Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Offer Custom Cigar Band Rings in your Shop!

Are you a smoke shop or cigar retailer?


Cutom Cigar Band Rings.com has mastered a process that allows cigar enthusiasts to turn their favorite cigar bands into beautiful custom rings!


For the first time ever, true fans of the leaf will be able to proudly support their allegiance on their ring finger, while they light up their next smoke.

The response has been overwhelming!  In only 3 months over 2,000 fans have joined our Facebook page, and everyday we get requests for quotes from eager fans.

Now we are offering Smoke Shops across the country the opportunity to offer these rings, and earn a referral fee for each purchase.

As a participating dealer, you will not be required to make any investment or stock any rings.  Simply, feature our Retail Rack Cards in a prominent position on your counter, and let everyone know when they request their quote, to fill in your Smoke Shop in order to receive a $25 discount.


Recent custom cigar band ring created with a Room 101 band.


 Recent custom cigar band ring created with an LFD band!

Earn $25 for each referral that turns into a sale whenever your shop name is entered into the ‘Cigar Shop’referral field online.

  • Add a new line of revenue and order your personal rings at 1/2 price.
  • Set up our POP display with rack cards and mention the rings to every customer.
  • Tell them that in order to earn a $25  discount, they need to add your shop name to the ‘Cigar Shop’ field on the quote request form.
  • You will earn $25.00 for each referral that turns into a sale and paid on a monthly basis.
  • You can also place the order directly, on behalf of the customer if you choose to.

For more information, call 561-288-1625 or email John Garcia at: jgarcia@customcigarbandrings.com



Puff, Puff, Keep!



This past Sunday, February the 24th, the temperature in West Palm Beach, Florida reached 85 degrees.  Not hot, but in the middle of 'winter', this is about as good as it gets.

I couldn't resist the call of the soft breeze, and warm afternoon sun any longer, so I headed to the pool (I know you probably hate me by now, but it gets worse!).  Along for the ride was a couple of  Magic Hat #9 cold-ass beers, and a beautiful Alec Bradley 'Connecticut'.



This cigar is dressed in a seamless Ecuadorian Connecticut shade wrapper and chock full of Honduran and Nicaraguan long-fillers.  Typically a light Connecticut share wrapper is not my tendency.  In fact, I can't recall the last time I bought a natural cigar, favoring heavily the maduro wrappers.  This guy got in my bag of goodies at the latest Great Smoke event sponsored by The Smoke Inn...my favorite day of the whole year!

Well, well, well seems like I've been missing out on a little piece of heaven.  This cigar almost melts in your mouth with a wonderful pallet of flavors, easy draw and long finish.  Nothing overpowering or hot, just a ture pool side companion to soak in the rays.

While I usually do smoke it down to the nub, I was truly looking around for a clip or stick or someway of smoking this puppy down to my fingers!  Not very classy I know, but there was hardly anyone else there! LOL!

Now I love Alec Bradley's amazing and ornate bands, many of which I would like to turn into a custom cigar band ring, but I equally love their smokes.  This is a natural cigar that I will absolutely keep in stock (which to me means it will last in my humidor at least one week).

Enjoy!

John Garcia
Custom Cigar Band Rings


Thursday, February 7, 2013

Four Kicks by The Crowned Heads


I have been fortunate enough to parlay my love for the leaf into, what is in my humble opinion, a noble way to show your appreciation and allegiance to iconic cigar brands.  

It is because of www.customcigarbandrings.com that I was able to introduce myself to Jon Huber (over 4 years ago) and he actually got me to believe my venture was a viable one.

I recently decided to make a concerted effort into promoting my rings, and of course the first man I reached out to was Jon Huber, now at The Crowned Heads.  In his endless kindness he sent me a box of Four Kicks, and my review goes something like this:

Picture a place where the hills roll gently with grass as soft as a lush, padded carpet.  A place where the breeze always blows at the perfect pace, enough to keep you cool, but not mess your hair.  A place where the drink is always cold, and the sun is always warm.  And of course a place where the cigar, oh the cigar, is always flavorful, easy to draw and gets better with every puff!



That is what happens to me each time I light up a Four Kicks cigar.  I am being serious when I say that this is a cigar I could smoke all day long, and never grow tired of it.  It is a rare blend of sweetness and flavor, easy to draw and good to the last puff.

I want to turn my friends on to it, but I don’t want to give up any of my own stash, (if you know what I mean). I’ve never really hoarded cigars before, but Four Kicks is as close to a Cuban as I’ve had in a very long time.  In fact ‘Cubanesque’ is a great way to describe this amazing smoke.

I found out recently that the master behind the blend is none other than Ernesto Perez-Carrillo, the Godfather of boutique cigars, the Cigar Aficionado Hall of Fame Class of 2012 inductee, the maker of EPC Cigars, Four Kicks, and the top rated cigar of 2012, the Headley Grange (which I’ve still yet to try…hard to get!).

It’s another award for another masterpiece.  Definitely my new ‘go-to’ cigar right now, and for the foreseeable future.  If you see it in the store, buy it!