(Tamar Weinberg is a) Schwag Addict

A friend of mine attended an event in California that I couldn’t make: iPhone Dev Camp. So he saved me a souvenir:

This is the bag.

Wonder if it’ll be worth something some day?

I loved the SXSW 2008 bag design by genius marketing dude Hugh Macleod:

2009’s was cool too:

Both were sponsored, I believe, by Adobe:

Will I see you at SXSW 2010?

In April, when I was out of town for the Passover holiday, the first Small Business Marketing Unleashed conference was held in Houston, TX. (The next one, by the way, is in September in Columbus, OH!)

Since I couldn’t make it, the kind people behind the scenes sent me some really awesome schwag.

There’s a really cool USB key from email marketing team Lyris HQ, a t-shirt and bag from website promotion service Search Influence, pens and a pad from payroll service, ADP, a sharpie from web marketing firm Sage Rock, a computer protector from business blog small business answers, silly putty from brainstorming site ideablob, and gum from yellow pages site SuperPages.

There was also a niftily designed bag from email marketing solutions site Emma.

Thank you Robert and Jen for sending this to me! 🙂

The Search Engine Strategies conference was held in New York from March 17-20, and Kevin Ryan, one of the show’s organizers, got inspired to give away specially limited edition SES Crumpler schwag because I forced him to because he loves me.

This bag comes with a laptop compartment and more, and it is rockin.

Other Search Engine Strategies conferences include SES Toronto on June 17-18 and SES San Jose from August 18-21. I’ll probably be at the San Jose event, so be sure to say hi.

Thanks, Kevin and crew!