Back To School

Gear up for the end of Summer with our Back To School promotional products!  If you were anything like me as a kid, you looked forward to buying new school supplies, outfits and more!  brandITbandits offers a wide variety of customized Back To School favorites! 

Browse our selections, you never know what you might find that meets your school needs or satisfies a current client!

Call (281) 674-8440 or email today!

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Did you know?

Fun give-a-ways are always appropriate for your prized customers.  Did you know that branditbandits offers a complete solution for your advertising specialties?  We have over 200,000 products that we can customize.

Contact us today if you are looking for new marketing ideas and ways to keep your business on top!

281-674-8440

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SURTEX NYC

The brandITbandits team is gearing up for a fabulous presentation at Surtex 2011 in New York City. Our artists include Lisa Jane, NYMBOO, AC Milan - Adidas and Kat Mack Photography.

Here are some of our clients and a sample of their work! Come see us in NYC May 14-18 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center.

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Reinvention...and It Feels So Good.

There's nothing better on a warm summer afternoon than a cool frappucino from Starbucks. Or, on a cold Holiday evening, a hot latte to warm the soul. Starbucks has been controlling and maintaining body temps for almost 40 yrs and with a resume that long, it's not a stretch to say the company has managed to keep their image young and modern by constantly re-inventing their brand. In fact, to celebrate 40 yrs in the biz, starbucks is planning on unleashing a brand new version of its original logo. Hey, if starbucks can re-invent and re-establish their brand in an effort to stay modern, shouldn't your small biz do the same? We think so! Check out an awesome article featuring a Q & A with Starbucks' SVP Terry Davenport discussing the new logo. Then, waltz over to branditbandits.com to find out how you can reinvent your small business brand today!

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Build Your Brand: Social Media Can Help

Here at brandITbandits, our specialty is small business branding. We live for giving small businesses the platform the social platform they need to grow into a success. From blogging, to press releases, we know how to use social media to get our client's names out there.

Usually, we'd hate to give away our secrets, but this blog on entreprenuer.com details what we do so well, we couldn't help but share it. Check the blog out here:

www.entreprenuer.com/article/217815

then, give us a call, shoot us an email or contact us on facebook to get your business's social media campaign started today!

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Invitation Bandits

Planning a wedding, shower or other special event? Then you're going to need invitations! http://www.invitationbandits.com/ is the place to get premier deals on all the hottest invitations and paper vendors. Check it out today!

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Getting Your Email Campaign Ready for 2011

Email marketing is a tool advertisers and marketers alike have been using for years to reach out to their clients...but, it's not enough anymore. Now, to be an effective email marketer, you not only have to send out emails, you have to be prepared to dive head first into social media: the art of allowing your clients to have a conversation with you. Check out this article on email marketing from entrepreneur.com. Then, give us a call at brandITbandits for help with your social media strategies!

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/217805

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Houston Bridal Extravaganza Show: Don't Miss It!

For a Bride-to-be in Houston Texas, there's no better place to go this January for all things "wedding" than the Houston Bridal Extravaganza Show. Housed in the George R. Brown convention center, this bridal expo will be filled with wonderful wedding vendors from all over Houston including Silver Sycamore Tea Room, Ashelynn Manor, and The Vineyards of Waverly Manor! With all these fantastic resources in one place, this is one event you don't want to miss!

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Laura Bernardi Interview: Kazachok Licensing Forum, Italy

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http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Elect-Jennifer-Schafer--Your-Vote-Counts-.html?soid=1103611975246&aid=B8PJSSF5s2o

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Bridal Showers and More!

Did you know that Silver Sycamore Tearoom is the perfect place to have you bridal shower? They offer a great selection of gift items and party favors at the Gift Shop and a delicious menu full of great flavor!

As engagement season starts, Silver Sycamore is ready to serve you!

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AddThis - Bookmark, Email, Share, Translate - Google Chrome extension gallery

AddThis - Bookmark, Email, Share, Translate - Google Chrome extension gallery

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Facebook Rolls Out New Page Browser

Facebook Rolls Out New Page Browser

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Old News Revisited-Refresher!

It has come to our attention that Facebook is a little wacky right now.  Some blogs are taking longer than normal to post and I noticed that some blogs were magically re-posting themselves from previous entries.  No big deal as Facebook sometimes goes a little nuts when they are in the process of a change or improvement.  These are good things.  As the world wide web continues its expansion, we continue ours.

Good news.  At the NACE Experience 2010 conference in Austin,  we learned a lot about Social Media. We already knew a lot of the information they shared, however, one can never know it ALL.  As the attendees eyes glazed over with confusion, our eyes lit up.  It made us aware of a few things.  We have job security(!) and that it is more important than ever to harness free based social media.  Attending the conference opened our eyes to the simple fact that if our clients are messing up the PAID FOR advertising and marketing, they are SURE to mess up the FREE.  This isn't meant as a DIG against our clients, simply a wake up call for all of us.  After only one session, we realized that if our clients spent the time it takes to learn, understand, keep up with, implement and achieve a conscious branding experience, they would have no time to sell their products or services.  As small business owners, we already do EVERYTHING ourselves and there has now become a need for a service that makes sense of it all.  

brandITbandits doesn't take the Internet for granted.  Social Media is human and organic.  It is always changing and improving and we only hope to continue to learn and grow with you.  It is my passion that small business owners have access to affordable marketing and media solutions where they maintain security and transparency of their image and brand name.  Thus, Social Bandits exists.  brandITbandits put a label on the free based social media world.  And, if TIME is MONEY, then you are paying a lot more than you should.  Social Bandits is a set-up service coupled with a low monthly maintenance.  If you are glazed and confused about social media, our team is here to coach you and uncover your marketing needs. 

