Buying and using promotional items can be an excellent way of marketing a work from home business. Even work from home businesses can be easily promoted in this way and it doesn’t need to cost much, nor is it really complicated to give the items away to future customers.
Take the bog standard printed pen as a great demonstration of one of the many giveaway promotional items on the market. These are really great – they don’t need to cost much, can easily be bought in bulk and are simple to distribute to potential customers. So go out and get a small batch of these presents printed up with your own contact details and name. For a choice of contact details, you should usually be able to fit onto most pens a telephone number and an email address or website , as long as they aren’t too lengthy. Now, carry some of these with you at all times in your bag, pocket of car.
For example, recently I was on holiday and we had met up with another family of similar ages and become friendly. When it was time for us to go home, we wanted a way of swapping each other’s contact details so that we could get in touch when both back home. This is pretty much what many people do on holidays and nothing unusual. The other family passed us over their details written quickly on the back of a convenient beer mat. This, unfortunately, is an excellent way of loosing the details very quickly. As luck would have it, I was able to email him from the hotel, so that we both had each other’s emails safely stored. But a better idea would be to get a batch of pens printed and just give the family a couple of our own promotional pens. Not only have they got your contact details, but you are making sure that you are telling them your business’ nature and as luck would have it, he might now become a new customer of mine.
Of course, these passing acquaintances aren’t reliable for distributing enough promotional gifts to make a batch worth while, at least not enough to make a large return. But if you are taking part in work from home activities such as distributing catalogues, then why not add a pen to the catalogue? By putting it into the clear envelope that the catalogues are protected in, there’s an added incentive for the recipient to open the envelope, take the pen and maybe they will be more likely to order from your catalogue as they already have it open.
Promotional items are also great to leave as a calling card when you have been to see new or prospective customers. Leave them a gift, as well as or instead of a card, and they are more likely to be able to find your contact number when they have decided to buy from you. There’s load of uses for promotional gifts, no matter how big your business, even if it is a home business.
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