Innovating your Next Brand Merchandise: Consumer Retention Ideas

One of the key aspects of marketing is to include different strategies like giveaways or premium gifts where clients will leave your local shop happily knowing that the brand really cares about them. This will enable us to build better customer relationships and boost our brand awareness as our marketing strategies can be as creative as we want and imprint our logo without any problems.

Marketing gifts are merchandise produced for marketing programs which often result to companies giving away products in order to promote and improve the brand's image. Marketing gifts are a fantastic strategy in order to increase brand awareness and recognition, leaving a positive impression for potential consumers.

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Benefits of Implementing Marketing Gifts

A Marketing Gift brings many benefits to your company:

Strengthens Loyalty - When customers receive a gift, their previewed image of that company will undoubtedly increase. This in turn will increase customer retention, an important long-term benefit.

Effective Advertising - Customers would love to show off their gifts, particularly this case of a good quality mason jar. As a result, this will create a large influx of positive word-of-mouth advertising, a truly essential and silent way of marketing brands.

Increased Awareness - By creating a marketing gift with the brand logo printed on it, this will be seen by the eyes of other potential consumers when in use. Therefore, will spread the word of the brand and eventually lead to new and valuable customers.

Increased Sales and Profit - Ultimately the above benefits will combine together in the long-run to help increase sales and overall profit.

Functional Ice Buckets: Merchandise for a Growing Liquor Brand

Even the best wine or champagne do not have the same taste when it is not cold. To ensure that your beverages are 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.

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

Generally wine buckets are used for white wines and Champagnes though can be used for red wines in hot countries.

Why not read some of our blogs on Champagne packaging and let us know what other designs have you liked?

Don’t be limited in your creativity when designing custom barware such as ice buckets.   Have a look at our custom bottle glorifiers for inspiration to make sure you draw attention to your brand. 

On-Pack Merchandise from A'tivo: Consumer Retention Strategy

Custom made liquor 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 liquor 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 for Big Events: Branded Umbrellas by A'tivo

The takeaway point from this promotion is that a concept will work anywhere if you set the mood first. Whether you place these items in an expo or a supermarket, the customers will perceive them similarly. 

What’s great about the branded garden umbrella?

Design: Indeed, they make the drinks promo look very vibrant, which ties in well with their summer theme and adapts to A'tivo's aim to be the life of every party. Moreover, with clear branding on the customized deck chairs and umbrella, this will make your brand more memorable and raise brand awareness.

Practical: These products are functional items that people can sit on and use. Although POS displays are popular marketing tools these day, A'tivo's strategy gives consumers a nice experience.

High quality: The wooden and metal frames used to build the promo items seem very sturdy and long lasting. Also, the logos and images have gone through full-color printing, based on how sharp they look. Particularly when you are offering a high-end product, you want to make sure that this also reflects in your promotional items.

Kitchen Merchandise: Chopping Boards for Brand Visibility

Chopping boards are an essential item in the kitchen. Being used nearly daily, they can function as a centerpiece and make a great Kitchen Promo Idea. These Custom Shaped Chopping Boards offer a stunning design with wood and stone.

This Unique Promotional Product consists of two different materials. One half is made of wood, while the other side is made of a stone material, looking like white marble. 

 Why do we like this Kitchen Promo Idea?

Additional Customers: Because this is such a trendy item at the moment, customers who are looking for the newest addition to their kitchenware might be attracted to this unique cutting board. Using promotional items such as these custom shaped chopping board as Gift with Purchase will definitely make you stand out from all your competitors who don’t offer anything extra.

Design Appeal: The use of two different materials gives this cutting board an absolute “edge”. It combines the rustic look of the wood with the luxurious look of the marble. The copper red or leather strip for the handle give it a finishing touch. There are many different shapes and sizes, so it’s easy to find a shape that best fits your Company Promotion.

Good promotional product: There is much Branding Space on the cutting board. For example, your logo or slogan could be heat branded onto the wood part, or carved into the marble side. Either option will make your brand be noticed!

Innovative Merchandise: Ice Stamps for Increased Brand Visibility

Why is it smart to produce customised stamps as merchandise?