Some tips and free advice:

• Facebook now allows any business profile with at least 25 fans to secure their own URL on Facebook.  An example is www.facebook.com/brandITbandits  Our team has worked diligently to secure that position for each of the profile pages we manage so that someone else didn't get to it first.  
• Networked Blogs: this application on Facebook now syndicates your blog and posts it in real time to your business profile pages.  Since that recent release, our team will work to make sure that each blog has been registered to the networked blog application and syndicated it for faster / improved updating.  Another cool improvement is the ability to now see the BLOG icon in your tabs on the business profile page.  Facebook users and fan will now have the ability to see your BLOG through the networked blogs application.  This app continues to improve and FOR NOW the most efficient way to import your blog to notes faster.
• Reviews:  The reviews TAB in Facebook is underused and imperfect, however, that team is constantly making tabs and applications better and more enhanced.  Facebook recently launch Questions and Answers.  It's an ability to POLL Facebook users and rivals Ask.com and eHow.comhttp://www.ehow.com.  I'm interested in playing around to see what happens.  You never know if you are going to get a legit answer or if legit questions are being asked.

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Entrepreneur.com Daily Dose - Social Media Marketing And Your Business

Entrepreneur.com Daily Dose - Social Media Marketing And Your Business

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FESTAC LOGO

So, growth isn't bad, unless you aren't prepared.  I wasn't prepared for my little instant growth pattern and I am now adjusting.  First adjustment?  Team up with a senior graphic artist that works in conjunction with our style.  We have to welcome Jennifer Erdman to our team of strategic partners.  We have artists of all types on our sub contrators list, however, Jennifer Erdman of Jennifer Creative is the first one we have had that is really solid and works with our deadlines.  She is also tremendously flexible.

We recently had the privilege of reworking a logo for Elias Events client. This logo was for FESTAC.  We are starting the brochure this week.

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Twitter Updates from Team Twitter

Over the coming weeks, we will be making two important updates that will impact how you interact with Twitter applications. We are sending this notice to all Twitter users to make sure you are aware of these changes.

What are applications?

There are over 250,000 applications built using the Twitter API. To use most applications, you first authorize the application to access your Twitter account, after which you can use it to read and post Tweets, discover new users and more. Applications come in many varieties, including desktop applications likeTweetDeck, Seesmic, or EchoFon, websites such as TweetMeme, fflick, orTopsy, or mobile applications such as Twitter for iPhone, Twitter for Blackberry, or Foursquare.

Update 1: New authorization rules for applications

Starting August 31, all applications will be required to use “OAuth” to access your Twitter account.

What's OAuth?

• OAuth is a technology that enables applications to access Twitter on your behalf with your approval without asking you directly for your password.
• Desktop and mobile applications may still ask for your password once, but after that request, they are required to use OAuth in order to access your timeline or allow you to tweet.

What does this mean for me?

• Applications are no longer allowed to store your password.
• If you change your password, the applications will continue to work.
• Some applications you have been using may require you to reauthorize them or may stop functioning at the time of this change.
• All applications you have authorized will be listed athttp://twitter.com/settings/connections.
• You can revoke access to any application at any time from the list.

Update 2: t.co URL wrapping

In the coming weeks, we will be expanding the roll-out of our link wrapping service t.co, which wraps links in Tweets with a new, simplified link. Wrapped links are displayed in a way that is easier to read, with the actual domain and part of the URL showing, so that you know what you are clicking on. When you click on a wrapped link, your request will pass through the Twitter service to check if the destination site is known to contain malware, and we then will forward you on to the destination URL. All of that should happen in an instant.

You will start seeing these links on certain accounts that have opted-in to the service; we expect to roll this out to all users by the end of the year. When this happens, all links shared on Twitter.com or third-party apps will be wrapped with a t.co URL.

What does this mean for me?

• A really long link such as http://www.amazon.com/Delivering-Happiness-Profits-Passion-Purpose/dp/0446563048 might be wrapped as http://t.co/DRo0trj for display on SMS, but it could be displayed to web or application users as amazon.com/Delivering- or as the whole URL or page title.
• You will start seeing links in a way that removes the obscurity of shortened links and lets you know where each link will take you.
• When you click on these links from Twitter.com or a Twitter application, Twitter will log that click. We hope to use this data to provide better and more relevant content to you over time.

Thanks for reading this important update. Come and check what's new athttp://twitter.com.

Thanks,
The Twitter Team

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5 Signs it's Time to Fire Your Client - Entrepreneur.com

5 Signs it's Time to Fire Your Client - Entrepreneur.com

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New Logo Development

This logo was one of our latest for a photographer friend and client.  Her client wanted a special logo developed to place at the bottom of the images.  This was a super fun project!

The

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