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...one business segment at a time (contractors, retailers, professional offices, ...h) as a specialist in their type of business — and watch your referrals, and s...
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...-- Small/Medium Building Trades Contractors E. 5 -- Attorneys ...#160 2. NATURE OF THE PROSPECT'S BUSINESS: 3. ENTITY MAKEUP, LOCA...
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... go beyond just giving something. Those receiving the gifts know that someone thought specifically of them. This is what gives the personalized gift its unusual power. 6. Enhance the impact of a promotional product by giving it special value. Magnets are particularly popular today. Refrigerators and filing cabinets are covered with them. But does anyone really read what they say? Or is their value inherent in what they do-hold papers, notes, orders, and whatever? In other words, magnets may be seen and used, but that's where ... , plastic key holder! He had spent more than $30,000 for the car and the dealer had diminished the importance of the sale by giving him a 19-cent key ring. On the other hand, an aggressive insurance broker offered custom T-shirts at a landscape contractor trade show for completing a brief information form. The shirts went like hotcakes because the company had invested time, effort, and money into creating a shirt with attractive, colorful artwork with an appropriate, creative message: We dig landscaping. Every contractor wanted a shirt ... price from pennies apiece to literally thousands of dollars each. Almost without exception, these products are imprinted with a company name or message. Most of these items are viewed as goodwill builders, gimmicks, or attention-getting giveaways. To describe them as essential to promoting a business would be a substantial exaggeration in the minds of most ad-specialty or promotional-product buyers. In good times, when there's plenty of money in the company coffers, buying giveaways can be justified, but when things get tight, forget about the pens, T-shirts, coffee ...