Stamps is something very simple to produce and cheap. Everyone knows how to use them; you can express yourself and even create art. Offer customized 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 customized stamps, it is not the company that is promoting 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.

Impressive Merchandise for Premium Liquor Brands

Why offer premium promotional products?

Promotional products that exude class and luxury are bound to leave a lasting impression on your clients! It also helps to portray a positive image that your brand is generous in rewarding the customers.

Why is this a great premium gift?

Design: The design of this piece is extremely stylish, and with the logo on it, it can provide free advertising for brand during usage. This promo is a great example of how it can be transformed into an effective marketing tool.

Perceived value: Inclusion of premium promotional packaging is another great way to increase your perceived value. Adding value through packaging  means that a customer’s first impression of your product will be that of high quality. This will instantly associate your brand with luxury, improving your brand image. It also increases what they are willing to pay for your products.

Bottle Glorifiers for a Great and Affordable POS Display

When we trying to advertise a luxurious drink brand we could use different POS to be able to promote our brand in different locations. For instance, if we think of a luxurious alcoholic drink; we could use a special point of sale to advertise it in clubs. A great example of point of sale we could use is a LED bottle glorifier. This promotional product will enable your brand to be seen in clubs where your drink will be consumed at most times. This can be placed on tables or even in bar shelves. This kind of product has an amazing visibility which will increase your brand awareness.

So, what is a point of sale and how can it help you out in marketing your brand?

POS stands for point of sales. The idea behind the usage of point of sales products is to attract customers to the point of purchase as well as increasing the visibility of our brand.

A point of sale in marketing will always generate new product awareness, trial and purchase if both of these two steps are done properly. We always need to find different ways of presenting our products to our target market. Normally, people admire the way products are packed and presented to them to generate them an interest of purchasing. If we compare the big clothing brands the way that they use high-end packaging we could really tell the difference and quality compared to small shops.

In this situation, this LED bottle glorifier is tremendously unique to present our drinks in clubs, firstly because it is high-end and therefore can be pricy and secondly it looks amazingly great to display our products. This kind of POS really will catch customers attention as it also includes LED light that will stand out even when the club lights turn off.

To gain new customers, using a POS is always a sensible way of introducing and presenting our brand to the public.

Offering the Premium GWPs for your Consumers

The beer industry has seen a major growth in the past few years. In fact, many entrepreneurs have started up their own breweries, formulating their own craft beer. This poses a threat to existing brands as it introduces more challengers to the market. To keep up with the competition, companies will need to find a way to help market their quality products.

Unconventional tactics and big-scale promotions may work for some. However, using excellent packaging and giving away gift with purchase items may be the best way to boost your brand presence. These help provide great marketing advantage at a minimal cost. 

How can this beer GWP and packaging idea help your business?

Here are some of the  benefits of adapting these strategies into your business.

Boost Your Sales. Eye-catching packaging and free items will excite customers to try your product. Therefore, both tactics can be used to encourage customers to buy your beer product. Thus, it helps ensure profitability.
Attract Customers. Packaging can be used to decorate your product with branding visuals to make it eye-catching. On the other hand, a gift with purchase adds value to the product.

Innovative Merchandise: Bluetooth Speakers as GWP

In only one product, this creative promotional water bottle bluetooth speaker combines music and drink at the same time, and it might be exactly what you need! This quest for multi-functional products is the work of designers who are always looking to simplify users’ lives while linking design, quality and functionality.

Why is this Bluetooth Speaker good for your brand?

Marketing effective. Bluetooth speakers can be a very effective form of marketing as it actually meet consumers need, and even more thanks to the combination of two functions. Products that are out of the ordinary always catch customers attentions and improves the company’s results and image.

Good promotional product. This item is a good opportunity to raise your brand awareness by printing your logo in a strategic location and it makes your music experience better thanks to the bottle.

High-quality. If we attach importance to the design and originality of the products, the fact remains that the quality is an important factor also to satisfy the consumer. The bottle is made of a strong material and the bluetooth speaker projects a very high-end sound.