aonepromotions.livejournal.com
What do you want to accomplish from your promotional product expenditure? Your initial step should be to look inwards at your own business and very clearly and carefully state your marketing objectives. Needless to say, in the end you need to boost profit, but there are many ways to get there. Are you planning to enhance brand awareness in a new sector? Do you prefer to boost referrals from existing clients? Do you prefer to encourage greater return clients? Do you have a new brand or logo or name that you have to promote? A-One suggests to select one primary objective and around 2 secondary marketing objectives to make this step a lot easier.
Who do you want to impact with your promotional products? You then need to do an analysis of your target audience. For this, you have to go beyond just age and gender demographics. Think of what sort of people they are. Take into account where they hang out and the forms of work they do - both at work and at home. What products would they actually use? Once you get familiar with the lifestyle of your target market then it's quicker to identify what they "dig" the most and that they will be happy to suggest the company and the brand to others the more pleased they are.
How many people do you need to reach? Do you have a very defined, niche target audience, who can be reached with precision placement of high-end products? Or are you trying to reach hundreds of thousands of prospects, with a large number of smaller products?