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Say the word “bookmark” and most people will immediately think of somber libraries with stern-faced librarians, or bits of tasseled old leather in-between the pages of dusty bibles!  However, a bookmark doesn’t have to be such a grim and serious product. It’s actually one of the most usable print products for your home or office.

Used in business as a marketing tool or in the home environment as a gift for your friends and family, a bookmark is a pretty nifty item. Here are a few bookmark ideas for your home and business that you might not have considered:

Personalized bookmarks for the home 

Custom bookmarks are a really nice accompaniment to any book that you’re giving as a gift. If you’re gifting a self-help book, an academic text, or other book with personal significance, you could include a quote from the author or a heartfelt message about how the book has helped you in your life or studies.  You could even use a bookmark as part of the gift-wrapping. A personalized “gift tag” would be a great complement to any book.  Create a bookmark that reflects the book’s cover graphic or find photographs of scenery, places, or pictures that illustrate passages in the text.

Why not place your own portrait or pictures of your family on a bookmark? A bookmark can be a great gift in itself! Especially for those Grandparents and other family members who are avid readers.  A really great bookmark gift idea is to create a bookmark for a toddler or baby’s “first book”; put their baby photo on the bookmark and package it together with a classic children’s hardback, and you have a really personal and thoughtful gift.

Bookmarks are also perfect for celebrating Easter, baptisms, or other religious occasions. Include a patron saint or a favorite prayer on your bookmark gift and it would make the perfect ceremonial gift.

Bookmarks for your Church, Library, School or Bookstores

This may be obvious to most people, but organizations with lots of books can always use plenty of bookmarks! Nowadays, even churches and religious organizations can use a little help in generating interest.  Whether you’re a schoolteacher who wants to give ‘special bookmarks’ to their students as achievement prizes, or a librarian who has a weekly calendar of events to promote, a bookmark is fantastic for getting your point across – especially for organizations that encourage reading and learning.

How to make your own fancy bookmarks

If you’re an artistic individual, then it might be quite lucrative to sell your own bookmarks. You could establish your own online bookmark business, or sell them at craft fairs, etc.  Maybe you just want to create an extra-special bookmark gift. Here’s how easy it is to make the kind of bookmarks that you see in the stores:

Create a custom bookmark design using an online bookmark template (download templates at online sites such as OvernightPrints.com.) This template will give you the standard bookmark size and design guides.

Design using your template guides. Once your design is completed, upload your design and checkout your design for printing (this usu­ally takes about 3 days at most online print shops.)

Buy some fancy rope or ribbon from an arts and crafts store.

Once you have received your bookmarks, purchase a 1-hole puncher (they’re a dollar from Office Max) and make a hole in the top of your bookmark. Thread a fancy ribbon through using a square knot (two ends through the hole – then through the loop)

You can make some really elegant looking bookmarks using this simple method

Bookmarks for your business – Mini flyers and promotions

 From a marketing perspective, bookmarks are really useful. For a small business owner who’s looking to create an effective marketing tool then there’s nothing more pertinent than a custom bookmark to get your business point across. Now I know what you’re probably thinking; “What the heck is this guy talking about… what kind of business owner uses bookmark for strategic marketing?” Well, I can say with some certainty that a customer is far more likely to pick up a bookmark than a flyer! Why? Because they can actually USE it…as a bookmark!!!

There’s not a lot of love for flyers and postcards. All too often, they are barely looked at before they end up in the trashcan! Who can blame people for tossing them? What can you do with a flyer? You might give it a cursory glance but what then?  You can’t slip it comfortably into your pocket, you’re not going to give it to anyone as a gift, and you’re certainly not going to use a great big cumbersome flyer as a placeholder for Dan Brown’s latest page-turner! A bookmark, however, will do rather nicely.

 Create an impressive enough bookmark design to showcase your company logo, business number, or special promotion and you’re likely to get people really interested in your business. You create a kind of “mini bookmark” that is Stick a funny saying, some words of wisdom, a cute cat, a calendar, etc, and “hey presto”, you’ve got yourself a marketing product that your customers will look at for weeks…even months!

If you have an Internet based business a fun idea would be to create a “bookmark this” list of site bookmarks on your actual bookmark! This would be a great way to drive traffic to your sites!

