Wondering if Promotional Products Work? Yes, As a Matter Of Fact, They Work Overtime
Chances are, you won’t have to look very hard at work or at home to find promotional products that various businesses have given you. At work, maybe it’s a pen, or a USB drive, or a portable power unit for your phone or other electronic gear that you use frequently. If you’re reading this at home in the evening or on the weekend, there’s also a pretty good chance you’re wearing a promotional item like a T-shirt from an event or promotion, or a hat you received from some product or store happy to have your business.
Okay, now try to remember an ad or television commercial, billboard or ad on a website you noticed back on the same day you received that promotional item? Good luck with that one.
The Staying Power of Promotional Products = ROI
The name or logo of the advertiser on each of those promotional products you love and use is all the proof you need that promotional products work, and work with incredible reliability. The investment that each of those companies made (likely a very small one) is still providing a return.
I came across a very interesting piece of research the other day from the Advertising Specialty Institute (ASI), and the results suggest that when you provide promotional products to your customers and prospects, you’re getting more than just increased “awareness” or enhanced visibility as your logo remains in view over time. It appears that you also get a happier, more grateful recipient who remembers you long after your other advertising efforts have faded from the screen or taken their place in the recycling bin.
Don’t Just Leave an Impression…Leave Thousands of Them
One big reason promotional products work and have such a big impact is that your message is reaching far more people than just the ones to whom you give the items. The study shows that typical items are kept from six to 14 months, and during that time, lots of folks see them. More than 2000 for a typical T-shirt, and more than 5,500 for a bag with your logo on it.
This is more than a “feel-good” statistic because it lowers the cost-per-impression of your promotional item to a miniscule level. For example, the cost-per-impression can be as low as 1/10th of a cent for a pen or other writing instrument.
Promotional Items Generate Impressions, Positive Feelings
The ASI research also shows that while promotional products rack up an amazing number of impressions as they are seen by more and more people while in use, they also generate a significant depth of feeling on the part of the consumers receiving them. Put simply – people like to receive promotional products!
First, people find promotional products very useful. More than 65 percent of recipients use that term to describe promotional hats and T-shirts, and that number climbs to well above 90 percent for items like USB drives and portable power units for cell phones.
In addition, 85 percent of people world-wide remember the advertiser who gave them the promotional item. And, when you ask them how they feel about the advertiser who provided the item, the most frequent responses are words like grateful, appreciative, happy, and simply “good.” I don’t know about you, but my guess is they wouldn’t say that about most other kinds of advertising. Not hard to understand as traditional advertising interrupts consumers’ lives, while promotional products enhance them.
Maybe Your Advertising Deserves a Promotion
Don’t miss an opportunity to make customers and prospects remember and appreciate you and your business. After over 90 years in business, we are one of the most experienced promotional product sources around. We can offer you the broadest selection of items (as well as custom creations), products with the quality you’ll be proud to put your name on, and pricing that will reduce that cost-per-impression even further.
The best way to start is by letting us conduct a Promotional Product Review at no cost to you. We’ll work with you to learn what you’re doing now, along with your goals, your customer profiles and marketing objectives. We’ll use that information to suggest an ongoing plan that will maximize the return on your promotional item spending.
Once that plan is in place, our Corporate Kiosk technology may be the perfect way to set up an ordering system. Customize it to allow select people across your enterprise or organization to quickly and easily order promotional products from a selection you have pre-approved to meet your company needs and culture.
Promotional products do work. Give me a call and find out how we can work together to make promotional products work for your brand.
