Merchandising Ideas: Online Shops for Product Distribution

With the evolution from the conventional brick and motor businesses, more people are moving towards e-Businesses platform. This spells great news for the promotional products industry because to get a sale, you need to get visitors to your shop. So using promotional products as advertisements is even more crucial if you are an e-business.

The importance of offering gifts that are related to your industry
One common error of most marketers is that they fail to recognize the need of customers. It is always important to have the correlation between your product range and the premium gifts you offer. That way, you can significantly increase brand recall because your customers will use the premiums along side your products and ultimately, etch your brand name in their mind.

Corporate Merchandise: Laptop Sleeves for the Young Professional

A custom laptop sleeve is a promotional product suitable for people of all ages. As a promo gift cases and sleeves are able to prevent your newly bought laptop or tablet from being scratched by foreign objects or even to protect them from attracting dust. And this ensures that your laptop looks as good as new!

Furthermore, as an incentive, a custom laptop sleeve would definitely increase the value of your brand, especially as give-aways to university and college students. They will carry this bag to classes and lectures, providing great brand exposure. This kind of merchandise has a great opportunity for university logo placement, which can be debossed on the PU leather. And this is why we would like to introduce a new product idea for your next promotion, an eco-friendly and uniquely designed custom laptop sleeve.

How can this custom laptop sleeve increase your marketing potential?

Practical. Laptop sleeves as promo gifts are super convenient, durable and will for sure be used on a daily basis. They are also great products to promote at universities and colleges and at electronic events or as gifts with purchases. University students in particularity use their laptops and tablets a lot during lectures, seminars and for carrying around to libraries and other places to study, research and write assignments, making this laptop sleeve the perfect idea for them to use.

Design. The design and branding potential for this custom laptop product is huge. You can customise your own colours, materials, size and can easily add your logo and brand name. With this idea the world is your oyster for customisation.

Brand awareness. You will easily increase your brand awareness and exposure with this product. It is functional, and people like functional and will take advantage using your product if not often but daily, to carry their laptops and tablets in public places.If your brand image and logo are embossed onto the sleeve itself, other potential customers will see this unique sleeve and will remember that your brand gives away and designs cool products. And this in general will help to boost your brands sales, and brand recall in the future.

Premium Packaging and Bottle Design: Brand Visibility

A nice whiskey campaign requires some nice packaging as well. No company would hand them over like normal bottles. Give a look at this new packaging designs for your liquor marketing campaigns. All of them come in the same material and similar shape but in different types of wood and styles.

Why would these liquor packs be effective promo items?

Higher perceived value: The clean and well-finished design and the materials used for the boxes and the bottle of liquor makes the promo gift seem not cheap at all. The customer will feel like receiving an important gift and consequently adopt a different approach towards your brand.
Branding: The logo on top of the box is a perfect example of branding. However, not only the box can be branded but the packaging of the bottle as well. Your name will be visible in every glass and single merchandise.
Custom: The design can be changed and made custom, it is possible to use other materials, apply different closing methods, compose personalised sets and so on. The possibilities for customisation are infinite.

Merchandise for the Holidays: Throw Blankets by Matua

One of the most crucial things in merchandising is timing. Any company should be aware of the times or the situation of the market before they conduct a marketing move through merchandising.

Since any strategy will most probably cost a lot of money, before investing to any marketing plan, it is best to study the context of the market to be able to know the different trends that the society is immersed in. Through this, your company can produce an effective merchandise for your brand.

Producing seasonal items for your brand is a great tactic for your marketing efforts because you are able to tap a specific market to see your brand. Hence, it is much easier to conceptualize on what type of merchandise to produce. Seasons such as Summer and Winter are great avenues where your brand can appear through different types of apparel and accessories that are at the same time, functional for your client.

It is a way of providing solutions to an ordinary client's needs for a certain season. In providing such solutions, you are able to establish your brand as something that consumers should look out for and will forever be embedded on their radars whenever Summer or Winter season comes.

