Adco Marketing has been in the promotional product advertising business since the 1970's. Adco was founded by Dick Avery who sold traditional promotional advertising products and tradeshow giveaways including custom coffee mugs, logo pens. sports promotional items to local teams and custom embroidered business shirts and apparel. In the 1980's, Mr. Avery hired Karen Herzog who sold inexpensive promotional products to surrounding businesses. The business promotional items that were bought were an eye opener to Karen who eventually went to work with Dick Avery in 1996 and opened an independent office in Marin. Karen immediately took off as the number one sales person for Adco Marketing and Mr. Avery eventually sold his business to Karen to concentrate on his advertising printing business.

The business was originally run as a traditional distributor specializing in local companies. However, when her husband and partner, Michael Herzog, joined her, they decided to also bring Adco Marketing to the web. Adco Marketing’s online presence as a quality promotional items distributor quickly expanded the business. Specializing in trade show giveaways, unique promotional items and rush promtoional products, the website was an immediate hit and launched them into the world of online promotional products.

Adco wanted to be different than other distributors advertising on the web by providing a wide selection, from custom coffee mugs to personalized backpacks, with full customer service. Other promotional product advertising companies were setting up call centers, some overseas, to keep costs low. With this, however, Adco believed that customer service suffered as well. At Adco, our goal was to set up an online presence with superior business, unique promotional items, and superior customer service. Adco was also one of the first to implement services for rush promotional items and products.

A lot of companies specialize in selling the business promotional items of the moment. We however, are looking for the products that are stylish, popular, and will also be used for years to come. There are many marketing items that do not make a long term impact on your customer or target advertising audience when distributed. Then there are those that make a sudden and often lasting impact on your clients.

For example, one trade show giveaway that was distributed by our client was a light up customized yo yo. The client originally wanted to go with an inexpensive promotional product like a plastic logo pen. We, however, convinced them to distribute the custom yo yos. The client called us from the show to describe how all of the people visiting the booth were having an impromptu contest with the imprinted yo yos and that their trade show giveaway booth was the center of the show. The interesting part of the story is that a custom yo yo is not that much more than a logo pen.

Our latest focus has been toward green and eco-friendly promotional products. As these products have come down considerably in cost, many of our recycled and organic promotional products are close to the price of more traditional promotional products. With this, we have seen a larger demand for trade show giveaways and items that advertise a company's commitment to the environment. We can also produce our eco-friendly and organic promotional products rush!

At Adco, you will get an experienced customer representative who will give you great promotional marketing ideas. There are many ways to imprint promotional products as well, and we can guide you on which method would look best for your industry or target audience, or we can prepare a list of advertising ideas we feel would be best for your event!

We have factories come to us to try, touch and feel the business promotional items we sell. We are proud to sell quality promotional items at a great price! Inexpensive promotional products do not have to mean low quality! For this reason, we are proud to sell everything from a $0.33 logo pen to a $125 leather custom padfolio and custom Ogio Bags, Cutter & Buck padolios, Wenger watches and much more.

If you have any questions about Adco Marketing or any of our promotional items, please call us anytime at (888) 332-ADCO or (888) 332-2326. If you are outside of the United States or Canada, please call us at (415) 927-2881. You can also email us at sales@adcomarketing.com . Remember, if you have a need for rush promotional items, we have thousands of quality promotional products to choose from - most without a rush charge!