Bookmarks as event tickets

 Another great use for custom bookmarks is as tickets for events. They are just the right size to fit in a person’s wallet or pocket. Many people use online printers to produce their event tickets.  If you regularly organize events, stage productions, competitions, or parties, then it’s a good idea to use bookmarks as an alternative to expensive custom ticket printing.

Bookmarks as Gatefold Business Cards

You can make quite a neat little business card out of a bookmark.  By designing your bookmark in two halves.  Simply download a business card template from a site such as, OvernightPrints.com, and design your bookmarks as if it were a greeting card – splitting the 6” template into two 3” design spaces (one for inside and one for outside). Once you receive your bookmark prints, you can fold them down the center and make a gatefold business card out of them! This certainly makes your business card stand out from the crowd and it is an elegant and sophisticated way of presenting yourself and your business.

Souvenir Bookmarks

If you own a guesthouse, hotel, or other business connected with a tourist destination, then you can create a travel souvenir that customers can pass onto friends and relatives. Use a gorgeous image of your travel destination so that they can relive the experience of being there and tell everyone else about how good it was. 

Use your imagination

Like most print products, it’s a case of using your imagination to think of new and interesting ways to use a product. Bookmarks are especially versatile, and it only requires a little extra thought and effort to create something really special.

Toddlers love gifts. Watch their eyes light up with joy as they open their gifts and begin to play with them and you smile knowing that behind the fun and games, they are learning. Because the best toys today are fun, educational and really cool. There are toddler gift ideas that really stand out from the pack for their quality, entertainment and educational value.

There are toddler games and toddler toys to classic toddler gifts like horses, toy train sets, toy cars and musical instruments for the kids. Even there new electronic toddler gifts like fridge phonics, the v-smile learning system and a digital camera specially designed for toddlers. Electronic toddler toys that educate are a very good gift choice for kids because they are at that age when they love to learn. Electronic learning toys are among the top toddler birthday gifts this year.

It may be very good for toddlers to begin life with some excellent interactive educational toddler toys because of the receptive learning stage they are at this age. Toddlers have an amazing capacity for learning. Take advantage of the large variety of new electronic toys, books, puzzles, and wooden toys available today. They will help you to teach as well as stimulate your childs imagination.

Learning toys for toddlers help the child build abilities or skills that help them in academics when they get older, because children tend to do better later on when exposed to letters, numbers and sounds at a young age.

Twilight Turtle is another gift idea that turns baby room into a starry night sky which comforts the child to sleep. Twilight Turtle projects a magical constellation of stars onto bedroom ceiling and walls with your choice of three soothing color options. Twilight Turtles shell illuminates like a nightlight to help ease children fear of the dark. This interactive and educational toy includes eight actual constellations embedded in the star pattern. Parents can sit with their children and identify these major constellations using the wonderfully illustrated Twilight Turtle Star Guide. Twilight Turtle helps make bedtime fun for children of all ages and makes the perfect gift.

Electronic Learning Toddler Toys are not simply toys, they are friends, and the friendship begins the moment the toddler opens the electronic learning gift and plays with it. The toddler starts learning their ABC s-123s and a lot more. Electronic toddler toys that educate are a very good gift choice for kids because they are at that age when they love to learn. Electronic learning toys are among the top toddler birthday gifts this year.
There is nice variety of toddler arts and crafts gifts. This is a great age to expose them to artistic creativity. Kids are extremely proud of their art and crafts. Board games for toddlers like Chutes and Ladders are a great introduction to the fun that can be had playing board games.

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A fascinating mixture of natural beauty, local hospitality and an excellent tourist infrastructure make Bali holidays an increasingly popular choice for many tourists. Part of the appeal is the sheer diversity of experiences on offer. Whether you want a relaxing holiday by the beach, an adventurous time in the jungle, or just to party until dawn every night, a holiday in Bali has something to offer you.

These are just a few of the things you can get up to:

Go Shopping for Traditional Balinese Goods

Bali is well known for its traditional arts and crafts which make for the perfect souvenirs to take home from your holiday. Those interested in arts and crafts have the opportunity of visiting the Handicraft Villages of Bali, small villages dedicated to a particular art form. These are Celuk (for jewellery), Batubalan (stone carving), Pengosekan (painting) and Mas (wood carving.)

