Promotional Products Giveaways

Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.

Promotional Products Giveaways Or What?

A lot of companies seem to be using promotion product giveaways in the offline world.  If you look online then you will find literally thousands of marketers doing exactly the same thing.

The question then is do promotional product giveaways work?  The answer to this question has created many conflicting results and of course many different opinions.

I have used giveaways a lot in the past and it seems that people online have gotten use to the fact that when they visit somebody’s website there’s always something being offered for free to entice their name and email address of the visitor.

Promotional Products Giveaways Offline

Now of course in the offline world it’s usually pens, pencils, coffee mugs and other assorted knick knacks each of which have advertising on them promoting the company’s website, shop or other business premises.

Of course it is much easier to do giveaways online, most people who are looking to either make money on the Internet or who are in the market to start an Internet business, these people will always be glad for some free advice.

There are of course there is no such thing as a free lunch, or so it seems, but let’s just say that free is not always good.

You see that free advice, or free methods of marketing online, or a free online business opportunity, I’ve never seen one really, is just that it’s free.  So can you actually rely on this type of advice?  Well let’s just compare that with this scenario.

You’ve got 200,000 dollars in the bank and are looking to invest it somewhere.  Do you go out there and get free advice or do you seek out a professional and pay them to advise you how to invest your money wisely?

However, the real question here in the above scenario is whose advice would you trust more, the free advice, all the advice you pay for.

Promotional Products Giveaways Shiny Object Syndrome

I know for my answer would be, so coming back to promotional product giveaways its easy to fall into the trap of shiny object syndrome, with thousands of free giveaway is on increasing numbers of websites is difficult to decide which ones to choose.

Is easy to go out there and just sign up for everybody’s newsletter and get all this free stuff delivered directly to your inbox but make sure it is actually really useful to you what your intentions are at the time for visiting the website.

While the best promotional product giveaways I’ve ever seen is a free online application that gives people free online training videos for things like how to use Google apps for example, or how to setup a self hosted WordPress site, how to use Facebook for business, and use twitter for business, all that sort of stuff you know stuff that I would want to learn about if I had just started online.

It’s not always about making money, it’s not always about the latest marketing strategy that has worked for one or two people, what it is about is helping other people and pointing them in the right direction because we all started on the internet as newbie’s and I for one was totally confused at the beginning.

So if you are looking for a great promotional product giveaway and are open to a suggestion of two men leave a comment follow along point you in the right direction.