What's Trending: Travel Promotional Items

Are you looking for a hot promotional idea that will have a long-term impact with your customers? Consider travel items – they’re highly specialized to be compact, compliant with different regulations, useful, and because they’re there when needed, they’re highly valued by the recipient. Check out this video to learn more and to see what products other companies are using with great success:

Custom Printed Holiday Gift Idea: The Groove Journal

The Groove Journal is a gift with high perceived value that will be appreciated by both employees and clients alike.  Comes in a classy custom foil-stamped box, along with our Gunmetal Pen.  For ordering information, contact Red Canoe Promotions- Your Denver Promotional Products Authority!

New Promotional Product Alert: Clear Event Bags

Ensure convenient entry through security gates next time you attend a sporting event, concert or festival!  Our clear event bags are made from durable clear PVC and can be printed with your company logo.  Meets NFL guidelines.  For ordering information, contact Red Canoe Promotions- Your Denver Promotional Products Authority!

New Promotional Product Alert: Moleskine ® Notebooks

Now Available: Customized Moleskine ® Notebooks

Moleskine ®, The legendary notebook used by artists, thinkers and business professionals over the past two centuries, is now available with your custom imprint or debossed logo from Red Canoe Promotions in Denver.  Check out our Imprinted/Debbossed Moleskine ® Product Page for more information or to place an order.

Promotional Halloween Lip Balm

Check out our promotional orange lip balm in black tubes- perfect for Halloween!  Available with any of our stock Halloween lip balm patterns.  For ordering information, contact Red Canoe Promotions-Your Denver Promotional Products Authority!

Hot Promotional Product Trends for Q4 2013

Hot Promotional Product Trends for Q4

Pick a promotion that will make a bang with your customers and employees by putting your logo on hip, hot, and trendy promotional products! Use these emerging trends to engage your customers and maximize the impressions and lifespan of your incentive or giveaway:

Luxe: Glittery materials, glossy patent-leatherette finishes, big buckles, shiny visible rivets, rhinestones and sequins, and bold patterns are all elements of luxe fashion accessories, like this ultra-glam tote bag. Ideal imprints vary from simple and elegant to big and bold, and they will all appeal to your female customers aged X-Y.

 

Simple Complexity: Lifestyle pieces that just "look" basic - simple and unaggressive product silhouettes hide technical features and complexity, like on this neoprene computer portfolio. Add an unimposing imprint and these items will get frequent use among young professionals.

Why Give Gifts to Customers and Employees?

Why Give Gifts?

Despite a recovering economy, businesses around the country are challenged to do more with less. Business gifts might look like an unnecessary expense, but they are an investment in your business that pays big dividends in employee morale, employee retention, and customer loyalty!

Employee Gifts: Numerous studies, including those conducted by "Inc." and by Gallup have shown that, time and again, employees are more motivated by tangible gifts as a reward than cash, dollar for dollar. For maximum value, consider tangible items that create an emotional response like a food gift. Creating an incentive program is another effective way to motivate employees to achieve above-and-beyond performance in sales, safety, or any other clearly defined and measurable metric.

Customer Gifts: The old adage is still true - it is much more expensive to add customers than it is to keep them. Thoughtful and personalized gifts are proven to increase customer loyalty, making them more valuable to you in longevity, purchase frequency, and average margin per transaction. Want to maximize your value? Combine two marketing channels! Create an offer via Facebook or your website for customers to refer you to a friend in exchange for a branded apparel or lifestyle item. Showing customers the incentive and creating a clear call-to-action has been shown to be 4 times more effective to create referrals and recommendations than simply asking for a referral - combining it with social media increases your generational appeal and can increase your reach when your campaign goes viral!

For more information on corporate and client gift-giving, or for help selecting the perfect gift, visit Red Canoe Promotions-Your Denver Promotional Products Authority!

Ideas for Referral Incentives

How Can You Get More Referrals?
Ideas for Referral Incentives

It's just as true for your business as it is for mine - referrals from a satisfied customer are a vital portion of business growth. But, do you have a program or system in place to ensure a customer is so satisfied that they can't help but tell someone about it and then give them the means or incentive to do so? Call us to get started on any of these referral incentive ideas, or we can create a referral incentive program from scratch that will motivate your customers to bring you customers!

1. The After-Sale Mailer - This also works as a good "leave-behind". Create a Welcome Kit for new customers with your contact information (magnets are great for this!), any documentation/information you need to get to your new customer, and a referral card offering a gift when the referral becomes a customer. Depending on your "purchase" price, gifts could range from roadside safety tools, a Swiss Army tool or a Brookstone gift like a wireless speaker or wine aerator. For some extra "oomph", make sure to promote the referral program on your Facebook page and your website! (great for Insurance and Financial Services)
2. Building on Loyalty Programs - Reward your loyal customers with a "just for you" coupon, along with an extra discount/coupon to share with a friend, all on a handy magnet that can be given out or mailed a few weeks before the discount/sale starts.
3. End Of Year Gift - If you're already considering end of year gifts for your customers, use this as a time to ask for a referral as part of the wording on the card accompanying your gift or as a follow-up call or email after the gift would have arrived (Example: I really hope you enjoy the gift. If you would like to return the sentiment, the greatest gift you can give me is a referral to a colleague).

Edible Promotional Products: A Sweet Solution

A Sweet Solution

With summer almost over and the end of the year rapidly approaching, it's time to think customer and employee gifts! End-of-year thank you's, holiday gifts, employee appreciation and incentives, and promotional items to market holiday events are all extremely important to help you build good will with your customers and employees, as well as build sales. Create a promotion that has a long-term impact, classy look, and powerful emotional response with food gifts! From mint and candy tins to cylinders to heat-sealed bags to individually boxed and ribboned towers, food gifts are available in a wide variety to fit every budget (and more importantly, every taste), but they all have a few things in common:

- It's extremely easy for you - let me know your budget and outcome and I can build you a program your customers or employees will love! We can even ship to individual recipients with an included printed and personalized card or gift.

- Build your brand - your logo is the first thing customers will see with many imprint options and areas, including the food gift itself for some items!

- Big reactions - People love to share sweets with their coworkers - this is a great way to spread your name in a very positive way to lots of people within a company!

For more information or to get yummy product ideas, contact Red Canoe Promotions- Your Denver Promotional Products Authority!

Promotional Product Ideas for Halloween

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Promotional Product Ideas for Customer Service Week

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