Effective Business
Gifts
Effective business gifts are not necessarily adventurous or
"way out" business gifts. Just 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 effective business
gifts and promotional items…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 be effective
business gifts as they remain on a customer’s desk and keep
your product or service in front of all and
sundry.
Advantages of effective
business gifts
This
type of office product, when used as apromotional gift has one
price advantage over many other advertising items. They
are effective business gifts because they stick around on
the average office desk day after day, week after week
throughout their life…discretely supporting your sales
message; and you cannot get a more effective business
gift than that.
Effective
Business Gifts
Are
Sil
ent 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 an effective business
gift is 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
personalised pen. Grandly designated in business gift
catalogues as a Writing Instrument a personalised
promotional 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 they will always give
excellent value and are effective business
gifts.
Other
favorite effective business 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? An can there be a more
effective business gift?
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 to get your customers to act
as effective business gifts. 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
so anything you have given automatically become effective
business gifts.
Effective business gifts
are economical
Undeniably, effective business gifts are 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
some effective business
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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