How do you motivate your sales team?

With promotional products of course!

Well, let me explain- you can implement an incentive program to help those employees who need a boost in their sales as well as push top sellers to reach for the stars.

Top sellers should be rewarded for their time and efforts, and attention needs to be paid to times when employees are in the office or traveling for business, so what you and your client gives should reflect those needs.

To motivate employees who have slumping sales a great leather multi piece desk set can be offered, with a different piece given each week for the most sales in a week or the most improvement shown in a given week.

Top sellers will be working round the clock so an extra special timepiece would be the perfect desk accessory. When employees are making sales on the go, a leather briefcase or laptop bag is perfect and very useful.

Extra incentives that are great to always have on hand are higher quality pens (god knows every good sales person needs a great pen to sign contracts) Also safely kits are great for your sales staff that is on the go in the car.

Its important, especially right now, during these rough economic times to reward your employees, its hard enough to find good sales people, so hold on to the ones you have, nurture and train them and reward them when they perform.

This is just an example of some great products that your sales staff will find useful and will help them do their jobs better and strive to make it to the top level!

Advertising To Get Noticed January 19, 2009

"Never write an advertisement, which you wouldn't want your family to read. You don't tell lies to your wife. Don't tell them to mine."- David Ogilvy

Going green!

With so many companies and people going green to support our envrionment its no different when dealing with promotional products. Green, has become very big! In our latest catalog there is an entire section dedicated to green products.

This is a great time as a business to be trendy and show your customers that you are supporting the envirnment. Green is hot right now, every major company from Target to Walmart and Whole Foods are pushing GREEN, they all are offering reusable grocery bags for customers to cut down on the waste of paper and plastic bags.

The most popular products that are both useful and budget friendly are pens that are made from recycled plastic, paper pads that are made from recycled paper, reuseable tote bags that are made from recycled materials, and organic cotton wearables.

Giving your customer a green products not only shows that you care enough to pass out something that while it promotes your business it is also showing that you care about the future of our environment and our planet. It also is a great conversation starter- when you are talking to a potential new customer give them the product and them follow it up with something like, "did you know that pen is made from 100% recycled materials?" Beleive me people will talk to you, and going green is on everyone's minds.

You can also pay it forward by giving your customers a pack of seeds, or a tree root that they can plant, its a great way of saying thank you to clients. Its also something different, how many companies ever gave you seeds to plant flowers, or a tree to plant? It will stick in their minds, because you will becoming the company that cares!

So jumpstart your marketing this year, by going green!

Bend it, twist it- promotional products are flexible!

Flexibility is one of the key features and one of the greatest appeal of promotion products. They can work within all budgets, with all that is going on in our economy promotional products are a great way to still advertise within a small budget. Most companies have an advertising budget- and due to the economic times most budgets have been cut, but promotional products can sill be used even with a small budget. Its just a matter of finding the right product in your price range.

Promotional products can also be given to any audience: customers, prospects, dealers, employees, and vendors. You can also easily tie them to other marketing efforts, either as incentives for desired actions or as branding tools. And the actual product itself can be almost anything, the sky is the limit! If you can think it up, we can imprint your logo on it!

The benefits of promotion products as marketing tools are well established. Studies have proven time and time again that promotional items increase response rates, boost brand recognition, and create more favorable impressions of your company.

Advertising To Get Noticed January 14, 2009

"Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century."- Marshall Mcluhan

Advertising To Get Noticed January 12, 2009

"Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness."- John Arbuthnot Fisher

Advertising To Get Noticed January 9, 2009

"Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths."- Edgar A. Shoaff