Buying and using your own giveaway promotional items can be an excellent way of advertising a small business. Even work from home businesses can be easily marketed in this way and it doesn’t need to cost much, nor is it really complicated to give the gifts away to future customers.
Take the bog standard printed pen as a great example of one of the many promotional items on the scene. These are really great – they don’t need to cost much, can be bought in bulk and are simple to distribute to potential customers. So go out and get a small batch of these gifts printed up with your contact details and name. For a choice of contact details, you should be able to fit onto most pens a telephone number and an email address or website URL , as long as they aren’t too unusually lengthy. Now, carry some of these with you at all times in your bag, pocket of car.
For example of an unusual method, recently I was on holiday and we had met up with another family and become friendly. When it was time for us to pack up and go home, we wanted a way of swapping each other’s contact details so that we could get in touch when both back home. This is pretty much the same as what many people do on holidays and nothing unusual. The other family passed us over their details written quickly on the back of a beer mat. This, unfortunately, is an excellent way of loosing the details, which we have been guilty of before. As luck would have it, I was able to email him from the hotel, so that we both had each other’s emails safely stored. But a better idea, and more fun I then realized, would be to get a batch of pens printed and just give the family a couple of pens. Not only have they got your details, but you are making sure that you are telling them your business and as luck would have it, he might now become a new customer of mine.
Of course, these passing acquaintances aren’t reliable for distributing enough promotional gifts to make a batch worth while, at least not enough to make a large return. But if you are taking part in activities such as distributing catalogues, then why not add a pen to the catalogue before you post them? By putting it into the clear envelope that the catalogues are protected in, there’s an added incentive for the recipient to open the envelope, take the pen and maybe they will be more likely to order from your catalogue.
Promotional products are also great to leave as an alternative calling card when you have been to see new or potential customers. Leave them a gift, as well as or instead of a card, and they are more likely to be able to find your number when they have decided to buy from you. There’s load of uses for promotional gifts, no matter how big or small your business, even if it is a home business.
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