Enticing Customers With Company Promotional Gifts

| Monday, December 26, 2011
By Lani Hudson


They are almost all over. They are attached to the grocery product that you usually purchase or being handed out at promo kiosks. Promotional gifts are those little product tokens given to the masses that carry the name and logo of the company to build brand awareness. By giving away small, functional items to the public, the company name will be etched in people's minds.

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

A pen that comes free with the notebook that you need 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 also. That is precisely what the company behind the free pen wants you to do: keep the pen and use it so you will be reminded of their item everytime.

Instead of buying your regular brand of laundry soap, you incline to try the newer label that has free clothes hangers attached. The hangers are free, and therefore enticing.

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

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

Company promotional gifts that are usually distributed may look unimaginative for some, but they are the ones that are often used and are frequently seen, meaning they are really efficient as advertising materials. Examples of these are wall clocks, mugs, pens, notepads, mouse pads, stress balls, and t-shirts.

Promotional gifts don't have to be a novelty or the "in" item at the moment. It may help to give unusual and innovative items, but the ones that remain on people's house walls, work desks, kitchens or even closets are the ones that people actually use in their daily lives.




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