5 Fun Ways to Use Food Shapes Promotional Stress Balls

In a rough economy, people need to seek creative and inventive ways to showcase their businesses more than ever. A little creativity can go a long way in making your business memorable in the minds of clientele. Promoting your business is all about what you, the owner or employee, put into it. One great and fun way to promote a business in the food industry is promoting it with food shaped stress toys. This article will outline 5 businesses that can benefit highly from using food shaped stress balls to promote business.

1. Family Owned Restaurants

Handing out food shaped stressballs to kids is a great way to make your family owned restaurant memorable amongst families. Not only will the toys make kids happy, they can also attract families to use your family owned restaurant as a place for childrens' birthday parties! They make your business more friendly and approachable.

2. Bakeries

Everyone loves a great bakery. But, does everyone remember the name of that great bakery? Chances are, probably not without some inventive marketing. Food shaped stress toys, perhaps in the shape of cupcakes, can be a great way to make people remember the delicious cupcakes sold at your own bakery.

3. Ice Cream Shops

Ice cream stores can be the most fun places on earth for kids and parents. But, the problem is that typically people don't go back to any single, one ice cream shop. How will you make your ice cream shop that "in" place the families come back to, again and again? The key is handing out ice cream shaped stress relievers to people with their actual ice cream cone! People of all ages love ice cream shaped stress balls, since they can truly ease stress and make life more enjoyable, just like real ice cream cones!

4. Pizza Delivery Services

Own a new pizza shop? Want everyone in town to buy pizza from your store, rather than another corporation? Then hand out adorable pizza shaped stress toys. Perhaps you could host a free pizza day for everyone in town and hand out the toys as a way to gain clientele. A little party with these stress relievers can go far!

5. Food Product Companies

Perhaps your company is more "behind the scenes" and creates things like salt packets, sugar packets, and napkins that are used by restaurants. You can still market your business with food shaped stress toys and generate interest in your company!

These 5 kinds of food businesses are only a starting point for the kinds of businesses that can benefit from food shaped stress toys. The truth is, anyone can benefit! Just use a bit of creativity and sales will hit the roof with stress toys!

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Horse Shaped Stress Balls - An in Depth Look at These Popular Promotional Gifts

Horse shaped stressballs are among the most requested farm animal shapes. These popular stress toys are often seen at tourist locations, dude ranches, and as gifts in horse related publications of which there are many. In some countries such as France, where horse meat is eaten regularly and sold at village markets, they are also big in the food industry. Restaurants specialising in the meat also give these gifts away printed with their logo and details.

Here in the UK,where we would rather ride our horses than eat them, they are more often used simply to promote a business or organisation in a fun and different way.

There are several popular horse shapes but the most popular is a standing horse which is seen on almost every stress ball website on the net. It is 150mm x 47mm x 100mm and is normally printed on the back where your logo and details are easily visible. The print area is 30mm x 25mm is ample space for most logos and contact details.

The standard colour for this horse is dark brown with a black mane. Suppliers who purchase these stress products in bulk will have these in stock. I have found, however, that many people prefer to have the horses manufactured in another lighter colour so that their logo stands out better. This is completely up to you as special colours are rarely a problem though you should expect to wait for at least 4 weeks for delivery. Like all stress balls, the horse shape can be manufactured in your company colours if you feel like being brave.

As mentioned earlier, there are several fun horse related shapes. Some are lying down while others are kicking back smiling and wearing sunglasses. There are even a few horse stressballs that are available in the popular keyring size.

There are negatives and positives to going the keyring route. Key rings have always been quite popular promotional gifts because they are very handy. Almost everyone needs a keyring for their home, car and work keys. These popular stress reliever keyrings serve that purpose but they are also fun to squeeze. Your customers will probably find that they are reaching for their keys and squishing their horse keyring often. Each time they do, they could be looking at your logo and details.

The only problem with these fun keyrings is that they have a small print area due to the size of the product. You will need to consider this when you are considering what you want to print.

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Promotional Turkey Shaped Stress Balls - An In-Depth Look at These Fun Promotional Gifts

So when do you think these promotional turkey shaped stress balls are most popular? You guessed it, in the weeks before Thanksgiving in the US and around the same time for many other countries in the countdown to Christmas. Turkey is big business and these stress balls are very seasonal. That is not to say that they are not sold year round but October and November is when they are most needed. Restaurants specialising in big turkey dinners love them to hand out to their customers year round. They are also very popular with fertiliser companies, turkey organisation and farm shops.

Turkey meat is used in many different ways other than the tradition turkey roast and these shapes can help promote them all. This could be particularly of interest to food suppliers and transportation companies specialising in poultry. You may also find the chicken and hen shapes of interest.

The turkey shaped stress ball that is most often seen is 100mm x 35mm x 48mm. Its tail feathers are all spread out leaving a very nice 35mm x 35mm print area for your logo and promotional message. This is a very large print area for a stress ball of this size.

Turkey stress balls are normally supplied white with red and yellow trim on the head. These are kept in stock by the major stress ball suppliers. If you require another coloured turkey such as black, this can easily be done. The lead-time may be slightly longer but you can order your stress turkeys in any colour you like. I have even seen bright purple turkeys. The choice is yours.

It is worth noting that if you choose to purchase white turkeys, they will not stay white indefinitely. The PU used to manufacture the stress balls reacts to light over time and will eventually turn a very pale yellow. It is therefore best to keep your stress turkeys in the boxes you receive them in until you are ready to use them. The white colour should last for quite a long time but they will eventually turn yellow. If this is a problem, consider asking for your stress balls to be manufactured in another darker colour.

Stress balls are excellent gifts for promotion because they are in the shape of the product or message you are trying to promote. Your target customers have already started to pick up your message before they even read what is printed on the promotional stress ball.