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5 Ideas For Hosting Social Media Contests With Logo Printed Promotional Gifts As Prizes

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

Whether you are using YouTube, Twitter, or Facebook, there are plenty of ways to connect with your customers. If you want to be more engaged with customers and give them a greater incentive for being interested in your company, why not try hosting a fun contest? One of the most popular ways to use social media is by hosting a contest. This article will provide you with 5 contest ideas that will get people excited and motivated about your business and the products and services it has to offer.

1. Host a Photo Contest with Flickr

Do you have an interesting product that can be photographed well? Do you sell rare books or the best burgers in town? Have your customers capture the experience and post their photos on your company’s blog or Facebook page. Pick out the funniest one and award them with a promotional t-shirt with your company logo! Using Flickr can be the best route for this type of contest, since it is a form of social media catered to sharing photographs.

2. Best “Personal Experience” Contest

Have customers gush about your products or services. Whether you want a 140 character tweet or 2,000 word blogpost, give customers an incentive to start typing away with this type of contest. Provide customers with a cash prize and promotional products featuring your company logo. You can decide to give everyone who participated a pen or magnet, and then give the best stories something more substantial like a fully lined leather folder or promotional crystal glassware. You can take this type of contest to the next level by requiring that certain keywords appear a certain number of times in an article. With this requirement, the positive reviews may appear at the top of any search engine feed!

3. YouTube Video Contest

Have your customers write and rehearse a song or dramatic poetry reading about your business’s products or services. Often, the results are hilarious and can be spread quickly online! The more creative the video entries, the more likely a large audience will tune in to see the hilariousness. Don’t be afraid to take fun risks like this for your business!

4. Create a Funky Trivia Contest

Did your grandfather create your business with only a nickel in his pocket? Does your business help out with a great charity? Many businesses have a fascinating history that is not well-known amongst customers. So, host a trivia contest and get customers on a hunt to find out more about your company! This is a great way to create a more established online presence and make your brand more known amongst customers.

5. New Product Ideas

Challenge your customers and see if they have what it takes to create your next product. If you own a shoe company, have customers send in the design of your next shoe line. Whatever product your business sells, engage your customers and get their minds competing for the best product idea. Often, the sketches you can receive in this type of contest are high-quality and will get you the next winning product for your company! Plus, customers enjoy receiving prizes in the form of promotional sports bags, promotional golf balls, promotional mugs, or whatever you choose to give!

Be creative and have fun while creating social media contests with the use of promotional products. No matter what type of contest you choose, if you use promotional products as prizes it is sure to be a hit!

Have you used promotional gifts to promote your business?  Perhaps you have an idea you can add to the above listed ideas. Have you used promotional items for a contest?   Let’s get some ideas rolling!

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Promotional Stress Balls and Twitter are the Perfect Low Cost Marketing Match

Monday, June 21st, 2010

 

What do stress balls and Twitter have in common? The truth is, much more than meets the eye! Twitter and stress relievers are a dynamic duo when paired as a form of marketing for a business. If you want to make your business more appealing for your customers inexpensively, then consider using Twitter and promotional stress toys together. This article will provide you with a few ideas to use Twitter and promotional stress balls in fun ways that will get people connecting with your business!

Everyone loves stress toys. It seems to have become a universal fact in the world. It’s true that if a stressball is anywhere near a person, usually that person has an urge to squeeze it.

So where does Twitter come into play? Well, one great idea is to print the best tweet from a customer on a bunch of stress toys and hand them out to the rest of your customers. Host a Twitter contest, in which your customers have 140 characters or less to say why they absolutely love your business’s products or services. It can be funny, serious, poetic, or even conversational in tone. Or, you may want to host a Twitter contest in which customers create a new motto for your business. Whatever it is, if you as the business owner like what a customer has to say, simply designate that customer as the winner. Then, print the short message on a bunch of stress toys and mail them to everyone that participated!

