Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Promotional Folders and the Target Audience

Your marketing campaign will encompass a variety of difference options. You will use the media as a way to advertise to consumers and potential clients. Promotional items can be a part of your marketing campaign as a means of peaking the interest of your customers. It doesn’t matter whether the promotional items are offered at your store or a conference; they will serve as mobile advertisement for you at least once.

An option for your marketing campaign will be the promotional folders. Promotional folders can be used at conferences, events, or in the workplace. For consumers there are a variety of purposes once they receive the gift. In fact, some consumers may use the promotional folders for their shopping lists on a weekly basis. The pad and paper coupled with the organisational qualities make it a useful and functional item.

There will be a target audience you have in mind for these promotional conference folders depending on the business you have. The target audience is only important to the point of needing sales. In other words, if you have a lower expense on the folders you probably have many consumers you are trying to reach. On the other hand if you want to impress specific clients and convey how important they are to your business, you may go for a high quality and higher expense. This will offer a more striking image of your business.

The main concern is being cost effective while maintaining high quality for your target audience. They are going to be your key to reaching potential consumers and more sales.

Friday, April 17, 2009

Functional Corporate Gifts

In a business, there are several marketing schemes that you can use. Corporate gifts are just one of those schemes. To be effective, the corporate gifts must make at least one very important point to the consumer. An object given that has no value; low quality, and above all else that lacks function will be seen as not valuing your consumers.

Corporate gifts therefore should be functional. They can be multifunctional even. The main key is that the corporate gifts must have a use. The corporate gifts also need to have a specific target audience and represent your industry rather well.
For instance, if you sell cosmetics a cosmetic bag will be a nice corporate gift to your consumers. On the other hand if you sell cosmetics and you offer a logo bug as the corporate gift you are probably going to see a decrease in your overall sales. Logo bugs are nice decorations, but they are of little use to the consumer. As such they will not be received well.

Going back to our cosmetic example, a cosmetic bag is a great gift, but if you offer a golf bag as the corporate gift you are again hitting the wrong function. The bag is a nice and expensive item, but chances are there are only a few consumers buying cosmetics that will appreciate it. Those consumers would be the ones that golf.
Functionality is just as important as relevance to the industry you are in for the corporate gifts you offer.