POS Merchandising: Custom Made Packaging

When marketing any product and finding new packaging ideas to display it, the way it looks is just as important as the product itself. A poor looking item will get less attention than another product that looks attractive and well-packaged.

Custom packaging is therefore a crucial element when selling your brand to customers. Here we have a fantastic example of unique liquor packaging – rustic wooden boxes for packing bottles. These wooden boxes make a fantastic choice as packaging ideas for presenting your bottle of drink as they help to increase the look and value of the main product itself. 

How do these bottle packaging ideas help your brands marketing.

Design. These boxes are unique, give  luxury and expensive details to your product, and can be customised to represent many shapes and box case designs. Your company logo can also be printed, painted and engraved onto the surface to give a luxurious feel to the packaging.

Brand value. These wooden cases look stylish and authentic, and any customer would enjoy receiving this. Many people enjoy presenting their bottles of liquor and wine in their home, and these boxes would make a fantastic display for any shelf, not just at home but also as an in-store display product.

Essential Tips in Merchandising: How to Save on Freight Cost

One of the most essential needs in international sourcing is knowing how to reduce costs, specifically in shipping costs.

No matter how big or small of a player you are in the sourcing and merchandising industry, managing shipping and saving freight cost directly affects your business’ bottom line and overall success.

SAVE FREIGHT COST

Every dollar saved in shipping directly reflects better financial performance. Overpaying in logistics means you can’t provide consistent and cost-effective delivery to your customers and seemingly have no control on your company’s desired specialization.

In the merchandising industry, it is a well know fact that China will be one of your major partners in your deals. If you have little to less knowledge on shipping logistics to and from China, you better read up for the betterment of your business.

POS Marketing: Branded Umbrellas for Campaigns

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.

Increase Brand Visibility: A'tivo Cocktail Stirrers

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.

Premium and Functional Merchandise: Neoprene Twin Bottle Sleeves

One of the most common ways of selling wines is just placing them on stands where clients can see the variety of wines offered. This is always a great idea as customers can visualise the whole bank of wines we are selling. However, if we are selling wines of different quality and values, we sometimes need to think about how to present them to our customers in order to send out the message that the wine is of high quality. We could do this by using high-end packaging in order to give our clients the visualization and image the wine deserves.

How does packaging help clients visualise the quality of wine?

Nowadays, in marketing campaigns, we always need to find a way that customers will really go: “Wow! What an amazing packaging, I wonder what the product is inside?”. Many product providers may think that the product and its performance is more important than what the packaging looks like. This is not entirely true as the packaging can play a role in the success or failure of the sales of the product.

Thus, how a product is packaged may be what attracts the consumer to take a look on the product as it sits on store shelves. Therefore, it is fundamental to conduct extensive research on special designs and coloring of the types of product packaging that is the most appealing to attract our consumers.

At the same time, while offering this kind of packaging, we can also include some other promotional products like bottle openers to increase the value of our brand and the wine we want to sell.

Packaging Ideas: Custom Made Boxes for Increased In-Store Impressions

When marketing any product and finding new packaging ideas to display it, the way it looks is just as important as the product itself. A poor looking item will get less attention than another product that looks attractive and well-packaged.

How do these bottle packaging ideas help your brand's marketing?

Design. These boxes are unique, give luxury and expensive details to your product, and can be customised to represent many shapes and box case designs. Your company logo can also be printed, painted and engraved onto the surface to give a luxurious feel to the packaging.

 Brand value. Thesecases look stylish and authentic, and any customer would enjoy receiving this. Many people enjoy presenting their bottles of liquor and wine in their home, and these boxes would make a fantastic display for any shelf, not just at home but also as an in-store display product.

Merch and Effect  thinks that these cases as packaging ideas have many opportunities to increase your brands perception and value. It doesn’t take much talent and time; all it takes is just a little initiative to continuously improve your brand image.