Using Promotional Gifts for Door to Door Sales

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If you sell gifts door to door, you can make great use of promotional gifts to keep yourself and your gifts in front of your customers. Whether you do actual door-knocking or do home party sales, doing direct sales to your customers means that you take on the onus of making sure that YOUR name is the one customers think of when they hear the name of your gifts.

There are a few considerations you’ll have to keep in mind if you’re considering using promotional gifts to help you get in the door with a nationally advertised brand. The foremost of these is whether or not your parent company allows the use of promotional gifts that are not approved by them. Many of the bigger companies that make use of in home sales representatives only allow the use of promotional gifts that are bought from or through them. If in doubt, check with your district supplier to be certain.

Even if your parent company has strict rules about the use of promotional gifts to advertise their gifts, though, you CAN promote your own name. Here are a few tricks that sales reps for major companies can use to be sure that their name is the first one that comes to mind when customers are ready to order more.

1. Pens, pens, pens. Printed pens are a great way to make sure that your name and telephone number are always to hand when your customers need to reach you. Keep a bunch with you at all times, or tuck one into the package with each order that you fill.
2. Sticky note pads make a great substitute for a business card. Have them printed up with your name, business title and telephone number and hand them out with your order.
3. Take a booth at community events and make yourself visible. Use balloons to call attention to your table or booth, and have some inexpensive promotional gifts ready as takeaways for all who stop by.
4. Memo pads and notepads are another great promotional product to tuck into fulfilled orders. You might even have a shopping list style notepad printed up with perennial bestsellers so that your customers can just check off those that they want to order without having to search through the entire catalogue.
5. If you do party home sales, you’re likely to have much freer reign with promotional gifts. Items like key rings, pens, mini mag-lites and compact mirrors make great door prizes and attendance gifts. Put your name on them, of course, so that party attendees can contact you to set up parties of their own.

For more ideas on ways to use promotional gifts to increase your sales and grow your bottom line, have a heart to heart with one of the account representatives at a top quality UK supplier of promotional gifts. They’ll know their range of gifts well and can make suggestions based on their knowledge and your situation.

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