Archive for the ‘Business Gifts’ Category


4 Steps to Better Promotional Product Marketing

 Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

The first step in this process is to assess why people don’t buy from you or use your services. To determine why people don’t use your products or your services you can use surveys, focus groups & interviews to ascertain all of the possible reasoning. The general first answer why a customer doesn’t buy or use your product/s or service/s will revolve around unacceptable price, personal taste, the quality, availability, or bad awareness. It is the following answers that become more subtle and more revealing. The answer to understanding why people don’t use products & services sometimes lie in the reflective answers of the few than from the first and obvious answers of the majority.

The second stage is to attempt to appreciate why people do purchase a service or product from you. Whilst focus groups, surveys and interviews would seem useful here, they are actually less appropriate. The purpose of this exploration is to produce insights into your business, these blunt tools often don’t work. Frequent responses to the question of why a consumer purchases, such as “quality” or “price,” do not begin to explain the deep fundamental psychological and emotional reasons that persuade buying decisions. It is believed that to precisely determine why customers buy certain products & services, leading must be used to scrutinize the underlying motivators affecting buying decisions. Leading is an sales & interview technique that seeks to get to the heart of the motivators of buying decisions, buy asking open ended questions that the interviewee has to fill the blanks in. the answers are thought to be more factual.

The third step is to recognise the perfect customer for a particular product or service. While it is not rare to hear marketers say that “anyone with money their pocket is a possible customer,” such thinking reflects a mentality and not a marketing mind. Key marketing insights are best obtained when an individual thinks in terms of individual customers and in terms of what would particularly attract them. Customer prototyping is a quick but effective way to envisage an ideal customer for a product that typically represents or closely resembles a specific segment of the real populace. By using your imagination, the prototype becomes more vivid and develops specific qualities as opposed to the non-descriptive data that can be provided by demographics.Finally, armed with the knowledge of who the perfect purchaser is and why they behave the way they do, you will be able to utilise this information to choose the perfect promotional product to further entice them to use your products and services.

Finally, armed with the knowledge of who the perfect purchaser is and why they behave the way they do, you will be able to utilise this information to choose the perfect promotional product to further entice them to use your products and services.


The Personal Touch

 Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

The Personal Touch

 

In times of economic downturn, priorities change. If you are planning a marketing campaign you will undoubtedly need to take this into account. For consumers, debt levels, mortgage repayments and fuel costs fuel costs take precedence over wider concerns. In business, too, companies take a more inward approach, concentrating on cost cutting and cash flow rather than new markets and revenue streams. Both consumers and business will gravitate towards safe options; good, services, and brands that convey reassurance and familiarity. Quality and reliability became increasingly important and whilst all this jittery uncertainly is certainly challenging, it also provides major opportunities for companies to engage with their customers in a closer more meaningful way. Personalised marketing and individual communication are the new watch-words and marketers who get their heads round this new concept will have a distinct advantage in a highly competitive market place.

Corporate gifts are an ideal way to connect on a meaningful and personal level with your key customers, most promising prospects, and even your staff. The Corporate Gifts Co specialise in a high quality business gifts that will convey a sense of familiarity in the classic styling of for example the silver plated Carriage Clock or the, Galileo Desk Pad, and reassurance in the quality of items like the premium leather range or the sterling silver collection. All our items can be engraved with your logo and promotional message using our in-house diamond engraving.

Why not add individually engraved or embrossed names to really create that personal touch. Call 0845 430 2902 for more details.


Back to school bounce

 Thursday, August 20th, 2009

Back to school bounce!

Anyone working in marketing and businesses that support and supply it will all testify that many companies (if not all!) have been holding back on their marketing activity in 2009. Let’s face it, you’re not going to get sacked if you under spent on your marketing budget this year!

Come September, however, with a full 16 weeks to boost sales before the end of the year, will we see an increase in activity and a release of pent up demand? Have our attitudes to marketing spend been curbed forever (or at least a very long time) or will under-used budgets get used up? I know which one my fingers are crossed for! It’s hard to imagine, as things stand, any growth in 2009, and even the most optimistic out there would surely predict nothing more than modest growth in 2010.

Ultimately this impacts an marketing activity; if potential return is not there, why spend precious budget chasing low ROI?

Sales promotion is a sophisticated market in the UK and a lot less dependent on Christmas sales than it was a couple of decades ago, so perhaps any pick up in activity will be less evident anyway. At The Corporate Gifts Company, we’ve seen a “back to school” bounce in every one of our 18 years in business and we’re sure it will happen this year, but at what level; who knows. What does anyone else think out there?

Whatever happens, The Corporate Gifts will be here to supply high end executive incentives and business gifts.

You know where we are.


Awards & Trophies Galore

 Monday, January 12th, 2009

The Corporate Gifts Company visited The Trophex Exhibition at the NEC today, in order to get lots of new ideas for Awards and Trophies for our clients. So watch this space… We have already been providing a bespoke awards service and are planning to massively increase this capability shortly.

So from Slate to Silver and Glass to Gold we’ll be able to help. In order to keep lead-time short, we’ll be stocking a selection of appropriate & easily personalised Awards to complement our premium range.

So if you have an awards evening coming up or perhaps a sporting event email us with your requirementa and we’ll get straight back to you with as many options as you’ll ever need.


New Year New Start

 Friday, January 9th, 2009

New Year New Start

With the start of the New Year and in the current difficult climate what better way is there to get new business and to keep existing clients than you promote yourself.

This can be done in many ways you can market your company online and in the press, you can instigate a mail / email campaign.

But why not give Branded Promotional Gifts to your clients.

If the economy is every going to re-start itself we all need to get spending again, the beauty of our Corporate Giftware range is that being premium product you can focus your spend on your top 10% of top clients instead of a blanket strategy.

This focused approach costs less and has better proven impact. Why send thousands of pens to everyone on your database when you can send 50 clocks to your most appropriate contacts – the ones who need a nudge and who’ll be the driving force for your business in the first half of the year.

This intelligent marketing will certainly give you the edge over your competition.

Contact us for free advice.