Social media and low cost promotional gifts work well hand-in-hand. As a match made in heaven, both Twitter and stresstoys are fun and promote a positive way of viewing your company. Twitter is a form of social media that shows your business can keep up with the times, while stress toys give your company a personalized vibe that is quite appealing to customers.

The great thing about stress balls is they are usually kept on an office desk. This means if you print your company’s Twitter account information on a bunch of them, then they can actually advertise your business to other executives and CEO’s without them even realizing it!

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Stress balls come in any shape for any industry, which makes them flexible for any use when paired with your company’s Twitter account. Even if a business does not sell the shape you want, you can typically create the shape you want by yourself! Stress toys can be just as customizable as the words in your Twitter posts.

The next time you are looking for fresh, innovative ways to market your business, consider using promotional stressballs and Twitter. Together, they make the perfect marketing match!

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Efficient Marketing Strategies Make Profitable Businesses

Saturday, June 19th, 2010

Did you know that making your business more efficient can be fun and inexpensive? Rather than focusing on immediate profitability, the best businesses sit down and figure out how to increase efficiency first in their marketing department.  Promotional products offer just the solution your business needs for being part of incredible marketing strategies.  In an instant, promotional items convey important information to an array of audiences.

This article will explain how to increase the efficiency of your business by focusing on a marketing strategy that fully utilizes promotional gifts.  The more efficient your business becomes in its marketing strategies, the more likely it is to be highly profitable.

Of course Facebook, Twitter, and iPhone applications are all the rage for marketing your business.  At this point in time, using social media for marketing seems to be common knowledge amongst business owners. However, many business owners are struggling in finding ways to get people to these sites in the first place.  What good is a Facebook or Twitter account if few of your customers know how to access your social media sites?  What good is an iPhone application if no one knows it exists? The truth is, a Facebook or Twitter account is ineffective if your customers have no idea about them.  So, what you need to do is create what is often called a “viral” online marketing plan.

Promotional gifts offer the space for you to print the name of a Facebook or Twitter account upon them. Advertising a new iPhone application is also very possible with promotional merchandise.  Try printing the name of your company’s Twitter account on promotional items  that are visible to large groups of people at a time.  This way, your marketing is maximized at a low cost.  Products like promotional shopper bags are the way to go, if you especially want to appeal to consumers over and over again.  Many people shop at a mall, supermarket, chemist or boutique at any given time and will be able to access your Twitter account by seeing it printed on another shopper’s bag.

Umbrellas are also great promotional items that can play a major part in an efficient marketing plan.  Communicating the fact that your company has adapted to technology with a new Facebook account be visible to many with a promotional umbrella including the relevant information!  Perhaps you own an older or more traditional business that has recently decided to adapt to technology.  Your loyal customers will be impressed to see on a rainy day that your company has gone  above and beyond to appeal to a wide range of customers!

Golf bags and promotional sports bags are also great items for communicating the social media savviness of your company.  Typically, many business executives go golfing in order to do effective networking.  You never know if a business executive may be see your company’s new Facebook or Twitter account being advertised on a golf bag or set of golf balls. That same business executive may be the one who decided to place a large order with your company!

As you can see, an efficient marketing strategy directly effects the profitability of one’s business.  It really is worth business owners’ time to consider making promotional products a part of one’s marketing campaign or strategy. The company profits may one day far exceed a day or two spent on developing such a great marketing strategy!

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5 Low Cost Ways To Promote Your Business

Friday, June 18th, 2010


The value of carefully building your brand is tremendous. Customers respect businesses that focus on quality brand building, rather than a rush to be profitable. In fact, those businesses that care more about brand building ultimately become more profitable than other businesses. If you are looking to build your brand in a high-quality fashion without the extra costs, simply tune in to these 5  ideas. In no time, your brand awareness will thrive online!
1. Get the Edge on New Social Media

You probably already use Facebook or Twitter to market your business. However, always be on the lookout for new forms of social media from which your business can benefit. Try subscribing to blogs and commenting when you feel you have something to add. Write your own industry blog and  stay in  touch with what is happening online.!

