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Promotional Products and Apparel

Archive for August 2011

3 Great Ways to Reward Your Employees This Fall

Employee Reward Ideas

3 Great Ways to Reward Your Employees This Fall

Promotional items are a great way to show your appreciation to employees, or to use as prizes for hitting specific sales or promotion targets. It’s also an easy way to get your business’ name out to the public. By choosing products thoughtfully, it shows prospective clients what your team means to your company.

With the seasons about to change, it’s the time to start thinking about products that you can give your employees that will benefit you both.

1. Fall Outwear

Once the summer sun starts to disappear, prep your team for the elements in fashionable new company apparel, like these jackets from Trimark.

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2. Warm Beverage Drinkware

Help keep your team’s coffee and tea hot in cooler weather this winter and promote your company with hip logo’d drinkware.

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Contact promoteyou to order these products.

3. Backpacks and Sports Bags

When it cools down outside, we start heading indoors instead of hitting the park to keep fit. Support your employee’s healthy choices with a brand name backpack to get their gear to the fitness centre, yoga studio, or sports practice.

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Ogio backpack from San Mar.

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5 Things To Look For In A Promotional Product Company

Hiring A Promotional Product Consultant

When selecting someone for your promotional needs, explore your options by researching the prospective companies’ websites. Look at how they represent and promote themselves to you, the client, which should reflect how effectively they will represent and promote your business.

Here are some other important considerations when selecting your promoter:

1. Personalized Service
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Your time is valuable; look for a company that understands the demands of your business and works with you to maximize visibility and productivity. Some have mobile consultants to help accommodate your needs at your convenience. Ensure your business’ individual promotional needs are identified and met for maximized impact by the plan they present to you. They should have a clear, well-formed long-term plan, and be able to demonstrate how their plan will affect your business’ success.

Personalized service also includes a strong, demonstrated commitment to client confidentiality. The right promoter will ensure that your plan is unique to your business.

2. Expert Advice

Find out how long the promotional business has been operating and what experience the consultants have. An established company with a background in promotional products, placement and incentives will give the company a solid knowledge of protional strategy, as well as a network of suppliers and other connections that will benefit your business.

3. Fresh Ideas
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You want a company that is able to service all of your promotional needs. Pick a promotional partner able to provide you with new, innovative products from industry-leading suppliers as well as unique and effective incentives for drawing new business or enhancing performance.

4. Quality Products

Look for a promotional business that can provide not only a variety of catalogues, but also samples of products and advertising solutions they have used in the past with success.

5. Valuable Reputation

When shopping for a company to provide your promotional items, look for accreditation with a professional association such as Promotional Product Professionals of Canada. Companies with these affiliations benefit from the ability to network with other promotional companies as well as suppliers. Membership in such an organization can also mean higher quality and more competitive pricing for promotional products and services.

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How to Use Promotional Products To Grow Your Business

What Are The Benefits Of Promotional Products?

Using promotional products to market your brand may seem like an expensive venture, but it is a cost-effective advertising method. It can cost much less than traditional methods such as television commercials and billboards, but has a longer lasting effect.
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Promotional items have a long-lasting impact: the customer thinks of your brand whenever they use it or see it.

How To Use Promotional Products

Contests, Giveaways, and Special Promotions

Giving away promotional products or offering special promotions will attract more foot traffic at trade shows and other event booths. Promotional items often draw crowds, which then attracts more people to discover your brand.

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Promotional Gifts

Promotional products can be used to increase your brand’s visibility. Free gifts are a great low-cost form of advertising in a world where television ads are skipped at the press of a button.

Incentives to Participate

You can gather valuable information about your target audience and your brand by offering promotional products in return for participation in a survey or contest. People are more likely to participate when a promotional product is offered in return.

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Samples or Related Products

Create market awareness for new products by giving samples or related product. Samples are a great way to add value to your brand. Giving out a related product (a free pot scrubber advertising a new dish soap, for example) adds to brand and product recall.

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Drive Traffic To Your Website

Putting your company’s website address on promotional items will increase traffic to your website. This allows you to get more brand and product information to the consumer.

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Build a Reputation

Raise consumer opinion of your product or brand by offering useful, high quality products as promotional items. They are often used for long periods of time, which means more people see your company’s name.

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Build Strong Client Relationships

Creating promotional products used in settings that are attractive to your target audience shows them you are listening and helps reduce waste promotions. For example, if you are targeting Information Support or Information Technology sectors, USB flash drives would be a useful promotional item.

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Team Building

Celebrate corporate success with your team by offering them promotional items.  This shows your employees the company’s success is their success, while again, getting your brand out to the public.

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Reward Performance

Show your appreciation for strong performance on your team by gifting promotional products. It builds strong staff engagement by raising morale and corporate loyalty.

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