The economy isn’t currently at its best which is certainly unfortunate. In some industries, it looks like sales can be up because of it.
Here’s a short blog post from Sentry Safe including a news video regarding Sentry Safes and how people are investing in their products for protection. It’s interesting to see that consumers are going one step further than storing assets at their own bank’s safety deposit boxes and purchasing safes on their own.
We do carry quite a selection of Sentry fire safes at BON included with all of the Sentry safes we sell. Some use them to store cash, some for collectables, and others even store gold in them.
Some things just never stop being funny, and a scene from the 1999 cult hit “The Office” happens to be one of them when Bill Lumbergh asks Milton to move his desk to the back then steals his most prize possession.
MarketWatch has an interesting article regarding HON, politics, and office chairs.
Mostly, this has to do with office chairs and “what is it about chairs?”. In one instance, they mention a message board thread regarding office politics and furniture that includes close to 200 replies. It’s an interesting article and worth the read.
For us at BuyOnlineNow, it’s nice to see that HON specifically mentions a line of chairs that we carry that they manufacture. It’s the F3(TM) chair that we carry in three colors:
The chairs themselves offer some very cool features like one-time adjustments to seat heights, arm height, depth, and adapting to different ways users sit in their chairs.
We’re pretty big fans of social media around here. Big props and a lot of envy goes out to the Kodak team who’s capturing images at the Beijing Olympics.
According to this press release, they’re not in Beijing to count medal tallies, but to capture images showing national pride, fan support, and just overall great photography. They don’t disappoint. My favorite picture so far is this panoramic shot during a gymnastics event. I want that camera.
They also have a section on their kodak.com site dedicated to the Olympic games including, “pictures of the day”, a photo tour of Beijing, behind the scenes, and links to their different Kodak blogs. They even have a cool selection of Olympic party kit templates (PDF).
This may look like a plug for Kodak. We do sell a few Kodak products albeit mostly their photo paper. Well, when manufacturers of products that we sell do cool and innovative things, we like to let people know about it. Plus, it allows us to live the Olympics in a small way even though we’re not there. :: :: :: :: ::
This came up in my Google Alerts. It’s kind of a silly quiz but enjoyable nonetheless. So, take the quiz and find out which Crayola Box of 8 color crayon you are.
Crayola 8-Box
According to the quiz, my favorite 8-Box color is green which apparently means newness, surprise, beginnings, and growth. Is that true? I couldn’t tell ya’.
In addition to the Avery templates, there also also a ton of useful document, spreadsheet, and presentation templates available as well. I can see this being a very popular tool. Google also announces this on their official blog.
Fellowes has something new and slick going on. They want to promote their antimicrobial products while teaching you how to reduce workplace bacteria, and they created an online campaign for it called The Office Coach.
They have some humorous Webisodes, fun “Coach Advice” you can forward to friends, a free seminar offer, sweepstakes contest to Hawaii in February 2009 (it looks like it’s during the Pro Bowl), and a free cleaning kit promotion for consumers who purchase $100.00 or more of Fellowes antimicrobial products (PDF file – might take a bit longer to load).
We carry plenty of these actually, and here are the items:
Last week we mentioned a very cool and fun contest that the Post-it Notes® team at 3M are promoting on YouTube. This isn’t the only way they’re going social on the Web. They also happen to have a Facebook page.
Having a Facebook page in itself isn’t always breaking news, but they are doing a great job utilizing it to promote their different contests and games while building their brand. As of this writing, they have close to 1,200 fans.
Their latest contest is the Post-it Memory game. The application uses your Facebook friends as characters to memorize along with a couple branded Post-it Notes logos. It’s pretty slick and fun.
Facebook Memory Game
I’m happy to say that my score is really low… which is good because if it was really high I’m probably spending too much time not working instead of marketing our products such as the Post-it Notes that we sell. Nonetheless, kudos to the Post-it Notes team!
As noted on Kodak’s 1000 Words Blog, they brought in Brendan Fraser to a recent NASCAR Race at the Chicagoland Speedway. To help promote the new Mummy Series, he visited the garage area before the race, hung out on pit road, and was even Grand Marshal of the race.
He also got to say NASCAR’s four most famous words.
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