Thursday, July 31, 2008

Finding an Effective Promotional Product

By Bree C Robbins


A promotional product helps get a company's name out into the public domain and allows them to build a reputation via other means, besides the usual billboards, TV commercials, and other advertisements. The key is finding the most effective promotional products. So what makes a promotional product effective? The most effective type of promotional product is the one that gets used. If it is getting used, the recipient is constantly reminded of your company and anyone who sees the recipient using the product is exposed to your company as well.

Some of the most useful promotional products are also some of the cheapest. For example, a Pen or Tote Bag can be used by almost anyone on a daily basis. They are also very portable so that the recipient can carry it with them and it can be seen by others. This is another important quality of a promotional product, if you want the recipient to use it and get 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:

Key Chains are portable and would likely be used a lot by the recipients; however few people may see them, since they will spend a majority of time in the recipients? purses or wallets.

Another example of this is Refrigerator magnets they are also likely be used by the recipients, but don't get much exposure to third parties while they are at home on the refrigerator. This however is a great idea if you want your recipients to be constantly reminded of your company and to have your contact information readily available should something in the home need repair for example or if they need to find your number quickly. Not such a great idea if you want your name out to third parties.

A really useful item that people use over and over again is a good Tote Bags they are extremely portable and get seen by lots of people, on the down side they tend not to be used daily however when they are used they generally get used in high viewing areas such as the supermarket, the beach, the gym or taken to seminars. With a good logo that suits the style of the Tote bag this makes for a really powerful and effective promotional item.

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.

The return on investment on a good promotional product is huge an example of this is a pen with your company's logo generally cost less than a dollar or two, but the reach of that one pen can be worth thousands.

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