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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Top 10 Retro Promotional Products

Having a retro or vintage themed promotion or event?  This blog post is for you.  And if you're not? Retro or vintage-style promotional products are still memorable and always well-received by your target audience.  So this blog post is for you too!  Blast your company logo into the past with these awesome throwback promotional items!  Click on any of the product titles to see additional information.

1. Imprinted Milk-Bottle Shaped Water Bottles

It's a new twist on a vintage style!  Reminiscent of Coke bottles or milk bottles from back in the day, these uniquely styled, custom printed water bottles are sure to grab attention.  These 23 oz. promotional water bottles are made from BPA-free smoky polypropylene plastic with your choice of colorful bottle caps.

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2. Promotional Yo-Yos

So retro! A fabulous, inexpensive promotional yo-yo. Lightweight metal construction.

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3.  Custom Printed Candy/Gumball Dispensers

These vintage-style desktop gumball dispensers hold a variety of candy.  It's a corporate gift that will provide endless enjoyment!

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4. Fountain Cup Promotional Tumbler

Inspired by the old school fountain cups, these sturdy acrylic tumblers have a twist-on lid and matching straw.  This nostalgic design is sure to draw attention!

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5. Imprinted Vintage Messenger Bags

This computer portfolio has vintage styling, but has the modern bells and whistles you'll need in a laptop messenger.  Includes a main zippered compartment with padded laptop sleeve, zippered tablet compartment, and adjustable shoulder strap.

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6. totes® Imprinted Bubble Umbrellas

The totes® Bubble Umbrella is a stick umbrella with retro dome shape and features a clear canopy that allows for an unobstructed range of vision, accent color trim, handle and tip, steel shaft, curved handle and a lifetime warranty.

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7.  Imprinted Mason Jars

Looking for a vintage style promotional product to promote your brand or event?  Look no further than the original 16 oz. glass mason jar with threaded top.  Or, put a modern spin on this amazing throwback product with the new 25 oz. tritan mason jar-style water bottle with bold colored lid and matching soft straw.

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 8. Double-Stripe Vintage Caps

Double stripes complement your embroidered logo on this extra soft, vintage-looking cap.  This unstructured cap comes in three different color combinations with a hook-and-loop closure.

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 9. Custom Printed Aviator Watches

A unisex alloy watch featuring 46mm brushed black metal case, high precision Japanese movement, date display, flat mineral crystal, silicone rubber straps and water resistant to 1ATM.  Beautiful vintage stye aviator design with gray dial.  Comes packaged in a black collectors tin.

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 10. Vintage Promotional Diner Mugs

Imprinted coffee mugs are one of the most common promotional products on the market.  They're still a highly effective marketing tool, but you can make your logo coffee mugs memorable and more likely to stick around in your client's kitchen by putting a vintage twist on yours.

Innovative Promotional Product Alert: USB Keychain Charger

Imprinted Travel Keychain Connectors

Sync and charge your devices on the go! Available with iOs/Apple connector for your iPad, iPod or iPhone; or with micro USB for any other mobile device, tablet or smartphone. Want to see how your logo would look on one of these amazing little keychain connectors? Contact your Denver Promotional Products Authority today for your free virtual sample!

More Than a Giveaway: Ideas for Interactive Promotional Products

More Than a Giveaway

Ideas for Interactive Promotional Products

Drive traffic. Control responses. Create opportunities. These are the desired outcomes of great promotions and marketing campaigns. With a little planning and some creativity, we can turn an inexpensive giveaway into an interactive marketing campaign that is sure to drive your customers to action! Here are a few examples of how an inexpensive promotional product was turned into a marketing masterpiece:

1.       Guess The Flavor/Scent – promotional hand sanitizer sprays, lip balms, mints, and even pens are available with a variety of scents/flavors. Turn this giveaway into a guessing game by asking customers to guess the flavor/scent for an incentive (coupon, discount, etc). A credit union did this at a baseball game and had a huge response – customers were sending in guesses for weeks following the game, generating a lot of extra traffic!

2.       Put Them Together – This is a great way to drive traffic to a physical location after an event or drive traffic to a table or booth at a tradeshow/run/sporting event. Customers receive the accessory to a product (such as a sanitizer sleeve or lip balm sleeve), but have to come to you to get the product that goes inside, along with a coupon or other special offer. What else works? Distributing the cap only to a bike bottle (several are available for around $1) for runs and races, encouraging participants to come in for the rest of their water bottle and an in-store discount.

3.       Crossing Channels – Promotional products can enhance and improve your digital marketing and help you drive traffic to an Advergame, mobile landing page, or to your Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, or Pinterest pages. You can even use promotional products to boost app downloads/purchases.

To start planning your interactive marketing campaign, call Your Denver Promotional Products Authority today!

More than a Logo

More Than a Logo

Thanks to the advances in printing technology and wide variety of promotional products that allow for full-color, edge-to-edge printing, it’s possible to extend the visual identity you’ve worked so hard to create into your physical promotions.