Premium Merchandise: Branded Flasks as Cool Product Collectibles

What’s a flask without whisky or whisky without a flask?This promotion provides customers using Irish stores the opportunity to not only get two bottles of whisky but a fantastically branded flask as well.

Why do we like this branded hipflask as a promo product?

High quality. We provided customers with a high quality promotional product, which in turn reflects the sort of quality first time customers can come to expect from the brand.

Boost in sales. This gift with purchase strategy will attract more customer to try the product and to purchase 2 bottles in order the get the premium gift.

Customer loyalty. Customers which have already tried this brand’s drink will also be delighted with the free branded hipflask promo, and provided they receive excellent service for their loyalty,  the business will continue to attract more and more customers through positive word-of-mouth.

Thus, a free branded gift with purchase, when executed correctly can be an effective way for a brand to market themselves on a regular or seasonable basis.

GWP Ideas: Gifts with Premium Packaging

The liquor 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.

POS Merchandising: Custom Bottle Holders

When it comes to looking for different promotional solutions for our marketing campaign we always need to brainstorm a variety of possibilities we could use in order to be able to evaluate every option and find the best one that fits to our company. As summer season is approaching one of the industries that normally boost their brand value are the ones concentrated in drinks as people always need to get hydrated and it can be used in different environments as beaches.

These custom bottle holders are perfect for a drinks promotion. Whether it is alcoholic, non alcoholic, wine or beer, these items would work great as a point of sale display to make your company stand out from and give off a stylish appearance to all those that walk past.

Why do we like these custom bottle holders?

Brand visibility. These custom bottle holders can be used during events to promote a brand. Once the logo of the company will be printed on this, it will allow a great brand exposure.

Practicality. Made of high-end stainless steel, they are very pleasant to the touch and easy to put on the bottle. We also like this material because it will perfectly meet ergonomic needs.

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.

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.