Face Paint+School Spirit

Our new war paint, face paint is not really a paint at all!  But as a skin balm with color it is remarkable.  We package the paints in small tubes for easy face decoration.  With 15 colors on tap, we think we can accommodate most any combo of school colors. 
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Outdoors

There are well over 100,000,000 outdoor leisure opportunities per year for corporate logos to be at work spreading awareness.

·         There are over 13,000,000 camp-nights per year and the gender is split 50-50

·         20,000,000 kids play youth baseball each year- doesn't count parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, other

·         3,000,000+ play youth soccer each year and its growing rapidly

·         100,000 Elementary & secondary schools will offer baseball and girls softball

·         4,000 colleges/universities - baseball and girls softball, soccer, lacrosse, golf

·         2,500 outdoor music/art festivals with average attendance in the thousands

   

o   Over a third of the population will attend an outdoor event this year!

 

·         500 million rounds of golf are played in the US annually

·         27 Million golfers

·         15000 courses

·         25 billion dollar spend

·         140,000 charity golf outings

·         With 15,000,000 participants

Makes us wonder how we can keep our SPF sun products in stock?  When you are ready..try our hands free SPF 30 face stick...perfect delivery of product to the nose, ears, neck and the rest of your face...

chocolate chocolate chocolate

Can you ever get enough choclate?  Not if it is real!

cocoa shoppe lip balms

One of the nicest parts of my job is to give the world chocolate flavored lips!  I was in Madison yesterday and once again I have converted another to the cocoa shopper world of lip magic. our Cocoa Shoppe Lip balms are indeed the most deeply evolved chocolate lip balms ever.  Hits the lips but not the hips!

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A New York State of Mind

Spent a few days in Buffalo showing off our wonderful line of skin care products and discovered yet again that our use of Chocolate in our Cocoa Shoppe line of chocolate lip balms is the bomb!  New converts to our "hits your lips and not your hips" lip balms.  Had a chance to see the mighty falls of Niagara while I was there and despite having seen all that energy and power before, still awe inspiring to see.  One Fifth of the freshwater on earth is pouring across those falls. And saw it all from the oldest state park in America, Niagara Falls State Park founded in 1885 on Goat Island...
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Stranger in a strange land

An interesting week for the Pied Piper of Alliance Packaging Group, the finest FDA lab in the land!  In the midst of showing our line of balms, lotions and skin care products, i noticed a certain sports frenzy overtaking the town.  Here I was a healthy and happy Wisconsinite in the middle of St. Louis, MO with the Green Bay Packers hosting the Rams and the Brewers playing the Cards in baseball in the playoffs.  My thick skin was put to the test with needless needling and uncompromising homerism.  Turns out it was a split.  The Packers rolled the Rams and The Cards shattered the dreams of the Brew Crew.  But the skin and body lotion game was brisk, so I go win, win, loss for the week!
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Why did the pickle cross the road?

Why did the pickle cross the road?  To quench some chapped pickle lips, of course. Van Holten's been making cucumbers into pickles since 1898!  If you have never tried a pickle in a pouch, you are missing out on some of the best pickle licking in life.  So what does a super pickle maker have in common with the finest FDA lab in the land?  Why, pickle lip balm of course.  Soon at retail locations around the country you will be able to have your pickle and keep the pickle tickle going by taking along the finest pickle flavored lip balm ever. Now try saying pickle lip balm pickle lip balm pickle lip balm three times rapidly...much harder than eating a pickle.  Much better tasting than our ketchup and mustard lip balm...When we do burger balm, you can have a classic on your lips with hamburger, ketchup, mustard and pickle flavored lip balms!
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Traveling with the Pied Piper

In a quest to get to all major metro areas and try and secure new clients, I was in Chicago and the Minneapolis areea the last two weeks.  Very different places indeed but the results were the same.  Excellent reception of our face and body products and of course our lip balms. I gave a gift pack of our cocoa shoppe lip balms to the car rental person and he very graciously accepted the gift and gave me one in return, a nice upgrade for no charge!  Love the Balm effect.

Check out the beautiful St. Croix River...

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On the Road

While I wish I had done a road trip with those two, I am not sure I was alive yet!


Spent the last few days on the road in Chicago and heading to Minneapolis this week.  I am finding cautious optimism on the street.  The economy is still stinky and end users have changed budget habits.  But the enduring thing is that Business has to promote, advertise and market to remain viable.  Have gotten a great reaction to some of our new products we are introducing.  Friction Free body lubricant, face paint, all purpose household lubricant and others will soon be staples in the promotional product industry!
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