Classy Merchandise: Premium Wine Glasses for GWP

Any product item at Duty Free is a real looker. It is so easy to get lost in time when you are in this store anywhere in the world. Their displays are fabulous; there is a huge variety in terms of the products. The gifts with purchase merchandise are at the best spots too. It’s great when shoppers do not have to move items to find the ones they like.

3 Perks of this Item at a Duty Free Store

Elegant-looking. The shot glass is premium yet simple and has the Skyy Vodka identity embedded to it. This is what makes it look presentable and posh. The packaging of such gift is very important, as it will affect the image of brand and value of your merchandise.

All-in-one GWP. These types of shot glasses can be given in sets for every purchase. Customers can now enjoy the liquor with more people using similar glasses. They do not have to buy new. Thus, it creates additional and nice advertising for brand.

Well-placed Brand Logo. They are absolutely eye-catching and impossible to miss. However, they don’t need to do it to find the brand name as it is located at the front face of the shot glass. It can definitely help increase brand awareness whenever people use it.

Merchandise for Spring: Premium BBQ Sets

With Spring upon us BBQ season has begun and will play a strong part in our campaigns all through the summer. Make sure you have all the Barbecue Tools in your home in order to be a real pro during the blazzing summer heat – be sure to show off your cooking skills to your friends.

BBQ’s are popular in many countries around the world and a BBQ tool box set is a perfect corporate gift to give out to your employees or valued customers as a spring gift.

It is very easy to print the logo or slogan of a company on the box set as well as on the handle of each tool. These items have a long product life if sourced using realiable  material.

Customers or employees who receive BBQ tools as a gift will be ecstatic. BBQ manufacturer’s could offer a free BBQ tool set as a premium product with the purchase of a brand new BBQ grill. Dont forget to include your company’s logo on the box set and tools, in order to increase your brand visibility.

There are an immense variety of barbecue tools, such as skewers,  tools to handle food on the grill,  or utensils to clean the grill. There are just as many packaging options, from custom plastic cases, to Nylon fold up holders, to simple disposable cardboard packaging.

Classy Merchandise: Premium Cocktail Sets

Cocktails are mixed drinks, one ingredient being alcohol – these are ever popular drinks in bars and parties and these have strong thematic connotations including: Exotic / Holiday / Celebrations / Parties / Experimentation / Mixing.

Cocktail sets are a handy tool for aspiring mixers, bar tenders, and drinks reps to bring on the go to parties to show off their skills and be the center of attention.   Such a set will also make for an excellent GWP drinks campaign.

Depending on your budget you can adapt the set to have limited components and varied packaging – some companies will just give away a plastic mixer as an on pack with duty free. Same thing goes for BBQ sets being modular.

The set can be housed in a variety of ways from wooden boxes to leather bags, the cocktail set allows for different levels of sophistication to be conveyed to the recipients. A cocktail set is also of great attraction to the younger recipients due to the cool stylised reputation of drink mixers in society, making it a great incentive product to encourage consumers to endorse services of products rendered. In addition product or company logos may also be etched onto the shaker or the box/bag to give advertising and marketing value for firms who may wish to pursue using a cocktail set as a premium product.

Merchandise Strategy: Functional Visibility Products

One of the best ways to deliver your brand's identity is through wearable fashion. Wearable in the sense that it can be used every day on almost any occasion without looking like a tasteless promotional item that anyone can get for free once they avail the product.

Integrating your brand in fashion can be a hit or miss, there's always this fine line between your merchandise looking like a valued gift or a tacky promo loot. The best approach to this is to be as subtle as possible while still keeping your brand's identity imminent in the merchandise.

Take this trucker cap we designed and made for the brand Minelab.  Practical gifts like this have a higher tendency to be used by the customers, thus, increasing your brand's reach and visibility, pun intended. 

We at Merch & Effect consider several key elements when making a design. First, we take into consideration the color palette of the brand. Color palettes are easily recognizable and unique to the brand. In spite of the logo not standing out, these would carry the brand's identity. Another thing we consider is the materials that will be used to create our designs. Since we have limited space in this platform, we take into consideration what imagery we should prioritise and put on there. With this, we can come up with a practical, subtle, but brand-related item that will surely be appreciated by customers.

Functional Merchandise: Rustic Ice Buckets

Ice Buckets are an excellent and very visible advertising tool.  Cold drinks are a big part of pleasure in life. For parties or meals having a nice ice bucket on the table to keep your drinks cold is always a nice thing to do!

There are many factories in China and India who can offer standard designs for beer buckets. However, the design of your bucket will be the one who will determine the success of your campaign. 

