Thursday, July 31, 2008

Effective Promotional Products

By Bree C Robbins


Promotional Product's serve the purpose to get a company's name into the public eye and by assisting them in building a reputation, besides the use of billboards, TV commercials, and other print advertisements. There is a trick to finding effective promotional products. This then forces us to ask the question what makes a promotional product effective? The answer is most effective type of Promotional Product is the one that gets used. If items are getting used, the recipient is constantly reminded of your company and anyone who sees the product being used is exposed to your company as well.

Often the most effective promotional products are some of the cheapest. A perfect example of this is Pen's or Tote Bag's that can and are used almost daily by anyone and can usually be printed and supplied for well under $5 per item. The items are portable and get carried and seen by others. One of the great qualities of promotional products, is the recipient receives a gift from your company and then uses the product and get's your company's name out into the community.

Let's take a look at a few different popular promotional products and what their advantages and drawbacks are:

An example of this is Key Chains they are portable and are often used a lot however, a distinct disadvantage of using key chains is that people rarely tend to see them as they spend a majority of time in the recipients? Pockets, purses or wallets.

Refrigerator magnets - Will also likely be used by the recipients, but won't get much exposure to third parties. Good idea if you want your recipients to be constantly reminded of your company and to have your contact information readily available to them. Bad idea if you want to get your name out to third parties.

Tote Bags are a really useful item that people use over and over again they are portable and get seen by many, but on the down side they are rarely used daily however when they are used they tend to be used in the supermarket or at the beach or at the gym or taken to seminars so they are used in high view areas. With a good logo that suits the style of the Tote bag then this can also be seen as trendy.

One of the great options that is extremely cost effective are Pens they are portable like key chains, effective like refrigerator magnets and useful like tote bags, all these benefits out of one very cost effective promotional product. This is especially true if you can pass the pens on to clients. It is very important to remember however they it is essential to get a high quality pen that works so that people will take them with them and use them till they run out of ink.

One of the best parts about good promotional products is that the return on investment is huge. A pen with your company's logo may cost only a dollar or two or even less, but the reach of that one pen can be worth thousands.

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