Do you know that there is actually an advertising strategy that your target clients love? It’s something that they look forward to. In fact, everybody probably is waiting for you to provide them with one every now and then.
What am I talking about? It’s called promotional give-aways. That’s right! When you give something for free as a promotional product, chances are great that you’ll be paid for it later on.
Promotional items are basically useful and decorative items handed out by business owners to promote or market their business. The items are generally designed via commercial printing with a company’s logo, name, and even a message. And people actually love them. You could often see people grabbing for these items in trade shows and exhibits.
This type of advertising strategy is commonly employed by businesses, small and large, to encourage and maintain the kind of business they do with their clients and prospects. Actually, business owners and marketers alike use promotional products to help them maintain a stronger relationship with their colleagues and clients.
Nowadays, promotional items are given away as tokens, incentives, advertising specialties and gifts to advertise one’s business. They are often seen in trade shows, as well as in direct mail marketing strategies to generate new leads, as well as to measure marketing results for the business.
Examples of promotional items are t-shirts with logo brands, caps, key chains, stickers, pens, mouse pads, mugs, among others.
So why do people love this kind of marketing campaign? It’s more of the giving it away for free part that sticks to your clients minds. As a human being, we tend to attach an emotional factor to a product that is given for free. Rather than work as a promotional tool, a promotional product stands as a token of appreciation from you to your customers and potential clients. It’s more of a gift rather than a sales pitch for your business.
In addition, most promotional merchandise appeal to the specific group that they were purposely made for. They are made to target a specific market, that’s why they are also tailor made according to the needs, wants and desires of your target audience.
And these promotional products have an actual purpose. It’s not just a frivolity of a business to develop such items for their marketing campaign. When you accept a promotional item, it fosters an emotional commitment on the part of your target clients to give in return. This simply means that you encourage a commitment from your clients to do business with you.
People are basically appreciative of tokens given for free. That’s why they’ll surely show you their appreciation by doing more business with you.
It really pays to give something for free for you will surely reap the rewards after the good deed is done.