2. Specialized Link Directories
When you have a catchy domain name, the marketing doesn’t stop there. Be sure to actively market your company’s domain name in specialized link directories. Directories allow customers to search a plethora of specific businesses. For example, if you own an online women’s clothing store, then customers could find it in a directory that features only women’s fashion. By placing your link in these directories, you increase the chances of customers visiting your site!

3. Great Customer Service
Be sure to provide customers with great customer service. Customers respect the companies that go out of their way to make customer service hassle-free. If you have an online company, be sure to have an active phone line or email system for your company. Customers love to be able to have human contact with a business beyond an impersonal computer screen. If a customer has had trouble with a product or service, then make their hassle easier with a nice promotional gift set. A nice set of golfballs with your company logo can make customers appreciate the wonderful customer service of your online company!

4. Shopper Bags: The New Trend

Shopper bags are becoming a trend everywhere, as the world becomes more environmentally friendly. Customers take these bags everywhere to do all kinds of shopping. Print your logo or company information on one, and people in cities around the country could  see your company logo and web address!  Shopper bags are a great way to build your brand in an inexpensive way.

5. Create Your Own Online Commercials
Create your own online commercials for free with services like YouTube. Then, have your customers vote for the winning ad! Give customers a nice pen with your company’s imprinted logo for their time.

Building your brand inexpensively takes creativity, energy, and passion. If you are passionate about always making your company better than it was yesterday, then you will find great success with your customers! Inventive marketing through promotional products like shopping bags can also be the inexpensive key to success for your company.

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Imagine Your Business Growing with the Help of Twitter and Promotional Gifts

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

By now, you’ve heard about the benefits of Twitter in building your brand. Did you know, however, that over 105,000,000 people now use Twitter or have Twitter accounts? With over 105,000,000 registered users, it is no wonder businesses are using Twitter more and more to reach customers. If your business aims to use Twitter effectively, however, there are some key points to remember. For example, using promotional products hand-in-hand with Twitter will allow your business’s Twitter account to stand out from the rest. With these 5 tips, your business will not get lost in the 105,000,000 Twitter accounts out there!

1. Register Your Company at Twellow.com

Twellow.com is simply a sort of “yellow pages” site for Twitter users. If you are the head of your company, be sure to sign up at the site with your Twitter account so people can contact you. People that are interested in your business, services, or products will be able to get your contact information from this site. Signing up at this site is a great start to fully utilizing the benefits of social marketing and promotional products!

2. Host a Twitter “Why I Like This Product/Service” Contest

Want to flood the internet with positive reviews of your business or service? Then host a Twitter “Why I Like This” Contest! Have Twitter users come up with a reason they love your business and its products or services. Generating these positive reviews allows your brand to grow a respected reputation online. Offer everyone who tweets with a good reason a free gift for participating. Great gifts are promotional products with your imprinted company logo such as mouse mats, sports bags, mugs, and pens.

3. Host a “Re-Tweet” Contest

Another Twitter contest idea is to host a “re-tweet” contest in which Twitter users simply re-tweet the actual contest. When other users learn about the contest your company is hosting, they may follow your business on Twitter which widens your customer base.

4. Twitter Gathering of Followers

This is a group effort type of Twitter giveaway contest. Give everyone that follows your company Twitter account a promotional product as a prize when a certain number is reached. Some smaller companies choose to give everyone a promotional pen when 1,000 followers are reached. When 5,000 followers are reached, your company may wish to give followers an even nicer prize, like a mug or sports bag with your company logo!

5. Hashtag Contest

A hashtag is a keyword that is hyperlinked. By placing the pound sign (#) followed by a keyword, a hyperlink is created. Give a prize to every follower that tweets your company’s name as a keyword on Twitter. Prizes like promotional stress toys can be a fun way to generate online buzz!

Generating online buzz is simple with promotional products and Twitter. The key is to have a strategy using promotional products and positive energy to get your business rolling online!

Have you used promotional products and/or Twitter to build your business.  Can you offer any other ideas? It would be great to hear from you.  Please feel free to leave a comment.

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