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FREE St. Patrick’s Day Icon Set

ociadmin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:14:26 +0000

We’re all getting into the spirit for our Annual St. Patrick’s Day party over here and in our enthusiasm we created the nice icon set we wanted to share with you for FREE!!! You can see all six icons after the jump as well as download the ZIP file that contains them all. We hope you enjoy them and use them in your own St. Patrick’s Day celebrations. Remember, if you’re not coming to our party you can still win some great prizes by being our fan on Facebook or following us on Twitter. So do that and have a happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Download the FREE St. Patrick’s Day Icon Set Here

Free Holiday Gift Tags!

OCI — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:14:32 +0000

I know what you’re thinking, “but I haven’t even started shopping for my Christmas gifts yet!” Well, join the club!

Free Holiday Gift Tags!

Hopefully these will motivate you to get out there and start shopping.

These designs fit on Avery 2″ x 4″ labels. Happy holidays!

Click here to download. (1.2 MB PDF)

Best Things in Life are Free … Really?

Carly — Fri, 08 May 2009 13:46:39 +0000

For a whole host of reasons – the lousy economy being the first one to come to mind – many different businesses are offering their products or services for insanely cheap, or even free, in some cases. For example, T.G.I. Friday’s sold select appetizers for five cents (with a purchase of a drink) on Cinco de Mayo. And Kentucky Fried Chicken and Oprah teamed up to offer a free grilled chicken dinner with coupon. The debacle ended up with several customers being turned away from KFC restaurants for a variety of reasons.

Marketer extraordinaire Seth Godin alluded to this trend in his blog, and it’s an interesting thought. Could “free” really hurt a business? While some are optimistic that the KFC-Oprah event could end up being a positive for the fried chicken chain, many customers were left with a bad taste in their mouth. (No pun intended!)

The purpose behind these special offers is to build up a goodwill between provider and customer/client. Once the economy turns around, the businesses that survive will be the ones that treated their customers with respect and appreciation when times were bad. However, whenever there is way too much of a good thing, it overloads the system and people miss out. (In the barest, simplest terms, isn’t that what happened with the economy in the first place?)

What do you think? Should businesses be more prudent when it comes to these special offers and deals that seem to be popping up all over the place?

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