Effective
A
dvertising
Gifts
You don’t have to be terribly adventurous when deciding what
are the more effectivebusiness, promotional and advertising gifts.
Simply have a look at the average office desk; and what do you
see?
Desk diaries, paperweights,
mouse mats, flash drive memory sticks, staple machines, coffee
mugs, pens, pencils and erasers plus two or three dozen general
office items. All of these can be, and are, used as promotional
and advertising gifts…and at very little cost.
When these common-or-garden
office items are personalized with a logo and message they have
a priceless capacity to remain on a customer’s desk thus
keeping your product or service in front of all and
sundry.
Advantages of desktop business
gifts
This type of office
product, when used as a business, promotional and advertising
gift has one price advantage over many other
promotional items. And it’s this; they stick around on
the average office desk and are there day after day, week after week
throughout their life…discretely supporting your sales
message.
Business
Gifts
Are
Silent
Salesmen
A silent salesman is an old
fashioned term harking back to an era when all sales people
were seen as salesmen. However, in these enlightened times
sales women are often just as successful as men and sometimes
more so in certain trades and professions.
So, let’s change the definition
to sales person. But whatever nomenclature you choose it is
still abundantly true that business, promotional and advertising gifts
consistently act as a silent salesperson.
And no more so than
when you look at the most used advertising and
promotional gift on the planet…of course, it’s a pen.
Grandly designated in business gift catalogues as a
Writing Instrument a pen can be a relatively humble gift
or a corporate executive gift of some magnitude costing
well into four figures. Nevertheless, it’s still a pen
whether it be a Bic or a Cross and the message is still
the same because given to your user base ensure that the
company name is constantly seen every time the pen is
used.
Business Gift
Exposure
Other
favorite effective business, promotional and
advertising gifts are often associated with leisure
pursuits and surely the king when it comes to leisure
networking is the royal and ancient game of golf. On the golf
course you have a wonderful opportunity to convert your
customer or prospect into a walking billboard; how neat is
that?
Your customers and
prospects are happy to dress up in your monogrammed
sweatshirts, wear your caps adorned with your logo and
carry your umbrellas adorned with your sales message;
truly amazing. You used to have to pay unemployed people
to parade up and down Main Street to advertise your wares
but not any more. And more to the point, your customers
and prospects will happily continue to use your stuff
long after the main event is
finished.
Business gifts effective
and economical
Undeniably,
business, promotional and
advertising gifts are certainly an economical way to
promote your business. Any business gift catalogue lists
at leas 2000+ ideas which will help to create some
visibility in a competitive market
place.
And you don’t have
to spend a fortune; just a few pence on some pens will
get you going. However, these are just one part of the
marketing mix, but nevertheless, a most significant part,
so why not use itbusiness, promotional and
advertising gifts?
Jack Ritchies is the author
of How to Make Serious Money from Business
Gifts and is Sales Director of Starlake
Publishing Limited. Jack has been involved in the
recognition, awards and promotional gift business since 1983
and can be contacted at jr@starlakepublishing.co.uk
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