How Promotional Gifts Entice Customers

| Tuesday, October 11, 2011
By Anne Lopez


A promotional gift of good quality can do so much in fortifying your company's relationships with your business associates. In addition, your employees will appreciate receiving any promotional token from you - as your expression of recognition for their hard work and dedication to your corporation. Lastly, most promotional tokens promote interest in new and regular customers, thus enticing them to further avail of your products and/or services.

You see them attached to a grocery product that you normally buy, or being distributed at promo booths. Everyone is familiar with promotional gifts, or the small product items companies give the public to spread their name, thus building brand awareness. By giving away small but usable items to everyone, the company hopes that their name and logo will be etched in people's minds.

Promotional gifts are one way of advertising for a long period of time. Unlike a page on magazines and newspapers or a 30-second commercial spot on TV and radio, promotional gifts don't just disappear after some time. They will be there as long as people use the item.

A pen that comes free with the notebook that you want to buy may not be the first thing that you want to use as a writing material. But since it is free, you might as well use it as well. That is precisely what the company behind the free pen needs you to do: keep the pen and use it so you will be reminded of their item every time.

Another example is when people tend to purchase a newer label of laundry soap over the regular brand they normally purchase just because the other one has free clothes hanger.

Those are just a couple of examples of the powers of promotional gifts. You don't realize it, but you recognize their label every time you use the product. You also select another brand over the label you ordinarily buy because of the extra included.

A promotional gift needs to be usable for a long time to your intended market in order to have sticking power. A passerby at a trade show may be enticed into getting free mints and candies, but those will just last as long as he is done consuming them, which isn't very long.

Company promotional gifts that are normally distributed may seem uninventive for some, but they are the ones that are often used and are frequently seen, meaning they are really effective as promo materials. Examples of these are wall clocks, mugs, pens, notepads, mouse pads, stress balls, and t-shirts.

Novelty promotional gifts may help lure some, but they don't have a lot of sticking power. The ones that remain on people's work desk, house walls, kitchens or even closets are the ones that people can actually use in their daily lives.




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