Alternatively, if you’d like some more mainstream shops, Legian Street in Kuta does a nice line in boutiques and Ubud has become the art centre of Bali.

Note that, with the exception of the western style shops in the major cities, haggling will be the normal way of doing business. So come prepared to bargain hard to get your souvenirs at the very best prices and bear in mind that many of the vendors will only accept cash.

Have a Jungle Adventure

It may be better known as a beach and clubbing destination, but those after something a little more adventurous on their Bali holidays will have plenty of options, most of which can be found inland in the jungles and mountains. White water rafting, jungle trekking, mountain biking and paragliding are just a few of the activities on offer, the most popular are the elephant treks, where you spend the day exploring the rich jungles of Bali on the back of an elephant!

Live it up at Night

Those who like to party the night away will find plenty to keep them entertained on a holiday in Bali – the island’s nightlife is famous the world over! There are many different parts of Bali that offer late night entertainment, each one with its own unique character. The area of Kuta is for the hard partying crowd, with dozens of pubs and clubs open until the small hours (though be aware that nothing really gets going here until midnight). Seminyak is regarded as having a slightly more sophisticated and chic kind of nightlife, while those who want to see some traditional Balinese dancing should head over to Ubud and Sanur.

Relax in a Luxury Spa

Sometimes the best activity is one that involves doing hardly anything at all! With its outstanding natural beauty and the high quality of the spa hotels in Bali, a spa holiday here can offer perfect relaxation. There are plenty of accommodation options that have excellent spa facilities, but amongst the very best are the Oberoi Bali in Seminyak, the Four Seasons Resort in Ubud, and the Legian Bali.

If you type in the phrase ‘Home Internet Business’ in your Google search bar within as second you will get a return of 449 million results. Obviously there are a lot of ideas as to how you can make money at home with an Internet business but that also means that a vast majority of those returns are probably people that are trying to scam you out of some money by promising you a get rich quick scheme. If someone wants to take your hard earned money simply to give you ideas on how to make money at home by using the Internet, your red flags should be flapping wildly in the wind. So what are some ideas for a home Internet business?

First you should know that to be successful at any home Internet business you have to be ready to work. There are no free lunches and no get rich quick solutions. That being said, here are some great ways to get your feet wet at being you own boss and making money at home with the Internet:

?eBay: A great way to make some money on the Internet with little experience is through eBay. You can get a free eBay account and there are many tutorials on the website that walk you through the process of buying and selling products. A wonderful way to start out is by selling things that you have lying around your house and this will give you some much needed practice. Once you get a handle on the selling aspect, you simply need to decide what you want to specialize in. Then find a supplier and get to work.

?Affiliate marketing: If you are planning on getting your own website then you should consider affiliate marketing. With affiliate marketing you put a banner or ad of a company right on your website and if a visitor to your site clicks that ad and goes to the company’s website and buys something, you get a commission. Some of the biggest companies in the world offer affiliate programs such as Wal-Mart, Amazon, and even eBay. You do have to get approved by the companies to be an affiliate, but there are literally hundreds, if not thousands of companies to choose from that offer affiliate marketing.

?Arts and Crafts: If you are an artistic person, make some money on the Internet with your ability. You can custom make your own custom jewelry, clothing, crafts, or whatever and sell them online. There are many places online that specialize in homemade crafts and you can even sell what you make on eBay if there is a market for it.

?Writing: If you are good at writing there are many opportunities for you to make money at home using the Internet. With writing online you can perform copywriting, article writing, blog writing, web site content writing, and anything else that has to do with writing. There are several sites on the Internet that can help you get started like Associated Content and Helium and from there you can work your way up.

Being at home and making money using the Internet is not impossibility. Just remember that you can’t take any shortcuts and that no matter how good the ‘get rich quick’ pitches sound, there is nothing that is going to compare to good old fashioned hard work and dedication.

Nobody has the monopoly on information. And those who need to load up on information about something that they don’t know anything about won’t necessarily want to learn from scratch. This is why a lot of people go to online gurus for crash courses on everything under the sun. And by providing information about their expertise in easily digestible forms, these online gurus make a living out of this.

