In the marketing strategy, promotional gift as low cost and better effects is very popular for business people. It is a perfect method to help new company increase brand awareness, high profits. You must admit that it can play a very important role in the business development.
As a customer or a consumer, there are some many living examples in our daily life. Last week, I bought a new hand bag for my 16 years old daughter. The shop brings me a coffee cup for a promotional gift. To be frank, the cup is very beautiful and I just want to buy one that can put in my office. Next, my colleagues always ask me where to buy one, I told them, and one of them really went to buy a bag with such cool and fashionable tea cup. I could say the shop choose a good choice which use a valued and practical freebie to attract potential customers or clients. The promotional product will constantly give your company more exposure to potential customers while remaining on the customer’s mind.
However, like other marketing strategies, using this method to promote your company also need some planning and suggestions. Without knowing how to selecting suitable promotional gift is less likely to be of any good effect for your business.
At first, timing is a vital important factor in distributing items during events like new products, trade shows and other events. If you don’t plan the proper time, free gift will play no part in these activities. You’d better plan this into your specific advertising and sales campaigns for the financial year or during holiday like Christmas Day or Thanksgiving Day. Also you can limit the gift giving by the guidelines for customers to qualify. You can give the clients who purchase the merchandise in a certain value a free promotional gift. That can be very important for consumers and we also obtain our brand repeated exposure.
But as a business people, you must pay more attention on the quality of the promotional items. Giving customers the poor gift will play a bad effect. The consumers might think your products would be not good. That will hurt the reputation of your company in addition to increase the cost for the items, you don’t add any value to your promotional campaign. Of course, you do not want people think you sell the substandard items. So you must use some good and useful items like umbrellas, key rings and mouse pads can last for a long time while advertising your business. Be creative and use thoughtful items that are reasonably priced but of good quality. Make sure that the items are branded well and that your business logo and/or contact information is visible on the item. If possible, use items that are relevant to your type of business.
When you use the particular promotional gifts, your aim is to reach numerous potential clients as you possibly can. However, the challenge with this tactic is that not everyone can be your consumer. Giving promotional items to anyone and any person is expensive and may not achieve as much as you would like. The idea ought to to be to do targeted advertising to your current customers and those who are more likely to purchase your products. On the other hand, it does not help spend on promotional products if you do not distribute them. Build a syndication plan targeted at your goal customers. Tend not to keep the goods lying idle in your driveway when they can be advertising your business.