Company Promotional Items

Monday, November 20, 2006

Use Tradeshow Promotional Item

Use Tradeshow Promotional Item to Deliver Results
By: Chris Shetler

The whole idea of trade show promotional items is to gain new
customers and perhaps repeat business from past customers.
Similarly, the thought of using a promotional item at your booth
is to attract people to your table, generate interest and
hopefully provoke questions.

Tradeshow giveaways, trade show Promotional items used at a
tradeshow and the corporate apparel worn by booth staff can all
positively influence brand awareness of a company.

If you want to use trade show promotional items as a tradeshow
marketing tactic, the place to start is with careful
consideration of your budget and your goals. Some things that
should help to define the tradeshow promotional items you use
are:

* Your budget. * Your goal. * The message your tradeshow
promotional items will communicate. * Your target audience. *
The impression you are trying to create.

Offering tradeshow promotional items are about giving something
and then getting something in return. It's using a tradeshow
promotional item to keep your company's name prominent long
after the show. Trade show promotional items help to increase
the sales interaction and impression of an exhibit.

Choosing the Right Trade Show Promotional Item

The best trade show promotional items are targeted toward the
right audience, which clearly communicate benefits and build
brand awareness. It is best to have a tradeshow promotional item
that is somehow related to your business. If you can't find a
trade show promotional item that is somehow related to your
business or product-- make sure the creative aspect of the items
convey a close tie to your business or product.

If you're planning to use tradeshow promotional items at your
event, you need to carry different levels of customer gifts to
give to different customers. For example - say you get 80% of
your business from 20% of your customers. Those 20% deserve most
of your attention and appreciation. You need to give them
something fitting of their contribution to your success.

Billions of dollars are wasted every year on tradeshow
promotional items or business promotional item and most
exhibitors only get a fraction of the return on investment. Why?
Because they spend their money on trade show giveaways and not
repetitive message senders. If your prospect has a re-usable
product, your company gets seen over and over again. The result?
Your cost per impression goes down and your return on investment
goes up. Retention is the key to maximizing effectiveness.

About the author:
Chris Shetler is a well known author who writes articles on
promotional items like promotional keychains, promotional pens,
etc. For further details, please visit the site
www.promotionalkeychains.biz



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Thursday, November 16, 2006

Make Some Noise With Thunder Sticks

Make Some Noise With Thunder Sticks also know as Rally Flags.



Show your Team Spirit with a Custom Thunder Stick. These trendy noisemakers are a great way to show your home team how you believe in them. Also a great fundraiser and trade show giveaway. For political rallies or marketing sales meetings they are the greatest way to applaud your number one sports team.

A custom thunder stick is a great promotional product that will get used over and over again.

Is your custom promotional item making some noise?

Thunderstix®
Rally Flags

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Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Increase Sales By Following Up

Increase Sales By Following Up With a customized promotional item

Acquiring new patrons can be very costly and in a slow market you may feel like you are chasing your tail with no results. Buy using Promotional Products and spending just a little more time following up with your existing clients you will create new sales that might not has existed otherwise.

You cannot simply send out a Promotional Item to your existing clients and think you will get more business. You must focus on compassionate and intelligent follow up techniques that will benefit your client rather than aggravate them. Here are four simple but effect follow up ideas if targeted with a Unique Promotional Gift will take very little effort to execute.



1. Upon receipt of an order you need to immediately mail out a “Thank You” note, to really send a thank you message you might consider using a custom promotional product.
2. Find newspaper, magazine or online news articles about your client’s type of business – mail them (do not email them) with a note telling them you thought they might be interested in the enclosed article.
3. Generate a weekly or monthly newsletter featuring informative facts about your product line. You should also feature testimonials from satisfied customers that are using your product or service.
4. Call your client a few weeks after you have delivered your product or provided your service, just to ask if they were completely satisfied with their purchase.

Do these simple follow up techniques for 6 to 8 months backing them up with company promotional items and you will see a sales increase that could not be easier to generate.


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