Friday, June 25, 2010

Promotional Products VS Giveaways

It really is funny how many people don’t realize that there is a world of difference between a promotional product and a giveaway.

Technically, a Promotional Product is a marketing media to promote the business and provide brand awareness of a company. Compared to other media for advertising, promotional products are more cost efficient, more impressions per penny that you spend and most importantly, something that is useful to your client.
If companies think promotional items are just for giveaways, then they are really missing out on a great opportunity to promote their business.

You can actually put together effective marketing campaigns using these cost effective products. That is where Yellow Pig Promotions stand out from our competitions. We offer assistance in putting together an effective marketing campaign that would help you reach your goals. Whatever the product might be would just be incidental.

A marketing campaign should be measureable so you can evaluate its effectiveness. Have you tried giving out pens in tradeshows? Giving it out to whomever drops by and hoping against hope that they will remember you and eventually go to for the services you offer.

But if you give them the same pen, and present it to you when they avail of your services or products in the future, you will REWARD them with a gift or a discount. You now have an effective promotion.
Why? You can now track how many people from that tradeshow eventually orders from you. You can compare the cost of the pens against the amount ordered by this people. You can now then see if that tradeshow is really helping you out with your client’s acquisition.

With the “giveaway” mentality, majority of the companies would settle with lowest price they can get. They don’t realize that by sacrificing quality, they unsuspectingly telling their clients that CHEAP and really don’t care about the quality of service or products they give their clients.




By Laurence cruz



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