How Promotional Products Can Help Market Your Startup

What giveaway items will help customers remember your product more than SEO will? Promotional products are a traditional form of marketing: Find a useful product, print your logo on it and distribute it to the people you want to remember your brand. If your prospects see your brand name on a pen, a t-shirt or a flash drive, they may be more inclined to purchase from you in the future. But in today’s digital marketing era, are promotional products still a useful tactic for startups? After all, a tweet costs far less than physical bulk items do. And the impact of a well-executed search engine optimization strategy far outweighs any short-term boost from a logo-imprinted flash drive. The possibilities Promotional products can be used in a variety of contexts and applications. One of the most common uses is is to raise brand awareness for your B2C company by mass-distributing a promotional item to ensure your brand name is seen and remembered by a larger-than-expected percentage of your target demographic. You can also use promotional products in a B2B context, utilizing corporate gifts, for example, as a way to encourage brand memorability. They can be used as free giveaways, complimentary swag to accompany a purchase, thank-you items or 

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Branded Giveaways Make An Impact for Businesses

This article first appeared in Forbes Yes, we live in a digital world. As such, online marketing seems to be the only thing marketers think of when trying to attract new business. I am even guilty of it myself. With so many marketers focusing their marketing efforts online, promotional products have been neglected as a way to promote a business. Unfortunately, those of us who have abandoned the practice of using such items are missing out. Branded giveawys and other promotional products have always been simple gifts: small promotional trinkets used by a company to promote a product or service. Think of them as a little souvenir that you can put on your desk to remind you of the company that gave them to you. So how much of an impact are these types of products still having on the marketplace? Numbers don’t lie–promotional products work! A recent ASI study highlights that most people keep promotional products for an average of eight months. That means your advertisement is sitting in front of someone longer than a simple PPC ad or pop-up on a website. The actual time is dependent on the product, with umbrellas lasting for 14 months and hats lasting 

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