Marketing Strategies: Planning your Merchandise Distribution

Before doing anything else choose the right Promotional Product Options.  With so many delivery mechanics to improve your marketing Campaigns, it can be tough to decide. First off, think about who, what and where your target audience will be and the type of gifts they want from a company. Secondly, how to get the message across about your company such as, the reasoning and theme behind your campaign. Different delivery mechanisms can help to increase a company’s promotional products.

What is a Delivery mechanism? – key deciding factor on what products to give away as promotional gifts to clients. The product, budget and delivery mechanism all need to be in sync with each other to have a successful promotional campaign.

Events Giveaways –Free promotional products from sport events, concerts, fairs, etc.- a way to maintain customer loyalty. Celebrities augments a brand by autographing the giveaway. Furthermore, toss promotional giveaways can be given out by a catapult or someone throws these items into the crowd. Mostly seen at sport events and concerts.

LIMITED EDITION: Offering Collectible Merchandise to your Consumers

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.

Trending Innovative Merchandise: Premium Juice Dispenser

Here is an innovative marketing idea for all companies in the drinks and healthy living industry that are wanting to promote the lifestyle and diet associated with their brand. In addition to this, companies that sell blenders can use this product to initiate brand activation or keep their current customers interested by a new method to the juicing process.

Why This is a Great Marketing Idea:

• Multipurpose – This product has two functions, a filtered water bottle section at the top to store water conveniently while filtering at the mouth piece to offer a great and purer taste. On the bottom part of the bottle it has a built in juicer that allows you to freshly squeeze your own fruit into the bottle to make an unprocessed, all naturally flavoured drink. Even if you don’t want to drink it with water, it offers the opportunity to have just fruit or mixed fruit.

• Customisable – This marketing idea is flexible with both colour scheme and branding. With a bottle there is plenty of space to place a logo, whether it be on the lid or on the side, there is great freedom in setting its location. additionally it is as flexible with the colouring offering a variation in colour potential.

• Creative – With very few products like this out there, it is innovative and unique, standing out from other companies and attracting customers just through being interested in what it does.

Classy Merchandise: Wine Stoppers as Premium Collectibles

A bottle stopper is a nice product to use as GWP. Because of the size and weight of the product, it is compact and suitable for many types of industries. If you are dealing in food and beverage industry, perhaps as a winemaker or a restaurant, this product would be a really cool premium product. Bottle stoppers are very simple and convenient accessories for wine lovers, bartenders and wine collectors alike to saver the aromas of wine, and keep its taste ripe.

This is why we suggest this vacuum seal bottle stopper to add a twist and cheer to your collection of wine accessories.

Why is this wine stopper a great merchandise idea?

Practical. This wine stopped can be use multiple ways making it a very convenient item to have. People love receiving items that they can use.
Brand awareness. This item can be used and placed on any item and any place leaving plenty of chance to expose and interest other people.

Innovative Merchandise: Handy Pocket Powerbanks

Branded power banks are a fantastic way to market your brand. In a now ever technological world people everywhere are using their mobile phones, tablets and electronic gadgets on a daily basis. Also fitted with USB Ports and a LED Display on the front, this branded power bank is a great innovation for increasing brand activation. 

There are numerous ways to use this premium power bank. If your target is to increase your brand popularity, you can give them away for free during exhibitions, this increases the reach you will have on potential customers and will enhance your brand recognition and awareness.

Another way is to offer this power bank as a redemption gift or for use as gift with purchase to raise your in store sales as this will help enhance your product recognition.

Innovative Merchandise Ideas: Whiskey Stones

Whiskey stones – solid cubes made of either stone or stainless steel – offer the benefit of keeping your drink cold without diluting it. Many prefer to use them over ice cubes because they don’t melt, are odorless and tasteless, and have a more prolonged cooling effect. All this means the customer will be able to enjoy his or her drink in a whiskey glass without any alteration of taste or smell.

Nonetheless, excellent promo whiskey stones require equally nice packaging. No company would hand them over like ordinary rocks, for sure. Just look at the new packaging designs for promo whiskey cubes here above.

Function and Style: Merchandise for the Active Women Today

A handbag hook is a perfect companion for any girl to keep their handbags off the ground.  This helps keep your handbag clean and prolong its usability. Besides, this handbag hook also shouts out as a fashion statement. The simple yet posh design stands out from other conventional handbag hooks that may come across as too loud or cheap looking.

How can offering a handbag hook be helpful?

On a marketing level, offering a promotional gift reflects well on the company. It shows that the company is customer orientated and they is also a gesture of generosity to them. Customers that receives gift will usually be more loyal or receptive to future products or promotions from that same company.

Furthermore, by offering such promotional gifts it will also promote the products of the company. It helps create brand recall in the minds of customers. They would then have the perception that your company is reliable because your gift could be something they see every day.

You may think that promotional gifts are seen everywhere but they are actually one of the most preferred ways of marketing. No one will say no to a free gift, especially if it is something that is useful and practical. If your company has not been using promotional gifts as a marketing tool, we strongly encourage that you consider this approach! 

Premium Packaging Ideas: Smooth and Sturdy Cardboard Boxes

Packaging is undeniably one of the most significant aspects of marketing. Working with a trusted gift box factory ensures that your custom gift packaging is done according to your requirements.

Why do we think that any custom packaging is a great idea?

• Design Appeal. Having this kind of packaging helps motivate customers to make a purchase. Thus, customizing the box is really important.

• Stimulate sales. Great packaging can affect one’s buying decision. Consumers tend to get products in beautiful packages. It can assist, therefore, in developing brand awareness and stimulating sales.

• Product Protection. The main point of having excellent packaging is securing the goods. When your merchandise is well-packaged, customers see this as a guarantee of quality.

• Gift-Ready. Obviously, this is perfect for the Golden Week Holidays in China. The well-designed box emits a refined aura that resonates with the Chinese market.

• Brand Awareness. With just one look, you’ll immediately recognize the brand color, hence making the packaging great for promotion and brand exposure.

Brand Visibility: Fashion Merchandise Ideas

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 LWC.  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: Insulated Bottles

According some surveys, a stainless steel became the most convenient and useful material for bottles. Your company will be one step ahead with these insulated bottles

It is not surprising that these bottles are used not only by travellers but also by ordinary people. Consists inside and outside of high-grade stainless steel without any glass. These branded bottles are the best practical choice for long-life drink ware because stainless steel is strong and impact resistant material.

Stainless steel is non-reactive with acidic beverages. This item provides a clean, neutral taste and won’t affect flavor or smell like other materials.

Why is it good idea to use this insulated bottle for your campaign?

Brand value. We would like to notice that stainless steel is safest material for food and drinks. These double wall branded stainless steel flasks are non-toxic and completely BPA free and do not contain any dangerous components. Take care of your customers and they will gratefully repay. By using these products for your campaign you can increase brand value.

Green marketing idea. Need to emphasise that these stainless steel items are 100% recyclable compare with glass, conventional plastics or compostable PLA plastic material used to make most other bottles. With this idea you can emphasise the environmentally-friendly policy of your company.

Enhances Brand Visibility.  Double wall branded stainless steel with vacuum insulated, keeps hot and cold all kinds of drinks for longer time. That’s why your customers will bring it to the job or use for walking in the park, or take to the gym, where everyone will see your brand logo printed on this gift.