Custom Ice Buckets for Vodka:  Since these drinks are usually sold for much more than beer, we can note that most of the time vodka buckets are also of higher quality, more complex in design and more ornate.

Even the best wine or champagne do not have the same taste when it is not cold. To ensure that your beverages are always at good temperature, you definitely have to use an customized ice bucket. That will make you stand out from the crowd as well.

Lifestyle Merchandise: Premium Notebooks from Matua

If you are looking into maximising your marketing budget this year, then you should invest on corporate gifts! Most people like to get things organised to welcome the beginning of the year. Help your clients and business partners to get organised. A thoughtful gift is always appreciated far more than its actual value. Here are some ideas on how to make notebooks interesting and useful!

This gift is highly customisable. You have many options on colour and material. PU can be a very good material for this if leather is too luxurious for the target audience. Having a large surface area, you can choose to brand it prominently or subtly. You can even customise the finishing. Try using foil stamping to make your brand more visible.

Corporate gifts can strengthen your brand image and your ties with your partners. It also increases brand awareness. It is a form of a subtle investment. Using your marketing budget for corporate gifts will enforce brand recall and hopefully generate more collaborations.

Simple and Functional Merchandise: Negroni Stirrers as GWP

With thousands of different wine merchandise and wine varieties to choose from in an already saturated industry, it can be hard for wine brands to stand out to their potential customers that past their brand everyday.

A regular customer who is perhaps not as familiar with wine as an expert, will at times find it different to know which wine is best to choose from on the shelf. A wine campaign that has an on-pack freebie gift or has a price promotion is more attractive to purchase over others, or to at least to try. And these wine promo stirrers are the perfect free gift to complement your wine, especially when enjoyed with ice!

Wine gifts and how can they increase your product sales?

Brand value. Customers love receiving free gifts no matter how small, and they will always make the customer exhibit a more positive experience when buying your product, which is more likely for them to return.
Branding potential. Small wine promo gifts such as this stirrer, are useful when making and mixing drinks. Stirrers especially can be custom packaged, shaped, coloured and can be made to feature cool designs that show off your brand.
Incentive product. With a free wine gift attached that matches your wine brand, it acts as a great incentive to make customers try out your brand. This type of wine campaign could be the marketing tool that will successfully push the client to try and buy your product. In general it’s a great way to get a stronger foothold in the market.

Merchandising Strategies: GWPs for Events and Campaigns

Custom made whiskey glasses not only capture the essence of your liquor, they also showcase your brand’s depth and specialization in this field. By serving your rum in a signature, custom-made glass, your brand brings its small piece of history to the present (and even to the future).

Why is an on-pack gift great as a marketing incentive?

Point of sale promotion. This glass could be used in bars or at home on display in your drinks cabinet to promote your whiskey brand. When buying a glass of this specific brand of whiskey, customers tend to like their drink served with a matching glass to accompany the drink. Therefore, this premium glass will be on show to more customers, the nicer looking the glass, the more likely the customer will buy this rum.

Increase the perceived value of the product. This means that customers are more likely to pick a specific product over competitors in the same industry.  By offering an on-pack gift  that is used together with the actual product along with a premium packaging, the perceived value is increased even further.

Brand awareness. Because of its novelty factor, this promo glass will interest customers to buy, because it offers more than other whiskey brands at that time. With the higher level of interest about a premium item, the more recognition your brand will receive if you stamp your logo on it.

Merchandise Ideas: Custom Wooden Stamps for your Campaign

Do you want to distinguish from your competitors and bring some creativity to your brand? Then these custom wooden stamps are a perfect idea to give life to your logo and campaign. 

Why is it smart to use customized stamps as giveaways?

Stamps is something very simple to produce and cheap. Everyone knows how to use them; you can express yourself and even create art. Offer customised stamps with its own logo or motto is a nice ideas because that way people can spread the message of the brand everywhere at the least cost. Indeed, the main point for the brand is to use the people who received this gift as a promoter. By using the customised stamps, it is not the company that is marketing themselves but rather the customers. This will have a greater impact. Actually, there is no real effort needed by the host company; which is the good point.

Keep this idea in mind for your next marketing campaign; that will have a very nice impact on your clients / customers.

GWP Merchandise: Stainless Steel Key Rings

Provide your clients with their keys to success with this new premium keyring. A great tool that reminds users of your brand and how you’ve helped them.

This stainless steel keyring can be put on easily. This allows the user to find their keys easily. It is a useful portable product that displays your company logo. This  gift adds value to your brand. When this is used, it can remind the user that your company continues to support them long after a contract or event is finished.

We believe that this gift could be used for marketing campaigns. Especially for companies that provide support services. Such businesses can include companies that provide training, business development, insurance or creative agencies.