Wondering How to Make Promo Work for Your Brand? I’d imagine after the last week or so, you are pretty well aware of my fondness for promotional items. Their value is hard to question. After all, consumer research tells us that they are the best-received advertising...
Here’s a Fresh Crop of Business and Relationship-Builders This week, I’ve been talking about how promotional products can help build a business in different industries. Today, let’s talk about produce marketing. It’s another industry where you are only as good...
Helping Companies in the Floral Industry Grow a Bunch Marketers in the floral industry know that business grows on relationships and being “top of mind”. When a need arises from a current or potential client, your name needs to be the one they think of. One of the...
Promotional Marketing Tools That Get Your Brand Noticed Promotional marketing influences people. And it’s hard to imagine an industry that touches more people. Society is fed by those involved in the food and beverage industry. That includes the farmers, workers and...
It’s Hard to Eclipse the Value of Promotional Items In case you’ve been stargazing for the last few weeks, I’ve been discussing promotional items quite a bit. It’s one of the easiest, yet most powerful, ways to get your brand in front of your most important...
The Most Effective, Most Appreciated Ad Vehicles: Part 6 of 6 Today we complete our series on promotional items. A recent study by the Promotional Products International Association (PPIA) shows the importance of having them as a part of your marketing mix. It...
Promotional Items Build Loyalty: Part 5 of 6 This week, we’ll wrap up our series on the benefits of advertising with promotional items, A recent Promotional Product Association International (PPIA) consumer survey looked at how promotional items impact your target...
Are Promotional Products a Beneficial Way to Connect Your Brand with Consumers? Part 4 of 6 Welcome back to our series on the benefits of advertising with promotional items. It is based on the results of a survey by the Promotional Product Association International...
Survey: Consumers Say Promotional Items Are the BEST Advertising: Part 1 of 6 I’ve just come across some survey results that support something I’ve known for a long time and I am excited to share it with every CEO, marketing executive, business owner and sales person...
Promotional Marketing Doesn’t Just Get Your Name OUT, It Brings Business IN! In my last post, I listed seven promotional marketing products that have proven valuable in building business for companies in the financial services industry. Those products are so...
Promotional Marketing Ideas Lead to Success for the Financial Services Industry! The term “financial services” covers a lot of ground. The financial services industry includes many companies and organizations involved in the management of money. Among them are...
Three of the Hottest Promotional Items That Will Make You Feel Like a Kid Again! I talk a lot about the value of using promotional items as a part of your marketing program. I usually focus on functional, business-oriented items. But promotional items can be a lot of...
12 Proven Promotional Marketing Ideas for Custom Pens; Part One of Two “It’s just a pen.” If you’ve ever received (or handed out, for that matter) a custom pen and thought that, chances are we weren’t involved. That’s because we...
For Promotional Items, The “What” and The “Who” Are Both Important In my last post, I emphasized that promotional items still work. Further, they do so more effectively than virtually any other kind of advertising. And that’s not just a...
Promotional Items Earn Attention and Appreciation Marketing today is a never-ending rush to the latest technology or media channel. To be honest, I understand the obsession. Because as audiences get more and more fragmented, it’s harder to reach them. Thus, it’s...
QR Codes Are a Great Sales Enablement Tool for Your Business How many times have you heard that old “location, location, location” mantra? Well, one of the reasons for that is easy: it’s true! For a business, your location is critical. Finding you is a pretty...
It’s Time to Take Your Promotional Apparel to a Whole New Level with Levelwear Promotional apparel is always popular but let’s face it, it is usually pretty run-of-the-mill stuff. Now there is nothing wrong with the great, quality promotional apparel we...
Sales Tips: Dealing With Prospects’ Parenting and Life Challenges Welcome to the fifth installment in a series in which I am taking a closer look at the findings in a report recently released by Sheryl Connelly, Global Consumer Trends and Futurist at Ford Motor...
Sales Tips to Turn “Tryers” Faced with Too Many Choices Into Buyers In this series, I look at consumer trends for 2017 identified in a document recently released by Ford Motor Company, that I discussed in a recent post. Sheryl Connelly, Global Consumer Trends and...
Turn Consumer Trends Into Sales Tips Unless you are in the automotive industry, you might be thinking to yourself that Ford Motor Co. has absolutely nothing to do with sales tips or your business. You would be wrong. Here’s why. Sheryl Connelly, Global Consumer...
