Why Promotional Products Are Good For Business
If you look around your desk, right now, how many advertisements do you have sitting at your fingertips? They can be found on mouse pads, pens, mugs, notepads, and the like. You probably have quite a few ads; you just do not think of them as advertising.
Promotional products are usually the most affordable and often overlooked form of marketing. All businesses need to make their ad dollars work as hard as possible. Using this form of advertising can put your name, logo and phone number in front of potential customers every day. Studies show that it takes multiple exposures to an ad before a person notices it.
How can you make promotional products work for your company?
Target your market. Is your audience young or old, male or female? Do they spend most of their time in the office, home or car? Choose items your customers will use and see repeatedly.
Choose your items carefully. Choose items that are useful, different or interesting. A lot of people get the same product promotion over and over again. Try something related to your business and appropriate for your customers. A key chain, travel mug, and air freshener may work for an automotive-related business; a software company might want to give a mouse pad, a monitor calendar, a screen cleaner.
Keep it simple - without being cheap. Simple messages are better, so keep your design uncluttered. Remember that customers often will keep higher quality, more thoughtful items longer, thus increasing the effectiveness of your ad.
Start with your current customers. This is a primary rule of advertising. Since this group is relatively easy to identify, your advertising money can go directly where it produces the most results.
Bundle promotional items with other forms of advertising. Offering a free gift for new customers when you advertise in the newspaper or sending a small item in your direct mail piece can make customers pay more attention and make your ads more effective. Lumpy mail gets opened! Paper is thrown away or filed. Useful products are retained, seen, and appreciated.
Give them to your employees. Many companies give apparel (t-shirts, hats, windbreakers, etc.) and other highly visible products (umbrellas, tote bags, beach towels, etc.) to their employees to promote an internal company campaign or message, and to reinforce the company's image and logo.
Here are some of the many uses of promotional products:
- Increase Name Recognition.
- Build Customer Loyalty.
- Customer Appreciation Giveaways.
- Recruiting New Customers.
- New Product Launches.
- Trade Show Giveaways.
- Motivate and Reward Employees.
- Recruiting New Employees.
- Company Parties and Picnics.
- Merit and Safety Awards.
- Corporate Golf Outings.
- Celebration of Grand Openings and Holidays.
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