The ceramic coffee mug is an everyday staple that can be found in any kitchen. The mugs come in all shapes, sizes and styles and some people even have collections of mugs from different places they’ve traveled or events they’ve participated in.
A ceramic coffee mug makes a great keepsake for weddings or other special events, and can serve as a fantastic memento from a trip. The thing that makes a coffee mug a great keepsake is that it also doubles as a useful everyday item.
Years ago you could visit a kiosk in the mall and have a mug custom made and personalized with a picture or a special saying. The kiosks surely still exist for the technophobes among us, but now you don’t even have to go through the effort of getting into your car and going to the shopping mall to create a unique personalized mug.
As long as you have an internet connection and the ability to upload pictures from your hard drive, you can have a ceramic coffee mug personalized from the comfort of your own home in any color or style you like. My favorite personalized mug is the one with a picture of my nephew and niece given to me years ago by my sister.
Personalizing a ceramic coffee mug is also an inexpensive way to advertise your business. Most people have a collection of mismatched coffee mugs in their kitchen cabinets and what better way to get your message across than to have your business logo in your customer’s face every morning as they drink their coffee.
To see the everyday item used as a marketing tool, witness the sheer volume of items like pens and pads of paper floating around in the world with the name of a prescription drug engraved on its surface.
Pharmaceutical companies make millions in profit every year and could afford to advertise on the sides of buildings if they chose. But they know the secret to marketing, and that is you want to get your message in front of as many eyes as you can. This becomes easy with engraving your message on everyday items we all use.
The one obvious problem with the ceramic coffee mug is that since it is made of ceramic, it can be fragile and susceptible to chipping, especially after being heated in a microwave or dishwasher. A good quality ceramic coffee mug is fired and finished and will not easily break, but when exposed to extreme heat or cold will become less resistant to breaking.
Another drawback to the ceramic coffee mug is that it is not portable for travel.
When drinking coffee on the go, people will usually choose to drink their coffee or tea out of a plastic container with a sealed lid or a disposable cup from a coffee shop.
Still, these are ideas that you might want to consider, whether you want to advertise your company or give a mug with a photo as a gift.
