight this meal has put on. And this is before dessert has been served. Again, cleaning and naps are usually in progress with the coffee and dessert on its way. Pies, meringues, macaroons, and more are then lined up on the table waiting for anyone who has room for it. If there’s a blueberry pie on the table, I’m eating it! I should have my cell in on hand ready to purchase my promotional athletic apparel and a fork full of pie in the other. At least then I wouldn’t feel so bad because I do have the intension of working it off. By the end of our Thanksgiving dinner it’s usually pretty late, around 8 o’clock and we’re all very full and tired. Spending the day with my family on this great holiday is well worth the tireless preparation and slight weight gain, that’s what turkey is all about!

Happy Thanksgiving from Pinnacle Promotions! Our office will be closed on Thursday and Friday so we won’t be blogging, but we’ll be back Monday with our usual news and insight related to the promotional products industry!

Danielle

Marketing Coordinator

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For the past few weeks, Pinnacle has been holding a food drive to benefit the Atlanta Community Food Bank. We set a companywide goal of bringing in 100 non-perishable food items, and with everybody’s cooperation, we were able to exceed our goal by more than 40 items. With the Thanksgiving and holiday season upon us, Pinnacle’s staff members realized the importance of donating food to those local individuals less fortunate than ourselves.

Some of our employees even got their families involved in the initiative, as shown in the above photo of Chloe (6) and Lily (8), the daughters of Pinnacle VP of Sales, Daniel. Daniel and his adorable girls took a trip to the grocery store, reusable grocery bags in tow, to select an array of non-perishables listed by the Food Bank as most needed this time of year because of their high nutritional value. To learn more about Pinnacle’s food drive and to read several shocking statistics that may convince you to hold your own food drive this holiday season, keep reading…