If you want to learn how to make money like the gurus yourself, nothing should stop you, really. There are many options for you to become a guru yourself. The secret to becoming one is to find out your own little areas of expertise, and exploit these by sharing them to others online. Some of the ideas that you might want to explore are:

1. The Love Guru. If you happen to have a wealth of experience in this department, it’s about time you share them with others. Aside from helping enlighten the lovestruck and heartbroken, you will also be able to earn money from it.
2. The Gaming Guru. Do you spend most of your time playing online or computer games? Pick a game that you especially like and have mastered, and then write up some incredible tips, tricks, cheats and walkthrough that you think like-minded people will appreciate.
3. The Arts and Crafts Guru. Do you love creating beautiful arts and crafts pieces out of raw materials? Take a web camera and see if you can shoot your own video while you are demonstrating how to make your own scrapbooks, bookmarkers, photo holders and what-nots.

These are just some of the great ideas that you can explore to become your very own guru. Take your creativity to the next level and see if you can come up with more ideas.

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April 25, “the eighteenth China (Shenzhen) International Gifts, Handicrafts, Watches & Houseware Fair” will be opened in the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Centre, close to 3,000 exhibitors, occupying nearly 10 million square meters area of the eight functional hall. Total gift of this exhibition will be down to dozen types of thousands, in addition to traditional arts and crafts, home textiles, electronic products, new and useful kitchen appliances, household goods will also be massive scene.

    Creative kitchen up to make life happy

    ”Food,” the Chinese people always pay attention to the status of food in life, kitchen appliances, household goods is accounted for in an important seat. Kitchen products, increasing competition, all companies in the marketing, in addition to the traditional model, one after another into the Gift Show to explore new sales channels. Gift Fair in Shenzhen, a large number of new products, the kitchen supplies and rich creativity, compared with the traditional pots and pans, bright colors, innovative designs, lovely warm, interesting people as they fall in love with the kitchen utensils.

    If chef electric mixer, chef cartoon style, hands on her hips and confident standing egg-shaped base, the people can not help laughing; fashion beautiful green apple soup pot, not only practical, shape and color on all the modern home good selection; happy smile more with Western knives, stainless steel frame and tender, take up and wanted a happy smile; cartoons omelette pan, omelette allow the metamorphosis of an ordinary bear, hellokity, Mickey and other shapes, so all amazing fried Eggs can also be color, flavor, taste.

    In fact, the kitchen can also be filled with Trolltech’s “Fantasia”, more lovingly crafted gift ideas kitchen developing debut in Shenzhen, a miasma of smoke past the kitchen to change the image, create a happy stylish kitchen environment, change the cycle, numerous and unorganized kitchen life. Selling kitchen appliances, but also reflects the trend of gift-oriented practicality.

  Technology element to the art of living together

    People continue to pursue high quality of life, making kitchen supplies from utility into a symbol of fine living. Many exhibitors as the leading representative of the industry, have excellent display quality, appearance cleverly designed unique technology and innovative household goods. Many products is integrated into a low-carbon, environmentally friendly, smart and other high-tech elements to create a better quality of life.

    Such as stainless steel tableware, high-tech production process, to produce the color of stainless steel, gold plating, painting, porcelain, grinding and other artistic products; another cup of the dishes, such as ceramic material lamp, into the nano-antibacterial technology, automatic disinfection health and safety; there are other new and useful and convenient fashion soybean milk machine, coffee machine, oven, make the family life more energy efficient.

    Kitchen with high-tech elements, so that cooking as an art, to promote industry-driven market consumption trends of new fashion trends, speed up the kitchen market maturity and standardization, product technology and health, design fashion and humanity, consistent with human-centered design, innovative culinary culture. In recent years, these products have gradually become business gifts, promotional gifts of force.

    As the largest gift show, twice a year in Shenzhen exhibition are a large number of buyers purchasing event, the invited buyers plan to upgrade several times, including agents, distributors, wholesalers, gift companies, department stores Group procurement and end-user, etc., all kinds of buyers attended the rate of increase, and to help advance the key buyers informed of new products and highlights show to buyers to develop a clear procurement plan for efficient trading.