Five Ways To Get The Most From Your Promotional Items

Promotional items are one of the most effective ways to publicize your business or promote new products. People who receive promotional items are more likely to remember your business name, more likely to buy from you and more likely to recommend you to a friend or relative. That’s a whole lot of “more likely? to get from just a bit of investment in promotional items.

There are some ways to make your promotional items more effective.

  • Design a method to track the response to your promotional items.
  • If you’re using promotional items to promote a particular product or increase sales, it’s important to design a method to track the results. One of the most common ways to do that is to make receipt of a gift contingent on purchase, and then count the number of items redeemed. In order to be informative, of course, you’ll need to have sales figures from a period of time before the promotion, during the promotion and after the promotion ends. Since your hope with any promotional program is that people will continue to buy your products after the promotion ends, the follow-up figures will be important.

  • Choose promotional items that encourage the use of your products.
  • The best promotional items are those that can be used in conjunction with your products. Coffee travel mugs that entitle the user to a discount on refilling the mug are one example. Fabric softener dispensers given away with the purchase of a bottle of fabric softener are designed to be refilled with fabric softener and used with every load of laundry. These are ideal promotional items because they encourage continued use of your products.

  • Give away promotional items that are practical and useful.
  • The more your gift is used, the more promotional mileage you get from it. Choose promotional items that are practical and useful to your customers. This is the reasoning that makes items like pens and key rings such popular choices as promotional items.

  • Choose promotional items that are in sync with your business.
  • Inexpensive but practical items are always a great choice, but they take on added significance when you choose promotional items that are a good fit for your business. A tailor or clothing specialty shop might give away small emergency sewing kits with a needle and several colors of thread, for instance. One very popular giveaway for beauty salons is a packaged emergency rain bonnet ? and of course, you’d imprint your name on the cover or package of the kit.

  • Go for portable promotional items for maximum exposure.
  • You’ll get the maximum exposure possible when you choose portable promotional items. Items that travel with your customer and can be passed from hand to hand increase the number of eyes that see your promotional message. Promotional items like t-shirts , travel mugs and pens are ideal promotional items because they often travel with your gift recipients and are seen by many other people.

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    About the author

    Gareth Parkin is the co-founder of Ideasbynet, the UK’s leading onlineĀ supplier of promotional items, and custom printed promotional products.

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